DURING the summer of
1995, Philip Morris ran
newspaper ads promising to
crack down on retailers that
sel! cigarettes to kids.

Responding to a helpful
list -of such retailers in
Minnesota sent to the com-
pany by the state attorney
general, Philip Morris
deciined to act on it.

The company still intend-
ed to crack down, said vice-
president Ellen Merlo, but

We, <didn't say starting

Texas state Sen. Jerry
Patterson, -a proponent of
“guns for protection who said
ain January he might test the
Houston. Metropolitan Tran-

M tro. ‘and say, Nah, nah,
nahi. Rode your bus,

stand a Florida appeals
ure‘ ruling that, while a
‘police. “department
could. _purchase an allegedly
‘film and use it as

nce ‘in’ filing: criminal

eg,. it’ ‘could not use as:

ing’: that appears: on’

“rented tapes
ue

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an

However. cher. A taplaceraent in:
Florida died.a year later, and.

return ‘She. ‘agreed. and.

imme ediately ie ee embez-
zling: ;

Been charged as an ‘adult
“Ww kidnapping and
ragsault on a sheriff’s deputy.

un at the deputy from a dis-*

| tance of 10 feet: while using
“his three- -year-old niece as a
eld" and remained ina

inutes.. ‘Sheriff's deputies

ad gone | to the boy’s home
0 inquire about his truancies
hen he pulied the € gun and

‘forthe day, si

h ir,’ put_on: a’ ski: mask’

“ after-

al men wz “rs
Complted by A.P. McCredie

Police in Coventry,
England, said that Russell
Brown, 4, woke up one night
in February while burglars
were in-his home and mis-
took . them for family
friends, :

He showed them where
his mother hid her purse and

.where his father’s power

tools were stored and held
open the front door while

the thieves carried out video |

equipment arid other items.
ees

Republican Virginia state
Delegate Roger 5. McClure,
who . won re-clection in
November on a downsize-
government : platform even

“after news surfaced that he

owed $126,000 in back
taxes: “Ihave personally
experienced the. awesome
power ‘of the..tax collector
and the heavy burden of tax-

"ation on businesses and fam-_
ilies-(E) will continue to’
1. fight against excessive gov-
‘ernment power and high

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‘The Arkansas Supreme

Court rejected the argument -
.,0f Erwin Davis (who once.
~ran for governor of the state)

that -he was not the father. of

-a boy tor in 1990. 2.‘
A patemity test showed a:
99.65% -likelihood. Davis. .

“was the ‘father, but “Davis
accused the boy’s mother of |

breaking inte his house,
stealing a used condom and
inseminating herself.’

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. A restaurant owner in
Edinburgh, Scotiand, was
unsuccessful im his judicial
appeal of Karen Mcinulty’s

_ judgment against him.
McInulty, 29, had won!

about: $7,700 in damages
eating. salmonella-
infected chicken curry at the

.festaurant; the. restaurateur

had argued that Mclnulty

‘was overweight at the time

and thus that the 21 pounds
she lost after being hospital-

ized actually helped her.

Patrick Williams,

sentenced to. 12. years in

prison in January for robbing:

a disabled man.”:

. 17, a
player. for a. Texas. high
school football team, ‘was |

Madison, Wisconsin —
During a routine search of
Leonard Hodge, 22, who had
been arrested for failure to
carry a driver's licence,
police found cocaine in his
underwear,

According to a police
spokesman, Hodge attempt-
ed to exculpate himself by
saying the undershorts he
was wearing were not his.

A government agency in
Modesto, California,
announced it would take
action against the Imperial
Wizard of the California (Ku
Klux) Klan, Bill Albers, for a
February 10th cross-buming.
The agency is the San Joaquin
Valley Air Pollution Control
District, which plans a civil
lawsuit because the diesel-
soaked cross-buming violates
local air pollution laws,

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Novato, California —
Homeless man. Neal Berry,
22, was arrested and accused
of stealing industrial batter-
ies.

Berry said he just found
them and started to use them
to power his Toshiba laptop
computer.

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- Williams: said’ he spent. *

$2, 200: of the $4,500 taken...

According. to police
illiams::' said he...didn’

“Know. the victim was :
~abied: until, the? crime. was,”
under: way and later.“felt bad:

about it. That's why I ‘Spent
(the money) so fast..If it had:

been good money, I would’ ab

have kept it.

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Berry believes he is ratio-
nally using his $8/hour earn-
ings as a shipping clerk by
sleeping on the side of a
highway but spending $200
per month for a storage lock-
er, a gym membership (so he

10ke

can shower), a cellular tele-
phone, a mailbox and an c-
mail account,

Said Berry, “In Novato,
you can’t even find a single
room that costs less than
$500 a month.”

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