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November 14, 1995
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Utah Rep. Enid Green Waldholtz said Tuesday she is filing for divorce from her missing husband, Joseph Waldholtz.
The congresswoman made the announcement in a news release. "I trusted him. I was wrong," Waldholtz said of her husband. Waldholtz, a star of the GOP freshman class, reported to police Saturday that her husband was missing amid investigations of financial irregularities.
"I can't begin to describe the anger and hurt over the incredible level of deception that we have uncovered in our own investigation of Joe's activities," Waldholtz said in her statement. "I want this man tracked down, arrested and punished for what he has done to me, my family and the people of Utah."
Federal authorities are investigating the couple's personal and campaign finances after allegations that they bounced thousands of dollars of checks. According to an article in the November 1 edition of The Hill, a congressional newspaper, the couple admitted the checks bounced, but denied any illegal actions. They blamed "bookkeeping errors, misunderstandings, delayed wire transfers, stolen checks and a stolen credit card," the article said.
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (CNN) -- Some New Jersey car owners, whose automobiles were stolen in the past couple of years, are discovering that the culprits might be police officers.
New Jersey state investigators said Tuesday that they confiscated nearly 40 cars that Jersey City officers had collected from the city's impoundment lot, retitled and kept in the police department fleet or sold at auction. "It's something that has been going on for a number of years," said Lt. John Hannah of the state police. "As our investigation progresses, we will be able to identify individuals involved."
It was unclear how many people were involved and how many automobiles stolen. But investigators said that so far at least 113 automobiles, including late model, high-performance cars, sport utility vehicles and older, non-descript cars, were illegally obtained in the bizarre scam.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hooters of America, a national restaurant chain which uses attractive, scantily clad young women to draw customers, is stepping up its legal fight with the federal government.
Hooters claims that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is trying to force the restaurant chain to hire males for the positions now occupied by "Hooters Girls."
The EEOC says Hooter's refusal to hire men as "waiters, bartenders, or hosts" constitutes sex discrimination. Hooters insists its practices are lawful.
"Quite simply, the women and their all-American female sex appeal are what makes Hooters what it is," Hooters said in a statement issued Tuesday. The restaurant chain said hiring men would likely spell the end of its business and cost up to 13,000 employees their jobs.
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Two people were injured in a series of explosions at a plant in downtown Pittsburgh Tuesday.
The explosion at the Pittsburgh Flat Roll Company occurred around 9:30 a.m. EDT, according to Pittsburgh police. The industrial area surrounding the plant, about 2 miles east of downtown, was evacuated.
Officials said a mixture of caustic soda and water sparked the explosion and sent a chemical cloud into the air. Two workers suffered first- and second-degree burns.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said autopsy photos of assassinated President John F. Kennedy will not be released. It said the photos are private, presidential documents, not agency records.
The court upheld a lower court's rejection of a claim by D. Mark Katz that the refusal by the National Archives and Records Administration to release the photos was a violation of the Freedom of Information Act. The Kennedy family donated the slain president's autopsy photos and X-rays to the National Archives.
The court said that ownership and treatment of such photos by the Kennedy estate deemed them personal and, therefore, not agency records. The Freedom of Information Act says that "agency records" must be made available to the public unless they fall under a statutory exemption.
DAYTON, Ohio (CNN) -- A new Ohio law banning a rarely used late-term abortion procedure is on hold. A federal judge issued a 10-day temporary restraining order while he considers a challenge to the ban. The measure, which was to take effect on Tuesday, outlaws any abortion after the 24th week of pregnancy unless it is necessary to protect the health of the mother. In one form of late-term abortion, the skull of the fetus may be crushed before it is removed from the womb.
The challenge comes from two abortion providers who sued last month, claiming the law would violate their constitutional rights to privacy, liberty and due process. The U.S. Supreme Court allows states to ban late-term abortions except when needed to preserve a mother's life or health. On the federal level, the House passed a ban similar to Ohio's but the Senate this month put off a decision, voting instead to hold more hearings on the issue.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A 1,288-year-old lotus seed that was able to sprout may help solve world hunger and aging problems, U.S. scientists said. Their research, reported in the November issue of the American Journal of Botany, began in 1982, when the Beijing Institute of Botany in China shipped seven brown lotus seeds to Jane Shen-Miller, a plant physiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles. She was able to get one of the oval-shaped seeds, about the size of a large marble, to sprout into a green seedling.
Scientists said a combination of an anti-aging enzyme, a tough shell and burial in a dry lake bed, away from moisture and light, probably helped to make it the oldest seed ever germinated. The enzyme, found throughout nature, including in humans, could offer clues to plant and animal longevity and might be used to develop spoilage-resistant crops, the scientists said.
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