21 Jun 1994
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1994
Page
1
Tonight mainly clear and comfortable with low humidity. Wednesday brings considerable sunshine and pleasant conditions with a high near 80. Thursday and Friday turn partly to mostly sunny with highs around 82, as a mix of clouds and sun persists.
Ellie the Asian elephant from Florida arrived in Syracuse to mate with Indy, the Burnet Park Zoo’s male elephant, as part of a conservation effort for endangered Asian elephants. Curator Chuck Doyle says the courtship began well and both elephants greeted each other without fear.
A Syracuse University professor is freed to resume research as a judge drops him and the university from a lawsuit, clearing the path for ongoing work. A Solvay homeowner faces over 95 000 in fines for a concrete wall around his residence, while downtown eyes a $7 million Center Armory project that officials say will reshape perceptions. The city’s movie listings reveal what’s playing this week.
A legal fight over drilling wells for a proposed landfill has cost Van Buren and Onondaga County residents about 587754 dollars. Town Supervisor Edward R Hallenbeck says tests are needed to show the site is unsuitable for a landfill, while the Resource Recovery Agency argues the town lacks the right to drill. The dispute has bounced through courts with ongoing costs and no wells sunk yet despite popular support for the town's position.
A police officer killed a man during a confrontation and officials debated armed searches. Sgt. Adlen Geisler warned about guns being readily available, noting the AK-47 as a widely used postwar rifle. Governor Mike Lowry has pushed a ban on assault weapons, including the AK-47.
In Los Angeles OJ Simpson appeared in court wearing a plain suit and refused a tie while his lawyer attacked the evidence and stressed his client's distressed mental state. Simpson answered not guilty to Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman murders and acknowledged correct identification. Deputy DA Marcia Clark labeled Simpson the sole murderer.
Forty years after desegregation orders, most black and white youths in Onondaga County still live in separate worlds. The Syracuse area sees private schools with skewed racial enrollment, a single predominately minority parish school, and parents seeking better futures amid mixed experiences in education.
A 21 year old Essex County woman Jennifer Nicoll of Ausable Forks died when her southbound Suburban on I 81 veered off into a ditch near Exit 2 Taft Road after she apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Deputies found no skid marks. rescue crews and Niagara Mohawk workers reported the crash.
Harvard researchers report in the June 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology that children aged 9 to 12 born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy have about 5 percent less lung capacity. The damage appears in the first trimester, potentially before pregnancy is known.
New Yorker Joey Skaggs, self described conceptual performance artist, says his hoaxes, including a fake dog meat deal, reveal cultural bias and media sensationalism. He defends needling the press as beneficial to society while condemning gullibility and bias.
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