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There was a shooting tonight at the Fandango Bar & Grill on Wilson
Street in the Grungeville section of the city. Two men in the bar got into
a argument. When the two started shoving each other, the bartender
threw them out. For several minutes, people in the bar said they could
hear the men still arguing on the street outside. Then there was the sound
of a shot being fired. A few patrones rushed outside to see what had
happened, and one of the men who had been arguing lay on the ground
in a pool of blood. He'd been shot in the forehead. The victim appeared
to be in his mid 30s, and was dressed in an expensive-looking suit and
tie. The shooters was nowhere to be seen.
During the 1990s, a nine year old girl in Ruston Louisiana won a trophy, 5000
dollars, and a trip to the United States Capital Bl;dg.
Thomas Shriver Junior an employee of the Roess Company in Fairbanks Alaska
has a Ph.D. in economics and will be here Mon, Tues., & Wed.
Prof. Rebecca Malone of Forty-two Fifth Avenue works in the History Department
and shares an office in Rm. 247 of the Humanities Bldg.
Afterwards, 7 persons, all United States citizens, testified that the US navy payed
the Westinghouse Corporation $14,200,000 dollars.
“The Washington Post” reported Tue. That the suspect is White, in her 30’s, about
5 ft., 2 inches tall, and weighs about one hundred pds.
Only one media reported that the President of the National Rifle Assn. met with
sixteen members of the US Congress on August 23, 2008.
During the 1960’s, a committee of the United States Congress estimated that the
program would cost $7 to $8.4 billion dollars.
The boy, age 7, had 42 cents and said his mother, the Mayor, will attend the P.T.A
meeting Nov. 28 if the temperature remains above 0.
It was an unusual phenomena. During the twentieth century, the odds were 9 to 1
that 80 % of the Mayors would be reelected to a 2nd term.
Moving backwards, the 14 yr old babysitter in martin Tn. Said goodbye, then
picked up the bible and ran towards her home on Roe St.
the countys Girl Scout Council no loonger will acept any checks during its annual
cookie sale-a-thon.
During its last sale-a-thon, the council lost $4,284 due to worthlesschecks.
“That may not sound like a lot, but its a serious loss for us,” said Linda
Goree, the Girl Scoust county executive. “It cuts into our profits, but al so wastes
too many hours of our timme.”
Next year, Goree said, thecountys Girl Scouts will accept only cash
Two factors agravated the prov problem during the scouts last sale-a-thon,
Goree continued. first, more pepople paid by check. Second, a larger percentage
of the checks teh Girl Scouts received bounced.
“Some people pay by check beause they don’t have the cash, ” Goree said.
“Or, they want to place a large order. We have people who place orders for $100
or more, and thosse poeple are especially likely to pay by check. we also receive
checks for a little as one or two dollars.”
Scout leaders call people who signed the checks that bounce and, in most cases,ask
them to mail neW checks to the cty. office. The scout leadesr are unable to reach
everyone, however.
Being a middle-aged man and single can be deadly, too sociologists at your
college warned today
The sociologists, Margo Matos and LeeAnne verkler, found that middle-aged
men who remain single double their chances of dying.
For 10 years, Matos and verkler tracked one thoussand men in the state. All
of the men were 40 old years at the start of the study, and half were married.
Matos and Verkler fuond that 11.7 percent of the men who remained unmarried
died before their 50th birthday, compared to only 5.9 percent of themen who
remained married.
Some of the maried men were divorced or widowed during the study, and
7.1 percnt of those who remainedd alone for at least half the period also died.
“We arent sure of all the reasons,” verkler said. “That’s what we’ll look at
next. WE think poor diet plays a role. Also the use of alcohol, smoking, a lack of
exercise and low incomes. Men who live by themselves seem to do more drinking
and smoking, and many don’t PREprepare good meals for themselves. Plus there’s
the absence of social support. It ehlps to have someone to talk with, someone who
shpares your li fe and is there to provide help when you need it.”
Wilma DeCastro is an English teacher at Kennedy High Schol and, six months ago,
was named the city’s “Teacher ofthe Year.” Today she resigned.
“All my life I wanted to be a teachher,” DeCastro said. “Ive really enjoyed it,
but I have two little girls and Can’t afford it any longer. I want a good live for may
family, and now wecan’t afford to buy a decent house in a good neighborhood, a
newcar, nice clothes, or so many of the other things we want. wee skimp on
everything, even food.”
There years ago, DeCastro began to sell real estate during her sumer
vacations. For th e last year, she has continued to sell real estate part-time,
primarily weakends
“I can’t do it any longer,” she said. ”I can’t wrok two jobs, do a good job at both of
the jobbs, and a.lso have time for my daughters, so I’ve decided to go into real
estate full time. I can triple salary my salary. INN a few years, if I work hard, I
should be able to do even better than that. eventually, I’d like togo into businss
for myself.”
Greg Hubbard, superintendent of the city’s school system, said: “Of coures
we’re sorry to see her leave. We’d like to keep her, to be able to pay all our
teachers mr more, espec ially our best teachers. But there’s no moneey for higher
salaries. NO one wants to pay higher taxes.”
while walking to school this moningmorning, an 11-year-old girl noticed a gunman

