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i t-1 vrry'r i fo? yrf K- I' iVtetro Star Tribune Tuesday August 11995 Please read and recycle I Reoisi llttOOEl uiry awards patient i i I i mlm 1 i Verdict finds therapist Humenansky liable in repressed-memory trial damages of about $250,000. "I'm really very glad. It's been a long seven years," Vynnette Hamanne said after the jury returned its verdicts. "We just want to get on with the rest of our lives." to "recover" memories of the abuse, the White Bear Lake woman alleged in her lawsuit. Defense lawyers had acknowledged that Humenansky made some errors but argued that most of the problems suffered by the Hamannes were not caused by the doctor.

two days following a six-week trial to award Vynnette Hamanne more than $2 million for pain and suffering, lost earnings and medical expenses up to the time of trial. She was awarded an additional $461,000 for future damages, and her husband, Kenneth, was awarded $2 1 0,000 for loss of partnership. Hamanne and her attorneys charged that Dr. Diane Humenansky, a St. Paul psychiatrist, told her that she suffered from multiple personality disorder and must have been repeatedly sexually abused by relatives.

Humenansky also told Hamanne that she could not remember the abuse because she suffered from repression, and that to be helped she would have By Paul Gustafson StaffWriter A White Bear Lake woman who Claimed she was injured by false memories of abuse implanted by her psychiatrist was awarded more than $2.6 million Monday by a Ramsey Countyjury. Jurors took less than 10 hours over Dr. Diane Humenansky was ordered to pay $2.6 million In damages to a former patient. They had asked the jury to award Verdict continued on page 2B Bus station gets more than token approval fine-" Being incumbent! pays in campaign Wellstone has $1 million so far By Dane Smith StaffWriter The latest financial reports for Minnesota's 1996 U.S. Senate campaign reveal a stark role reversal and yet another lesson about the advantage of incumbency.

Sen. Paul Wellstone, a populist adversary of monied interests who played the underfunded underdog to the hilt in his 1990 campaign, raised more than $1 million in campaign money during the first half of 1995, according to records filed Monday with the Federal Elections Commission. That was almost triple the amount collected by former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, an' Independent-Republican businessman seek-: ing to win back his seat from lost to Wellstone in 1990 despite a4-to-l fund-raising advantage.

Police arrest serial rape suspect 5 women raped in past 2 months By Anne O'Connor StaffWriter Minneapolis police arrested a man in Mississippi on Monday who they say is a suspect in the rapes of five women in Minneapolis since May. Charles R. Noble, who had been living in the Twin Cities until recently, was arrested Monday night in Long Beach, a city of 15,000 on the Gulf of Mexico. He is facing one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of first-degree burglary, according to police spokesperson Penny Parrish. Bail has been set at $1 million.

Details of the arrest were unavailable Monday night, including why police suspected Noble and the specifics of his criminal history. He reportedly has previous sex offense convictions. It also was unclear when he would be brought back to the Twin Cities. "They just arrested the man a couple hours ago," Parrish said. "So there will be a lot more information available Tuesday." Five women between the ages of 29 and 38 have reported that they were raped since May 25.

The latest was July 6 near McKin-ley St. and 31st Av. NE. in the Waite Park neighborhood. Two others have occurred elsewhere in northeast Minneapolis, the other two in Longfellow community neighborhoods on the South Side.

Investigators think that another woman may have scared the rapist off by hitting him with a baseball bat as he tried to crawl through a basement window at her northeast Minneapolis home. The other four reported rapes were on May 25, June 15, June 20 and June 21; the attempted burglary reportedly occurred June 22. All the victims lived alone or with their children. The rapist entered the homes through open basements or first-floor windows, sometimes by cutting a screen. He always wore a full face mask, gloves and dark clothing.

Besides their age range and the fact that they, all were white women, the victims seemed to have little else in common. He has stayed inside the homes from 12 minutes to 4 hours, according to police reports. He has not been armed or made direct threats. He is believed to have taken random items clothing, beer bottles, a blanket and TV remote controls. Purses, wallets, identification also have been taken.

"He did a lot of damage," City Council Member Walt Dziedzic said Monday can't tell you what a great piece of police work this was," he said. Wif iff 'in Wellstone's advisers said the latest reports' reveal the senator's popularity and "momentum." But Boschwitz's campaign accused Wellstone of "phony populism" and declared that "the fund-raising gloves a6 Staff Photos by Charles Bjorgen Early-morning commuters boarded a bus at the new Burnsville transit station, about a block east of Interstate Hwy. 35W on Hwy. 13. The station's parking lot can hold 600 cars.

The fare from Burnsville to downtown Minneapolis is $1.65. Commuters like indoor waiting area i 1 MINNEAPOLIS BLOOMINGTON Minnesota A ffl ,2 miles, LgggJ By Laurie Blake StaffWriter The new Burnsville transit station opened Monday to approving customers who said they liked its 600 free parking spots and indoor waiting area. "It will be wonderful," said Kelly Baron of Burnsville, who regularly takes the bus to downtown Minneapolis. "There's a lot more parking, and we can stand inside when the off." Campaign manager Jon Lerner said Bosch-. witz's self-imposed limit of $200 per.ccn tributor will be dropped because WellstJmJ has refused to accept a challenge to do the same.

