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...other state and local programs receiving the award are GENESIS: Healthy Young Families, in Boulder, Colorado.; the Hillsborough County Health Care Plan in Florida; Competition and Costing in Indianapolis, Ind.; City Work in Louisville, Kentucky.; the Hamilton Terrace Learning Center in Shreveport, Louisiana; the Center for Technology in Government in New York; the Civil Enforcement Initiative in New York City; and Project QUEST in San Antonio, Texas...
Belle, on the other hand, is swaggering and antagonistic. He has a rather checkered history, dating back to when he was kicked off the Louisiana State baseball team in 1986. In 1990 he went through alcohol rehab, but the trouble continued. Four times the left fielder has been suspended, once for throwing a ball at a fan and once for corking...
...another instance, the family of Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori won $653,000 in a civil suit filed against Baton Rouge, Louisiana, butcher Rodney Peairs, who shot their son when he mistakenly came to Peairs' door while searching for a Halloween party. Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, but, says the Hattoris' lawyer Charles Moore, "sometimes jury verdicts are wrong. That doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and walk away...
Young, black and liberal Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) will face millionaire Democrat-turned-Republican state Senator Mike Foster, 65, in a race that will determine the next governor of Louisiana. "In many ways this race is a quintessential example of Southern politics today," reports TIME's Adam Cohen. "The Democratic Party is becoming increasingly black, while moderate and conservative white democrats run to the Republicans. The challenge for the Democratic Party is to hold on to its strong black base without losing those white Democrats. They haven't been very successful so far. And Fields is a decided underdog...
...person, a 76-year-old woman, was killed when a spun-off tornado destroyed her mobile home. Opal is the ninth and by far the strongest hurricane of the season, one of the roughest ever. State officials compared it Hurricane Camille, which killed 256 people in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana when it hit the Gulf Coast in 1969. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict