Vermont forum weighs gay marriage after state Supreme Court ruling
In Montpelier Vermont hundreds filled the Statehouse forum to debate whether marriage statutes apply to homosexual couples or require a separate domestic partnership system. Protesters wore lapel pins and white circles opposing restrictions as the court had ruled marriage benefits were unconstitutional.
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Montpelier
Vermont
State Supreme Court
Mpany
Journalists protest editorial on slavery, affirmative action
Florida Times-Union editors and reporters dispute an editorial stating slavery briefly existed in America and its effects are not permanent. The Jan 10 piece, titled The Linger Issue, questioned ongoing Florida affirmative action and Gov. Bush's plan to end racial preferences. Publisher Carl Cannon said a clarification would run, stressing the piece was about policy not slavery.
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Jacksonville
Fig
Florida Times-Union
America
Nent
Florida
Jeb Bush
Carl Cannon
Ott Benges Ee Rea
Man Convicted of Murder Rapes By News Crew At Cemetery
Emilio Nunez 40 was found guilty of murdering his ex-wife Maritza Martin at a Florida cemetery where a Telemundo crew, led by reporter Ingrid Cruz, recorded the fatal shooting in 1993. He faces life in prison with a years before parole.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Emilio Nunez
Jal
Telemundo
Nunez
Maritza Martin
Martin
Ingrid Cruz
Disparities in heart attack care for mentally ill patients
A JAMA study of 113000 elderly heart attack patients in 1994 95 finds 5365 with mental disorders received fewer bypass or angioplasty procedures. Researchers say these treatment gaps may signal broader health care system challenges and urge scrutiny by physicians and policymakers.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Benjamin Druss
Yale Unversity
Belmont Complex scrapped by Los Angeles school board
After years of debates and costs near 170 million dollars the Los Angeles Unified School District voted five to two to stop work on the Belmont Complex at the current site a former oil field. The board will study alternate sites and assess possible uses or sale of the half completed oil complex to recoup expenditures.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Unified School Board
Belmont
Government denies shots fired by federal agents at Waco siege end
Government lawyers in a four page filing deny federal agents or the U S military fired on the Branch Davidian compound at the end of the April 1993 siege. The response comes after a wrongful death suit against the government by surviving Branch Davidians and families.
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Texas
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Dallas Morning News
Branch Davidians
First New Mexico Plague Case of Year Reported
Welsh, 43, recovering at St. Vincent hospital after bubonic plague confirmation. she suspects a rodent link and says she plans to return home soon. authorities note plague can spread from fleas with infected rodents.
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Uerque
Debra Welsh
Welsh
Albuquerque
St. Wh Hospital
Grandmothers seek meeting with Elian in Florida visit
The Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez nears a government ordered session in Miami as his grandmothers Mariela Quintana and Raquel Rodriguez push for repatriation. Senate political maneuvering threatens timing while INS sets the visit as a private family meeting at a Dominican college president's home with state relatives nearby. The case, ongoing immigration hearings, holds deep ties to Cuba and U.S. policy as factions debate his citizenship and fate.
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Ehan Gonzalez
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Elian
Raquel Rodriguez
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Lou
Miam
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Jus
Tice
Carole Florman
Florman
Miami Beach
Dorminnican College
MSA
Ehan
Tme
Flor- Tan
Snow Storm Paralyses East as Areas Ground to Standstill
Two feet of snow crippled districts east and south of Syracuse with closures and early hour delays. Regents exams were canceled in several districts while flights and highways faced cancellations and accidents amid freezing temperatures and rising power outages across Maryland Virginia North Carolina and Georgia.
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Syracuse
Charles Everett
Syracuse International
Thruway
Carolias
New York
Baltimore-Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Washington
Massachusetts
Carolinas
Georgia
Paul Knight
Penn State Weather Communications
University Park
Dewey Wal- Ston
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National Guard
Raleigh
New York State
Irway
Hudson Valley
New
Republican field narrows after Iowa as New Hampshire voters loom
In Manchester New Hampshire the remaining five candidates Gary Bauer George W Bush Steve Forbes Alan Keyes and John McCain prepare for the final debate before the first primary. Hatch plans to drop out leaving a five man field headed by Bush Forbes and Keyes with Bauer seeking to rebound from Iowa showing.
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N.H
Iowa
New Hampshire
Ormn Hatch
Utah
Gary Bauer
Texas
George W Bush
Steve Forbes
Alan Keyes
Len John McCain
Antona
Bauer
Bush
Forbes
Keyes
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McCain
United States
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