Four linked AP briefs on murders and trials across the nation
An 18 year old former student council president pleaded guilty to murdering two Dartmouth professors in New Hampshire. A Tennessee day care van crash killed the driver and four children. In New York City obstetrics residents will receive mandatory abortion training. A Cambridge trial began for a seven coworker killing at Edgewater Technology. A U.S. Army court martial in Mannheim heard testimony in a mother’s murder of her two toddlers.
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Haverhill
N.H
Dartmouth College
Memphis
New York
Michael Bloomberg
van Dunn
City Hospital
Dunn
Berlin
Spc
Lillie Morgan
Survivors of Tiananmen self immolation face PR campaign
Reporters toured a central China prison where Wang Jindong, a Falun Gong survivor and self immolation organizer, denounces Li Hongzhi while the state runs a publicity effort to prove its crackdown is justified. Four other survivors, including a mother and daughter musicians, react to the Jan 28 2001 incident and the Falun Gong abroad dispute.
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Zhengzhou
China
Wang Jindong
Li Hongzhi
Wang
Tiananmen Square
Falun Gong
United States
American, nine others kidnapped off Nigeria coast
Shell Oil said ten workers including one American, fourGhanaians, one Filipino and four Nigerians were seized Tuesday by 40 villagers in Amatu Bayelsa state from a boat servicing a drilling rig off Nigeria. The hostage group demanded jobs and oil contracts for safe release.
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Abuja
Nigeria
Shell Oil
Amatu
Bayelsa State
Shell International
James Herbert
London
Shell
Herbert
Researchers Debate Racial Profiling Detection Methods
In New Jersey a state study finds blacks speed more than whites using laser speed checks and photos, provoking mixed reactions from troopers, civil rights advocates, and federal officials. National debate continues on reliable methods, with researchers like Lorie Fridell preparing a guide for self monitoring by police agencies.
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Newark
N.J
New Jersey
North Carolina
Florida
New Jersey Turnpike
Troopers
U.S. Justice Department
David Harris
Toledo
Ohio
Lorie Fridell
Police Executive Research Forum
Byrd rejects Ridge offer to brief lawmakers
Sen Robert Byrd demands formal testimony from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge before his Senate Appropriations Committee. Byrd, a strong defender of congressional powers, says Ridge should testify on Bush’s 38 billion domestic security request.
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Washington
Robert Byrd
Homeland Security
Tom Ridge
Byrd
Ridge
Congress
Senate Appropriations Committee
Bush
Office of Homeland Security
U.S. Treasury
Senate
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America
Tidex Marine
Herbert Said
D-W.va
Carterville, IL
Sprint
PCS
Sprintpcs.com
Sprint Pcs
Carbondale
E. Main St
Suite K
Sprint Pcs Advantage
Sprint Spectrum LP
Sprint Communications Company LP
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