Rodney King says cousin was driver in truck crash officers ended in acquittals and 2 I I DEPARTMENT OF CORONER wife. He said King "subsequently apologized for crazy driving." Di Maggio said the incident is under investigation. It could constitute a parole violation if King was driving, he said. The accident was the ftteslln a series of brushes with the lavrKlng has had since his March 3, 1991, beating by four white officers. King, who is black, was pulled over after a freeway pursuit, and the subsequent beating was videotaped by a bystander.
The videotape was televised around the world, and became for many a symbol of police brutality against black men. A state trial against four of the Abortion doctor slain in possible robbery Maureen Raymond, a mediator in the Los Angeles County Consumer Affairs Department, shows off a beach towel she bought from the Coroner's Office gift shop. Little shop of hprrors Los Angeles coroner's gift shop markets the morbid ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Rodney King said he wasn't at the wheel of a truck when it crashed into a wall, state parole officials said. The accident resulted in the videotaped beating victim's drunken-driving arrest. King told his parole officer one of his two cousins was driving the 1386 Chevrolet Blazer when it crashed near the Glam Slam nightclub, the Daily News reported Sunday.
No one was injured. The accident occurred early Saturday. Shortly before that, King had been denied entry to the Glam Slam, which is owned by musician Prince, because he was "extremely drunk," said club security guard Johann Sfaellos. Police said tests Indicated that King had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent, more than twice California's legal drunk-driving limit of 0.08. He was arrested for investigation of misdemeanor drunken driving and ordered to appear in traffic court Sept.
15. King is on parole for a robbery conviction, and Jerome Di Maggio, regional supervisor for the state, Department of Corrections, said King told his parole agent, Tim Fowler, that one of his two women cousins was driving the Blazer. Neither woman was arrested. Police Cmdr. David Gascon said witnesses told police King was driving the Blazer, which belongs to his Barlow man held on forged check charges WICKLJFFE, Ky.
A 19-year-old Barlow man was arrested on two counts of possession of a forged instrument Saturday. Richard K. Dykes was arrested following an investigation by Kentucky State Police Detective Tom Powell. Dykes allegedly tried to cash two stolen personal checks for $130 and $150 at the Citizen's State Bank in Wickliffe. The checks were stolen by another person, but police have not yet pressed charges.
Dykes was held at the Ballard County Jail. State police are continuing the investigation. ASSOCIATED PRESS OS ANGELES -The Los Angeles County I I Coroner's Office has its own little shop of horrors where it markets the morbid IJ from personalized toe tags to skeleton tote bags. There's even a beach towel with a chalk body outline. The gift shop called Skeletons in the Closet also sells T-shirts, coffee mugs and other morgue souvenirs.
Proceeds go to a program aimed at scaring youths out of drinking and driving. "Bodies and death are our business. We're just trying to take advantage of it," said Marilyn Lewis, the coroner's new marketing program coordinator. The $4 personalized toe tags, used to identify cadavers, are "the real things," she said. past year for a program that brings convicted 16- to 21-year-old drunken drivers to the morgue for a firsthand look at the deadly effects of roadway intoxication.
"It seems to have a very definite and real impact on people," said Chris Harvey, who oversees the tours. "They leave with their eyes wide open and a different outlook on life." Some have complained about the morbid merchandising, but Lewis said the focus isn't on the macabre, noting a mascot skeleton figure on tote bags, wearing a trench coat signifying the office's detective work and appropriately named Sherlock Bones. "We were just trying to be a little creative. You just have to have a sense of humor," she said. "We try not to get tacky." The marketing push has raised $15,000 over the sparked three days of deadly riot ing in Los Angeles.
A second trial on federal charges resulted in convictions against two of the officers, who were sentenced to Vk years in prison. On May 28, 1991, King was arrested and accused of trying to pick up a transvestite prostitute. On June 26, 1992, he was arrested after his wife told police she had been injured in a domestic dispute and feared for her life. Also last summer, he was arrested after his car hit a pole outside a restaurant. Authorities declined to pursue charges in any of those cases, citing lack of evidence.
Register that two shots were firedJ Then, he said, the gunman opened; the door of the Cadillac and took something from inside. Carpenter didn't know what was! taken. He said the slain doctor had; some cash on him when police arrivoA Man arrested on 6 charges after burglary MURRAY, Ky. A Calloway; County man was arrested Sunday; on numerous charges after neigh-', bors complained to the Kentucky; State Police. Bobby Stanfield 37, of 505'.
Vine was arrested after resi-; dents along a portion of Ky. 280, about four miles east of called police about a burglary in: process at a residence. Stanfield allegedly used a shotgun to break into the residence. When KSP officers and deputies from the Calloway County Sheriff's office arrived, they found Stanfield in the house and arrested him, police said. KSP officers charged him with first-degree burglary, first-degree sexual abuse, kidnapping and third-degree criminal mischief.
