Letters to Arkansas sheriff flood two boys over fatal school shooting
Bundles of letters and packages pour into the Craighead County sheriff's office for two boys held after the Westside Middle School killings. Up to 40 pieces daily, many express sympathy while some send hate mail to Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson, ages 11 and 13.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Sheriffs Department
Craighead County
Andrew Golden
Mitchell Johnson
Detroit approves 1.8 billion casino plan for three casinos
Detroit City Council approves a 1.8 billion plan to bring casino gambling to a warehouse district east of downtown. Mayor Dennis Archer says the project will revitalize the economy and create jobs and contracts for blacks, whose share of the city is about 80 percent, while noting blacks have stakes in all three casino groups.
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Detroit
Dennis Archer
Kmart cleared in 1995 soda machine death case
A Sarasota jury absolved Kmart of negligence after a 1200 pound soda machine fell on 13 year old Jason Beggs, killing him outside a store in 1995. The plaintiffs claimed the machine on a sloped concrete slab without an anchor caused the death. Kmart argued Jason habitually damaged property.
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Sarasota, Fla
Kmart
Jason Beggs
Jason
Free lunch at J P Morgan to end for Manhattan staff
New York AP reports that J P Morgan & Co will discontinue the free afternoon meal for its 1,500 Manhattan employees this fall. The bank says the policy was local to the Manhattan office and will be standardized with its other global offices.
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New York
J.P. Morgan & Co
Investment Bank
Manhattan
Joe Evangelista
Morgan
Brooklyn Dancer Found on Street Reveals Paris Ballet Past
Arthur Bell a 71 year old man found homeless in Brooklyn recounted a life in ballet. He spoke of Paris London Frederick Ashton Margot Fonteyn Olga Preobrajenskaya Katherine Dunham and James Baldwin. A social worker insisted his memories point to a pioneering African American dancer whose art left a mark in the 1940s and 50s. Now recovering from frostbite Bell is learning to walk with a cane and relies on a higher level of care in a nursing home.
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New York
Arthur Bell
Brooklyn
Paris
Maria Mackin
Bell
Mackin
London
Frederick Ashton
Margot Fonteyn
Olga Preobrajenskaya
Katherine Dunham
James Baldwin
Lincoln Center
Madeleine Nichols
Capezio
Dance Shoe Company
Rudolf Nureyev
Bob Fosse
Air pilot entangled in power lines above Seattle highway
Mike Warren, 47, an air commuter and crane operator from Silverdale, hung upside down in a Cessna 150L for nearly four hours after snagging in power lines near Boeing Field. Firefighters using a cherry picker rescued him as crowds watched. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center for tests. officials probing whether a mechanical issue or weather caused the incident.
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Seattle
Mike Warren
Warren
Harborview Medical Center
Pam Love
Mike
Bill Ammirata
Kiro-Tv
Tukwila
Dave Ewing
Ewing
National Transportation Safety Board
Air-Safety
Kurt Anderson
World Court Orders U S to Spare Paraguayan in Virginia Case
The World Court urged the United States to spare Angel Francisco Breard on death row for the 1992 murder and attempted rape of Ruth Dickie in Arlington, Virginia. U.S. officials dispute the court’s jurisdiction and have no enforcement authority, casting doubt on the ruling’s impact.
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World Court
U.S
United States
Virginia
Angel Francisco Breard
Ruth Dickie
Arlington
Atlantic
U.N
Washington
Explosions Kill 82, Injure 48 in Chinese Mines
Reports from Xinhua detail three Chinese coal mine disasters. Hebi in Henan left 21 dead on April 2, a private mine in the same province killed 14 and wounded 37, and a Pingdingshan explosion early Monday killed 47 and wounded 11.
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Beijing
Xinhua
Hebi
Henan
Pingdingshan
German police begin mass DNA testing in small town
CLOPPENBURG Germany police start voluntary saliva sampling from 18 000 men aged 18 to 30 in the Struecklingen area near the Dutch border to solve the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl. Tests aim to identify a suspect with results expected in a few weeks.
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Cloppenburg
Germany
Struecklingen
North Sea
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