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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1997
Page
1
The forecast notes cloudy conditions with rain ending tonight. Thursday turns mostly cloudy and windy with cold temperatures and flurries. Friday remains partly sunny and cold. Saturday brings clouds blustery with possible flurries and a high near 30. Sunday shows sun and clouds with a chance of flurries and temperatures around 22.
San Diego judge orders the NFL to pay Walt Sweeney $1.8 million for football related disabilities. The former Syracuse and Chargers guard says amphetamines and depressants given by coaches led to drug addiction, threatening further retiree claims. The ruling raises monthly benefits to $12,670 by 1998 and Sweeney remains on a boat, six months behind on rent.
Forgar faced a brutal childhood with her father's death at eight and an alcoholic mother. After ten years in foster care and a breakdown in high school, she returned to Syracuse University and earned a bachelor's in elementary and special education. Now 26, she teaches fourth graders with special needs at Lanigan Elementary as a long term substitute, aiming for a permanent post. Her friend Dana Sweet and her family supported her through college and recovery.
The House voted 395 to 28 to reprimand Speaker Newt Gingrich and fine him 300000 dollars for discrediting the House by using tax exempt funds to promote Republican goals and then providing false information to an ethics inquiry. The act marks the harshest rebuke of a sitting speaker in two centuries. Meanwhile, Cosby-related cases unfold as witness sightings and new extortion plots surface, including Autumn Jackson and Jose Medina’s NY arrest over a 40 million scheme tied to a supposed Cosby daughter claim.
A man outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in downtown Washington, DC, detonated a device around 7:45 am while anti abortion demonstrators gathered for the Roe v Wade anniversary march. No injuries reported, police said debris was found and the suspect fled.
National Weather Service officials review the 77 inch Tug Hill snowstorm and a 76 inch Silver Lake event from 1921 to determine measurement methods and accuracy. After analysis, Montague’s 77 inch total remains official, while Silver Lake’s claim may need an asterisk or dual-record approach. Water town logged minus 13 degrees as the day’s coldest in the lower 48 states.
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