Turner Wins SEC Nod For CBS Stock Exchange Offer
Ted Turner wins SEC permission to offer high interest securities for CBS Inc. stock as part of a 5.4 billion takeover bid. Turner Broadcasting says the exchange offer will be mailed to CBS shareholders soon but still must clear FCC approval and the Justice Department antitrust division.
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Toledo dig yields ritual emblems with no bodies found
Investigators in Spencer Township search for remains of a satanic cult report finding ritualistic emblems but no bodies. Sheriff James Telb had estimated up to 75 bodies but says the team will pause excavations unless new information emerges.
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Televised testimony debated in McMartin case
Los Angeles judge set July 1 for arguments on whether child witnesses may testify via closed circuit television during preliminary hearings. The dispute centers on Senate Bill 46 allowing TV testimony out of a defendant's presence and potential conflict with the confrontation clause.
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Paul Turner
Aviva K. Bobb
Turner
Nevada Blaze Burns 57 000 Acres. Winnemucca Hit Hard
A brush fire in north central Nevada burned out of control, scorching about 57 000 acres of brush land. No serious injuries or major property damage reported, though several old mining buildings were destroyed. Winnemucca faced smoky haze as 525 firefighters from five states battled the Winnemucca fire, one of eight lightning sparked blazes that have consumed over 76 000 acres since Wednesday.
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Rhode Island Chief Justice suspended for ties to mob figures
Chief Justice Joseph A. Bevilacqua of the Rhode Island Supreme Court was suspended four months and publicly censured by a judicial panel for friendships with reputed organized crime figures. The six month investigation found no evidence his decisions were affected.
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Commission On Judicial
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Woman confined 29 years in state mental hospital ordered released
A federal judge ordered Carolyn Clark, now 44, freed within 120 days from Laurelton Center after 29 years of illegal confinement. Clark, arrested at 15 in 1956 for begging, was misdiagnosed as severely defective and kept away from her Philadelphia home, with immediate funds ordered to support community care.
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Laurelton Center
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