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A popular Harlem priest
accused of sexually abusing two minors twenty years ago will not be indicted
because the statute of limitations has expired, prosecutors announced on
Monday, as reported by the New York Daily News.
The accusations against Rev. Monsignor Wallace Harris of St.
Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church on 141st Street were made known during
Sunday Mass at Harlem’s Church, where he has been pastor since 1989 and date
from the late 1980s.
The statute of limitations in New York on such crimes
is five years from the time the minor turns 18. Nevertheless,...
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A death row inmate due to be executed on October 14 claims
he’s too fat to be put to death, asserting that it would be very difficult for
executioners to find his veins and that his weight could reduce the efficiency
of one of the lethal injection drugs, as reported by the Associated Press.
Lawyers for the inmate, Richard Wade Cooey II, contend in a
federal lawsuit that their client, who is 5-feet-7 tall and weighs 267 pounds,
had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been
aggravated even more by weight gain.
Furthermore, the lawsuit, filed on...
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A bus crash that took place early Friday in northern Texas claimed at least 12 deaths, according
to a police spokesman cited by CNN.
The charter bus was going north on U.S. 75 when it ran off the highway
overpass and crashed onto its side on a roadway below at about 12.45 a.m. CT,
said Lt. Robert Fair, spokesman for the Sherman Police Department in Sherman,
Texas, as reported by the same source.
The bus was traveling from Houston to a
certain destination in Missouri with 55 people
onboard when the accident occurred approximately 60 miles north of Dallas. Furthermore,
ambulances...
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Columnist Robert D. Novak announced his immediate retirement from his professional career following a dim prognosis in his battle against a brain tumor. The 77-year-old conservative Sun-Times political commentator received the bad news from doctors last week that had brain tumor. Shortly after the diagnosis, he was admitted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for treatment. At the time of his hospital admittance, Novak had announced in a statement that he was "suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not too lengthy period." He was rushed to the...
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Authorities in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas executed a Mexican national murderer despite the fact that the case stirred international protests. Inmate Jose Ernesto Medellin was executed after being convicted of raping and murdering two Texas girls 15 years ago. Authorities carried out the execution Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a reprieve after a 5-4 vote. The inmate’s attorneys said that their client was denied assistance from the Mexican consulate after he was detained. According to the 1963 Vienna Convention, Medellin had that right. However,...
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