New Jersey teachers freed after nine day strike
Nearly 230 teachers were ordered freed from jail after ending a bitter nine day walkout. It marked the nation’s largest mass jailing of striking teachers in 23 years as Middletown Township teachers plan to return to class next week while mediation is sought between the union and the Board of Education. Teachers were released in groups from the Monmouth County Jail and driven to a courthouse lot where supporters cheered.
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Freehold
N.J
Middletown Township
Board of Education
Monmouth County
Appointee Snubbed as Civil Rights Panel Divides
The U S Commission on Civil Rights refused to seat Peter Kirsanow a Bush appointee, sparking disputes with chair Mary Frances Berry. At a two hour meeting Republicans called him Commissioner while Democrats treated him as audience. In separate cases, a student pleaded guilty in the Dartmouth professors stabbings, a defunct jet repair firm faced no contest over a ValuJet crash charge, and SabreTech agreed to donate $500,000 to charity.
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Washington
White House
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Bush
Peter Kirsanow
Kirsanow
Cleveland
Commission
Mary Frances Berry
Berry
Dartmouth College
James Parker
Robert Tulloch
SabreTech
Miami-Atlanta
Gunman in Goshen workplace shooting linked to love triangle
Robert Wissman 36, a gun dealer and Nu Wood Decorative Millwork employee, killed plant manager Greg Oswald and wounded six others before killing himself. Co workers said Wissman faced a work related love triangle and had shown troubling behavior in the days before the shooting. Police and investigators noted Wissman had been fired or was about to be fired. guns and shells were removed from his home.
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Goshen
Ind
Robert Wissman
Terry
Schollian
Wissman
Greg Oswald
Ed Rutledge
Rutledge
Chris Sadowski
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Columbus
Ohio
Sadowski
Columbine gunman journal publication shocks parents
Denver AP report states Eric Harris's parents, Wayne and Kathy Harris, were horrified by the public release of their son's diary and drawings. The Harrises fear copycat violence as excerpts and Harris's violent writings surface across newspapers after the 1999 Columbine massacre. The note says the family did not source the documents.
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Denver
Eric Harris
Wayne
Kathy Harris
Benjamin Colkitt
Colkitt
Harrises
Dylan Klebold
Columbine High School
Jefferson County
Klebold
Democrats Lose Bid on 35 Billion Anti Terror Plan
The Senate voted 50 to 50 to derail a Democratic 35 billion anti-terrorism package, denying more border safety and food security funding. Republicans backed Bush aim to cap spending at 20 billion, saying the plan was too costly and politics interfered with wartime priorities.
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Washington
Senate
Bush
White House
Pearl Harbor
New York
Million-dollar mistake hits child support overages in Missouri
In Jefferson City Missouri the state double issued seven thousand five hundred $1.2 million in child support payments during Thanksgiving week. Some recipients faced bounced checks and overdraft fees. Officials pledged to help affected families and a legislative committee demanded explanations.
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Jefferson City
Dee Stephenson
Stephenson
Division of
Child Support Enforcement
Michael Shortridge
Department of Social Services
Gary Bailey
Deb Hendricks
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