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An autopsy performed Feb. 1 1 showed no evidence of trauma. York County Coroner Barry Bloss is still waiting for toxicology reports. He speculated the death was drug-related. Cumberland County Assistant District Attorney David Freed, said the investigation is still continuing in his jurisdiction.

The men's formal arraignment is schedule for April 24 in York County Common Pleas Court. dragged down the embankment, he said. Her blue jeans with the belt still buckled were pulled down to the top of her thighs and her underwear was torn. Gross said he then spoke to Greenfield and Rollins, who were brought to the scene by Lower Allen Township police. Both originally gave Gross what he termed "an unbelievable story," but then changed it.

Greenfield said Ms. Smith arrived at his house with a friend Feb. 9, and she was "messed up," Gross testified. Greenfield then told the detective that Ms. Smith fell asleep on the floor and when he got up the next morning she was snoring loudly.

He then went to work. After work, he went to Rollins' residence and eventually went to Greenfield's house, where they found Ms. Smith dead on the floor, Gross said. The two decided to move the body to creek bank, near where Greenfield used to have picnics, Gross said. The detective testified Rollins gave a similar story except he said Greenfield told him Ms.

Smith "really looked bad and might be dead" when he left for work. embankment overlooking the Yellow Breeches Creek in Fairview Township, York County. Abuse of a corpse is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum penalty of two years in jail. Police say Rollins and Greenfield called Cumberland County 911 to report they had found the body along the waterway. Det.

Scott Gross of the Fairview Township police testified Tuesday he went to Juniper Drive in the Green Lane Farms development, where he found the body. Feb. 11. Investigation showed the body had been Sentinel Reporter i Two Cumberland County men accused of dumping a woman's body along a stream bank will stand trial in York County on charges of abuse of a corpse and may face additional charges in Cumberland. Robert Rollins, 23, of Trindle Road, Mechanicsburg, and Michael J.

Greenfield, 21, of 600 N. Third Wormleysburg, are accused of moving the body of Angela C. Smith, 18, in the early morning hours of Feb. 11 from Greenfield's house to an pote sooks anoiheir tosil By Tracy Stellino Sentinel Reporter But prior to the start of Spotz's Cumberland trial, Andrews said Cumberland County District Attorney Skip Ebert linked the cases in a motion asking to introduce evidence from the other three murder trials, including the one in which Spotz was con 4y 't! i Convicted cross-state murderer Mark Spotz wants a new trial or penalty phase hearing in a Cumberland County murder. victed of manslaughter in the death of his brother, Dustin.

"I suggest the Commonwealth wants to have its cake and eat it, too," Andrews said, arguing they "bused Mr. Spotz around for show trials." He pointed out it was not until the end of the second day of testimony in this county's trial that evidence was introduced of Ms. Amstutz's killing. The other evidence should not have been allowed, the appeal says. Spotz, now 27, killed his older brother, Dustin Spotz, after a fight over a gerbil on Jan.

31, 1995, at the family's home near Grampian. He then fled across the state on a killing spree leaving three women dead one each in Schuylkill, York and Cumberland counties. He received a death sentence for each woman's murder. In the Cumberland County murder, Spotz abducted and killed Sister Betty Amstutz, 70, a Spotz Michael Bupplhe Sentinel The Great Bear track snakes through other Hersheypark rides. Hershey ill Andrews also argued Tuesday that Spotz should not have been tried in Cumberland County because he already had been prosecuted in the other cases.

He added Spotz filed a motion to that effect at the time. "It's unfair to ask Mr. Spotz to run this gauntlet," he said. Chief Deputy District Attorney Jaime Keating said case law does not support Spotz having one trial for killing three women in three different counties. Some of Andrews' other points for appeal are: Hoffer should not have denied the defense's motion to suppress identification testimony from a bank teller, cashier at a sporting goods store and two other individuals.

mi ii Minimum mi iii.ihiwih imn See Spotz, A4 Lutheran deaconess from Harrisburg. He dumped her body along a North Middleton Township Road on Feb. 2, 1 995. In arguments before Cumberland County President Judge George Hoffer Tuesday, Spotz's counsel, Cumberland County Public Defender Taylor Andrews, said the strongest reason for the appeal is that the murder cases of the three women should have been joined in one trial. "It was all part of the same criminal episode," he said.

Andrews said he filed a pre-trial motion asking the cases be joined along with the public defenders who assisted Spotz in the other counties. Judges in all three counties denied the motion. "The argument at the time was this couldn't be done," Andrews said. New coaster takes shape i ay By Paul Sims Sentinel Reporter J- Cardinal: Clinton wrong to receive communion Vi "4 "4" Sl-S. 1 M.

