Widow pleads guilty in six year old poisoning case
Joann Curley of Wilkes-Barre admitted third degree murder for spiking her husband Bobby Curley’s drinks with rat poison. She was sentenced to 10 to 20 years and ordered to reimburse nearly 75,000 dollars for the police and county investigation. Prosecutors said the motive was a 300,000 dollar life insurance payout.
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Joann Curley
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Florida court rules against assisted death by own action
Florida Supreme Court rules there is no constitutional right to physician assisted death by one’s own action. The 5-1 decision aligns with a 2024 U S Supreme Court stance and upholds a century-old Florida ban. It ends the case for Charles Hall, a 35-year-old AIDS patient seeking help from Jupiter physician Cecil McIver as pain and terminal illness worsen.
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Fila
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U.S. Supreme Court
Florida
Charles Hall
Jupiter
Cecil McIver
Palm Beach
Judge orders hearing on Ray rifle tests in King case
In Memphis Tennessee Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown set a hearing to decide if more tests are needed to prove James Earl Ray used the rifle found near King’s assassination. Earlier trials found inconclusive results though experts noted 12 of 18 test bullets shared markings with the fatal slug.
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Memphis. Tenn
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Ray
Joe Brown
King
Embattled pastor Lyons answers questions before board
Nashville based National Baptist Convention USA leaders, 200 board members, accepted Rev Henry J Lyons answers on fidelity and spending. Lyons, 55, of St Petersburg, leads the million member denomination. His wife Deborah Lyons faced arson charges over a Florida home tied to Lyons purchases with Bernice Edwards. Lyons listed as married on loan papers. At a news conference he denied wrongdoing and claimed media racism.
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Henry J. Lyons
Lyons
St. Petersburg
Fla
National Baptist Convention USA
Deborah Lyons
Florida
Bernice Edwards
Airman admits running away with teen at heart of court martial
Senior Airman Brooker Maltais testified he loved a 14 year old Rochester girl, met online, and ran away expecting to help her. He pleaded guilty to running away with Ceara O’Connell and having a sexual relationship, receiving 10 four years in prison and a bad conduct discharge. He said the intentions were to save her from a bad living situation, calling the actions criminally stupid.
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Offutt Air Force Base
Neb
Brooker Maltais
Rochester
Ceara O'Connell
Maltais
O'Connor says murder remark was figure of speech
In Los Angeles a slander case centers on actor O'Connor defense that calling drug supplier a partner in murder was a figure of speech. He said the accusation followed his son Hugh's 1995 death tied to cocaine use and Perzigian's prior cocaine involvement. Perzigian, 41, had a 1996 cocaine conviction.
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Los Angeles
Carroll O'Connor
Harry Perzigian
O'Connor
Hugh
Perzigian
Hugh O'Connor
O’connor
Mir repair delayed as crew rests after spacestation mishap
The Mir crew stabilizes power after a cable unplugging caused a Thursday outage. A major repair mission to the Spektr module is postponed to a likely August lift off, with two Russians and a French astronaut aboard the next crew, amid questions about crew stress and sleep.
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Mir
Wes Todd
Space Station
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Solovyov
Vasily Tsibliyevo
Igor Goncha- Tov
Russian Space Agency
Dr. Goncharov
Tsibliyev
Vasily
Spektr
Solovyayv
Igor Goncharov
Foale
Alexander Lazutkin
Goncharov
Vasily Tsibliyev
Clinton speech on education targets funding and reform
President Clinton urged racial reconciliation at NAACP and Chicago events, proposing 350 million dollars for 1999 to recruit 35 000 teachers for high poverty districts and improve teacher training. He warned against low expectations and emphasized minority teacher recruitment amid growing urban needs. He also eulogized Hilary Ward Jones, a longtime supporter, in Jasper.
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Clinton
Civil Rights Organization
Chicago
Congress
House
Ameri-Corps
Jesse Jackson
Hilary Ward Jones
First Baptist Church
Jasper
Ozarks
Jones
John Paul Hammerschmidt
Huang under scrutiny over Commerce post and brokerage ties
Senate hearing probed ex secretary John Huang who held a $120,000 Commerce Department job with a secretary and office, while privately using a nearby Stephens Inc brokerage back office for mail and calls. Paula Greene testified about Huang’s routine visits, raising questions for a Republican majority amid campaign finance debates. The hearing resumes next Wednesday.
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John Huan
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Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Stephens
U.S
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Clinton
Lippo
Huang
Oth
T Firm
Greene
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