November 8, 1995
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ALBANY, Georgia (CNN) -- A southern Georgia city that still is rebuilding from last year's devastating floods now is contending with the aftermath of a tornado. A twister Tuesday wrecked a neighborhood in Albany, injuring at least 30 people. Gov. Zell Miller declared a state of emergency in the town.
City officials said at least 40 business and 150 homes were damaged, and almost 3,000 homes lost electricity.
Tornadoes also struck in 16 South Carolina counties, injuring 22 people. And powerful storms battered North Carolina, where strong wind destroyed at least one trailer home. Four family members were hurt.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The family of murder victim Ronald Goldman filed a motion Tuesday that opposes defendant O.J. Simpson's request for a protective order keeping secret his depositions in the wrongful death lawsuits filed against him.
The Goldmans' motion said that a protective order would be oppressive. "It will only force the public to view the proceedings through the distortion of a fun-house mirror -- fifth-hand accounts, punditry, and gossip about what people think the evidence might or probably will show -- rather than the actual evidence," the motion states.
Several news organizations, including CNN, also filed motions opposing Simpson's request. They argued that Simpson has not met the threshold of "good cause" required by law and a protective order would violate the public's right of access under the First Amendment.
MENOMIE, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Police in Menomie, Wisconsin, are investigating the death of a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian boy who might have been tortured for failing Islamic religious lessons.
The body of Abdullah Al-Qahtani was found Sunday in his family's home. Police said he had been burned, whipped, and severely beaten -- so much so that his back "appeared to have little or no skin."
A witness who lived in the home told police the teenager was beaten when he incorrectly answered questions about the Koran, Islam's sacred literature. Al-Qahtani's uncle, cousin, and two brothers, all Saudi Arabian citizens, were arrested as material witnesses. The Dunn County district attorney said he will file reckless homicide charges against them.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (CNN) -- Ice buildup on a sensor led to the crash of an experimental jet fighter in January, investigators said. Despite the crash, testing of the X-31 was deemed a success, according to a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The German pilot of the single-engine jet fighter ejected just before it plummeted into the ground. The investigation concluded that ice on a sensor caused the plane's control system to configure for a lower-speed flight, which threw the plane out of control. (488K QuickTime movie)
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Southern California sea lions once had the highest concentration of the pesticide DDT in their body fat of any marine mammal ever studied by federal marine scientists. Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz now report the sea lions have had dramatic reductions in DDT levels, and their numbers have grown significantly since DDT dumping ended.
From 1947 to 1971, the company that made DDT dumped the chemical into an area in the Pacific Ocean where sea lions breed in the summer. In 1970, sea lion blubber contained DDT of 760 parts per million. By 1992 the levels had fallen to 5.2 parts per billion, and the population had grown from 12,000 to 28,000.
But researchers warn the lingering effects of 100 tons of DDT-contaminated sediments on the ocean floor are still unknown.
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Boston police have arrested a third man in connection with Monday's restaurant shooting that killed four people and critically injured another.
The suspect, whom police identified as the father of one of the other two suspects, arrested at Charlestown District Court immediately following the arraignment of the two other men taken into custody after the shooting..
Damian A. Clemente, 20, of Medford and Vincent J. Perez, 27, entered pleas of not guilty and will be held without bail. In addition, Perez will be sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for 20 days of psychiatric testing.
Police said the gunmen opened fire Monday afternoon on customers eating lunch at the 99 Restaurant & Pub in Charlestown, a blue-collar area on Boston's north side.
Reports in the Boston Globe suggested the victims had mob connections, but police said the shooting was "too sloppy" to be a hit by organized crime.
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (CNN) -- Jurors in North Carolina Tuesday found a law student not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder of two men.
Wendell Williamson will now be sent to a mental hospital. A hearing will be held within 50 days to determine whether he should be committed.
On January 26, Williamson was walking down the street near the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill. He suddenly fished out a semi-automatic rifle, and began shooting randomly, killing two passers-by.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government officials said an executive order designed to prevent political fringe groups in Israel from receiving funds from U.S. citizens appears to be working.
In January, President Clinton ordered that the assets of two Jewish groups and 10 Arab organizations in the United States be frozen. They were identified as organizations that were against the Middle East peace process.
A Treasury Department spokesman said the move has prevented fund-raising activities by American sympathizers of Kach and Kahane Chai, both right-wing Jewish groups.
The executive order prohibits what was once termed "charitable contributions" of funds, goods, or services from going to the groups.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The jury in the retrial of the Menendez brothers on Tuesday heard more graphic testimony about the nature of the wounds caused by shotgun blasts to their wealthy parents.
Coroner Dr. Irwin Golden's revised statement about the wounds on Kitty Menendez's face provided a minor victory for the defense. Golden, who performed the autopsy, had originally said that the cheek wounds were made before death. He now maintains they were sustained post-mortem.
Eric, 24, and Lyle, 27, are undergoing a retrial for the August 20, 1989, murders of their parents. The young men have admitted to killing their parents, but say they did so in self-defense after years of emotional and physical abuse. The prosecution contends that the now-famous brothers acted out of greed.
The first trial, in 1994, ended with hung juries.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) - Federal authorities have served subpoenas to the Los Angeles Police Department asking for the work records of former detective Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said FBI agents and representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office issued the subpoenas late last month.
The federal authorities began their civil rights investigation into Fuhrman after it became known during the O.J Simpson trial, where Fuhrman was a key prosecution witness, that the retired detective had admitted to beating up and framing suspects in several tape-recorded sessions with an aspiring screen writer.
During the Simpson trial, Fuhrman testified that he found a bloody glove on the former football star's estate the day after the June 12, 1994, murders of Simpson's ex-wife and her friend.
A jury found Simpson not guilty of the murders in October.
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