Four youths accused in brutal hazing of teen in Ohio case
In Toledo, four boys aged 14 to 15 allegedly hog-tied and tortured a 15-year-old acquaintance using a broom, fly swatter, and belt. Prosecutors seek adult trial for two 14-year-olds and the 15-year-old, citing the crime's heinous nature. They face delinquency charges for felonious assault, aggravated arson, and kidnapping. In Morganton, North Carolina, a woman and her 7-year-old son were stabbed to death. four other children were injured amid an attack at a housing project. one suspect is sought, motive unknown.
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Sheriff's Department
Denise Cubbon
Morganton
N.C
Demetria Andrade Button
Steven Andrade
Button
Grace Hospital
North Carolina
Airline ordered to pay victim's family in Colombia crash
A Miami jury awarded nearly 2.4 million dollars to the family of a woman killed in a mountainside crash in Colombia. The verdict follows American Airlines acknowledging partial pilot fault, then blaming an aircraft computer and Colombian air traffic controllers. It is the third judgment against the Fort Worth based carrier in three weeks.
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Miami
American Airlines
Colombia
Fort Worth
Minnesota Supreme Court Recognizes Privacy Rights
The Minnesota Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, recognizes a legal right to privacy, aligning with most jurisdictions and creating potential for lawsuits against news organizations, employers, and data collectors for disclosing private information even when true.
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ST. Paul, Minn
State Supreme Court
End of South Africa apartheid probe after thousand witness hearings
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission ended two years of hearings detailing massacres torture and killings under apartheid. Desmond Tutu cried as Wouter Basson testified about chemical and biological weapon projects while others spoke of Biko Mandela Winnie Madikizela Mandela and death squads. The panel will draft a reconciliation report due in October and amnesty hearings continue.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Desmond Tutu
Wouter Basson
Nelson Mandela
United States
Basson
Mandela
African National Congress
Steve Biko
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Eugene de Kock
Tutu
Dr. Death
Jaap Cielliers
Ethnic Albanian rebels weigh joining Kosovo talks
Kosovo Albanian rebels asked U S diplomats for time to review a proposal to join negotiations with the Serb led government on ending fighting in Kosovo. Mehmet Hajrizi said rebels will decide next week whether to form a coalition with moderates to pursue independence from Serbia. Christopher Hill led a meeting with the Kosovo Liberation Army as U S and European efforts push unity for cease fire talks. Milosevic expressed interest in negotiating with Albanians, Hill said.
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Pristina
Yugoslavia
U.S
Kosovo
Mehmet Hajrizi
Christopher Hill
Kosovo Liberation Army
Hajrizi
Serbia
Slobodan Milosevic
Hill
Switched at birth at University of Virginia Medical Center
Police investigate a baby mother mixup at UVA Medical Center where newborn bracelets were used to ID mothers and infants. Three years ago two girls were sent home with the wrong families. DNA tests confirmed nonbiological ties and the hospital notes procedures to prevent misidentification. Paula Johnson hopes to learn about her biological daughter. she has a lawyer but no suit filed.
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia Medical Center
Marguerite Beck
Paula Johnson
Johnson
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Beck
Thomas A. Massaro
Health Sciences Center
The
Daily Progress of
Leading Cypriot gang figure shot after nightclub exit
Andros Acroporos, a top member of a Cypriot gangland family, was killed early Friday when two hooded gunmen fired 25 bullets into his car as he prepared to drive away after leaving a nightclub with an unidentified Russian woman who was wounded. Acroporos’ brothers Charalambos, 35, and Panicos, 25, had been acquitted last month of an attempted murder charge linked to a rival gang leader. the attorney general has appealed.
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Limassol
Cyprus
Andros Acroporos
Aeroporos
Charalambos
Panicos
Coins Hidden With Noblewoman in Chernihiv Grave
Archaeologists in Chernihiv have uncovered a velvet purse containing over 100 17th and early 18th century coins, a cross, and a blue-stone silver ring beside the coffin of a noblewoman, buried at a site now part of Chernihiv Technological Institute. A Fakty newspaper report notes the find.
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Kiev
Ukraine
Chernihiv
Fakty
Prized artwork stolen in Italy
A thief mingling with tourists at the Uffizi Gallery stole a tiny marble head of a dog from an ancient sarcophagus. The dog head, about the size of a table-tennis ball from a second century Roman general’s coffin, was valued at up to 1700 dollars. A French woman witnessed the theft Thursday evening and alerted guards, but the thief escaped.
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Florence
Italy
Uffizi Gallery
Antonio Paolucci
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