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NEW BEDFORD -- The Kerr Mill site in Fall River will grow to an industrial park with UMass Dartmouth as an "anchor tenant," the executive director of the state agency managing the project said in an interview with The Standard-Times yesterday.
While in New Bedford to announce the formation of a $600,000 low-interest loan pool for the fishing industry with the New Bedford Economic Development Council, MassDevelopment Executive Director Michael Hogan said the university is a small part of the Kerr Mill picture.
By Anne Saita, Standard-Times staff writer
WAREHAM -- Thanksgiving protesters and Plymouth County prosecutors agreed in Wareham yesterday to drop criminal charges against 23 people involved in a clash with police in Plymouth.
In return, those arrested on Nov. 27, 1997, retracted previous allegations of racism, misconduct and brutality by police made after a demonstration deteriorated into a melee on what the United American Indians of New England call a National Day of Mourning.
Dick White
I hustled into the New Bedford TV 98 Public Access station minutes before the debate started.
And there sat two of the candidates running for state rep in the 12th Bristol District -- independent Duarte Silva, articulate, serious, forthright, dressed in a power gray suit and Democrat George Rogers in a funeral-director black suit with blue tie.
In between them stood an empty chair, a glass of water and a name tag inscribed, Ivo Almeida.
A young cameraman, wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt with the inscription, Rage Against the Machine, focused in on Rogers, who seemed very much in control, very much at home.
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NEW BEDFORD -- A jury of eight women and five men will today hear opening arguments in the case of Dacey Rodriguez, the 20-year-old accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death.
The jury -- 12 regulars and one alternate -- were chosen yesterday in New Bedford Superior Court by defense attorney Gerald FitzGerald and prosecutor Walter Shea.
Ms. Rodriguez, who is a month away from giving birth to her third child, followed the proceedings through a Spanish-language interpreter.
By Barry Schweid, Associated Press writer
QUEENSTOWN, Md. -- Israel suspended all negotiations with the Palestinians on issues other than security yesterday after a bloody attack at a busy Israeli bus stop threatened already lagging Mideast peace talks.
A senior Palestinian official, Yasser Abed Rabbo, dismissed the Israeli move as "cheap blackmail."
President Clinton said the grenade attack was a "complicating factor" in the talks, which entered their fifth day yesterday. But he returned as planned to the secluded conference site along the Wye River to try to coax Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to conclude a land-for-peace deal. Clinton then held a three-way session with the two leaders, P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- In the shadow of renewed settlement efforts, a federal judge released 724 pages of previously secret materials in the Paula Jones lawsuit yesterday that disclosed efforts by President Clinton's legal team to make an issue of Mrs. Jones' sexual history.
In a filing in January, Clinton's lawyers told the court they had testimony from a man who alleged he had sex with Mrs. Jones in his car in a bar parking lot on their first encounter.
NEW BEDFORD -- Scott Harshbarger says his economic strategy will bring more jobs to the SouthCoast in one year than any casino proposal ever would.
In an editorial board meeting at The Standard-Times yesterday, the state's attorney general and Democratic nominee for governor lambasted Republican Gov. Paul Cellucci for "running a campaign of fear" against him and leaving behind "a trail of broken promises."
By Martin Finucane, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- Acting Gov. Paul Cellucci was permitted by the State Ethics Commission to be on a corporate board several years ago because the firm had no business ties to Massachusetts. But a Washington lobbyist who did work for the state was also on the board, the Associated Press has learned.
While the connection is not illegal, it suggests a coziness that politicians are advised to avoid. Further, Cellucci has been faulted for taking a job with the company that specialized in naval engineering, an area in which he has no expertise.
By Terrence Petty, Associated Press writer
PROVIDENCE -- A murdered transvestite heiress was buried in her Massachusetts hometown yesterday, more than 11 years after she disappeared, and Rhode Island police said they had not yet arrested a suspect.
The cremated ashes of Camilla Lyman, in a small poplar box, were laid to rest near her parents' graves at a cemetery in Westwood, Mass., said Mary Margaret Goodale, Lyman's sister.
