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...EVERYONE IS A STAR WARS FAN A Panama City, Fla., waitress, Jodee Berry, is suing her employer, Hooters. After winning a contest that offered a Toyota for a prize, she says, she was blindfolded and presented with...a toy Yoda...
Here is a parenting parable for our age. Carla Wagner, 17, of Coral Gables, Fla., spent the afternoon drinking the tequila she charged on her American Express Gold Card before speeding off in her high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out Rollerblading. Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Carla was given a trial date--at which point her parents asked the judge whether it would be O.K. if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does...
SENTENCED. NATHANIEL BRAZILL, 14, Florida teen who was convicted of second-degree murder last May for shooting his 35-year-old teacher; to 28 years in prison; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Though he was 13 at the time of the murder, Brazill was tried as an adult...
DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of the seminal Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd; in his sleep; in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Wilkeson survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the group, including fellow founder Ronnie Van Zant. The band, reformulated in 1987, had scheduled a late-August concert...
...American Dream suggests teaching kids money management. Karen Bakuzonis in Gainesville, Fla., was working long hours to pay for extras like a lawn service--though she and her husband have two strapping sons. She has stopped working and has made her boys earn an allowance by doing chores--including the mowing. These days they have to pony up for goodies like Air Jordan sneakers. Bakuzonis says they now "realize how much life costs--and that it's a bit ridiculous to have a limousine take you and your date to a junior high dance," as some classmates recently...