Saddened pair of heroin deaths rock New Jersey town
In Saddle Brook New Jersey 18 year old Anne Marie Martinez and 24 year old Chris Petersen died from heroin. Five days later 20 year old Eri Lemmer was found dead in his bed surrounded by drug paraphernalia. Lemmer had told The Record he hoped to beat his addiction after witnessing his friends’ struggles. Martinez’s mother Joanne expressed grief and concern over who might have felt responsible.
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Saddle Brook
Eri Lemmer
Anne Marie Martinez
Chris Petersen
Lemmer
Martinez
Joanne
Anne Marie
Chris
Hackensack
Petersen
Ex-soldier gets life sentence in racial killings
A white former Army paratrooper Malcolm Wright Jr. was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the racially motivated killings of a black couple in Fayetteville. The jury deliberated about an hour, sparing the death penalty. Wright and fellow soldier James Burmeister were described as haters of Black people Jews and gays who killed to earn a spider web tattoo.
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Wilmington
N.C
Malcolm Wright Jr
James Burmeister
Michael James
Jackie Burden
Fayetteville
Wright
Lexington
Burmeister
Experts to test-fire life linked to King killing
Lawyers for James Earl Ray and Tennessee prosecutors agreed to begin tests on the rifle Ray allegedly used to kill Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Remington .30-06 rifle found near the scene will be test-fired at a Rhode Island crime lab in Kingston starting Wednesday at 9 am, for three days. A matching test of the bullet removed from King's body will occur May 21 at CamScan USA in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, using a high powered electron microscope to assess whether the gun was the murder weapon.
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Tenn
James Earl Ray
Tennessee
Martin Luther King, Jr
Ray
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Kingston
King
CamScan USA
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Comellian sought in campus rapes
Chicago police seek Vinson Horace Champ a 35 year old Los Angeles comedian who toured the Midwest campus circuit for questioning in a wave of rapes and sexual assaults across Illinois Wisconsin Iowa and Nebraska. He faced a Pasadena attempted campus rape charge and bail was posted. Investigators say he may be aboard a Caribbean cruise and a warrant was anticipated.
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Los Angeles
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Nebraska
Vinson Horace Champ
Pasadena
Calif
California
Champ
DA backs ad bought by JonBenet's parents
Boulder Colorado district attorney Alex Hunter says an attorney in his office approved the ad asking Boulder families about sightings around JonBenet Ramsey's murder. The ad, paid for by JonBenet's parents, seeks information on a man approaching children near the time of the killing.
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Boulder
Cole
JonBenet Ramsey
Ramseys
Alex Hunter
Hunter
Arm Reattachment After Washing Machine Accident
Malik Singletary, 4, had his left arm torn off in a Hollywood coin laundry. Surgeons at Children’s Hospital reattached the limb in a 12 hour operation. Doctors warn nerves will regrow over about a year and a half.
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Los Angeles
Malik Singletary
Hollywood
Malik
Childrens Hospital
John Reinsch
Camille Singletary
Kasparov May Try Rematch Against Deep Blue
Kasparov, who lost the final game and exited in shame, may face Deep Blue again later this year in a proposed 10 game match over 20 days. Friedel said Kasparov would be a hostile opponent and the prize would be winner take all with IBM funding a separate sponsor.
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Frederick Friedel
Kasparov
Friedel
Deep Blue
Philadelphia
Friede
IBM
Computer Science
Garry
Susan Polgar
Moscow
Anatoly Karpov
Karpov
International Chess Federation
Notes of Hill Clinton meetings face privilege scrutiny
Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr seeks notes from a July 11 1985 meeting on the first lady’s activities after the apparent death of Vincent Foster and a January 26 1996 meeting the day she testified before a federal grand jury in Washington about missing and later found billing records from her Little Rock law firm.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kenneth Starr
White House
Vincent Foster
Washington
Little Rock, Ark
White House seeks to shield notes in Starr inquiry
The White House asks the Supreme Court to limit grand jury access to White House notes from meetings with Hillary Clinton and government lawyers. Starr argues for disclosure rights. White House warns of chilling government legal discussions and potential testifying of officials. The case centers on notes from July 11, 1995 and January 26, 1996.
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Washington
Whitewater
Kenneth Starr
Supreme Court
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Clinton
Debbie Gershman
High Court
Marcia Clark discusses her memoir and the O J trial
In an interview from New York promoting Without a Doubt Marcia Clark reflects on the June 1994 slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the trial’s celebrity factors and jury dynamics. She defends her record, criticizes Judge Ito and Mark Fuhrman, and emphasizes the memoir’s message over blame.
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O.J. Simpson
America
Marcia Clark
Nicole Brown Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Clark
Simpson
New York
Lance Ito
Mark Fuhrman
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Ito
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