Online gambling debt case tests legality in California
A Marin County woman accused of $70,000 in online gambling losses fights Providian Bank in San Francisco court claiming wagering on the Internet is illegal. She countersued Visa, Mastercard and 50 online operators seeking to bar gambling debts of Californians. The mixed docket also reports a Fed approval of a $57 billion NationsBank/BankAmerica merger creating the largest U.S. bank. Also: drive in theater in Los Angeles features a live play with cars and radios, admission $40, and Rhode Island frees a jailed mother who refused to pay child support after two years in contempt.
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Calif
Cynthia Haines
Marin County
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Providion
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MasterCard International
Saaka Shien
California
United States
Washington
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Anderica Corp
Federal Reserve Board
Fed
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Chase Manhattan
Travelers Group
Los Angeles
Patrions
Wolfskill
Joel Bloom
Mayfield Mall
Arts Warehouse
Providence
R.1
Rhode Island
Royagro
Maria Manuela Dickerson
Steven Brown
American Civil Liberties Union
Maria
Sadiisses
Bac
Russia Lets Ruble Fall Amid Financial Turmoil
Russia allows a ruble drop up to 34 percent after months of propping up the currency. The move raises import costs for Russians, threatens bank solvencies, halts certain government payments, and imposes a 90 day moratorium on foreign debt. Officials insist no default, while IMF funding had earlier flowed to stabilize the country.
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Moscow
Russia
Anatoly Chubais
Ashington
Treasury
Robert Rubin
U.S
United States
Sergei Kiriyenko
International Monetary Fund
Fossett Rescued After Coral Sea Crash Search
Steve Fossett was flying over Queensland when his aircraft crashed into the Coral Sea. Rescue beacons were sent off and Australian and French air force planes along with a New Zealand Navy ship searched for him until a yacht located and rescued him late Monday.
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Steve Fossett
Queensland
Australia
Coral Sea
Fossett
Balloon adventurer plummets from sky in Australia rescue
Steve Fossett, American balloonist, crashed 29,000 feet into the Coral Sea during a thunderstorm while circumnavigating the globe. He was rescued by a yacht 500 miles off Australia’s east coast and reported safe aboard the Atlanta after traveling 15,200 miles since departing Mendoza on August 7.
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Australia
Steve Fossett
Coral Sea
Chicago
Atlanta
Fossett
Judy Jasper
St. Louis
TV 7 Network
Everest region bans bottled drinks to curb littering
Nepal government bans all bottled beverages in the Everest region to reduce litter on the slopes. Only aluminum cans allowed as they are crushable and easier to carry back to base. About 200,000 bottles—water beer and other drinks—are left yearly by trekkers.
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Katmandu
Nepal
Everest
Umesh Singh
Mississippi reopens 32 year old Klansman murder case
In Hattiesburg Mississippi former Ku Klux Klan official Samuel H Bowers Jr 73 goes on trial for murder and arson in the 1966 firebombing death of Vernon Dahmer prosecutors say Dahmer helped Black citizens register to vote Bowers previously faced multiple trials with deadlocks and served six years for the 1964 Mississippi Burning case Across Mississippi public interest at the Forrest County Courthouse led to about 400 potential jurors being summoned as the state reexamines its segregation era past
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Miss
Mississippi
Samuel H. Bowers Jr
The
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Ku Klux Klan
Vernon Dahmer
Lindsay Carter
Bowers
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner
James Chaney
Charles Sallis
Sallis
Forrest County
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