06 Apr 1998
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1998
Page
1
Rob Pilatus, half of the defunct pop duo Mill Vanilli, died in a hotel room in Frankfurt Germany. Police report confirms death but details are pending toxicology results. Pilatus rose to fame in the late 1980s with partner Fab Morvan before Milli Vanilli faced a lip sync scandal.
The Supreme Court rejected an emergency stay request, allowing 39,000 secret tobacco industry documents totaling about 200,000 pages to be handed over to Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. The state seeks 1.77 billion dollars for smok ing related treatments and punitive damages.
Elyria entrepreneur Jerry Williams filed a 53 million dollar federal suit in Cleveland alleging hypocrisy and deception by the bank FirstMerit EST Bank and local officials. He recounts a 1996 seizure of five concrete delivery trucks by repossession agents, with bank officers present, amid claims the firm had not been paid in two years. Williams notes Tower Reach-Mix Co. was a rare Black owned operation established five years prior.
President Clinton will issue an executive order permanently banning import of 58 modified weapons, mostly AK-47 and Uzi variants, that were altered for sport shooting to skirt the 1994 assault weapons ban. A 30 day appeal period is provided for importers.
Gretchen Woodward tells Time that her son Mitchell Johnson 13 denied aiming at people during the March 24 school ambush in Jonesboro Arkansas. She says he acted with 11 year old Drew Golden who allegedly pressured him to help plan the attack and triggered the fire alarm. Both youths face five counts of murder and 10 counts of first degree battery in juvenile court.
Melissa Lowther and her husband mourned the loss of their African gray parrot Joseph who vanished March 29. Gary Gradisek spotted the bird March 31 atop Engelhard Corp. property and helped reunite Joseph with the Lowthers after they confirmed him by his tail plumage and distinctive clucking sound.
A church Easter event drawing about 5000 people spiraled into a fracas as hundreds rushed a pile of eggs. Children and parents trampled others. ten-year-old Lizzy Ellenwood said she was shoved and kicked. Witnesses described it as an Easter egg massacre.
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