Boy Found Strangled After Candy Fundraiser Disappearance
Edward Peter Werner, 11, vanished while selling candy for a school fundraiser in Jackson Township New Jersey. His body was found in a woods shortcut to his neighborhood. $200 from candy and holiday merchandise sales were missing. Christa McAuliffe Middle School suspended all student fundraisers as parents kept upset children home.
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Edward Peter Werner
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Parent Teacher Association
Embattled executive built vast clock collection with embezzled funds
Francis X. Vitale Jr pleaded in Newark court he used $125 million stolen from Engelhard Corp to acquire more than 140 rare clocks from European dealers over eight years. The items, shipped to his side business shop, included a Parisian Louis XVI clock sold for 431,400 at Christie's in New York. Proceeds from sales exceed $7.2 million and will repay Engelhard and insurers. Vitale, former Engelhard VP, was fired in 1996 after an internal audit flagged the scheme.
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Newark
N.J
Engelhard Corp
Francis X. Vitale Jr
Engelhard
New York
London
Christie's
Vitale
Colonel court martialed for sexual misconduct at Hurlburt Field
Air Force Colonel David C Raubecker was convicted at a May court martial of sexual misconduct including kissing a married female officer under his command romancing his married secretary and dating a single enlisted woman. He will retire Wednesday with a one rank demotion reducing his retirement pay. He was among the highest ranking officers ever court-martialed on sexual harassment charges.
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Hurlburt Field
Fla
David C Raubecker
Hit man guilty in 1972 Teamsters slaying
A Chicago jury convicted Harry Aleman, a reputed mob hit man, of the 1972 killing of William Logan, a Teamsters shop steward. Aleman had previously been acquitted in a 1977 bench trial, which prosecutors alleged was bribed by Robert Cooley, a former mob-linked fixer. Courts ruled he could be retried since the judge was bribed and jeopardy did not attach.
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Teamsters
Harry Aleman
Navy Aleman
William Logan
Teamsters Union
Frank Wilson
Aleman
Robert Cooley
Cooley
Wilson
Aleman Wilson
Logan
Water blamed for deformities in Minnesota frogs
Tainted water likely caused deformities in frogs born with extra or misshapen limbs, missing or shrunken eyes, and abnormal sex organs. Reports span Minnesota, two dozen states, and Canada. researchers aim to identify the contaminant and assess potential human effects.
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ST Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Canada
George Lucier
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
North Carolina
Wisconsin flag desecration law struck down on appeals ruling
An appeals court in Madison declared Wisconsin century-old flag desecration statutes unconstitutional. The ruling bars prosecution of 18 year old Matthew Janssen for defecating on a flag he stole from a private golf course. The court found the law overly broad and infringing on protected expression.
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Madison
Wis
3Rd District State Court of Appeals
US. Supreme Court
Chemical leak forces Oakland neighborhood evacuation
A hydrochloric acid leak near a zinc cyanide vat at K&L Plating threatened a deadly gas cloud and prompted evacuation of up to 100 residents. Authorities sealed an eight block area as cleanup continued past midnight with 15 people treated for minor injuries.
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Oakland
Calif
K&l
Declassification drives reshaping secret archives of US history
Federal workers sift decades of records as the Cold War winds down. In 1996 alone 196 million pages were declassified, cutting costs and exposing historic files. Archivists cite auto declassification rules, revealing NATO, Vietnam, and Nazi era documents while noting most work remains routine and painstaking.
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Washington
Board of Foreign Scholarships
Lake Ontario
South Vietnam
Dinh Tuong
Stephen Garfinkel
The
Starr probe expense climbs toward Iran Contra era costs
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr has accumulated about 30 million dollars in expenses for his Clinton White House investigation. The probe began into Arkansas real estate deals but has widened, risking higher totals than the Iran Contra inquiry, which cost nearly 40 million over six years. Meanwhile a DOJ task force urged Janet Reno to pursue a second stage and appointment of an independent counsel to probe Vice President Al Gore's fundraising practices reports USA Today.
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Kenneth W Starr
Clinton
Clinton White House
Starr
Arkansas
Lawrence E Walsh
Janet Reno
al Gore
USA Today
Gore
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Justice Dpartment
White House
Reno
Attorney challenges Nichols judge in court
In Denver, Terry Nichols defense challenges Judge Richard Matsch over open court juror questioning amid ongoing death penalty deliberations for the Oklahoma City bombing. A computer programmer juror questioned sparked friction as the judge criticized reliance on machines for human judgment. The 10th Circuit declined to block death penalty if Nichols is convicted, preserving federal plans to seek capital punishment.
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Oklahoma City
Terry Nichols
Richard Matsch
Nichols
Matsch
Michael Tigar
Castle Rock
U.S. 10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Studies warn risks to half of U.S. teens from abuse
A Tuesday release from the Alan Gullmac Institute links adolescent sexual abuse to higher drop out risk, unemployment, teen pregnancy and poverty. It notes abused girls are more likely to bepregnant, miss school, have low grades, fewer extracurriculars and poor body image, while strong family support can mitigate consequences.
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Alan Gullmacer Institute
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