Upon further investigation, Calloway County authorities charged him with possession of marijuana less than eight ounces and possession of a stolen registration plate. Stanfield was held at the Calloway County Jail. The investigation will continue, police said. The victim, whose name was not released, was treated and released from the Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Investigating officers were Trooper Jay Geiger and Calloway Deputy Sheriff Roger Dawson.
OTB parlor opens to about 150 bettors ASSOCIATED PRESS MAYSVILLE Ky. Between 150 and 200 people showed up for opening day at an off-track betting parlor in this Ohio River city. Attendance on Saturday was well below capacity at the facility but close to the number expected, said Gene McLean, president of Kentucky Off-Track Betting Inc. Patrons wagered $36,841 on races simulcast from Ellis Park in Henderson, he said. Bettors at the previously opened off-track parlors in Jamestown and Corbin wagered an additional $90,496 on Saturday, McLean said.
Nearly 30 26-inch television sets were mounted on the walls of the smoking and non-smoking sections of the Maysville parlor, with a 52-inch TV in each section as well. No tickets match Powerball numbers ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa Nobody cracked the $6.5 million Powerball jackpot Saturday, pushing the prize to an estimated $8 million for the midweek drawing. Lottery officials said a player in Indiana won the game's $100,000 second prize by hitting the first five numbers. The numbers drawn SatT urday were 24, 26, 34, 37 and 42. The Powerball was 13.
Correction A story in Sunday's Paducah Sun incorrectly listed audition dates for Paducah Community College's ell. it i uicn.iv ojieaiia. Aiuuuuiia wiu be Sept. 27 and 28 at 7 p.m. in the PCC Fine Arts Theatre.
Associated Press Meeker said. Pat Rogers, vice president of operations for Players Riverboat Casino in Metropolis, 111., predicted increased public support once people hear that casinos will bring hotels and related development. "It's big resorts. It's Las Vegas," Rogers said. Players recently bought an option on Bluegrass Downs in Paducah in hopes of opening a casino there.
Opponents say they will have a hard time putting the brakes on casino gambling if momentum gets rolling. "I think it's pretty much a done deal," said the Rev. Wayne Smith, pastor of Southland Christian Church in Lexington, who fears casinos would bring organized crime and hurt the thoroughbred industry. Such concern for the horse industry didn't surface in the poll results. Among casino opponents, only 12 percent said their opposition was based on casinos taking money away from racetracks.
The most common reasons for opposing casino gambling were that it would bring organized crime to Kentucky, is immoral, wouldn't help the economy and could not be regulated by state government. House Speaker Joe Clarke and Senate President John "Eck" Rose said the poll results suggest the public is more favorably inclined toward casinos than the legislature. "I'm really surprised, quite frankly, the support is that strong," said Rose, D-Winchester. "Everybody in the legislature has been somewhat guarded on that issue. It's something that needs a lot of discussion before it's put on the ballot." Clarke said, "I don't think it's a burning issue out on the streets, not on the streets of Danville and Stanford, my neck of the woods.
It's a burning issue with the racetrack people and people on the borders who see riverboats draining off money." Toyota official set to address Rotary meeting MAYFIELD, Ky. A Toyota vice president will speak at today's Mayfield Rotary meeting. James M. Wiseman, vice president of public affairs for Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., will speak at noon today. A native of Milwaukee, Wiseman is a graduate of Vander-bilt University with a degree in English.
He served as president and chief executive officer of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce prior to the Toyota job. BY GARRY MITCHELL ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MOBILE, Ala. A doctor who performed abortions was shot to death when he confronted a man breaking into his car. Police said they didn't know if the killing was the result of a robbery or related to his work. Dr.
George Wayne Patterson was killed Saturday night when he returned to his 1993 Cadillac Eldorado in the city's nightclub district. No one was arrested. "We're not sure it was a robbery or what it was at this time," Allan Carpenter, a police investigator, said Sunday. The shooting happened in an area where "quite a few robberies" have occurred, Carpenter said. He said Police Chief Harold Johnson planned to discuss the investigation further at a news conference today.
Patterson, 44, had worked at Family Planning of Fort Walton Beach, and at a Mobile clinic. The Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal also reported that Patterson owned the Women's Medical Services Clinic in Pensacola, where Dr. David Gunn was killed last March. Anti-abortion activist Michael F. Griffin faces trial Sept.
20 for Gunn's murder. Saturday's shooting was witnessed by a local businessman, Tom Mason, who told The Mobile sophisticated science instruments ever put on a U.S. planetary spacecraft, Mars Observer also was supposed to help relay information from the Mars 94 Russian landing craft in 1995, and from a French exploration balloon and Russian robot rover during the Russian Mars 96 mission in 1997. Its launch last year also was worrisome. It was carried into Earth orbit aboard a Titan HI rocket, then was hurled toward Mars by a new Transfer Orbit Stage, or TOS, rocket.
