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The Daily Review, Morgan City, Wednesday, September 30, 1 938, Page 7 North Miami school shootings investigated U.N. police say S-iaiti village virtually gone 1 fMH- Detective Kathleen Ruggiero said two teen-age boys were being sought and one may be a former student. North Miami High has 3,400 students and several security guards. Security cameras are located throughout the school. At least one shot was fired in a hallway outside the cafeteria.

All three injuries were caused by a single bullet, which struck a female teacher in the hand, hit a female student in the upper thigh and grazed another female student in the neck. The teacher was treated at the scene. Both students were in stable condition at Parkway Hospital. Their names were not released. NORTH MIAMI, Fla.

(AP) -Police were searching for two boys accused of sneaking guns past security and opening fire inside a high school, wounding two students and a teacher. None of the injuries were serious. The shootings happened Tuesday in a hallway outside a cafeteria at North Miami Senior High School during lunch. "1 saw everybody running outside," said Virginia Mondelus, a 17-year-old senior. "I didn't believe it at first." Police were not sure who the intended victim was, but believe the shooting was in retaliation for a fight that took place outside the school Monday.

p. 1 1 I fc-j The water built up fast and strong, even moving rocks," he said after returning from the devastated town Tuesday. The day of the flooding was' a market day. Many merchants from nearby regions, unable to return home because of the rains, had bedded down along the streets. The La Croix Catholic church and the Nazarene Baptist Church were destroyed, as well as the town clinic, said Ouellette, who is in Haiti to help train and monitor Haiti's fledgling national police force.

In some places the flood cut a 35-feet-deep trench in the river bed, undermining the foundation of buildings, he said. For decades, poor peasants have been cutting down pine trees to make charcoal and supplement their meager income. Because the highlands surrounding Fonds Verrettes have no forest cover to absorb torrential rains, all the water came crashing into the town. THE LOCAL CHAMBER has received a Nicholls State University 50th anniversary commemorative poster for display. NSU President Donald Ayo, right, and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr.

Alice Pecoraro, left, of Morgan City made the presentation to East St. Mary Area Chamber of Commerce President Emile Babin. The occasion was a reception held at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium for local Nicholls supporters, graduates and students in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration. The social in Morgan City was the first of several to be held across the state. Copies of the poster are on sale through NSU.

cm coo centers buste health i Florida and found 17 were not providing appropriate psychiatric services and were admitting people not sick enough to be eligible for benefits. Fifteen of the Florida centers were kicked out, and this year inspections were expanded to include 700 more centers in the nine states that were generating the highest bills. The Medicare coverage has been welcomed by advocates for the mentally ill who complain that public spending for outpatient care had been insufficient. J1 A 1 1 I ill- I i it Please Vote help available 24 hours a day. Now Medicare wants lawmakers to review whether eligibility should be tightened and wants the authority to fine doctors who falsely approve ineligible patients.

A huge jump in bills from the centers tipped officials that something was wrong. Between 1993 and 1997, the average yearly cost per patient with the number of visits varying for each person skyrocketed from $1,642 a year to more than $10,000. Puzzled officials last year conducted inspections at 18 centers in Leroy JOHNSON ji Patterson City Council City YOUR VOTE SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! v. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -Floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Georges washed away much of a low-lying town in Haiti, killing at least 85 people, U.N. civilian police Baid.

Others were missing and feared dead. The discovery of more flood victims in Fonds Verrettes, 50 miles east of Port-au-Prince, the capital, pushed the nation's storm death toll from 87 to 147, the government said Tuesday. At least 40 others were missing in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Rains began falling in the town, which was built on a dry river bed, when George was pounding the neighboring Dominican Republic on Sept. 22.

Rising waters sliced through the streets that night, demolishing 100 houses and damaging 200 more, U.N. police instructor Hubert Ouellette said. "A lot of people were asleep in their homes, covered by darkness. WASHINGTON (AP) Another attempt to save Medicare money by substituting lower-priced community services for expensive institutional care has fallen prey to costly abuse. The national health insurance program for the elderly and disabled says it will bar 80 community mental health centers in nine states from service after investigators found patients watching TV or playing games instead of getting psychiatric help.

"The intention was that but for this intensive psychiatric therapy the beneficiaries would have to be committed to an institution," said Medicare administrator Nancy-Ann DeParle. "You walk into these places and people are playing bingo and eating lunch." Medicare has problems with abuse across the board. Government auditors estimate about 11 cents of every dollar spent by the program is wasted on error or fraud. But new benefits offered in the 1990s with the goal of saving money, as well as improving patients' quality of life, by keeping them out of hospitals and nursing homes, have proven particular vulnerable to profiteers. Last fall, after the Health and Human Services Department inspector general reported rampant abuse, the Clinton administration had to block any new home health care companies from joining Medicare for several months to pt the problem under control.

A similar report critical of community mental ELECT 56 LIPARI Patterson City Council Paid for by Gus Lipari i i Mental IS! 1,1 SJ TS TfJ All Gold (C LI I Paid for by Leroy Johnson BANK 1 ij- MJMLL health centers is expected from the inspector general next week. On Tuesday, Medicare sent letters to 20 community mental health centers in Florida, Texas and Louisiana, giving notice they no longer can participate. Letters will be sent to 60 more centers in a total of nine states also including Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and South Carolina in the next few months. The agency would not release the names of any centers until they had been notified. At some of the mental health centers, as many as 90 percent of patients do not have serious enough mental illnesses to qualify for the special care, DeParle said.

Those who do qualify are not getting the care they need and will be helped to find other places to go. "There are beneficiaries who use this service who need it and we want to make sure we work with those beneficiaries and their families to make sure they have other options," DeParle said. Congress in 1990 authorized Medicare to cover outpatient psychiatric care at community health, day treatment sessions and emergency Spill source undetermined SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A oil spill that threatens to destroy one of the largest breeding sites for marine life outside Alaska has killed at least nine birds. About 200 gallons of the oil slick had been sucked up Tuesday at the site 10 miles off San Francisco, said Dana Michaels, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Fish and Game. The Coast Guard resumed the cleanup effort this morning to protect The Farallon Islands, a nearby collection of barren rocks that are home to thousands of birds and sea lions.

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