~ “remained clothed.

HENDERSON, ,KENTUCKY —
Woodring” Fryer. was charged
recently with disturbing the peace
-after installing a bullhorn adjacent
“to the common wall he shared with
neighbor Charles Kissinger. and
playing early-morning reveille as
part of their ongoing feud about °
their competing ham-radio signals. ©
And in April in Florida,’ Ron
Ripple, 67, who was denied a
county. permit. to. put a - mobile
home on_his® property because
neighbors ‘said it would lower
; properly values, turned the tract of .
land into a perfectly legal pig farm.

The National Endowment for
the. Humanities announced a

$559,500 grant to: the American =

Association; of Community:
Colleges ° to answer the question,
: “What i is an American?”

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, Ogden, Utah — After filing a |
missing persons rer srt’ in April on

" his wife, Leasa, isruce Jensen, 39,.

~Jearned that Leasa was reaJly fem-..

inine-looking Felix -Urioste, ° 34,

“who had ‘convinced Bruce to marty .

him in 1991 after a single sexual *
- encounter, during’ which’ Urioste

-Said.: the: devout Mormon
- Jensen,:to the Ogden Standard-..
’ Examiner: “There's: no way to
.. describe this feeling ‘(of learning
. “he was married to a man for almost
a four. r years).". Pe a os

Although accused murderer.

ib Lewis Elwood Jordan was feuding
: with his:lawyer, Jake Waldrop, the

'.« solicitor stood before Atlanta fed-
eral ‘judge’ Robert’ Vining’ Jr. ‘in

December and argued for Jordan.

* However,’ during the argument,
Jordan, who. was half-dressed “as
the result ’ ‘of: a. jailhouse protest,

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“vessels (wood, soap, paper, match-

book.. experimental classes)” into’,

the trickling water in the bar's spit-
ting trough and’ race. them. The
Regatta i is mostly fun, according to

the - rage administrator, © but, he:
“a_couple :of; years ago,”
some. guys. from Boeing brought in ‘
a flashy, self-propelled boat they ;
designed. It t sank.”

A toxic “spill t team from the

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Ecology determined that a mysteri-
ous mound of greenish. goo near
the town of Toutle — which had
_ baffled, alarmed and. sickened
investigators for three months —

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posable diapers,
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"New York, New York —. John
Bryant. 73, conversing with his

son while waiting for attention at-

the Harlem Hospital Center after
having: been shot in the forehead
by his girlfriend, began gently
massaging the wound and finally
pulled the bullet out with his. fin-
gers.

At the traditional annual Battle

‘of the Oranges festival in Ivrea,
‘Italy, earlier this year, first-aid

officials reported that they treated.

more than 250 people for bruising
after they were pelted with fruit.

Danbury,. Connecticut — A
Superior Court judge ruled in July
‘that middle school! teacher Nancy
Sekor was wrongfully. dismissed. -

« She had been found incompe-
tent in two of the three courses she
teaches (English and social stud-

‘ies) but competent:.in: business ~
“courses and thus, said the judge,

must be rehired to teach business.

YE WHO yeam for pure power’
pop: The Starfish Room is the
place, Oct. 12.

Timbre Productions is bringing
in youthful British pop agitators
and Capitol/EMI Recording artists
Supergrass. The energetic debut
disc, / Should Coco, is frightfully
hot on the British pop charts. ¢

Supergrass
Figgs, a
outfit out with a 1994 debut called
Lo-Fi At Society High.

Just the night before, The

Starfish Room hosts Texas Hotel
recording artist Vic Chesnutt and

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verbally, by urinating ¢ on iy leg.’

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North “Vancouver-based Mocca
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hands’ with a:debut ‘album by
Cipher, a Vancouver rap duo. In’
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