1 The Great Bear belying the lumbering animal's reputation will rocket along at speeds up 60 miles per hour. Hersheypark's new, $13 million roller coaster will zip riders through twists, turns and flips starting May 23 as it becomes the sixth ride of its kind at the Dauphin County theme park located about 10 miles east of Harrisburg. Amusement park officials allowed media a look on Tuesday at ongoing work on the roller coaster that will publicly debut about two weeks after the park's May 9 opening for its 92nd season. Crews are still working on surrounding pavilions and fitting seats in place on one of the rides two trains. The Great Bear features a 124-foot helix drop, a 100-foot loop, an immelman, a 360-degree barrel roll, an turn, a 360-degree flat roll and another S-turn.

Named for the seven-star constellation, Ursa Major, this newest ride takes up about five acres at the 1 10-acre park and interacts with other rides including the sooperdooperLooper roller coaster and the Coal Cracker water flume ride. The Great Bear's two trains hold up to 32 passengers each for 175 seconds in which riders will at least once be completely upside down I don't believe he did it intentionally." Clinton, accompanied by his wife, Hillary, and black leader Jesse Jackson, attended the service Sunday at the Regina Mundi Catholic church in the township of Soweto. The New York Post ran a photograph of Clinton receiving the host, prompting some 50 calls to the archdiocese Monday and Tuesday, the cardinal said. "The priest knew beforehand that the president was coming," the cardinal said. "I don't know why he made that judgment.

He could have warned the party. He said in a statement that I read that he didn't want to embarrass the president." The White House had no immediate PHILADELPHIA (AP) President Clinton should not have received communion during a Mass in South Africa, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua said at a press conference. Clinton probably did not realize that he is barred from receiving the Holy Eucharist, which Catholics consider the actual body of Christ, Bevilacqua said Tuesday. Except for extreme circumstances, non-Catholics are not allowed to receive communion in a Catholic church. The President, Bevilacqua said, did not meet the five conditions for an exception.

"I don't believe there was malice on anyone's part. I believe it was in good faith," Bevilacqua said. "I believe he did something unlawful, but --'-iifiiiirmi Workers install seats, which are suspended under the coaster's track. See Great Bear, A4 Researchers say office mugs dangerous ylT Cooler, breezy lT -Details on A8 Business B5 Classifieds C8-10 Comics B6-7 Community News B8 Food Dl-3 LifeTimes D4 Lottery A2 For The Record B2-3 Opinion B4 Sports CI -4 Television B7 then to petri dishes. They tested the liquid squeezed from sponges and rags.

The leading culprits are sponges and rags. "We're finding that those things are pretty unsanitary," rife with coliform bacteria, Gerba said. "In our study, about 40 percent of the cups had coliforms in them," he said. Gerba said cups with lids were particularly effective bacterial breeding areas occasionally for E. coli.

Escherichia coli is the name of a common family of teria, most of which do not cause human disease. One strain, E. coli lives in the intestines of cattle and can cause bloody diarrhea in humans who eat contaminated meat products. Young children and the elderly are most susceptible to the illness, which in severe form can develop a life-threatening liver complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome. About 20 percent of the sponges tested showed E.

coli. "And we wiped the cups and found we could transfer the E. coli," Gerba said. Gerba said he also examined coffee cups at TV and radio stations around the country and got similar results. He found E.

coli and coliform bacteria in mugs at radio stations in Detroit and California. "They probably had the grodiest coffee cups I've ever seen," he said. TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Here's a real jolt for coffee drinkers: Researchers say there's a good chance that mugs kept at the office are crawling with countless critters, some harmless and some not. Tiny troublemakers including scary stuff like E.

coli are having population booms because people don't carefully wash out their cups or disinfect sinks and preparation areas in most offices. "Ewwww! That's yucky!" said Gabriella Rico, a spokeswoman at the Pima County Juvenile Court Center, who identified herself as a coffee drinker. After learning about tests conducted by Charles Gerba and Ralph Meer of the University of Arizona, she had a change of heart. "I take that back," Rico said. "I'm not a coffee drinker any more." In the Tucson city manager's office, secretary Diane Vil-legas, another coffee drinker, said Monday she knew about the study.

"Let's put it this way: this morning I used a paper cup," she said. Gerba and Meer tested dishes, sinks, cups, dishrags, sponges, counters and spoons in at least a dozen offices in Tucson two years ago, publishing results in a journal on dairy food and sanitation. They tested from three to 12 cups per office, transferring samples taken with cotton swabs to a liquid medium and V0 MlM'tVA Bill SmithThe Sentinel Hi! SO 0005 newsprint Office mug belongs to a newsroom staffer, who provided it on the condition of anonymity. PSaiilM'feQi -mmm (by teb tea?.