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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 16, 2000

Page

14

Texas Board adopts student prayer policy and heroes for children

The State Board of Education approved a non binding 9 6 resolution urging schools to review student speaker policies after a Supreme Court ruling limited officially sponsored prayer The board also honored 14 Texans as Heroes for Children including James Leininger whose funding of scholarships and voucher advocacy drew criticism from the Texas Freedom Network

Board of Education Austin State Board of Education Supreme Court Santa Fe Texas Richard Watson R Gorman James Leininger San Antonio Leininger Texas Freedom Network

Texas A&M student jailed over obscene messages to dead girl's mother

Texas A M junior James Fenner Montier confessed to posting two sexually explicit messages on a memorial site for a Maryland girl killed in a 1999 wreck. He faced misdemeanor harassment charges and remained free on bond as police said one note came from a university lab and the other from his dorm. The messages included a graphic image of decapitation and sexual fantasies involving the dead girl. Montier admitted the acts as a prank and had sent similar messages to other memorial sites in Indiana and England.

College Station Texas A&m Maryland James Fenner Montier US. Virgin Islands Frederick Bob Wiatt Montier Wiatt Wyatt FBI Indiana England

Lawsuit Claims Sales Scheme For Ritalin

Lawsuits allege Novartis and the American Psychiatric Association pushed overdiagnosis of ADHD and used misleading literature to boost Ritalin sales. Claims involve Ciba-Geigy’s role before its 1996 merger and seek redress for children in New Jersey and California.

Newark N.J American Psychiatric Association Novartis Phamaceutical Corp Association New Jersey California Novartis The Psychiatric Association American Academy of Pediatrics East Texas State Superior Court Hackensack San Diego Ciba-Geigy Corp Ciba-Geigy

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