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By Kevin Dennehy, Standard-Times correspondent
DARTMOUTH -- Confusion among some of the town's new school bus drivers is adding to first-week-of-school jitters, with some students arriving home as much as an hour late.
L&S Transportation Co. of Fall River launched the first year of its three-year contract Wednesday with a number of drivers who are unfamiliar with town roads. The resulting confusion extended some bus trips until 5:30 p.m., frustrating many parents.
By David Rising, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- Police Chief Arthur J. Kelly III said yesterday that the department was considering a plan that would allow police to seize cars used by customers caught soliciting prostitutes.
A policy of impounding cars won't be put into effect any time soon, although similar programs are being used elsewhere in the country, Chief Kelly said.
By Ric Oliveira, Standard-Times staff writer
An office manager for Dr. Richard S. Fox, a plastic surgeon in Dartmouth, is among the 229 killed in the Swissair plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia Wednesday night.
Co-workers said that Diane Sheer and her husband Donald, were aboard Flight 111 bound for Geneva. Friends said the couple was on their way to Greece.
DARTMOUTH -- The legal challenge to the new Dartmouth high school has failed -- at least for now.
In a decision made public yesterday, state Superior Court Judge John M. Xifaras upheld the election that approved funding for the $38.6 million school.
"The case is essentially dismissed," said Daniel Perry, an attorney for a parent's group supporting the $38.6 million high school.
Susan Pawlak-Seaman
One thing this business teaches you is not to be surprised or shocked by anything.
But every so often, even longtime journalists are shaken by something that happens. And that's happening right now. Very close to home.
The story broke this week that Onset resident Deborah Gaines, the mother of four, is suing Preterm Health Services in Brookline. In 1994, Preterm was one of two Boston clinics where deranged gunman John Salvi III opened fire. Ultimately, Salvi killed two and wounded five.
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By David Crary, Associated Press writer
PEGGY'S COVE, Nova Scotia -- The 229 people aboard Swissair Flight 111 had time to prepare for the worst while the pilots struggled vainly to keep the smoking, groaning jetliner aloft long enough for an emergency landing.
Some passengers donned their life vests during the several minutes before the MD-11 jumbo jet crashed and broke apart Wednesday night in choppy seas off Nova Scotia, Swissair officials said yesterday. The plane, which carried 137 Americans, left a slick of jet fuel, floating luggage and human remains, but no survivors.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. -- Hurricane Earl capsized fishing boats, spun off deadly tornadoes and dumped nearly 2 feet of rain on the Florida Panhandle before weakening yesterday over Georgia. At least three people were killed and one was missing.
The hurricane came ashore near this Gulf Coast community around 1 a.m. with 80 mph winds but was downgraded to a tropical storm at midday, its winds dropping below 50 mph.
By Terence Hunt, Associated Press writer
OMAGH, Northern Ireland -- In a gymnasium hushed in grief, President Clinton consoled families torn by Northern Ireland's worst terror attack and declared that it was "high time to stop yesterday's nightmares from killing tomorrow's dreams."
The president also walked down bomb-shattered Market Street yesterday and gazed at scenes of wreckage where 28 people -- mostly women and children -- were killed and hundreds were wounded in an Aug. 15 attack blamed on Irish Republican Army extremists trying to wreck Northern Ireland's peace agreement.
HARLINGEN, Texas -- More than 500 immigrants in Texas have been rounded up for deportation in a crackdown on those with three or more drunken driving convictions.
The immigrants -- most of them legal permanent residents, most of them from Mexico -- were arrested beginning in early August in what was called Operation Last Call.
BOSTON – Board of Education Chairman John Silber defended his leadership of the board in a debate yesterday with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Patricia McGovern.
"Great progress has been made in these 2½ years and I think the parents of Massachusetts can be very proud of what this Board of Education has done," Silber said in a half-hour debate televised on New England Cable News.
By The Associated Press
HAVERHILL -- A baby sitter charged yesterday with murdering his girlfriend's 2-year-old niece allegedly stomped on the girl's stomach because she was squawking while he watched TV, prosecutors said.
