February 16, 1996
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ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Investigators said Friday they have found no evidence of tampering at the site of a train wreck in Minnesota and that suspicions of sabotage may have been premature.
Six locomotives and 44 cars derailed Wednesday when a runaway freight train rammed into parked locomotives. Nine rail yard workers were injured.
Investigators said damage initially thought to indicate sabotage was likely caused by the accident itself.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will answer questions about the White House travel office firings in writing and under oath.
The House committee on government reform and oversight has formally requested answers to 26 questions by the end of the month.
The inquiries will not be made public until after the committee receives the responses. The committee is investigating Mrs. Clinton's possible role in the controversial firing of seven travel office employees on May 19, 1993.
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (CNN) -- A Tennessee man who spent seven and a half years in a coma-like state was doing better Friday after a life-saving operation.
Although Gary Dockery was able to breathe on his own and his vital signs were encouraging, doctors said he still had a long way to go.
The former police officer suddenly started talking Monday after years of being unable to speak. On Thursday, he underwent surgery to drain fluid from his lungs.
Dockery had been unable to communicate coherently since he was shot in the head in 1988 when he responded to a phony emergency call.
DEDHAM, Massachusetts (CNN) -- The first police officer who responded to a shooting at an abortion clinic testified Friday that a security guard was in shock when she arrived.
The lawyer for John C. Salvi III has conceded that his client killed two women and wounded five when he went on a shooting spree at two Brookline abortion clinics in 1994, but says Salvi was insane.
The security guard has identified Salvi as the man responsible for the shootings.
Officer Judith Hobin, testifying at Salvi's trial Friday, also said she recalled giving the defendant a parking ticket at another clinic months earlier.
WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- President Clinton brought words of encouragement and promises of more money to flood victims in Wilkes-Barre Friday.
He toured the hard-hit town with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge and Sen. Arlen Specter.
Ridge had initially accused the president of being slow to respond to the tragedy, which forced 100,000 people to evacuate from their homes.
Clinton repeated a pledge Friday to provide $10 million in additional aid to the state.
Clinton spent the previous two days in the Pacific Northwest, inspecting damage from last week's floods in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
RICHMOND, Texas (Reuter) -- A violent marital dispute between Minnesota Vikings quarterback Warren Moon and his wife ended in a high-speed car chase through their neighborhood, a witness said Friday in Moon's trial on wife-beating charges.
Karen Seliger told a jury she saw the Moons -- Warren in his black Lexus, wife Felicia in her white Lexus -- racing through the plush Houston suburb of Missouri City at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour July 18.
Seliger, who was driving to work when she saw the incident, said Moon's car was almost nudging Felicia's as they raced along streets lined with homes and stores. She said Moon appeared to be trying to get in front of his wife.
WASHINGTON (Reuter) -- Data on the U.S. murder rate, drug use and other crime statistics are now available on the Internet , the Justice Department said Friday.
The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said it had established a home page at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/. Information available through the Internet site includes crime rates and reports on such subjects as violence against women, capital punishment, drugs and crime, guns used in crimes and prison populations.
The data go back through the mid-1970s and will be updated frequently, BJS Director Jan Chaiken said in a statement. "The Internet is the most efficient way we can make our information accessible to those who need it instantly," Chaiken said.
LUMBERTON, North Carolina (Reuter) -- The prosecution rested its case Friday against the man accused of killing basketball star Michael Jordan's father.
During the final prosecution session, detective Kim Heffney gave testimony against Lord Danielle As Saddiz Al Amin Sallam U'allah, 21, who is accused of shooting dead James Jordan, 56, after a botched armed robbery attempt July 23, 1993.
Heffney gave details of unrecorded testimony he received from Larry Demery, a friend of U'allah's who has confessed to a role in the killing.
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