Miss USA Chelsi Smith Crowned Miss Universe 1995
Miss USA Chelsi Smith of Deer Park Texas won the Miss Universe 1995 title in Windhoek Namibia as the first pageant held in Africa. She beat 81 contestants while the first runner up was Miss India Manpreet Brar and second runner up Miss Canada Lana Buchburger.
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Windhoek
Namibia
Chelsi Smith
Deer Park
Texas
Africa
Miss India
Manpreet Brar
New Delhi
Miss Canada
Lana Buchburger
Calgary
Alberta
Mother Sentenced 13 Years For Strangling Newborn
Karen Dobrzelecki, 20, was sentenced to 13 years after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the 1994 death of her newborn son. She delivered alone at home and strangled the infant with Easter ribbon, then hid the body in a closet for four days.
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Toms River
N.J
Karen Dobrzelecki
Dobrzelecki
Superior Court
Peter J. Giovine
Teen falls to death at waterfall during school trip in Tennessee
Jennifer Share aged 18 was killed after slipping about 250 feet from a waterfall at Fall Creek Falls state park while a group of more than 100 David Lipscomb School seniors visited. Heidi Nix, also 18, was critically injured with broken bones and internal injuries. The incident occurred about 80 miles north of Chattanooga.
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Spencer
Tenn
AJ. Anderson
Fall Creek Falls
Chattanooga
Jennifer Share
Heidi Nix
Erlanger Medical Center
Doris Chastain
David England
David Lipscomb
Nashville
Pipeline fined after 1990 Allegheny River spill near Pittsburgh
Buckeye Pipe Line Co pleaded guilty and agreed to a 125000 dollar fine and 100000 dollar reimbursement for scientific analysis after a 1990 suburban Pittsburgh malfunction dumped about 75000 gallons of gasoline kerosene and home heating oil into tributaries of the Allegheny River. The slick reached the river and shut water intakes along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers including Pittsburgh. State officials criticized the delay in reporting the incident.
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Pittsburgh
Buckeye Pipe Line Co
New Jersey
Allegheny River
Allegheny
Ohio Rivers
Boy Separated at Airport Reunited After 17 Hours
Seven year old Ivan Boot of Uzbekistan, left behind at a St. Louis airport during a family flight to Sacramento, cried as relatives were told he was missing. The Boots, emigrating with eight children due to religious harassment, traveled from Angren to New York then St. Louis to California. The boy was found four hours after the family landed, and reunited with his relatives in Sacramento.
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Birmingham
Ala
Michael Richard
Tuscaloosa City
Michael
Debra Richard
Sacramento
Calif
Ivan Boot
Uzbekistan
St. Louis
Boots
Angren
Kennedy Airport
New York
Lambert
TWA
Ivan
Sinatra ties hit Bloomingdale's in corporate line
Corporate executives may soon wear ties inspired by Frank Sinatra artwork offered by Stonehenge Ltd. The $40 abstract geometric neckwear goes on sale today at Bloomingdale's with proceeds benefiting the Barbara Sinatra Children's Fund. Proceeds follow Garcia and Miles Davis tie precedents.
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Sinatra
Miami
Frank Sinatra
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia
Miles Davis
Bloomingdale’s
Barbara Sinatra
Garcia
Stonehenge Ltd
Ebola outbreak grips Kinshasa area hospital in Zaire
Inside the 350 bed hospital quarantined to halt Ebola spread in Kikwit central Zaire most staff are exposed. Officials report 48 deaths with 17 hospitalised and spread possible to nearby villages though containment efforts meet public noncompliance and scarce resources. World Health Organization cautions containment while locals face fear and routine life disruption.
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Kikwit
Jean Jacques Mayembe
University of
Kinshasa
World Health Organization
Doctors Without Borders
Muyembe
Yambuku
Ized
Mosango
Yassa Bonga
Kenge
Correction on false imprisonment report at Permian Mall
Odessa police corrected the earlier dispatch. A 17 year old Odessa male reported being forced at gunpoint to drive three people around the city. The incident did not occur at Permian Mall but near the intersection of Eighth Street and Idlewood Lane and involved four individuals who left the mall together around 5 30 p.m. Monday.
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Odessa
Odessa American
Permian Mall
42Nd St
Eighth Street
Idlewood Lane
Cpl
Troy Joiner
Monay
Joiner
UIL mixup overturns state UIL Academic winner
UIL Academic Director Pat Wisdom disclosed lettering changes that moved Seminole to state champion status only to reveal Bridgeport remained in fifth with 54 points. Seminole officials planned to receive the trophy Thursday amid verification doubts and post-event interviews.
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UIL
Pat Wisdom
Wisdom
Bridgeport
Seminole
Chappell
Midland Angels hockey plans face arena and date hurdles
Thorn says a Permian Basin hockey team could emerge using the Ector County Coliseum but retrofitting ice in the venue poses challenges. Timing conflicts with the annual Sand Hills Rodeo and existing events complicate schedules as planners weigh system choices and renovation work.
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Permian Basin
New Mexico
Thorn
Midland Angels
Angels
Ector County
Rick Kozuback
Father 25, 1994 crash near Odessa verdict in involuntary manslaughter
Jurors found Matteson guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a fatal I 20 wreck near the Meteor Crater exit killed the boy riding in the back of his pickup. Evidence showed a blood alcohol level around .15 to .19 two hours after the crash amid claims of terminal cancer and a paralyzed common-law wife.
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Odessa
Meteor Crater
Matteson
Hauge
David Snyder
Bob Garcia
Ector County
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
Orosco
Lori Luttrall
Houston
Luttrull
Charlene Matteson
Zach Tuck
DPS
Odessa American Classifieds Publisher Notice
Publication and mailing details for the Odessa American describe postal handling and standard ad policies. It notes second class postage, address changes, and the paper’s right to accept or reject ads, plus no liability for errors or omissions in advertising.
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Odessa American
E. 4Th Street
Odessa
P.O
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