Grieving town buries shooting victims in Friday funerals
In Jonesboro, Natalie Ivy Natatie Beagle 11 and Paige Ann Herring 12 were laid to rest as the town mourns. Three more funerals followed for Stephanie Johnson Britney Warner and teacher Shannon Wright. Police say Drew Golden 11 and Mitchell Johnson 13 face murder charges after a deadly school rampage at Westside Middle School.
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Natatie Beagle
Larry Ward
Refuge General Baptist Church
Floyd Brooks
Celine Dion
Paige
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Clinton meets South African youth in post apartheid era
President Clinton and First Lady met students at Mathanzela Primary School south of Johannesburg and urged youth to shape a hopeful future. Mandela hosted a state dinner in Soweto where a memorial to a 1976 school uprising, seen as the start of the end of apartheid, was honored.
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South Africa
Clinton
Fullary Rodham Clinton
Mathanzela Primary School
Johannesburg
Africa
Nelson Mandela
Soweto
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Hospital worker admits mercy killings at Glendale Adventist
Efren Saldivar, a Glendale Adventist Medical Center respiratory therapist, allegedly confessed to killing terminally ill patients. Authorities suspended 45 staff, fired Saldivar, and broadened the probe as they weigh evidence of hastened deaths. Police report an interview in which he called himself an angel of death.
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Los Angeles
Efren Saldivar
Glendale Adventist Medical Center
Glendale
Saldivar
Grenade
Young Sad
Borles
Young
Glendale Pollice
Cathleen A. McCoy
State Respiratory Board
William Currie
Currie
Eddie
Glendale Adventist
Mark Newmyer
Newmyer
Respiratory Board
Iney
Uni
GAMC
Weekend showers eyed with partial clearing after Sunday
A weather forecast outlines mostly cloudy skies with showers likely tonight and Sunday sun breaking out in the afternoon. Monday brings occasional showers or thunderstorms with highs near 65. Showers return Tuesday with a high around 68, then more showers likely Wednesday with a 58 high.
Central New York faces longer wait under new organ rules
New federal organ distribution shifts to favor the sickest nationwide, but regions with higher donation rates like Central New York may see advantages and penalties. In Syracuse, Dr. Elizabeth Squires notes local donors exceed the national average, yet patients still face long waits and complex blood type matching under the new system.
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Elizabeth Squires
Unversity Hospital
Syracuse
ATA
Squires
New
Caraher
California
Maraher
Nike calls free-shoe e-mail a hoax says company
Nike in Beaverton Oregon dismisses an email promising free Nike shoes in exchange for old ones as a hoax. Spokesman Scott Reames notes Nike runs a recycling program but has never offered new shoes for returning footwear, urging readers not to be duped by the chain letter.
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McGraw
Cartland County
Hayes
Beaverton
Ore
Nike
Scott Reames
Reames
Yue
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