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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1998
Page
5
Mikail Markhasev, 19, was sentenced to life without parole after a judge rejected misconduct claims by prosecutors and jurors. Cosby’s daughter and relatives attended. Ennis Cosby, 27, was killed during a highway holdup last year while changing a flat.
Dallas AP reports epi demiologist Dr. Robert Haley challenges three major government studies denying Gulf War syndrome. Pentagon spox Kenneth Bacon orders review as federal and state prosecutors crack down on media investment scams from Elvis memorabilia infomercials to an Internet casino. FTC SEC and states file 60 complaints. One firm claims a $10,000 Internet casino investment yields $150,000 first year, echoing Microsoft Netscape Yahoo.
FBI teams in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam collect explosive traces and sift debris while investigators pursue survivors and identify suspects. In Kenya and Tanzania the blasts killed 234 and injured about 5,000. 14 more arrests reported in Tanzania, including six Iraqis and six Sudanese. Witness accounts emerge as Red Cross and Israeli rescue crews search ruins.
Mitchell Johnson pled guilty on his 14th birthday and Andrew Golden was found guilty as a 12 year old after the March 24, 1998 attack that killed four students and a teacher. Both received the maximum juvenile penalties, confinement in a juvenile center potentially until age 21, with judge Ralph Wilson Jr. warning on possible 90 day jail if released early.
Washington report on The State of Our Nation's Youth finds teens optimistic about future opportunities after graduation, with 71 percent expecting many options. It notes girls outperform boys in academics, taking harder courses and earning better grades, while 18 percent of top students are female.
AP reports police and FBI detained 30 suspects including six Sudanese six Iraqis one Somali and a Turk tied to the U S Embassy bombing in Dar es Salaam Tanzania Police described the detainees as dubious characters citing intelligence linking them to the incident.
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