WASHINGTON, Conn. -- When John Wallach was 6 years old, he lay awake in bed the night his parents told of their escape from the Nazis and wondered why he had received the gift of life that had been snatched from 1 million other Jewish children.
His answer came 40 years later. The summer after the World Trade Center bombing in New York City, Wallach began a camp to teach children from war-torn countries about peaceful ends to conflicts.
FOXBORO -- While Bill Parcells' aura hogged the attention, the usually invisible Kyle Brady stole the game for the New York Jets.
Brady caught two touchdown passes from Vinny Testaverde, including the winning 1-yarder with 8:54 to go last night, silencing the crowd as the Jets surprised the New England Patriots, 24-14. Parcells, who left New England for New York before last season, is 2-1 against the Patriots, whom he led to the AFC title before departing.
She showed promise in track last year, but it wasn't until last summer that Bishop Stang junior Nancy Porter began to pull away from the pack.
She burst upon the local running scene on Labor Day when she won the women's race in the four-mile Acushnet Road Race by 29 seconds with a time of 25:06.
By Ben Walker, Associated Press writer
SAN DIEGO -- Tony Gwynn was standing alone in right field, checking out the grass torn up a day earlier by an NFL game, and his hearty laugh echoed throughout the empty ballpark.
Gwynn was the first player on the field for the San Diego Padres' practice yesterday afternoon, and his disposition matched the weather -- bright sunshine, blue California sky, temperatures in the 70s.
A change of scenery for the World Series, for sure, from the subway trains clacking outside Yankee Stadium to the palm trees inside Qualcomm Stadium.
NEW BEDFORD Concerning the issue of impounding the cars of alleged johns in New Bedford, I would direct the attention of the city council and the Standard-Times editor to the 1996 case Bennis v. Michigan, a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the female petitioner was suing the state for seizing the family car in which her husband had committed an act of prostitution.
While the court upheld the lower state court's ruling in favor of the seizing tactic, the dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens, in concurrence with Justices Souter and Breyer, is a well-written and enlightened approach to the issue of the seizure of personal property.
Look out, Massachusetts; an economic speed bump is dead ahead, and we haven't got much time to hit the brakes and get ready for it. A research group called Regional Financial Associates warns that high-flying Massachusetts firms are already starting to suffer as experts to "emerging" -- and now stumbling -- economies dry up. Polaroid, Gillette, Raytheon -- they're all scrambling to cope with the downturn already. BankBoston has lost half of its market value. The region's fund management industry, which accounts for 50 percent more of this region's income than the national average, is highly exposed to equity movements.
NEW BEDFORD There's no bigot like a Christian bigot. I think I may have read that some place, but if not, I will gladly take credit for it.
When it comes to bigotry, Christians have the copyright. Ever since Constantine gave the Christians a little muscle, they have been bad-mouthing and abusing people of different color and religion. Take a quick trip through history.
THE STORY SO FAR: On their journey to Kentucky, the Damron children's mother has come down with a deadly disease called milk fever.
May 7, 1828. Posey County, Indiana
Mama lingers one more day and night before she closes her eyes and leaves us forever. We forget to eat, and no one sleeps after she's gone. Nettie dies, too. I want to scratch the cow one last time behind her ears but Papa won't let me near her.
After Papa covers Mama with their wedding quilt, I edge next to him and whisper the secret that's gnawing at my belly. "Nettie put her foot in the milk, the night Mama got sick," I tell him.
By Jim Patterson, Associated Press writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country Music Television still is the equivalent of a little brother to The Nashville Network, but after 15 years it has grown into a man-sized cable channel.
While TNN is available in more homes, CMT has courted viewers more attractive to advertisers. CMT is now available in 43 million households, compared with TNN's 73 million, and its core viewers are married women in their 30s with children.
"It's no secret that TNN has an older-skewing audience," said Paul Hastaba, CMT's vice president and general manager. "We're the MTV for the country fan."
A government study found cold breakfast cereal was the main source of key vitamins and minerals for American children. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
Children may be eating fortified cereal in place of vitamin-rich fruits and vegetables, which contain fiber and cancer-fighting substances, said Amy Subar, a research nutritionist with the National Cancer Institute.
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