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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1998
Page
5
A Connecticut judge acquitted James and Lynn Luddy and their landlord Jerry Petrovits of conspiring to sell their baby. Prosecutors claimed the Luddy family offered their son in 1996 for back rent, while defenses argued the evidence showed kidnapping and flight plans rather than a sale.
A tractor-trailer traveling on Route 33 collided head on with a mini van two miles west of Gordonsville, igniting both vehicles. All four in the minivan died from the fire, with occupants gender and ages undetermined hours later. The truck driver survived and was hospitalized as the crash cause remained unknown.
Eldred Proctor, 58, and his wife ran a Beanie Babies scheme across 19 states. Proctor pleaded guilty to theft after taking orders but not sending toys. They kept about 49 000 dollars from victims, claiming cancer and medical needs.
Investigators from Plano and Dallas believe a single gunman on a motorcycle fatally shot two truck drivers in separate attacks within 40 minutes and 10 miles. Plano police sought the rider who shot a trucker on U.S. 75 just before midnight, while Dallas detectives hunted the motorcyclist who opened fire at a station around 12:30 a.m.
On Interstate 25 near Santa Fe, Governor Gary Johnson and a state police escort arrived after a sports utility vehicle rolled and medics found a 21 year old Albuquerque woman dead. Johnson tended a dying woman and ensured two young children survived the crash.
Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks says former detective Mark Fuhrman drove reforms after the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman case. The Fuhrman Task Force outlined 23 corrective actions aimed at preventing lying racism harassment and excessive force with 12 completed and the rest due by year end.
Prosecutors ask the 10th Circuit to allow sharing Oklahoma City bombing evidence with Oklahoma authorities, saying most data is already public. Judge Connelly rejected a defense claim that transferring materials could harm McVeigh and Nichols rights. Oklahoma charges allege murder in the 1995 Alfred P. Murray federal building bombing. McVeigh and Nichols oppose the transfer until appeals end.
The Southern Education Foundation reports that public higher education in 19 states remains largely segregated with whites dominating flagship campuses. Black freshmen share barely 17 percent in 1976, while only modest gains since the 1970s lag behind black population shares.
A report notes that in the nineteen states ordered by the Supreme Court to desegregate higher education, black access remains limited with under five percent in engineering or physical sciences. Black faculty are underrepresented, seen as vital mentors, with fewer than ten percent of full-time faculty in 1995-96 in certain states and limited black faculty in others to community or historically black colleges.
President Clinton and Hillary Clinton sail with broadcaster Walter Cronkite aboard his two masted ketch Wynne off Edgartown Martha's Vineyard after private island time Clinton to fly to Worcester for campaign stump on school safety juvenile crime and re election effort Chelsea joins Cronkite on board the vessel
Clinton spent time aboard the Monica Lewinsky’s yacht during a 12 day vacation, with aides denying loss of political leverage as he vowed to push his initiatives. He ordered missile strikes, signed a food safety council executive order, and spoke with Boris Yeltsin while eyeing next week’s Moscow summit.
Vice President Al Gore urged AFSCME delegates in Honolulu to organize and work hard to elect Democrats in November. He praised President Clinton as a defender of organized labor while avoiding discussion of the Clinton affair. Gore urged 6,000 delegates to match right wing opposition in intensity and then met families at a Hawaii elementary school before a fundraising rally and statewide campaigns for Gov Cayetano against Inda Lingle.
Democratic candidates press cautious line on Clinton amid the Starr investigation. Gephardt says he will review Starr findings before commenting, while others in Indiana and Pennsylvania consider inviting Clinton or distancing themselves. Democrats need 1 more seat to regain the House.
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