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TRACK Led by double Olympic medalist Rebecca Twigg and four-time world champion Connie Paraskevin-Young, the U.S. women will win their share of races against strong cyclists from France and Italy. There could be a great sprint battle between Marty Nothstein of the U.S. and Curt Harnett of Canada...
...surprise statement, Patsy Webb, a former nurse's aide at the hospital in Florida where Kimberly Mays was born, said a doctor there had intentionally ordered that the girl be taken from her biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, and be given to Robert and Barbara Mays. The Twiggs, who earlier this year lost their claim to Kimberly in court, called for a criminal investigation, which could begin this week...
...Florida judge ruled that Kimberly Mays could end all contact with her biological parents, Regina and Ernest Twigg. Kimberly was accidentally switched at birth with another girl whom the Twiggs discovered was not their daughter after she died of a congenital heart defect five years ago. The judge ruled that the Twiggs have "no legal interest in or rights to Kimberly Mays," while deeming Robert Mays, who has raised the girl, to be her "psychological parent...
...stuff of childhood nightmares. Her father, Robert Mays, an Englewood, Florida, roofing salesman, sat her down and told her that he was not her biological father. Nor was his late wife, Barbara Mays, her mother. Instead, she was the blood daughter of a Langhorne, Pennsylvania, couple, Ernest and Regina Twigg. In 1988 the Twiggs' daughter Arlena had died of a heart defect. Blood tests led to the discovery that the two girls had been switched at birth in a small rural Florida hospital. The Twiggs were now determined to make their biological daughter part of their life...
Before the nine-year-old daughter of Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Fla., died last year, following surgery for a heart defect, doctors made an unsettling discovery: Arlena Twigg was not their biological child. Last week genetic tests established that the Twiggs' real daughter is Kimberly Mays, who was born at Hardee Memorial hospital in Wauchula, Fla., at about the same time as Arlena...