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A-8 TUESDAY, December 3, 1996 Norti i County Times Two die training in Navy accident Clues point to creators demise Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. A Navy plane practicing touch-and-go maneuvers crashed near a runway Monday, and a witness said the engine was making all kinds of noise before the accident. Both crew members were killed. The single-engine, turboprop T-34 went down about 300 yards from a runway at Maxwell Air Force Base during clear weather, base officials said. It was conducting a training exercise in which the plane touches down briefly on the runway and takes off again, Capt.

Robert Gonzalez said. An Air Force civilian engineer, Joe Madison, said the plane was about 100 feet above the runway when its loud engine noise attracted his attention. Associated Press Workers dress up Manhattan building Salvis parents say prison officials lying Workers from Cardone improvements construct a giant Christmas ornament display outside an office building Monday in midtown Manhattan, N.Y. The or Couple gets 2 years naments, bolted floating on water building is filled. more, five to 10 years, said Dwight Miller, who now is 10.

What they did to me was wrong. The Mimses could have received up to 10 years for aggravated assault and battery. They were acquitted Nov. 22 on another charge, second-degree lynching, the states term for mob violence. They could be eligible for parole in six to eight months, t- BOSTON (AP) The family of John C.

Salvi HI called Monday for an independent probe into the abortion clinic attackers death in prison, saying prison officials lied when they said they had no warnings he was suicidal. They called for independent state and federal investigations into Salvis prison cell death, which state officials ruled an apparent suicide. Were not looking for anything, any monetary gain, said Salvis father, John C. Salvi II. What were looking for is to see that this doesnt happen to some- law I Compiled by ROMAN S.

KOENIG jail terms for car chase, crash Associated Press MANNING, S.C. A white couple who tied a 9-year-old black boy to a tree and fired a shotgun past his face received a two-year prison sentence Monday. The boy and his parents said they Betty Mims thought the sentence handed to Benjamin and Betty Mims was too lenient. I think they should have had Germans given POTSDAM, Germany (AP) Two Germans were found guilty Monday and sentenced to prison for causing a car crash that left a black British man partially paralyzed. The Brandenburg state court said Mario Poetter, 24, and Sandro Ristau, 18, had been motivat Teen must pay San Francisco Examiner SAN FRANCISCO He was a normal 15-year-old kid, with all the usual teen-age sexual passions.

She was his neighbor a 34-year-old mom, later convicted of statutory rape for engaging him It was spitting and sputtering and making all lands of noise. It sounded like the engine wasnt right. It turned on its side, banked to the right and the nose, went down, Madison said. It ended up with its front end crumpled on an abandoned taxi strip overgrown with grass. The plane had come from the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, 150 miles southwest of Montgomery.

The two victims names were not immediately released. It was the third military crash in 1 12 weeks. On Nov. 22, an Air Force Reserve IIC-130 transport crashed into the ocean off California, killing 10 people; pne man survived. On Nov.

27, a National Guard F-16D fighter crashed in southern Ohio; both crew members parachuted to safety. one else, to some other family. Salvi, 24, was convicted of first-degree murder for the killings of two women who were working at two abortion clinics in Brookline. Five other people were wounded. He was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.

During his trial, Salvis lawyers acknowledged he committed the crimes, but said he was driven by insane urges. They said he saw himself as a warrior fighting an anti-Catholic conspiracy led by the Mafia, Freemasons and the Ku Klux Klan. childs father, according to a police news release that described Pippins as several months pregnant. Suspect in shooting faces arraignment SAN JOSE A judge on Monday set a Jan. 21 trial date for Robert Gremminger, who is accused of killing a shoplifting suspect fleeing from a security guard at a shopping mall.

Gremminger, free on $1 million bail, pleaded innocent to the Oct. 24 slaying during a brief hearing in Santa Clara County Superior Court. If convicted of the second-degree murder charge, he could be sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Extradition waived for teen in slayings BATON ROUGE, La. A young Kentucky woman accused with four other teenagers of murder as part of blood-sucking vampire cult waived her right Monday to an extradition hearing.

Dana Cooper, 19, agreed to be returned to Lake County, to face murder charges in the beating deaths of a couple. Entire family survives crash LONG POND, Pa. (AP) In pouring rain and icy cold, rescuers scoured the Pocono Mountains, searching through the night for a small plane that disappeared after the pilot said he was low on fuel. Rescuers returned in daylight and found the couple and children in the wreckage, where they had been huddling under a blanket for 16 hours. Gary Knapp, a 13-year veteran pilot for Continental Airlines, was at the controls of the tiny Cherokee Archer.

His wife, Marie, and their daughters, 5-year-old Annie and 2-year-old Isa, filled the other three seats. Associated Press LONDON It was a riddle worthy of the murder mystery board game Clue. But this time it was not Professor Plum in the parlor with a revolver. Waddingtons Games, which owns Clue, recently tried to track down inventor Anthony Pratt to help celebrate the games 50th anniversary, but struck out. It eventually offered a reward and set up a special phone line which brought the information that the former law clerk died two years ago, at age 90, in virtual obscurity.

We had hoped to find Anthony Pratt alive and well, but we had no idea how old he might be, as the formal agreement ended with him many years ago, a Waddingtons spokesman said. We understand that his wife is also dead and that the couple were childless. However, we are keeping our fingers crossed for a family member to come forward and accept a posthumous award. The company last heard from Pratt 10 years ago. Gillian Lewis, superintendent of the Bromsgrove Municipal Cemetery near Birmingham, central England, called Waddingtons to say Pratt was buried there in April 1994.