Lerner said he believes that Boschwitz might have been able to stay competitive even if he had stuck to the lower limit. And Lerner said Boschwitz is pleased to have raised $360,000, five times as much as any of about a half-dozen IR hopefuls. "But we don't want to guess," Lerner said. Boschwitz, effective immediately, will accept the legal limit of up to $2,000 from contributors and $10,000 from political action committees (PACs). Lerner estimated that Wellstone may raise as much as $5 million.

But Wellstone said he has declined to follow suit with a lower limit, a key element in his campaign reform proposals, because other 1 Republican opponents are not doing so, Boschwitz is not considered a shoo-in for party endorsement or nomination. Wellstone also has noted that state and national party leaders already have begun -an aggressive, well-funded and negative media campaign to discredit him. And his campaign manager, Jeff Blodgett, predicted that Wellstone will be outspent by whomev- Campaign continued on page 2B i 1 1 1 1 Passengers waited outside the new Burnsville transit station for a downtown-bound bus. A similar one is planned to open In Eden Prairie in about a year. Although passenger Darren Tauer of Savage shrugged off the station Monday as "just another place to get on the bus," when it's finished in about a year it will clearly not be just another place to catch a bus.

that commuter bus service has arrived in Burnsville. The $2.5 million station is a polished invitation to ride the bus. Its glass-enclosed waiting area has high ceilings, and its bus boarding area features brick-lined sidewalks and a canopy to shield riders from the elements. weather is bad," Baron said. "Now the best thing they could do is let us eat a bagel and drink coffee on the bus." Located at Hwy.

1 3 and Nicollet Av. S. just east of Interstate Hwy. 35W, the new transit station, built by the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, is a sure sign Station continued on page 2B Woman's several personas testify of doctor's abuse Road repair delays are over for drivers going eastbound through Crosstown Hwy. 62 to northbound Interstate Hwy, 35W, but the delays are just beginning for drivers southbound on I-35W and westbound on the Crosstown.

Motorists westbound on the Crosstown will not be able to continue the trip through the common section. And southbound traffic will be restricted to two lanes on weekdays and to One lane as needed on nights and weekends. The work will continue until about Sept. 1 Toward the end of August, the connection between northbound I-35W and westbound Crosstown will also be closed. Southbound I-35W Is reduced to two lanes during the week and one lane on nights and weekends.

Ramp from northbound I-35W to westbound Hwy. 62 will be closed In late August. News inside Buntrockcase begins Prosecutors began their case against a1V2-ho( tape-recorded statement in which he confessed that he had killed his mother May 4. Page5B. The columnists Jim Klobuchar Carl Pohlad likes invitations.

In fact, he's inviting us to keep his team in town for $300 million. Page3B. Doug Grow The symbolism of a half-dozen transients bringing cyber-technologytoahaltwas somehow sweet. Page 3B. C.J.

We're much less worried about what to call Symbolina lately: We hear he still signs important documents with his given name. Page3B. Speed the Dog ordered back to original owners By Randy Furst StaffWriter More than 16 months after Speed ran away from his Delano home, a Wright County district judge has ruled that the German shorthaired pointer must be returned. Speed, whose odyssey has been chronicled by local and national news media, must be returned to his original owners, Ben and Marty Coyle, Judge Gary Meyer ordered Monday. "I'm happy and elated," said Marty Coyle.

"I felt like this is the way it was going to go. It just took a long time a long time. Hopefully, it won't happen to another family." She and her husband planned to tell their children Kelly, 7, and Joshua, 9, Monday night. Speed was 1 lh years old when he ran away on March 14, 1994, and was captured by the city dogcatcher and taken to the Wright County Humane Society the follow-ingday. Dog continued on page 2B i l-35Wto Hwy.

121 Northbound northbound (Lyndale cor Hon) will be closed in lati Ramp from westbound Hwy. 62 to southbound I-35W 1 is closed. August. A 1' 1 By Margaret Zack StaffWriter Four-year-old Elizabeth and 10-year-old Ann considered Dr. William Routt their friend until, they say, the psychiatrist at Fairview Riverside Medical Center in Minneapolis sexually abused them.

Mary also considered Routt a friend. She says he was never "inappropriate" with her. What makes the girls' stories extraordinary is that they are among the multiple personalities of Sandra Slavik, who was Routt's patient for 18 months before his suicide in June 1991. Each persona has testified about Routt in a medical malpractice trial underway in Hennepin County District Court. The suit was brought against Routt's estate and his nurse, Kathy House.

Slavik's attorney, Sheila Engelmeier, said she believes this is only the second civil trial in the country in which different personalities of one individual have testified. Trial continued on page 6B Wr- Westbound Hwy. 62 detour 1 Star Tribune Graphic.