News Briefs
April 9, 1996
Web posted at: 11:15 p.m. EDT
Officer tape-records police beating
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A California Highway Patrol officer tape-recorded a police beating of suspected illegal immigrants last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
According to the paper, the deputies on the audiotape ordered the suspects on the ground but did not give any commands in Spanish until after striking the man and woman.
Sgt. Ernie Garcia, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department public information officer, confirmed with CNN that an audiotape recorded by Officer Marco DeGennero has been handed over to investigators.
Garcia would not comment on the contents of the recording.
The L.A. Times reported that minutes after the beating incident DeGennaro allegedly told a supervisor that the deputies "were whaling on those guys."
- $10 million lawsuit filed in beating of Mexicans
- Deputies suspended after caught beating suspected illegal immigrants
- Deputies videotaped beating suspected illegal immigrants
Still ticking, Thurmond will run again
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond -- the oldest person ever to serve in the U.S. Senate at 93 -- announced Monday he will run yet again, saying he has unfinished business to settle in Washington.
Thurmond, who was first elected to his seat in 1954, said he considered retirement but likes work much better. Plus, he said he sees the Republican takeover of Congress as a means for conservatives like him to initiate change.
If he is re-elected and serves the full six-year term, Thurmond would be the longest-serving senator in history.
British-born cows marked for slaughter in N.Y.
ALBANY, New York (CNN) -- Thirteen cows imported from Britain to upstate New York farms will be slaughtered by state officials in fear that they may carry the "mad cow disease."
State and federal agriculture officials said there is no indication the cattle have the disease, but for the sake of safety the cattle will be slaughtered Wednesday under the supervision of the state veterinarian.
Farmers will be compensated about $8,000 per animal. All 13 New York cattle lived in Britain before 1989, when Britain banned feeding cattle offal, or animal parts. It is believed the disease is spread by eating certain parts from infected animals.
"Mad cow disease" causes sponge-like holes in the animal's brain and is almost always fatal. Last month, British health officials said the disease may be linked to a similar condition in humans, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- Britain's meat mess - April 4
- Britain struggles to get past crisis in confidence - March 29
On with the snow: Northeast gets an encore
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Residents of the Northeast pulled out their winter jackets once again Tuesday as yet another snowstorm covered the area.
A snow advisory reached from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts as forecasters predicted snow accumulations ranging from two to eight inches, according to Mike Wooldridge of the National Weather Service.
Snow began falling in Maryland and Pennsylvania Tuesday morning. It moved into the New York area in the early afternoon, and was expected to reach Boston and north before tapering off Wednesday morning.
The storm is the 25th snowstorm of the record-breaking season to hit the New York metropolitan area. More than 70 inches of snow has been dumped on the region this year.
- Snow slaps Northeast again - March 8
- Roofs collapse because of snow, ice - Jan. 13
- Snow storm dumps on Northeast - Dec. 20
Baby bald eagles getting special treatment
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- It was no Easter egg that cracked open at California's Avian Conservation Center on Sunday. It was a baby bald eagle that emerged from the shell. A second hatched Monday.
Workers at the conservation center are using a puppet that looks like an adult bald eagle so that the little ones will readily adapt to being adopted by a grown bald eagle in a few weeks.
The adopted birds will spend their first few months with their new parents on Santa Catalina Island. The eaglets will reach full size in about three months.
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