Corporate America fails work family test study finds gaps
The Families and Work Institute reports many firms lack basic work family policies and fail to inform workers of help, with bigger companies and those led by women or minorities more likely to offer support. In Brentom Tenn a family of five died when their van hit a train at a rural crossing without gates or lights.
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New York
America
The
Families and Work Institute
Brenton
Tenn
Michael Varnell
Tammy
Jessica
Kristin
Davey
Three Olve Hill men shot to death while ATV riding
Police report three Olve Hill men Randy D. Stevens 19 Douglas L. Middleton 21 and Scotty Middleton 27 were shot in the back of the head while riding four wheelers in a remote northeastern Kentucky area. An ATV set afire was found nearby and the bodies were discovered Sunday night by two other riders.
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Olive Hill
Kentucky
Randy D. Stevens
Douglas L. Middleton
Scotty Middleton
Olve Hill
Men awarded $500000 each for wrongful Florida convictions
Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, both black, received $500000 apiece from the state after wrongful murder convictions for the 1963 killings of two gas station attendants in Port St. Joe. Their trials were revisited when Curtis Adams confessed to the murders.
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Miami
Freddie Pitts
Hell
Tam
Pitts
Wilbert Lee
Port
St. Joe
Florida Panhandle
Curtis
Boo” Adams
Feds plan offshore oil drilling off California coast
Santa Barbara Calif plans are under way to permit new offshore oil drilling along California for the first time in 14 years. The Minerals Management Service aims to let oil companies begin drilling on 39 undeveloped tracts off Ventura Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Coastal residents express anger and warn of years before any platform could be in place.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
California
Minerals Management Service
Ventura
San Luis Obispo
California killer Thompson executed after rape murder
Thomas Thompson, 43, who raped Ginger Fleischli in 1984 and fatally stabbed her, was executed by injection in San Quentin. Fleischli, 20, was found beside a highway on Sept 14, 1981, after being killed two days earlier in Thompson's apartment shared with his ex boyfriend, David Leitch. Thompson claimed innocence and said the sex was consensual before he passed out.
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San Quentin
Calif
Thomas Thompson
Ginger Fleischli
Thompson
David Leitch
California
Police say man rape, kill family on remote Auburn ranch
Authorities say Arturo Juarez Suarez, 31, ranch hand, raped a woman and killed her husband, her two young children and the husband’s brother at a remote Auburn area ranch before fleeing into the night. FBI and California DOJ joined local investigators in the probe.
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Auburn
Calif
Placer County
Arturo Juarez Suarez
Rick Armstrong
Jose Lws Martinez
Juan Manuel Martinez
Arele Martinez
Jack Martinez
FBI
State Department of Justice
Woman threatens to stab daughters during eviction standoff
AUSTIN TEXAS police say a woman resisting eviction held a knife to her two 13 year old daughters throats for more than five hours. The standoff ended when the daughters left with police and Sankofa surrendered. No one was injured. Sankofa was taken to Austin State Hospital for evaluation before booking.
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Austin
Texas
Nailah Sankofa
Sankofa
Austin State Hospital
Federal agents raid for biological threats lead to arrests
In Brownsville warrants, investigators seized threats and manuals to weaponize lighters while pursuing HIV infected blood, rabies and anthrax materials. Three men Tabanie Wise 72 Mimith, Jack Abbott Grehe Jr. 43 Tos Fresnos, Oliver Dean nmign Haringen remained in Cameron County Jail on charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction and using them.
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Laredo
Texas
Brownsville
Tabanie Wise
Mimith
Jack Abbott Grehe Jr
Tos Fresnos
Oliver Dean Nmign
Haringen
Cameron County
D'Amato Faces Grassroots Pressure From Broad, Diverse Groups
Environmentalists, immigrants and civil rights advocates have mounted a coordinated drive to influence Senator Alfonso D'Amato of New York. Through phone campaigns, letters, news conferences and newsletters, they press for acid rain legislation, immigration protections, and tighter managed care rules as election-year tactics. D'Amato, courting swing voters, defends his positions as conscience driven while acknowledging rising grassroots pressure.
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Long Island
Congress
Nearle
Bld
USC
New York
D'Amato
D’amato
Senate
William Cooke
Citizens Campaign For the Environment
Chris Ballantyne
Northeast
The
Sierra Club
Joan Mulhern
Save Lives, Not Tobacco Coalition
Richard Kirsch
Citizen Action of
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
McCaughey Ross files signatures for New York primary
In Albany, Lt. Gov Betsy McCaughey Ross seeks the Democratic nomination for governor claiming she has more than triple the required signatures to force a spot on the Sept 15 primary ballot. In Buffalo a woman faces psychiatric evaluation after hiding her newborn in a wall. Renee Giamo 21 charged with reckless endangerment endangering the welfare of a child and abandonment. In Rochester a Buffalo man died under about a hundred tons of concrete while inspecting an elevator shaft at the old Bausch Lomb building Thomas DiBartolomes 32 died instantly.
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Albany
Betsy McCaughey Ross
Buffalo
Renee Giamo
Rochester
Bausch & Lomb
Thomas DiBartolomes
Boy found dead in van used for day care pickup
New York police said a 3-year-old boy who was picked up Monday for a day care program was found dead seven hours later inside a van parked in Coney Island. The cause of death was not immediately determined.
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New York
Coney Island
Georgia Supreme Court eases use of films as evidence in trials
The Georgia Supreme Court ruling allows prosecutors to introduce films like Natural Born Killers and Menace II Society to show a defendant’s bent of mind. Justice Harris Hines wrote that such evidence may be admissible though contested as potentially prejudicial. In a 4-3 decision, critics urged unprecedented caution amid defense around sensational media influence.
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Georgia Supreme Court
Harris Hines
Robert Pugsley
Southwestern University School of Law
Federal probe into raucous graduation flight incident
The FAA examines a June 11 Falcon Air charter flight from Portland to Mazatlan crowded with recent graduates. A wet T shirt contest distracted passengers as Sara Walker from Eugene, a novice pilot with 64 flight hours, watched weight shifts threaten safety while male crew members opened bottled water. Authorities seek details on the event.
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Sara Walker
Eugene
Walker
Wehaveaa Paca
FAA
Falcon Air
Portland
Mazatlan
Misprinted ad number draws Alabama contractor calls
Alleged full page New York Times ad claiming faith could convert lesbians misprinted a toll free line. About 50 callers reached Alabama electrician Byron Griffin, who said some used rude remarks. Bob Davies apologized after learning of the mix up involving Anne Paulk’s image and the sponsors.
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New York Times
Alabama
Bob Davies
Griffin
Penalty for offering coupons to influence votes in Missouri case
Activist for Missouri's senior legislator pleaded guilty in Cape Girardeau to making an expenditure to influence voting in the 1996 general election. The case, dubbed Beer for Votes, centers on $1 coupons used at a convenience store to buy a beer. Sentencing set for Sept. 30 with potential up to one year in prison and a $160,000 fine. The coupons bore a token appreciation message and were not tied to any candidate.
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Missouri
Lecter Bernard Gilbenie
Cape Girardeau
Gillespie
Afternoon heart attacks rise. honey aids health
University of Washington researchers analyzed 3,690 Seattle paramedics heart attack records over 23 years finding a late afternoon surge peaking at 6 p.m. Stress and morning dosing of heart meds may contribute. The study, funded partly by the National Honey Board, suggests honey and dark honey offer health benefits.
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University of Washington
Seattle
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