Stunt rider dies avoiding crowd in Mesquite jump
Butch Laswell died during a planned record high motorcycle jump over a 38 foot pedestrian bridge near the Oasis Hotel in Mesquite. Crosswinds pushed him left, crashing his Honda CR500 as promoters and wind experts had urged backing out to protect spectators and cameras.
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Las Vegas
Butch Laswell
Laswell
Oasis
Mesquite
Douglas MacValley
Eddie Williams
Las Vegas Sun
MacValley
Williams
The
Sun
Michael Murphy
Murphy
Artificially conceived girl wins Social Security benefits in Louisiana
Judith Hart, 44, conceived after her father's death via artificial insemination, was awarded $700 monthly survivor benefits by Social Security Commissioner Shirley Chater. The ruling, effective only for Judith, prompts policy review as Louisiana law had not recognized her as heir. The case, seen as only the second of its kind, followed an administrative law judge’s earlier favorable ruling and a later appeals panel reversal.
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New Orleans
Social Security
Shirley Chater
Judith Hart
Nancy Hart
Slidell
Louisiana
Chater
Judith
William Rittenberg
Hart
Social Security Administration
Phil Gambino
Cards of Death trading cards spark paramedic dispute
Two suspended paramedics in Fremont plan to sell 3000 nine card packs of Cards of Death at 8.95 each. Paul Schmidt and Todd Quilici say the photos were taken by a friend and not on the job, but American Medical Response suspended them with pay on Feb. 14 while investigating.
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Fremont
Calif
Paul Schmidt
Todd Quilici
American Medical Response
Chuck McFadden
Schmidt
PPO
Emerald Heath
Ohio Health Choice Network
Capsule misses land as spy satellite re-enters over ocean
U S Space Command tracked the FSW-1 capsule from the Oct 8 1998 launch as it plunged into Earth's atmosphere. News outlets reported no confirmed land impact as the 2 ton capsule potentially survived re-entry and disappeared over the south Atlantic.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
South Atlantic
Air Force
Earth
Atlantic
Dave Knox
U.S. Space Command
Knox
Space Command
Five Years On Wagon Lessons Relapse Rate
A long term study finds relapse rare after five years of sobriety among alcohol abusers. Poor inner city drinkers showed higher sobriety rates than college educated ones, with 40 percent of those who recovered using Alcoholics Anonymous as their aid. Vaillant notes five years symptom free is a crucial benchmark.
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Chicago
George E. Vaillant
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston
Vaillant
Lished
The
American Medical Association
Archives of General Psychiatry
Harvard University
Alcoholics Anonymous
Knoxville parent sues over zero tolerance weapons rule
Bill and Rozan Davidson filed a $10 million lawsuit in Knox County Chancery Court challenging Knox County Schools over Whitney Davidson's expulsion from West High School under the district zero tolerance weapons policy. The suit seeks reinstatement, damages, and an injunction or immediate hearing, and names principal Donna Wright, hearing officer Jimmie Thacker Jr, Superintendent Allen Morgan, and all nine board members. Whitney, 16 at the time, had driven a friend with a concealed blade cane to a Powell Middle School game. the blade was found and both students were expelled. The Davids plan additional suits for other students, while school officials declined comment.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Bill Davidson
Rozan
Knox County
Davidsons
Whitney
Davidson
Knox County Chancery Court
West High School
West End Academy
Powell Middle School
Powell High School
Powell
West High
Donna Wright
Jimmie Thacker Jr
Wright
Sion
Thacker
Allen Morgan
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Times-Picayune
Scripps Howard News Service
School Board
Sam Anderson
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