Word: reno
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Timothy McVeigh, one of the two suspects sought in the Oklahoma City bombing, was arrested in Perry, Oklahoma on unrelated speeding charges the day of the bombing, FBI officials said. Attorney General Reno planned to release details at a news conference after 3 p.m. The man in custody has a crew cut. The other suspect, who may still be at large, is 5'9" to 5'10" tall, weighs 175 to 180 pounds, and has brown hair and a tattoo...
Justice Department officials said two unidentified white men, who remain at large, may be responsible for the Oklahoma City car bombing. At an afternoon new conference, Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. would offer $2 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a pair of "John Does" linked to a vehicle thought to contain the massive bomb that tore apart the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. The FBI said the link to the two men was established by identifying a Ryder rental truck as the vehicle used in the bombing. It was rented in Junction City...
Attorney General Janet Reno has expanded theJustice Department review of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's business dealings. Justice will look at Brown's $71,000 investment in a deteriorating low-income housing project that defaulted on a $6.1 million state loan. Secretary Brown's attorney, Reid Weingarten, said today that the feds are responding to Sunday's Los Angeles Times report that said the secretary misreported the location of the housing project on financial disclosure forms and reaped $175,000 in tax breaks from the investment. Weingarten claims there was no wrongdoing. The Justice Department was already considering whether...
Attorney General Janet Reno wants states tomake sex offenders register their addresseswith police for at least a decade after they are released from prison. Reno today proposed minimum standards for state notification laws under a provision of the 1994 federal crime law that will cut off 10 percent of federal anti-crime grants to states that do not meet the standards. Forty states already have established sex offender notification laws. But the statutes vary widely and judges have struck down all or part of the laws in seven states. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen says the new standards...
That proved attractive to an influential audience. Justice officials report that Bill Clinton read it, circled the bits on gun detection and passed it to Janet Reno. Suddenly weapons detection was high priority...