Waddingtons at first hoped it may be another Pratt, but accepted the inevitable when Lewis confirmed that the marble headstone bears the inscription Inventor of Cluedo, the British name of the game. British media said he died in a Birmingham hospital but did not give the cause of death. Las Vegas Strip hotel shuts down LAS VEGAS (AP) Another Las Vegas Strip hotel is just a memory following the closing of the venerable Hacienda HoteL Doors to the resort on the south end of the Strip were closed Sunday, and with it four decades of hosting gamblers and guests also came to a close. The Hacienda will have one last big farewell, though, as Circus Circus Enterprises plans to implode the highrise in a New Years Eve spectacle. Circus Circus is razing the hotel to make room for an $800 million casino and entertainment attraction.

Coconut-oil spill backs up traffic SACRAMENTO (AP) A twin-tank truck loaded with 8,000 gallons of coconut oil crashed through a guardrail at a crucial freeway intersection Monday, creating a greasy mess that snarled downtown traffic. The accident occurred at east-bound Capitol City Freeway and northbound Capitol City Freeway. WEIRD Wire Servile Bachelor finally finds a mate HERMAN, Minn. Minnesotas best-known bachelor is no longer. No longer a bachelor, that is.

Dan Ellison, 38, whose complaints about the lack of women in this small town made international headlines, has gotten himself hitched. The bride is Gwen Fredrick- JL onto steel plates, will appear to be when the reflecting pool outside the in assault prosecutors estimated. Dwight said the Mimses tied him to a tree, beat him and fired a shotgun at him Jan. 5 after accusing him of stealing from a truck. The boy, who lives across the road in the rural New Zion community, said he had come over to play with the couples 9-year-old son and 13-year-old niece, but that the children also turned on him.

tree. The driver, Noel Martin, 37, was paralyzed from the waist down and the two passengers were slightly injured. The court sentenced Poetter to eight years in prison and Ristau to five years, three months more than prosecutors had demanded for each. to 34-year-old is responsible for paying child support for the baby born of the illegal union. County and state authorities, rather than the mother, have pursued the case, seeking compensation for welfare payments the infant girl has been receiving since her birth in January 1995.

100 evacuated after gas leak DELHI (AP) More than 100 people were evacuated from several blocks of homes in the Delhi area early Monday because of a natural gas leak, Merced County Sheriffs Office reported. The evacuation was ordered after a deputy smelled the leak in a six-inch line about 3:15 a.m. An evacuation center was set up at Schendel School. I I A Motorist tries to run ofrfer meter man SAN FRANCISCO A motorist bent on revenge nearly ran over a meter man who had just issued him a $25 parking ticket, police said. As of Monday afternoon, authorities had not found the man who sped off with two other passengers toward Golden Gate Park after the attack.

The suspect had just been cited for parking on the sidewalk Sunday night when he drove around the neighborhood and then returned to ram his Oldsmobile Cutlass into the enclosed motorized cart, police said. Police arrest man in shooting deaths HAYWARD A Berkeley man has been arrested for investigation of murdering a woman and her 6-month-old son, both found shot to death in a car in a Safeway parking lot, police said Monday. Michael M. Singh, 21, will be arraigned Tuesday in the slaying of Rhoshina Gezell Pippins, 21, of San Leandro and her baby, Michael Rashaad Glass. Singh is believed to be the I Cowlings expected to testify ed by dimwitted hostility to foreigners in the June 16 incident in the eastern German town of Mahlow.

Prosecutors said the two shouted racial abuse at three British construction workers and began a car chase that ended when the Britons car flipped over and hit a child support in a romantic tryst that resulted in her getting pregnant. However, in a case that turns the term deadbeat dad squarely on its ear, a California appeals court ruled Nov. 6 that the young man from San Luis Obispo, identified only as Nathaniel J. in court records, will contradict statements Simpson made in his testimony last month. The witnesses, including Robert Kardashian, Skip Taft, Paula Barbieri and several of Simpsons former golf buddies, are expected to testify for only a few minutes each, addressing limited parts of Simpsons testimony of Nov.

22 and Nov. 25-26, plaintiff sources said Monday. Chinese mine blast kills 91 BEIJING (AP) A gas explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi province has killed at least 91 miners, a provincial official said today. The explosion occurred on Wednesday, and 91 bodies have been recovered, government spokesman Ni Yuan said. It was not known how many miners were in the mine, and a search for other victims was continuing, he said.

The delay was caused by the remoteness of the site and difficulties in communications. The explosion occurred at the Dongcun mine. SANTA MONICA (AP) O.J. Simpsons longtime friend A1 Cowlings was expected to testify as early as today, as the plaintiffs seek to wrap up their part of the wrongful-death trial by weeks end. Cowlings, who was at the wheel of the Ford Bronco during the infamous slowspeed chase, is among many people close to Simpson to be called by the plaintiffs in hopes they NEWS Report son, 32, who paid $265 at a July 1994 bachelor auction to have lunch with Ellison.

The two got engaged last December and tied the knot on Saturday. Ellison appeared on national television and in newspapers worldwide 2 12 years ago, pleading for more women in Herman, pop. 500. At the time, bachelors outnumbered single women by about 8-1 in this town 150 miles west of Minneapolis. 1 Associated Press The twisted plane In which the Knapp family crashed Saturday remains Monday In the forest near Long Pond, Pa..