James Douglas, 19, was held without bail after pleading innocent in Haverhill District Court to murdering Amanda Brown.
BOSTON -- Raising a subject that has so far been taboo in the Republican gubernatorial primary, Treasurer Joe Malone yesterday questioned acting Gov. Paul Cellucci's large personal debt.
Malone said he was responding to an attack ad by Cellucci that has just hit the airwaves.
"It's as low as you can go. ... I'll be damned if I am going to allow Paul Cellucci to steal this election away from the people because he decided to go down this low road," Malone said.
BOSTON -- The tribal council of the Wampanoag Indians of Aquinnah this weekend is to meet, the first sign of a reconstituted gambling campaign.
After a defeat in New Bedford and Fall River and their lack of support on Beacon Hill, the council will begin sifting through proposals for gambling sites from throughout Southeastern Massachusetts in another bid to bring gambling to Massachusetts.
NEW YORK -- A late bounce sliced a 200-point plunge in half yesterday as a jittery stock market continued to swing violently in the aftermath of Monday's brutal selloff.
The Dow Jones industrial average finished with a loss of 100.15 at 7682.22, about 2.9 percent below this year's starting point and 17.7 percent below the July 17 record of 9337.97.
WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. must turn over potentially damaging information on its business dealings with Intel Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. for use in the government's landmark antitrust case against the software giant, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is presiding over the case, ordered Microsoft to promptly deliver documents requested by the U.S. Justice Department and 20 states. The trial is due to start in less than three weeks.
NEW BEDFORD -- Machinists from the American Flexible Conduit plant in Burlington, N.J., have brought their month-long labor dispute a few hundred miles north, as nine union members picketed the Shawmut Avenue building yesterday.
The workers, members of Teamsters Local 676, said they wanted workers at other AFC plants to know about their dispute with the company.
By Sarah Guille, Standard-Times correspondent
The reviews are in for the summer season in the SouthCoast B&B business, and word is: It's been boffo. w"I did absolutely fantastic this summer, and everybody I talked to said they did spectacular business," said Ernie Ford, owner of Fox Run Bed and Breakfast in Buzzards Bay and president of the Canal Region Bed and Breakfast Association.
Her enthusiastic sentiments are echoed by innkeepers around the area.
After nearly 10 years of wearing a plaid kilt, long-sleeve white Oxford shirt and navy blue blazer, you would think that 16-year-old Andrea Ogden would have had just about enough of her uniform at the private Doane Stuart School in Albany, N.Y.
But Ogden has seen the uniform change through those years, giving her more options, like the choice of wearing a polo shirt, a sweat shirt embossed with the school's logo, even khaki shorts on hot days. The blazer and blackwatch-plaid kilt are reserved for formal occasions, like "chapels," or memorial services, at Doane Stuart, set in a serene Romanesque building of dark wood and leaded glass.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Minister Charles Robinson paces. He raises a hand and warns sinners to turn from Satan. Damnation awaits men who abandon their families, women who disobey their husbands and ministers who fail to live what they preach, he says.
"How many children are suffering right now for your moments of lust and passion?" he shouts. "What are you going to do about your remaining time on this earth?"
If the sermon is typical for an evangelical church, the preacher is not.
Charles Robinson is only 13.
On FridayBob Hanna
It is probably the biggest, most anticipated, most nerve-wracking, most self-defining event of the year.
It is preceded by months of research and evaluation, weeks of poring over statistics, hundreds of hours of preparation. Every conceivable source of information is tapped. Newspapers and magazines are devoured. The internet is searched until the eyeballs are bloodshot.
The horse player's obsession is mere child's play compared to this event. Mark McGwire's pursuit of immortality is an after-thought.
I refer, of course, to the Fantasy Football Draft.
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By Barry Wilner, Associated Press writer
The Denver Broncos took the most treacherous route to the Super Bowl last season. They couldn't beat Kansas City for the AFC West title, so they settled for a wild-card berth, then won four straight, three away from Denver, to capture their first NFL championship.
