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By Jack Stewardson, Standard-Times staff writer
FALL RIVER -- City and state officials have agreed to keep maritime industry at the State Pier while opening it up to tourist-drawing entertainment and retailers.
This means the pier's official designation as a port will not be jettisoned for the sake of the planned non-maritime development.
NEW BEDFORD -- Political operatives stayed busy yesterday dropping dimes in an attempt to influence several City Council races considered too close to call.
The charges ranged from an incumbent ward councilor's assertion that his opponent is a drug dealer who was shot 10 years ago to his opponent's charge, confirmed by City Hall documents, that the ward councilor had not paid his property tax and water bills in years.
By Manuela Da Costa-Fernandes,
LAKEVILLE -- It's the Police Department's most creative filing area: The narrow crawl space above its two lock-up cells.
Nestled next to the station's boiler, near its restroom, are three four-drawer file cabinets.
Jockeying for space in a narrow hallway, a dispatcher uses a tripod to take a mug shot for a pistol permit.
Welcome to the cramped six-roomed Lakeville Police Station at 296 Bedford St., off Route 18.
By Estes Thompson, Associated Press writer
PRINCEVILLE, N.C. -- John Ricks endured a ceremony yesterday he never thought he would have to go through again -- the burial of his wife and 9-year-old son, killed in a traffic accident 21 years ago.
Their coffins were among 224 that popped from the ground and floated away in Hurricane Floyd's floodwaters last month. yesterday, federal mortuary teams began reburying the dead.
WASHINGTON -- A Supreme Court known for its impatience with death row appeals surprisingly halted two executions this week and is on track to issue four significant rulings on capital punishment by summer.
One case asks the justices to ban the electric chair. Two focus on a federal law aimed at speeding up executions. The fourth asks whether a person can be sentenced to die by a jury admittedly confused about a judge's instructions.
WASHINGTON -- A federal court yesterday reaffirmed a decision blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing tougher air pollution controls on smog and soot.
In a 5-4 ruling, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the government's appeal and kept in place a decision in May by a three-judge panel from the court overturning the new pollution regulations imposed in 1997.
BOSTON -- Fearing that Harvard Pilgrim Health Care will file for bankruptcy protection, Massachusetts hospitals are taking steps to recover some of the $30 million they say the HMO owes.
Sources told the Boston Herald that a half-dozen Boston-area hospitals have hired lawyers to ensure they are counted among the HMO's creditors if the company goes bankrupt.
BOSTON -- Drug, alcohol and tobacco use continues to be a serious problem among high school students in Massachusetts, according to a survey released yesterday.
While marijuana smoking is falling slightly from 1995 figures, 39 percent of students still say they have used marijuana at least once in the last 12 months. And 69 percent of students said they have drunk alcohol at least once in the last year.
MALDEN, Mass. -- A year ago at this time, state education officials were bracing parents and teachers to expect the worst from the first round of MCAS scores.
In preparation for the second round, educators have a warning of a different kind: don't make too much of scores that go way up. And don't make too much of small blips in either direction.
NEW YORK – The Nasdaq composite index soared to a new record, leading a broad stock market rally that was extended yesterday on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's suggestion that the Fed's two interest rate hikes this year seem to be keeping inflation under control.
The remarks raised hopes that the central bank may not see the need for repeated additional rate hikes to keep the economy from overheating. Interest rates tumbled on the inflation-sensitive government bond market.
By David Dishneau, Associated Press writer
The Blair Witch is back. And this time, Burkittsville is ready.
This past summer, the hoax-documentary "The Blair Witch Project" brought hordes of the ghoulishly curious to the western Maryland hamlet where the movie is set. The visitors snatched road and cemetery signs, damaged tombstones and traipsed through backyards, forcing extra police to patrol the quiet farming community.
Reading a new book by a favorite author is like spending time with a friend who's got some fresh news to share with you. Here are some new books by some of the very best children's authors writing today:
British author/illustrator Shirley Hughes is beloved for her rare ability to make the ordinary seem extraordinary. In her classic "Alfie" books, for example, Hughes takes the small adventures of everyday life and endows them with the importance they deserve, at least from the point of view of a preschooler.
NEW BEDFORD -- Dante Balestracci had a tough night passing. Other than that, he was perfect.
New Bedford's senior quarterback threw for one touchdown, ran for another, intercepted three passes -- only two of which counted -- and was credited with 14 tackles as the Whalers started and ended fast in cruising to a 27-12 victory over St. John's Prep at Paul Walsh Field last night.
By Howard Ulman, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- Boston Bruins goalie Byron Dafoe ended his holdout yesterday, signing a three-year contract that could have him back in goal as soon as next week.
"Four or five practices and I should be ready to go," said Dafoe, who has been skating every day on his own in preparation for his anticipated return. "I want to play as soon as possible, and I want to make sure that I'm at the highest level before I enter a game."
