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WORLD: Investigators probe the cause of history's worst single-plane accident...
That will add one more probe of General Dynamics to several already under way. In New Haven, Conn., the company remains the target of a year-old grand jury investigation into a former director's charges that it submitted false billing claims. In Washington, the Internal Revenue Service is reportedly examining whether General Dynamics has been cheating on taxes, and the Securities and Exchange Commission wants to know if the firm manipulated its stock price in the late 1970s...
...brain had shrunk to half its normal size. Case closed, right? Not yet. Though the autopsy quieted even some of Michael's G.O.P. opponents, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who tried to keep Terri alive, said that because of "new information" not addressed in the autopsy, he has requested a probe into whether Michael delayed calling 911 when Terri collapsed in 1990 from still undetermined causes. --By Harriet Barovick
...enough to shake off the paparazzi. So she's trying something new--fighting back. The Herbie: Fully Loaded star is pressing charges against a photographer who she says rammed her Mercedes last month in pursuit of a shot. The accident spurred the Los Angeles police department to launch a probe into the increasingly aggressive tactics paparazzi employ to catch celebs in such newsworthy acts as picking up dry cleaning. Freeway shootings and gang violence are important too, but someone's got to protect a starlet's right to park at the mall...
...Andersen been vindicated? The court decision didn't address whether Andersen obstructed justice when it destroyed documents that could have proved valuable to the federal probe of accounting fraud by its client Enron Corp. The high court simply found fault with the instructions Judge Melinda Harmon gave the jury at the prosecution's request. The jury, it said, should have been clearly told that an intent to conceal wrongdoing was essential to finding Andersen guilty...