N.M. girl shot in head by boy during lunch break at school
SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) -- A 12-year-old girl was in critical condition after a male student shot her in the head in a lunchtime crowd in a school in southwestern New Mexico Friday, officials said.The girl was shot during the lunch break in a lobby area of the Deming Middle School in the city of Deming, school district spokesman Corey Butler said. No one else was hurt, he added.
The motive for the shooting was not yet known, Butler said.
The violence in Deming, a city of about 16,000 people about 30 miles north of the Mexican border, follows a string of student rampages across the United States, including the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado in April.
Florida regents back proposal to end affirmative action
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- After hours of debate and protests from students and black leaders Friday, Florida's Board of Regents endorsed Gov. Jeb Bush's plan to end affirmative action in admissions at the state's 10 public universities.
"Right now, we have a lot of questions," said Cornelius Minor II, a Florida A&M student who urged regents to delay action. "I urge you to search for solutions that are good for Florida and good for the students."
The endorsement allows system Chancellor Adam Herbert to draft proposals to implement Bush's plan in advance of a vote by regents in December.
Former Teamster official found guilty in fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Former Teamster political director William Hamilton Jr. was found guilty on all counts Friday in a widely watched case involving the 1996 re-election campaign of then-Teamster president Ron Carey and officials from the Democratic National Committee.
A Manhattan federal court jury found Hamilton, 57, guilty on six counts of conspiracy, embezzlement of funds, mail fraud, wire fraud and perjury after less than two days of deliberation following a monthlong trial.
Woman who claimed affair with Clinton sues 2 ex-aides
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Gennifer Flowers, whose claim of an affair with Bill Clinton nearly derailed his 1992 presidential bid, is suing two of the president's former aides for slander.
Flowers is seeking at least $75,000 in damages from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Las Vegas, where Flowers moved last year in hopes of enhancing a singing career.
The suit claims Carville slandered her when he said on CNN's "Larry King Live" last year that a tape produced by Flowers regarding an alleged affair with Clinton was "doctored."
The lawsuit also claims Stephanopoulos made a similar statement during an appearance on "Larry King Live" and said a story Flowers gave to the tabloid newspaper Star was not true.
Photographer of Truman and others dies at age 93
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- Horst P. Horst, a photographer of the fashionable and the famous, including Harry Truman, Marlene Dietrich and Maria Callas, has died at 93.
Horst, who died on Thursday, worked until 1991, photographing subjects as diverse as Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau and Andy Warhol, as well as settings like the Iranian desert and interiors of Irish castles.
He preferred to work in a studio, where lighting could be manipulated to glamorize his subjects.
He was born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in Germany and formally dropped his surname in 1943, after he became an American citizen, because he did not want to be confused with Nazi henchman Martin Bormann. He legally changed his name to Horst P. Horst.
Tripp to get pretrial hearing before wiretapping trial
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) -- Linda Tripp won her bid Friday for a pretrial hearing in her wiretapping case amid questions about whether prosecutors obtained evidence from statements she had given under immunity from prosecution.
Judge Diane Leasure said Friday that Tripp is entitled to the hearing before her trial starts, rather than after it ends, as state prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli had requested.
"This investigation is saturated with testimony from the independent counsel's investigation," Tripp lawyer Joseph Murtha told the judge. The defense hopes to get the charges dismissed during the pretrial hearing.
Green light for Walt Disney to use logo for Go Network
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. has a green light from a federal appeals court to use its traffic-signal logo for the Go Network.
A federal judge had issued an injunction against Disney at the request of GoTo.com, a Pasadena company that operates an online search engine.
But on Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction and let Disney use the logo while it appeals appeal Hatter's ruling. The appeals court gave no explanation for its decision.
Color of hat fits the crime for wayward N. Mexicans
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Get convicted of domestic violence, wear a blue hat. Drive drunk, end up in a pink one. Shoplift, and you get green. Fail to clean up after your dog, put on a brown hat while you pick up droppings.
Municipal Judge Frances Gallegos is requiring people convicted of various offenses and sentenced to community service to wear colored hats to let other people know what they have done.
The judge has required the pink and green hats for some time but now has decided to add blue and brown to her line.
"There isn't a single high school kid or even a grade school kid in this town that doesn't know what the pink hat is all about," Gallegos said.