robbuing two clerkS in a convenence store on Colonial Drive
The girl, Kathryn Kunze of94 Jamestown Drive, raran to a nearby telepone,
dialed 911, then returned to the store and noticed an empty car par ked naearby
withits motor running. she reachedd inside, shut off the cars motor and took the
keys.
“Imagine what the rober thought when he ran out of the storee, jumped into
HIS car and realized the keys weregone,” said Sgt. Tammy Dow. “she was one
smart girl, and Brave, too.”
The Gunman went bavck into the stoer and asked the clerks there for the keys
to there cars. Bothclerks, however, said that they had walked to work and did not
own a car.
The gunman then walked to a near,by park, and the police Aarrested him
there five minutse later.
William j. Chuey, 27, of 57l0 michigan Ave was charrged with armed
robbery.
Polic e officers later questioned the girl at school. “I saw this man with a gun,
just like on telivision” she said. “Then I saw thecar. It was running, and I just
figured it was the robbers, so I took his keys and ran here.”
Kathryn’s mother, said she was p””proud—and frightened—by her daughters
actions. “I’Mm proud she thought so quickly,” Mrs.
Lauren Kunze said. “But I don’t wnat her to trfy anything like that ever again.”
RAilroads have abandoned hundreds of m iles of old roadbeds in the state, and the
governortoday revealed plans to convert the roadbeds into trawils for bicyclists
hikers, horseback riders and runners.
The govenor said her budget for nxextt year will include an extra $10 million for
the Departmentof natural Resources, which will use the money to ac quire and
maintainn the trials “The initial outlay is modest,” the gov. said. “But we
hope the program will expand so, in five or 10 years,we’ll have hundreds of miles
of these trials. Eventually, the people using themshould be able to hike or ride
from one end of the state to another.”
A representative for the states railrods said that most will probably agree to
sell their abandoned roadbeds tothe state, provided they receive a fair pricee,
“We aren’t us ing the roadbeds for anything,” he said, “and there aren’t many
other buyers. they were our leasst profitable routes, and that’s why we abandoned
them.”

Police Chief Tony sullivan Wants to ebgin seizing t he cars driven by drunken
drivers.
While testifyingbefore a legislative commmittee in the state capital this
morning, Sullivan said police oficers in the state need the authority to to seize the
vehicles used by motorists convicted three or more times of drunken driving.
Sullivans pproposal would al so apply to motorists convicted of driving with a
license suspended or revoked because of drunken drving—and to motorists
convicted of driving undre the Influence of drugs.
“Were runninng across too many repeat offjenders,” sullivan said. “They
ignore the laws now in eff ect, and its time to do something about it. It doesn’t do
any good to just take away their lcenses. They’ll drivewithout one.”
Sullivan said some motorists in the statehave been convicted of drunken driving
more than a dozentimes . “Weve gott peopel who’ve served a year in jail, some
who’ve served five years,” Sullivan said. “It doesn’t seemtodo any good. weather
they have a liense or not, they star”t to drink and drive again as soon as they get
out. If wetake away their cars, they’ll havetostop. U nless they’re ultra-rich,
there’s a limit to howmany cars they can afford to buy.”
beginning next fall, students in the citys public shcools will have to leave their
cigarettes and other tobaco products at home.
The School Board last night voted 6 to 1 to BAN the possession and use of
all obacco tobacco products on school grounds.
“The boards policy will apply to evferyone,” said gary Hubbard,
superintendent
of schools. “its not just for ourstudents. The policy will also apply to our teachers,
other school personnel and, in addition, to any visitors using our facilities.”
Students found smoking on school property will be reprimanded for a firs t
ofense, detained for a secnod and ex;pelled for three days for a third. School
personnel will be reprimanded by their principal. Other people wlil be asked to
stop using the tobacco products or to leave the school grounds.
“Previously,” hubbard said, “we allowed stud ents to smokee inn some
designated areas both inside and outside our bldgs.: in our football stadium s, for
example. Its badfortheir health, and we decided last night that we weren’t being
consistent. It doesn’t make any sense for us to tell students, in their classes, about
the dangers of smoking, andthan to allow them to smokeunder our supervision.
Besides, We were geting a lot of complaints from nonsmokesr.”

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