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08/30/2000 12:24:08

RENO, NV Reno man arrested on 16 sex assault charges--(Reno Gazette-Journal)--Reno police arrested Steven Delosh, 36, early Tuesday on 16 counts of sexually assaulting four children under 14 after he told detectives he used the abuse as a form of punishment.

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08/30/2000 11:29:19

NEWPORT, WALES Paediatrician attacks 'ignorant' vandals--(BBC News)--A hospital paediatrician, South African-born Yvette Cloete, 30, has hit out at vandals who forced her to flee her home after apparently taking her job title to mean she was a paedophile.

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08/30/2000 08:21:42

USA Condemned Again for Old Crimes--(NYTimes)--"I was sitting with other detained immigrants in the Hudson County Corrections Facility, watching Katie Couric," Alejandro Bontia said. "She talked about how this was the land of opportunity, freedom and justice. We howled with laughter. The motto of the Statue of Liberty in today's America is: give me your poor, your tired and your hungry, because we still have empty jail cells."

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08/30/2000 08:20:17

CALIFORNIA Convicts sentenced to years of rape--(Point Reyes Light Weekly)--Corrections officers and inmates alike have found themselves victimized by a system intent on housing criminals in huge, military style facilities, where incidents of rape, assault and battery, intimidation, and abuse of the mentally ill have become accepted daily occurrences.

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08/30/2000 08:19:20

CALIFORNIA 400,000 now imprisoned in endless US 'drug war'--(Point Reyes Light Weekly)--Nowhere has the drug war been fought harder than California, which has locked up more of its adult population for nonviolent drug charges than any other state in the nation, according to a recent study of 1996 US Justice Department statistics.

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08/30/2000 08:18:14

CALIFORNIA Gov. Davis shields prisons from scrutiny--(Point Reyes Light Weekly)--State legislators are again asking Gov. Gray Davis to open up the state prison system to closer public scrutiny by letting journalists conduct face-to-face interviews with individual prisoners and receive unfiltered mail from them.

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08/29/2000 14:49:31

LOS ANGELES, CA CBS plans miniseries on O.J. Simpson trial--(Reuters)--Five years and one month after a riveted America watched as a jury found him innocent of stabbing two people to death, the O.J. Simpson murder trial will return to television as a miniseries with the football star relegated to the role of a bit player, according to Reuters.

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08/29/2000 14:48:35

LADSON, SC Mother: 'He killed my baby'--(Kentucky Post)--Patricia McAllister, 38, a former Northern Kentucky resident, lived in constant fear that an ex-boyfriend would harm her. Those fears were realized last week.

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08/28/2000 19:08:39

JONBENET RAMSEY (6) - murdered in her home in 1996 John and Patsy Ramsey - parents under suspicion BOULDER, Colorado Ramseys' attorney calls questioning 'waste of time--(CNN)--In Atlanta, Boulder officials questioned Patsy Ramsey on the murder of her daughter, JonBenet. Most of the afternoon was spent talking about security precautions for Burke Ramsey after he returned to school. The Ramsey's defense attorney said authorities also asked questions about what donations have been made by the JonBenet Foundation.

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08/28/2000 18:56:46

MARTHA MOXLEY (15) - murdered in 1975 Michael Skakel - former teen neighbor accused GREENWICH, Connecticut Murder in Greenwich: Michael Skakel's Attorney Discusses the Case--(CNN - Burden of Proof Transcript)-- A quarter century after a brutal murder in Greenwich, Connecticut, a 39-year-old former neighbor faces a murder trial. But will Michael Skakel be tried as an adult or as a juvenile?

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08/28/2000 06:11:46

JAMES HAGEN and IDELLA F. HAGEN - Asphyxiated in their beds Dr. I. Kathleen Hagen - Charged with two counts of first-degree murder CHATHAM, New Jersey Parents Dead, Former Doctor Is Now Suspect--(NYTimes)--As far as neighbors could tell, Dr. I. Kathleen Hagen was not just an accomplished Harvard-educated doctor but a devoted daughter who left her home in the Virgin Islands and returned to care for her ailing parents in their modest home in Chatham Township, N.J.

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08/27/2000 15:20:59

WAILUKU, HI Witnesses say they saw blood on accused killer--(Honolulu  Star-Bulletin)--Sara Seitz, a neighbor, said she saw Brian Kawamoto, hands covered with blood, outside the house and asked, "What's the matter? What happened?" "He raised his hands and said, 'I had enough of this s---,' " Seitz recalled. Kawamoto, 43, an unemployed mason, is on trial in the stabbing death of his wife, Bridget.

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