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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1998
Page
4
Firefighters found Diane Gaeth 47 and her children Nicholas Rehbock 12 and Rebecca Rehbock 9 dead in a two story Stratford house. Smoke poured from windows at 7:25 a.m. Investigators said a disconnected smoke detector on a night stand likely failed to alert the family.
Prosecutors asked a Delaware judge to bar polygraph results in the murder trial of Amy Grossberg. Her lawyers claim lie detector findings show she did not see the baby and that she miscarried. Brian Peterson has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and will testify.
Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, freed after 12 years on death row for murders they say they did not commit, seek 1.5 million dollars each in compensation. They met with the governor amid recalls of their convictions on the day of Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech, arguing race influenced their death sentences.
Kevin Foster, 20, faces a possible death sentence after being found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting of Riverdale High School band director Mark Schwebel. Prosecutors said Foster, leader of the Lords of Chaos, ordered the attack to protect his gang. Jurors will reconvene April 9 to decide life or death.
In Chesapeake Virginia a deadly exchange between Kelvin Vaughn and police left a three year old boy Kyrie Allen Carter dead from two chest wounds. Vaughn, the exboyfriend of a woman who called police, was shot by an officer and survived in stable but guarded condition.
In Wheaton Illinois Judge hears chilling testimony as James Edwards testifies he found Debra Evans dead after a night shift. Jacqueline Annette Williams is charged with shooting Evans. A full term fetus was ripped from Evans womb and her 10 year old daughter was stabbed to death. The 7 year old son Joshua was abducted and found in an alley. a surviving infant is two years old.
Washington officials said the Clinton administration shifted the Beijing visit to late June to avoid straining relations over human rights while the Paula Jones trial unfolds. Officials cited desire to build on Jiang Zemin's U.S. visit and to keep options open for testimony if needed.
U N chief Kofi Annan visited Washington to urge Congress to pay the United Nations debt, linking support for Iraq inspections to U S funding. He met with senators including Daschle and Biden, and praised Clinton for backing the Iraq accord while signaling reluctance to accept tied funding conditions.
The INS proposes a 160 percent rise, to 530 dollars from 235, for foreign adoptions as part of fee increases across 22 application types. Adoption agencies call the hike unfair, arguing asylum and charity cases subsidize processing costs, with total costs rising toward the thousand-dollar range when including State Department fees. Public comment ends Friday, with the new fees potentially implemented months later.
Elizabeth Taylor, 66, spent a night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for tests after a fall caused a fracture in her back. She returned home to Bel-Air, still in pain, with a spokeswoman noting she is “fine.”
The body of Yves Montand was dug up from a Paris cemetery and moved to a lab for DNA testing to determine paternity claims by Aurore Drossard, 22. The court's November ruling overruled family opposition, marking a rare celebrity exhumation in France.
A Cook County study tracked users through jails clinics and shelters and suggests about 330 000 habitual cocaine crack and heroin users in the Chicago area far above prior estimates. Officials say the national 13 million hard core user figure may need raising.
A jury of four officers and four soldiers retired to a deliberation room Wednesday to consider testimony from 119 witnesses in the case against Sergeant Major. The proceedings focused on examining extensive testimony as the panel weighs its verdict after long hearings.
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