They remind you of a couple of guys sitting on a park bench watching the squirrels.
Joe Torre has eyes that see everything and reveal nothing. His face is gaunt and lined, haunted and hollow, the way a face gets when it has confronted death. He chews in the slow, insistent manner of a man trying to dislodge a popcorn kernel from between his teeth.
Don Zimmer is Buddha, moon-faced and round-bellied, serene as sunset. There can't be much he hasn't seen. A long time ago he suffered a terrible beaning and had a metal plate put inside his skull.
By Doug Ferguson, Associated Press writer
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Paul Azinger pulled a tam o'shanter cap snugly over his head and rolled up his trousers to knickers-length, revealing a garish pair of argyle socks -- all part of a poignant tribute to his close friend, Payne Stewart.
On a table below the pulpit where Azinger offered his eulogy yesterday, a gold chalice gleamed. The Ryder Cup rarely leaves its trophy case at the PGA of America headquarters, but there could be no better showcase.
By Lukas I. Alpert, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- George Steinbrenner hoisted a broom from a parade float. Darryl Strawberry broke down in tears. And millions of fans staged another Broadway revival with a blizzard of confetti.
"This stuff never gets old," New York Yankees manager Joe Torre said at a City Hall rally after the parade yesterday. "This one seemed even better. I think you appreciate it more each time you do it."
True to form, the drug manufacturers are already hard at work throwing buckets of cold rhetoric at the notion that Americans paying through the nose for their prescriptions is somehow unfair.
A volley was fired this week by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, who faxed American newspaper editors an editorial from the Calgary Herald, purporting to answer in advance President Clinton's questions about why drugs cost so much less north of the border.
WACO, Texas
A funny thing is happening on the way to anointment. George Bush, the drive-through ATM candidate, is driving off Republican candidates who could help get him nominated and/or elected.
Al Gore, the automatic Democrat -- some would say automated -- has another Demo model sharing his showroom, and party regulars are looking it over.
I'm not prepared to answer this, but: Is it possible that invincibility could be the downfall of both?
Bryant Gumbel you know. Former "Today Show" anchor. Smooth, smart. Spiffy dresser. Loves to play golf.
Remember? Of course, you do!
But this is a story about the not-yet-so-recognized Jane Clayson, a slender, pretty young woman who, starting Monday morning, will share the anchor desk with Gumbel on CBS' brand-new "Early Show."
Cross MTV's "Real World" with "Lord of the Flies" and what do you get?
A new CBS game show that will strand 16 Americans on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea to fend for themselves among the pythons and other wild animals -- including each other. The last contestant on the island wins $1 million.
By Sarah Corbitt, Standard-Times correspondent
Fall just may be the perfect time to go looking for a home in Freetown. Convenient to the highways and home to one of the largest state forests in Massachusetts, Freetown retains its rural character, even in these days of booming development.
Profuse trees envelop every road, and the autumn colors permeate every line of vision. The season sets off, in a spectacular way, the blue clapboard Garrison Colonial at 239 Bullock Road, just a stone's throw from Freetown State Forest. The 1.84-acre property is bordered by brilliant foliage, and the park-like grounds are judiciously dotted with ornamental trees -- red-fruited crabapple, burgundy-leafed maple and a perfectly shaped Christmas tree pine.
Guy named Michael walks into a room.
"Hello, Michael," the room says.
The room has a British accent. The words are computer-generated, though the computer is unseen, somewhere in an adjacent room. This is a smart office on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the future is busting out all over. In this case the genius behind the scenes is Michael Coen, age 29, a doctoral candidate who'd like to put some brains, some genuine perceptiveness, into the formerly inert, passive, witless environments that people have somehow lived in since time immemorial.
SEATTLE -- Gina Alva thought buying a home was out of her reach.
She's a single mother with two teen-age children about to go off to college. And she's an immigrant from Peru, still learning the American culture.
She needed help finding financial assistance and understanding the whole loan-application process, preferably from someone who spoke Spanish.
By Robert J. Barcellos, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- Rabbi Charles Sheer, Jewish chaplain at Columbia University, will be the guest speaker for the annual Sydney L. Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence weekend, scheduled for Nov. 5-6 at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, County and Hawthorn streets.
Rabbi Sheer is one of the most prominent Hillel directors in the country. He will be accompanied by his wife, Judy Adler Sheer, executive director of Edah -- an organization that promotes modern Orthodox values.
FALL RIVER -- The Fall River Diocese has invited clergy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to join with the diocesan bishop and clergy this Monday at Corpus Christi Church in East Sandwich for a luncheon and afternoon prayer.
The gathering of Catholic and Lutheran clergy has been scheduled to take place one day after the scheduled signing of a Joint Declaration of the Doctrine of Justification by representatives of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches on Sunday in Augsburg, Germany.
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