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When Bill Clinton shows up at a disaster area, it usually means the disaster?s over. But North Carolina, which would hardly agree with the bird?s-eye verdict that Hurricane Floyd was less fierce than anticipated, still has an aftershock or two left to go. As the President got ready to tour the ravaged state Monday, local officials were bracing for four more inches rain from Tropical Storm Harvey, which was set to sweep through western Florida Monday night. Flash flood warnings are being issued ? and flooding is one thing North Carolina is becoming awfully familiar with these days...
...driving offenses, and the case against him was paper thin--flimsy circumstantial evidence and the dubious testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed Fritz confessed while awaiting trial. Was that really all it took to send a man away for life? "When the jury came back with a guilty verdict, I almost went into shock," says Fritz...
...verdict is in, literally. Rotund City Councillor William Walsh was convicted this week on 41 counts of fraud, which is extraordinary for Cambridge in the sense that convictions of city officials are rare; however, the careless nature of Walsh's perpetrations are nothing out of the ordinary in the annals of Cambridge government...
...Bros., producer of "The Jenny Jones Show," as well as this publication) to pay $25 million to Amedure?s family for driving Schmitz to commit murder. The case is now on appeal ? and Schmitz? day in court may help that $25 million judgment disappear. "It?s likely that the verdict won?t hold up before an appellate court of judges anyway ? they tend to be less emotional than some juries can be," says TIME legal corespondent Adam Cohen. "This conviction only adds to that likelihood...
...Indeed, the thread that ran through judge-and-jury comments after Thursday?s guilty verdict (the first one, from 1996, was thrown out on a technicality) was that Schmitz?s oh-no moment on the show was neither a justification for murder nor a mitigation of blame. Schmitz's attorney, Jerome Sabbota, sought a lesser verdict of manslaughter, saying in Wednesday's closing arguments that Amedure continued to pursue Schmitz after the show to the point that Schmitz "lost all reason." But even he didn?t blame the show ? just Amedure. And neither judge nor jury would even go that...