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Negligence lawsuits have been filed against El Paso Natural Gas and its parent company, El Paso Energy, on behalf of all 12 victims. Glass panels shot at City Hall jrr- I 1 I i i Parents say they monitor Net use; teens don't think so By Anick Jesdanun Associated Press NEW YORK Ask the parents, and they'll say they check on their teen-age children's use of the Internet. Ask the teens, and they'll say, "No way." The perception gap was revealed in a survey released Wednesday. The Pew Internet and American Life Project also found that the Internet helps youths ages 12 to 17 improve relationships with friends, but not with family. Sixty-one percent of parents say they restrict when and for how long their children may use the Internet, and the same percentage report checking what Web sites their children visit.

But only 37 percent of the youths report having any online restrictions, and, only 27 percent believe they were checked on. And while more than two-thirds of parents say they have sat down with their children while they were online, fewer than half" of the youths recall their parents doing so. Parry Aftab, a New York lawyer who specializes in child Internet safety, said the Pew findings suggest that parental messages aren't getting through. "Parents know they are supposed to be talking to their kids, but sitting down and talking about it is said Aftab, who was not involved in the study. "Parents tend to drop it into the middle of a conversation and take credit for it." So while parents may think they've gotten through, she said, youths dismiss it as more nagging about what to do.

She suggested that parents should not use any discomfort with technology as an excuse to avoid a heart-to-heart talk about online dangers, including strangers and pornography. The study was based on telephone interviews with 754 Internet users ages 12 to 17 and with one of their parents or guardians. The sur- vey was conducted be- tween Nov. 2 and Dec. 15 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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Channel 4 is no longer for sale, KDBC General Manager Don Caparis said Wednesday. "We are not going Spanish," he said. "We thought it was time to move on." Sources at KXTX-TV in Dallas told the Dallas Morning News that negotiations between Pappas and station owners Tom Hicks' Southwest Sports Group Inc. had broken down because of the United States' soft advertising market. The Dallas station was to be the flagship for a proposed Hispanic network.

They were camping near a fishing hole in southern Eddy County Aug. 19 when a natural-gas line ruptured. The settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by Jennifer Smith required the door by the woman, who was breathing heavily, and you could tell she was disturbed," Cannon said. "At that time she said to the officer, 'I killed my Cannon said the officer was led to a bedroom.

Found under a sheet on a bed were Mary, 6 months, and three of her brothers, Luke, Paul, and John, 5. The fifth child, Noah, 7, was in the bathtub. i i 2M filed on behalf of four other pipeline victims, Carlsbad lawyer Dick Blenden said. Those settlements are confidential. Seven lawsuits are pending.

Under the agreement, Jennifer Smith, 46, will re- IT to remain with CBS Pappas planned to drop KDBC's 41-year affiliation with CBS and convert the station to Spanish-language programming. "Dallas was going to be the hub of the Aztec America network," Caparis said. "So if that deal is dead and from all the people I have talked to, it is indeed a dead deal then Pappas is back to square one, with not having a station in Dallas, which is a huge Hispanic market." Pat Castillo, a longtime East Side viewer, welcomed the news that KDBC will remain a CBS affiliate. "They have a very good newscast," Castillo said. "I've been watching Channel 4 for years.

It would be a waste of talent if they had to let them go." Harry Pappas, the owner of Pappas Telecasting and the CEO of Aztec America, has. been negotiating with KDBC for almost two years. Please see Channel 4 2A FBI draws scrutiny of Senate, Ashcroft By Jesse J. Holland Associated Press WASHINGTON Senators called for an outside investigation of the FBI on Wednesday after a series of embarrassments in such high-profile cases as the Oklahoma City bombing, the Hanssen spy arrest and Ruby Ridge and Waco raids. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the Justice Department will conduct its own inquiry.

"Unfortunately, the image of the FBI in the minds of FBI agent too many arrested 3A Americans is that this agency has become unmanageable, unaccountable and unreliable," said Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, who is conducting a series of hearings on cleaning up the FBI. Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Charles Schumer, want the Senate to pass a bill authorizing outside experts to look at the agency. Ashcroft said his committee would be made up of top Justice Department officials and the heads of the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The committee will "identify and recommend actions dedicated to improving and upgrading the performance of the FBI," Ashcroft said in a memo.

A string of missteps and what critics called a cover-up-the-mistakes mentality at the FBI have put pressure on Congress to take action. In the latest bungle, more than 4,000 FBI documents were withheld from lawyers for Timothy McVeigh, forcing Ashcroft to delay his execution. Other controversies, such as the arrest of veteran FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen in February for allegedly spying for Moscow, have dogged the FBI recently. And Wednesday, the FBI announced an agent was arrested and charged with selling classified files to organized crime figures and others under investigation. Former Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich said, "If there is any unifying theme to these failures, it appears to be a failure of basic supervision, management and oversight." Ruben R.

Ramirez El Paso Times Mike Reza of Texas Glass and Mirror applied duct tape to one of by shots thought to be from a pellet gun. Replacing the panels is ex-between seven and 11 window panels at City Hall that were cracked pected to cost about $15,000. Story, IB. 5 children slain; mom is arrested By Mark Babineck Associated Press HOUSTON A woman called police to her home Wednesday and showed a stunned officer the bodies of her five young children, all apparently drowned in the bathtub. "I killed my children," she told authorities before she was arrested.

The 36-year-old woman was said to be on medication for depression after the birth of her fourth child two years ago. Social services officials also said she had attempted suicide two years ago. The woman, identified as Andrea Pia Yates, was charged late Wednesday with multiple counts of capital murder, police spokesman John Cannon said. He said Yates was taken to the county jail. "It's difficult to deal with when you are talking about five little kids who were David J.

Phillip Associated Press Rosaura Godoy, from left, her sister-in-law Jasmin Badillo and another woman watched Wednesday as police investigated the slaying of five children across the street from Godoy's home in Houston. killed, probably systematically," Cannon said. Autopsies will be performed to determine the cause of death, but police said they believe the children were drowned. Their mother was wet when she answered the door at the home in a middle-class neighborhood of southeastern Houston. "When our responding officer arrived, he was met at.