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Millions in federal housing funds could be held up and much of the work at the state's troubled housing agency disrupted if a board member indicted on federal charges doesn't resign, legislators were warned Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/21/hci.hud/index.html
The Detroit Public Lighting Department pulled the plug on parts of the city Tuesday, stalling People Mover cars, halting high-rise elevators, cutting classes and court hearings short and turning major intersections into traffic free-for-alls.
http://cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/15/det.power.outage/index.html
Detectives say nobody missed Ruth Emily Weibel until her sickly 70-year-old husband thought he was facing death and decided to confess to her 1995 slaying.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/20/hci,oldmurder/index.html
Indiana's governor wanted a temporary gas tax reprieve for drivers - and got it practically with a finger snap. Illinois Gov. George Ryan wants to do the same but won't have nearly as easy a time.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/06/29/ahd.gastax/index.html
Soaring prices at the gas pump and soaring tempers among motorists have turned fuel prices into a high-octane political issue.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/22/isn.gas/index.html
Nearly half of Connecticut senior citizens in Medicare HMOs and more than 711,000 nationally will be forced to find other health insurance for next year as Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and other companies Thursday announced massive withdrawals from the troubled business.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/northeast/06/30/har.medicare.hmos/index.html
American General Corp. has agreed to pay $206 million to end nationwide investigations and class-action lawsuits accusing the company of discriminating against African-Americans and taking advantage of poor people by overcharging them for life
insurance.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/22/hci.insurance.settlement/index.html
It's the offspring of Kathy and Leo Falkensammer who are taking Las Vegas-based Prestige Travel to the next level, into the Internet travel industry that's predicted to reach $29 billion in sales by 2003.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/20/rjo.travel.internet/index.html
A relentless heat wave, which is being blamed for one death, left tens of thousands without power Wednesday, buckled freeway lanes, sent dozens of fans for medical help at Pac Bell Park and left the Bay Area with a heat-induced hangover.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/16/hot.california.heatwave/index.html
The same technology used to measure the hand movements of Yo-Yo Ma could prevent a child from being killed by an air bag.
http://cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/06/15/ahd.airbag/index.html
Meet the Class of 2000.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/16/det.grads.jobs/index.html
Feeling heat from an angry public and frustrated Tarrant County commissioners, JPS Health Network officials announced plans yesterday that they say will ease prescription backlogs that have plagued the network for weeks.
http://cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/15/ftw.prescription.backlog/index.html
Slamming prosecutors for ``misconduct'' in the case, a federal judge yesterday ordered a new trial for convicted ex-Boston cop Kenneth Conley.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/northeast/06/29/boh.conley.newtrial/index.html
Swimming or fishing in some Keys canals could be hazardous to your health: A study by a former University of South Florida researcher, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, shows at least one Keys canal contains live infectious viruses linked to human waste.
http://cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southeast/06/14/mia.keys.water/index.html
Though long overdue, Sunday's dedication of a Korean War monument at the Houston National Cemetery was, at very least, timely.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/26/hci.korean.vets/index.html
Parents whose children are born at Lake Forest Hospital have a new way to show everyone pictures of their babies to loved ones - the World Wide Web.
http://cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/06/15/ahd.virtual.newborns/index.html
Investigators said yesterday they're closing in on Molly Ann Bish's possible kidnapper and believe he is a man seen lurking in the parking lot of Comins Pond the day the popular teen vanished without a trace.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/northeast/06/30/boh.lifeguard.abduction/index.html
The stage manager called for quiet, the boom mike hovered over his famous pate and Gov. Jesse Ventura laid out a secret plan to capture the presidency in four years.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/06/16/pio.ventura/index.html
The U.S Supreme Court decision permitting the Boy Scouts of America to limit the participation of gays came as a relief to local Scouting officials, though the issue has never surfaced publicly here.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/29/hci.scouts/index.html
Students file into Mike Haworth's classroom, where an aide has already placed an orange folder full of schoolwork on each desk. Every folder is labeled with the teen's name and a reminder not to sketch graffiti on it.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/27/rec.juvie/index.html
As more than 200 searchers combed the woods here yesterday for a missing teenager, investigators said the chances of finding the young lifeguard alive are decreasing with each passing hour.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/northeast/06/29/boh.missing.child/index.html
Chez Madonna has a buyer.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southeast/06/29/mia.madonna.house/index.html
A federal investigator has concluded sufficient evidence exists to support the allegations of a former State Bar of Nevada employee, who claims he was fired in 1998 because he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/21/rjo.aids.discrimination/index.html
When former North Korean leader Kim II Sung died in 1994, Chung-Lim Sin's in-laws were forced to mourn with the rest of the country in a lavish,
state-sponsored funeral.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/20/ven.koreans/index.html
Sick of managed care and the medical malpractice climate, longtime Akron obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Ted Robertson walked away from his practice two years ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/26/akr.doctors/index.html
Mayor Street met yesterday with representatives of the Phillies and the Eagles and laid out the city's proposal for financing new stadiums, a plan that would rely in part on charging fans for construction costs, according to people familiar with the talks.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/northeast/06/16/phl.stadiums/index.html
The Miami-Dade County Commission may vote this week on whether to create an authority to run Miami International Airport -- a decision that business and political leaders say could shape the region's economic future.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southeast/06/19/mia.airport/index.html
Dozens of Miami-Dade Community College students say they feel like victims of ``bait and switch'' after the school hiked fees for its fledgling physician assistant program from $3,000 to $18,000 less than a month before classes started last year.
