September 05, 2003
A Fairfield woman pleaded guilty in Batavia Municipal Court to two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. Tiffany Peterson, 28, was driving drunk when she caused a June 12 automobile wreck on Interstate 275 in Clermont County that killed Kathleen Rocklin. Rocklin, 21, of Milford, was pregnant at the time of the crash. Because Rocklin's fetus was not able to be saved, prosecutors decided to charge Peterson with two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. Peterson pleaded guilty to both counts Thursday morning and issued a tearful apology in court.
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09:38 AM
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Police said there have been no credible threats Thursday against abortion providers in Florida, a day after the state executed a former minister who killed an abortion doctor and a clinic bodyguard. A Gainesville clinic received a false bomb threat Wednesday, the day Paul Hill was executed for the 1994 shotgun slayings of a doctor and a bodyguard outside a Pensacola abortion clinic. Two police cars and two uniformed officers were stationed outside the All Women's Health Center in Gainesville, where the false bomb threat was called in, and other clinics were also guarded. Officers said there have been no incidents.
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09:37 AM
BLUEFIELD - Local reaction was mixed to the execution of Paul Hill, a former minister who confessed to murdering an abortion doctor and his bodyguard, and who died by lethal injection Wednesday night in Florida. Hill, 49, was condemned to death for the July 29, 1994, slayings of Dr. John Bayard Britton and his bodyguard, retired Air Force Lt. Col. James Herman Barrett, outside the Ladies Center in Pensacola, Fla. Hill said in an interview the day before his death that he would be forgiven by God for killing Britton to protect the unborn. Not all Four Seasons Country residents agreed with that statement.
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09:36 AM
Health clinics that provide abortions in West Virginia are still waiting for the state to provide information to help them follow an informed consent law that went into effect in May. State progress on implementing the law has been delayed by the amount of research and work needed to develop accurate, comprehensive materials, said Pat Moss, director of the state Department of Health and Human Resources' Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health. (Read:
Christians Murdering Babies)
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09:33 AM
NEW ORLEANS -- The question of whether abortion is a medical necessity that requires authorities to allow abortions for jail inmates was at the core of arguments presented before a three-judge federal appeals panel Wednesday morning. The case stems from a former Houma woman’s claim that medical workers at the Terrebonne Parish jail violated her civil rights by not agreeing to her wish during 1999 jail stay on a probation violation charge. Attorneys for the woman -- identified in court papers only as "Victoria W." -- were supplied by the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York.
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09:31 AM
Denver, Colorado - Labor Day weekend was a busy one for Keith Mason and the Survivors. The Survivors are a group of young people born after 1973 who believe that they have survived the holocaust of abortion and feel compelled to speak out in defense of the unborn.
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09:31 AM
A 31-year-old man has been charged with murdering three of his children at Woodridge, south of Brisbane. In a bedside court hearing at Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital, Fa'afua Lameko has been charged with murdering two girls and a boy aged between four months and five years, who died on Wednesday after being stabbed in a Woodridge unit.
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09:26 AM
CLARION - A pre-trial hearing will be held this month in Clarion County Court in the homicide case involving a former Clarion University student. Judge James Arner has scheduled the omnibus pre-trial hearing for 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17. Defendant Karen Mako, 20, of Darlington, Beaver County, is accused in the death of her newborn son last October on campus. Trial has been tentatively scheduled for November.
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09:25 AM
Owners of specialty license plates can now renew them after a federal judge softened his earlier ruling on a license plate involving abortion issues. U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. of Houma ruled in July that the state's system of awarding specialty plates is a breach of free-speech rights.
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09:24 AM
CLINTON, Ill. - The boyfriend of a woman whose three young children drowned when their car plunged into a lake has been charged with driving under the influence, authorities said Thursday. Authorities are still investigating and have not determined whether the plunge was an accident, or even why the car was next to the lake, Sheriff Roger Massey said. The couple were not launching or retrieving a boat, authorities said.
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09:23 AM
More than a dozen protesters gathered Wednesday at Martin Luther King Plaza in downtown Pensacola in the minutes leading up to Paul Hill's execution. They were neither Hill supporters nor abortion opponents.
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07:29 AM