Duke Charitable Grants Support Arts in New York Boston Minneapolis
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation plans 8.1 million in grants across Boston New York and Minneapolis to back theater dance and music projects. Major support includes 3.5 million for Duke on 42nd Street a 10 story New York venue with a 199 seat theater.
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Doris Duke
Arts Orpeanline
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Ew York
Minneapolis
New York City
42Nd Street
Duke
National Dance Project
New England Foundation For the Arts
Walker Art Center
Center For An Endowment For Future Music and Dance
National Performance Network
Mitsubishi to pay 3 million to settle disability hiring suit
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America will pay 3 million to resolve complaints by 87 applicants who allege they were rejected due to disabilities at its Normal, Illinois plant. The company will change a policy deemed discriminatory after a federal EEOC inquiry.
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Normal
Ill
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America
Mitsubishi
Jean Kamp
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Kamp
Ex-boyfriend DNA ties girl to birth switch case
In Charlottesville Virginia DNA tests show Carlton Conley is the likely biological father of Rebecca Grace Chittum, whose birth was swapped with Callie Marie Conley. Paula Johnson is Rebecca's biological mother while Callie is believed to be Kevin Chittum and Whitney Rogers's daughter after a July car crash death.
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Charlottesville
Carlton Conley
Rebecca Grace Chittum
Rebecca
Conley
Paula Johnson
Callie Marie Conley
Callie
Kevin Chittum
Whitney Rogers
University of Virginia Medical Center
Tropical Storm Frances Nearing Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast residents in Texas brace for more heavy rain as Tropical Storm Frances lingers offshore with 45 mph winds. Officials warn landfall is possible about 50 miles south of Brownsville in northern Mexico, though exact path and timing remain uncertain as the storm stalls.
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Gulf Coast
Frances
Brownsville
Mexico
Paul Yura
National Weather Service
Medal of Valor Awarded to 19 LAPD Officers
Police Chief Bernard C. Parks awarded the Medal of Valor to 19 LAPD officers, including 17 from the 1997 North Hollywood bank shootout. Mayor Richard Riordan praised the display of courage during the 44 minute gun battle in which robbers in armor fired over 1,200 rounds, injuring ten officers and four civilians.
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Los Angeles
Bernard C. Parks
LAPD
North Hollywood Bank
Parks
Richard Riordan
L.A
North Hollywood
Riordan
Suspect in Labor Day killings to be tried as adult
ARAPAHOE COUNTY Colo A 17 year old suspect in the Labor Day massacre of six people will be charged as an adult Prosecutors say Alexander Pogosyan one month shy of his 18th birthday faces first degree murder charges but is too young to face the death penalty Investigators await tests to see if any of the six weapons seized from Pogosyan's home were used in the shooting spree as they piece together the region s most horrific murder spree
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Colo
Alexander Pogosyan
Pogosyan
Sisters charged in failure to stop murder of kids
Two sisters in Cabif. were charged with murder for allegedly letting a man fathe red 14 children between them die of heat exposure. The victims include a 5-year-old boy named Ernesto and a 2-year-old girl named Guadalupe, whose bodies were found months apart in the Angeles National Forest. the mothers and an aunt face assault charges as well.
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Ernesto
Guadalupe
Angeles National Forest
Petra Barrera Ricardo
Marco Esquivel Bar- Tagon
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Arragon
Barragon
History in the making as Starrs boxes loom large
Washington braces for a constitutional drama as 36 boxes of reports and testimony arrive, elevating Kenneth Starr to prosecutor and turning Congress into a judge. The crisis echoes Watergate and Reconstruction, promising a lasting shift in presidential power, privacy, and the careers of lawmakers.
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Bill Clinton
Congress
Kenneth W. Starr
Clinton
Washington
Congressional
Richard Nixon
Andrew Johnson
House Judiciary Committee
House plans to release Starr report on Clinton impeachment
House leaders tentatively decided to make public all 445 pages of Kenneth Starrs report detailing grounds for impeachment. A resolution on handling the report must pass, likely Friday, before public or congressional access. Contents include a 25 page intro 280 page narrative and 140 pages of grounds with 2 000 page appendices.
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House
Kenneth Starr
Congress
Clinton
House Rules Committee
Gerald Solomon
R-N
Tarr
Rules Committee
Remorseful president campaigns for forgiveness and unity
President Clinton pleaded for national forgiveness after admitting a flawed relationship with a young intern. He vowed to redeem trust and strengthen leadership, while House Democrats called the meeting emotional and emphasized repentance. Cabinet members later supported his denials and expressed confidence.
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Clinton
Kewinsky
Forecasters say La Nina could bring drought to Southwest Texas
NOAA meteorologist Ants Leetman warned Wednesday that La Nina cooling in the Pacific may bring drought to Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, with Florida likely returning to drought after hurricane season and the Northeast spared from deadly blizzards while the Upper Midwest faces winter. A separate wedding case saw a bride get a partial refund after a substitute singer failed to deliver the expected magic, Judge Thomas Dickerson noting weddings are special and so are wedding lawsuits.
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Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arzona
Ants Leetman
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Florida
Upper Midwest
Thomas Dickerson
Elie Wells
Fertility firm touted to guarantee a baby girl
Monique Collins pursued a gender selection method in Fairfax Virginia aiming to ensure a daughter for her third child. Researchers claim they can separate X and Y sperm to tilt toward girls amid ethical concerns from scientists.
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Monique Collins
Collins
Fairfax
Jessica Collins
Albert to wed Heather amid troubling past reports
Sportscaster Marv Albert aged 54 was slated to marry his 39 year old fiancée Heather Fauisvnny in New York, per Daily News and New York Post. He had been dismissed by NBC after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor assault in a Virginia hotel case involving Vanessa Perhach, with allegations including bed throws and biting.
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Lances
Fauisvnny
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NBC
Vanessa Perhach
Virginia
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