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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1998
Page
6
In Fayetteville Tennessee AP report a high school senior Robert Creson aged 18 was shot multiple times on campus at Lincoln County High School around 2 pm Tuesday three days before graduation. The shooter is in custody and no other injuries were reported. Creson died about 15 minutes after arrival at Lincoln Regional Hospital.
The House approved a 750 million dollar grant program named after Ricky Ray to aid about 7,200 hemophiliacs who contracted HIV in the 1980s from contaminated blood products. Each family of the deceased recipient receives a 100000 dollar grant, addressing a long dangerous chapter in the national blood supply.
In Cincinnati, both sides obtained a new judge for the Hustler obscenity case involving Larry Flynt. Judge Patrick Dinkelacker was randomly assigned by Hamilton County Common Pleas Court after objections to the earlier assignment by Judge Norbert A. Nadel, who had taken the case directly.
World dispatch from Katmandu reports four Japanese climbers stranded on Mount Kanchenjunga were rescued by helicopters after a deadly misroute. Atsushi Shiina and Akasaka Kenjo died after spending a night exposed on the Nepal peak. Three survivors, Taro Tanigawa, Masakazu Okuda, and Kenta Hirose, suffered severe frostbite. one climber, Shigeshi Yamamoto, escaped injury.
Investigators say the May 1997 murders of Mario Calderon and Elsa Alvarado in Bogota were ordered by top Colombian paramilitary leader Fidel Castano and carried out by hit men linked to the Medellin cartel. The attack marked a turning point as rights workers faced violence in the capital.
Indonesia's President Suharto announced he will leave but gave no departure date. He promised cabinet changes reforms and new elections first. Protests intensified with students occupying Parliament while tanks and barricades line streets near the palace ahead of a major rally expected to draw thousands.
Washington based report notes state attorneys general unite to challenge large multistate entities like tobacco, Microsoft, and Ed McMahon sweepstakes. Speculates cooperation aids cross border cases and political profiles while recalling past settlements with Keds, Reebok, AOL, and tobacco deals. Mentions current antitrust actions and multi state settlements shaping regulatory landscape.
An 18 ton 19th century steel bridge serving as the only access to a Bytow cottage was cut into pieces with a welding torch and hauled away. Police say traces in the sand suggest a crane and at least one truck were used. The owner, unnamed, last visited the cottage in March and found the loss Saturday.
In Aalesund, 300 miles northwest of Oslo, Kristin Narvik Loendal was riding downhill when a car struck her at an intersection. She flew into the air and landed in the bed of a passing truck going the opposite direction. She suffered bumps and bruises but no serious injuries. The driver and trucker stopped to help after spotting her in the truck bed.
Yutaka Someya, 31, confessed to setting 30 fires after being angered by an exclusion from a firefighting contest. Police say he admitted responsibility following an April 14 arrest for a farmer's hut blaze and had been linked to other fires by witnesses. He often arrived first at scenes and used a hose to attack the fires.
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