ON A ROLL AND ANOTHER VICTORY AND GIVING TIME
Gene Diotalevi of Sun Belt Motors Amherst rides the local used car boom as Ohio tops in used car sales. Jeff Gordon wins the Pepsi 400 at Michigan Speedway, his fourth straight victory after ending a winless run at a track. Bill Cosby praises Big Brothers-Big Sisters in Iowa as children benefit from adult involvement in classwork and after-school programs. Back-to-school dates announced for area schools.
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Gene Diotalevi
Sun Belt Motors
Amherst
Ohio
Jeff Gordon
Michigan Speedway
Bill Cosby
Iowa
Balloonist Fossett survives Pacific ditching near Australia
Adventurer Steve Fossett was forced to ditch his balloon in the Coral Sea off Queensland after two thirds of a global circumnavigation. He was found alive in a life raft eight hours later, paddling through shark-infested waters as rescue crews coordinated supplies and pickup.
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SYDNEY
Australia
Steve Fossett
South Pacific
Joe Ritchie
Fossett
Coral Sea
Queensland
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Endeavor
Argentina
Alan Blount
mission control
Clinton to reveal relationship with Lewinsky under grand jury
President Clinton prepared to acknowledge an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky after seven months of denial. advisers say he will testify truthfully while deciding how openly to answer questions about sexual conduct before Kenneth Starr and the grand jury. For supporters and opponents the decision could influence impeachment prospects and public reaction.
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WASHINGTON
Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
White House
Lewinsky
Clinéd
Kenneth Starr
Capitol Hill
Senate Judiciary
Record number on parole and probation rises nationwide
More Americans than ever before, about 3.9 million, were on parole or probation at the end of 1997 according to a Justice Department report. The population increased about 2.9 percent from the start of 1997, with Texas leading at 538,500 under supervision and California second with 408,900.
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WASHINGTON
Justice Department
U.S
Texas
California
Amherst man struck by train in Cleveland area
Amherst police report 23 year old Mark A. Thompson of South Main Street was found severely injured at 3:49 a.m. on the south side of a railroad near Nordson Corp on Taylor Street. He was transported to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland in serious condition after being hit by a Conrail train early Sunday morning.
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AMHERST
MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland
Conrail
Mark A. Thompson
South Main Street
Nordson Corp
Taylor Street
Driving White Black bill gains NAACP backing in Senate
The NAACP rallies for a Driving While Black data bill to force federal data collection on traffic stops and searches to reveal racial bias patterns. Critics, including police groups, warn it adds paperwork and may not prove bias. The issue traces to studies in Maryland and longstanding concerns about race in policing.
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BALTIMORE
Jawad Abdullah
Trinidad
Abdullah
U.S. Senate
attorney general’s office
JFK barracks
John Shipley
Maryland
D-Mich
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HARVENS
Hag
the Chronicle
BRIDGE
ABBY
Pacific
Washington University
St. Louis
Australian defense forces
Pacific Ocean
mission control center
Rep
Marty Meehan
Massachusetts
House Judiciary Committee
Starr
Dee Dee Myers
Caria Bass Scripps Howard News Service
Jane Trager
The
NAACP
Erin Texeira
Baltimore Sun
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Congress
Kweisi Mfume
Robert Scully
National Association of Police Organizations
American Civil Liberties Union
Delaware
U.S. District Court
Catherine C. Blake
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