It would be so much simpler to win the division, have a good enough record for a bye, then play one or two playoff games at Mile High Stadium. The Broncos might be capable of it after finishing 12-4 last year, a game behind the Chiefs.
By Ed Duckworth, New England Sports Service
FOXBORO -- Drew Bledsoe is as relaxed and confident as he ever has been on the eve of the start of his sixth NFL season.
But the quarterback also is under the gun because, more than ever, his success or failure is likely to mirror how the New England Patriots make out.
Having lost Curtis Martin to free agency and having not had time enough to groom Robert Edwards as a starter, Bledsoe is likely to feel additional weight on his shoulders, at least for the first three or four games.
By Steven Wine, Associated Press writer
Numbers get crunched every time a pitch gets crushed by Mark McGwire, and the latest projections show him finishing with 69 homers, 70, 77 or perhaps 105.
The only consensus is that barring injury, McGwire is certain to break Roger Maris' 37-year-old record of 61 home runs, perhaps this weekend.
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the Constitution in such a way as to give women the "right" to terminate an unborn child. While the Framers took great pains to word the document so it would encompass many conflicts that might arise in the future, does anyone really believe they intended abortion to be a right?
There wasn't a lot of remorse evident in the voices of the Freetown selectmen who missed this week's regional school planning committee. Maybe that's because they had reasons, but no excuse.
Selectman Robert A. Robidoux said that he had planned to attend the meeting, in which officials from Freetown and Lakeville were to discuss the options for repairing the school system. But an unexpected septic system problem at home distracted his attention. Mr. Robidoux said he called School Superintendent Dennis D. Flynn next morning, first thing, to apologize. He said had been under the impression that Selectman John C. Ashley would be there. Mr. Ashley wasn't, and he wasn't available to offer an explanation.
President Bill Clinton has returned from what we may fairly, alas, call the Pathetic Summit to a worsening sink of foreign problems that steamy, seamy Monicamess leaves him little authority to deal with. The president either must find a way, as he and his dwindling claque like to say, to put this thing behind him (his testimony-day speechlet suited most of the public but not his scammed colleagues) or he must think what is to him nearly unthinkable. He must think of getting out of the way and letting Vice President Al Gore take command.
By Jim Strader, Associated Press writer
On the hilltop where Jim Croce is buried, the memorial to the singer is simple: a bronze marker bearing his name and the dates of his life, 1943-1973.
No musical scale winds above his name. No guitar, cigar or likeness of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" decorate the flat grave. Sometimes, though, there are flowers. Other times, the tributes are less formal -- a Fender guitar pick lay there recently.
As a Dallas professional, Inez Brand has a full plate during the week. On the weekend, however, she always finds time for a movie -- especially if it's targeted at African-Americans.
"It usually somehow falls into the weekend plans," said Brand, a diversity specialist for Northrop Grumman in Dallas, Texas. "Friday, Saturday or Sunday -- it'll fit."
By Mike Schneider, Associated Press writer
Despite protests, despite the green T-shirts saying "Ask me why Mickey is killing Mr. Toad," despite hundreds of pleading postcards and letters mailed to Disney officials, Mr. Toad appears to be roadkill.
A yearlong Internet and mail campaign to persuade Walt Disney World to keep Mr. Toad's Wild Ride apparently wasn't enough. Or so say Mr. Toad's champions, who claim the ride will be closed forever Sept. 8 and replaced with a Winnie the Pooh attraction.
We all know that kids are constantly changing, and that sometimes they act like animals. In "Animorphs" (8:30 p.m., Nickelodeon, TV-Y7) they do both! Based on the best-selling series of books by K.A. Applegate, "Animorphs" is the story of five teens who are given the heavy burden of saving the world from an imminent invasion by an alien race of "Yeerks," sluglike creatures who climb into the ears of humans and take over their bodies, making them "Human-Controllers." Luckily, they are endowed with a special power by a friendly alien prince called Elfangor. He gives them the power to change into any animal they choose.
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