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Students at West Virginia's Wheeling Park High learned that school administrators weren't justblowing smokewhen they said that students caught smoking or chewing tobacco in school would be prosecuted. Eight such students were hauled before a magistrate Monday, where seven pleaded guilty and were ordered to pay the maximum $5 fine plus $62 in court costs, while an eighth asked for a trial. School Principal George Krelis said parents support the school's policy...
...flights since Bosnian Serbs shot up an American cargo plane on April 13 -- trying to spin into a success his failure to extend the cease-fire between the government and the Serbs. No one had signed anything, but all sides, he said, had "undertaken a solemn engagement to show maximum restraint." Unfortunately, even with a cease-fire agreement, the parties have not exactly been known for their restraint. While the cease-fire was still in effect, the Bosnian Serbs repeatedly shelled the so-called safe area of Bihac, and the Bosnian government launched successful offensives on Mount Vlasic...
...suspects, who were taken into custody immediately, each originally faced six state charges, including assault with intent to murder and armed robbery while masked. The maximum penalty for the charges is life imprisonment...
...from the other side helped out in the last days." In the case of the air raid, says Phuong, "the idea was to bomb the concrete hangars and the runways at Tan Son Nhut. We didn't think we'd do much real damage, but we wanted to have maximum psychological effect. We wanted to create chaos...
Wisconsin authorities filed a rare criminal case against a medical laboratory. Prosecutors charged Chem-Bio Corp. with reckless homicide, accusing the firm of lapses that allegedly led it to misread the Pap smears of two women who subsequently died of cervical cancer. The lab, which faces a maximum $20,000 fine, said it would fight the charges...