http://cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southeast/06/13/mia.students.feehike/index.html
The Gary Matson-Winfield Mowder murders shoved Redding into the national consciousness as yet another bastion of bigotry.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/28/rec.pride/index.html
It's a war lost in the shadows of World War II and Vietnam.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/26/rec.korea/index.html
The Federal Trade Commission, responding to high gas prices in the Midwest, has begun a preliminary probe into whether major oil refiners engaged in price fixing or other anti-competitive practices.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/16/dtn.gas.gouging/index.html
Part carnival, part hardware display, military air shows have had a number of fatal accidents in recent years, including Sunday's F-14 jet crash that killed two airmen near the Willow Grove Naval Air Station. Nevertheless, a Navy spokesman said yesterday, the popular aerial demonstrations will not be halted.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/northeast/06/20/phl.airshows/index.html
In one of the most significant expansions of the state's DNA database, Minnesota next month will begin taking genetic samples from people convicted of a range of crimes from murder to burglary.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/06/27/pio.dna.database/index.html
Five years of planning and study climaxed Wednesday when Mint Museum of Art trustees voted to move from the Eastover neighborhood to uptown Charlotte. The historic decision could take the state's oldest art museum from the site it has occupied for 64 years to the city's heart.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southeast/06/16/cha.museum/index.html
Alfred Valenzuela got ready for headaches when an adult tooth began poking through his 10-year-old daughter Krystal's gum line. But on Wednesday, the Valenzuelas got a break.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/15/bca.mobile.dental/index.html
A registered sex offender managed a Shelter Inc. house for young adult mental health clients for more than two years, says a Superior Court suit filed against him and the agency's leaders.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/20/hot.molester/index.html
Molson Inc. put the storied Montreal Canadiens up for sale yesterday, saying the team needs the deeper pockets of a committed new owner if it is to win a 25th Stanley Cup in an era of megasalaries and hyper-marketing.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/06/29/tgm.canadiens/index.html
MotorCity Casino, which has been doing $872,000 a day in business, is optimistic it can ultimately catch up to more established MGM Grand Detroit Casino.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/16/dtn.casino/index.html
At night the names of the Medal of Honor winners etched in glass glow softly in a blue-green light with the city skyline as a backdrop.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/19/isn.medal.of.honor/index.html
Central Louisiana is getting a new television station this summer, UPN, which will broadcast on Channel 36 from Pineville.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/23/alx.new.tv.station/index.html
North Texas school districts say they will abide by the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision banning student-led prayers at football games, but some school officials and students say they don't like it.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/20/ftw.schoolprayer/index.html
Charlie Sauer has come up with an antidote to the Homer Simpson Syndrome.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/26/hci.nuke.blood/index.html
Hoosier motorists will get a break at the pump beginning July 1 after Gov. Frank O'Bannon on Tuesday invoked a never-before-used emergency energy law to suspend Indiana's 5 percent sales tax on gasoline.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/eastcentral/06/21/isn.gastax/index.html
An investigator in El Paso -- not Texas Ranger Sgt. Drew Carter -- was the first to link two murder cases to Angel Maturino Resendiz, turning several routine murder investigations into a successful, nationwide hunt for a serial killer who now sits on death row.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/30/hci.railroad.killer/index.html
A group of oil companies looking for ways to cut costs thinks it found a way to profit from electricity rather than paying for it.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/22/bca.electricity/index.html
It was a day that will live, if not in infamy, at least in legend.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/26/azc.arizona.heat.record/index.html
Phoenix, its plans blocked by one stubborn businessman, is considering several ways to maintain the momentum of downtown renewal, including building its own hotel.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/southwest/06/26/azc.phoenix.downtown/index.html
At first glance, the proposal to make San Jose the first city in the nation to guarantee health insurance for all children sounds like an impossible ideal.
http://cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/13/mer.kids.insurance/index.html
The hate mail began piling up around here in 1998, a year after the arrival of Max R. Riley, a burly West Coast native who blew in as a new superintendent of schools on a mission to shake up an entrenched community.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/northeast/06/26/har.schools.chief/index.html
Angered by a surprise inspection, the owner of a small San Leandro sausage factory fatally ``ambushed'' three inspectors, fired shots as he chased a fourth down city streets and then returned to his business and pumped more bullets into the slumped bodies, police said one day after the unprecedented attack.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/pacific/06/23/mer.factory.murders/index.html
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