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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1998
Page
6
Charles M. Askew, 63, who escaped during recreation, died early the next day when his stolen car crashed. Authorities note his long federal prison history and quote Deputy U.S. Marshal Richard Carleton about him mistaking the car for a spaceship after decades without driving.
Delbert Ward, the central figure in the 1990 murder case and subject of the award winning documentary Brother's Keeper, died at 67 in Coopertown New York after a brief hospitalization. He was acquitted of his brother's murder. The film won at Sundance in 1992 and by the New York Film Critics Circle but did not receive an Oscar nomination.
With the Yangtze at record levels officials consider floodgate openings and a possible 2 mile dike dynamiting to divert waters. About 250000 of 330000 Jingjiang plain evacuees have left homes and authorities warn of possible further levee breaches across Hubei and Jiangxi as flooding expands.
Drenching rain up to a foot flooded Elm Grove and Milwaukee roads, businesses, and rail lines as two missing boys, ages 12 and 14, remained unaccounted for near a water filled culvert. Divers paused a day as the storm system moved away and officials assessed damages.
U S scientists explain DNA testing to match a stain on Monica Lewinsky's dress to a person. The FBI examines the stain to see if it contains DNA and could link it to President Clinton, though he has not provided a sample. DNA analysis shows match supports attribution or excludes the source.
About 300 Israeli Arabs marched in Old Jaffa to oppose turning a disused mosque into a tourist complex. Scuffles erupted as five protesters were arrested for stone throwing amid plans to sell the building to Old Jaffa Development.
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