But the TOS failed to signal that it had ignited, leaving engineers without word for more than an hour before Mars Observer signaled that it was safe. NASA's Magellan spacecraft lost touch with Earth repeatedly after it started orbiting Venus in August 1990, but engineers solved the problem and Magellan successfully completed its primary mission to map the Venusian landscape by making radar pictures. Mars Observer is the ninth U.S. spacecraft launched toward Mars and was to be the first American craft to reach the Red Planet since two Viking orbiters and their landers arrived in 1976. NASA earlier launched six Mariners toward Mars.
Two of them failed. Before its breakup, the Soviet Union sent at least 15 spacecraft toward Mars. Half of those missions failed completely. Ben Chandler doesn't have to take such pains, though he is also not averse to reminding people that he is the grandson of A.B. "Happy" Chandler, one of the towering fig' ures on the Kentucky political landscape for much of the 20th century.
There are countless other examples. In the legislature alone, there have been a handful of examples in the last decade or so: Helen Garrett and Patti Weaver in the Senate, Caroline White, Carolyn Kenton, Mae Hoover, Frances Brown and Robbie Castleman in the House. There's probably nothing inherently wrong with it. But it does beg the question does being someone's widow, widower, son, daughter, grandson, nephew, whatever, make you qualified to hold office. It probably doesn't.
But it doesn't hurt either. support for casinos was Tom Meeker, president of Churchill Downs, the Louisville track that soon will face competition from riverboat casinos across the Ohio River in Indiana. "Given the way it's been postured now, I was surprised it got that much support," to the home of Lucy and Sheldon Hackney she a longtime friend of Hillary Rodham Clinton, he the incoming chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. After a one-night respite from the party circuit on Sunday, Clinton was headed back to Graham's for another soiree on tonight, and rumored to be visiting Onassis perhaps on her yacht on Tuesday. Styron, one sought-after dinner guest, admitted he was skipping some events and predicted that even the most party-hearty would start to poop out soon.
"I think he'll spend the rest of the week relaxing," Styron said of Clinton. "He's wonderfully relaxed and he's having a great time." For those who haven't had luck snagging a dinner invitation or even catching up with Clinton on a street corner, all is not lost. There are other means of communication. A local radio station is running taped messages from townspeople. And cable TV is scrolling through written messages from all comers.
Given Clinton's penchant for channel-surfing, that just may hold the best promise for a response. "You want to come fishing with me and my father on Thursday?" wrote one hopeful islander. Commissioner Dr. Thomas Boysen, the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform and the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. But there's something very different about the education ambassadors.
Gholson said students talking to students about KERA may go a long way to reshape impressions about the massive changes. "It's important for students to understand what's happening, because there's more of an impact on them than anyone else," Gholson said. Students as well as educators are going to have to be patient with KERA, the teen-ager said. "It's as new to everyone else as it is to us," she said. "It's something that's going to be in place whether, we like it or not, so the best thing to do is to work with it to make it acceptable." The ambassador program is sponsored by the Governor's Scholars Alumni Association in conjunction with The Partnership for Kentucky School Reform.
CASINOS Continued from page 1 what he said will be favorable projections of casinos' economic benefits. Expressing some surprise at the CLINTON Continued from page 1 have been hobnobbing nightly with Clinton in the opening phase of his 11-day vacation. "There's a lot of jockeying among the rich and famous as to who's been invited and who hasn't and who do you talk to to get an invitation," said Peggy Eastman, political writer for the Cape Cod Times. "It is unusual to see this kind of hoopla." Just about every night brings a hew challenge: Thursday was the big Clinton birthday bash at the home of presidential adviser Vernon Jordan. Biggest name on the guest list: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
She caused a minor stir by leaving the island earlier Thursday, but was back in time for the inaugural event of the Clinton vacation. Friday night was the exclusive dinner thrown by Graham. Her spokeswoman discreetly refused to release the guest list, but big names that leaked out included Pulitizer Prize-winning author David McCullough, singer Carly Simon and former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. Saturday night, the party moved KERA Continued from page 1 Schempp, both of Calloway County High School; Elizabeth A. Carloss of Paducah Tilghman High School; Tiffany A.
Lloyd of Marshall County High School and Shane E. White of Lyon County High School. I The ambassadors will use their personal knowledge to discuss why and how the principles of KERA can work. Gholson said she got a bad impression of KERA because of how it was originally explained to her, but changed her mind about the massive reform movement after learning more about it during summer Governor's Scholars pro- "Thdpe to show that there are some very good rewards in the program and it can bring about tome very important goals if it is presented in the right way to teacher and students," she said. 1 There have been many cheerleaders of KERA during its three years, including Education MARS Continued from page 1 ruptured or failed to pressurize, worst-case scenarios that would send, the spacecraft hurtling uselessly past Mars.
The spacecraft, launched from Florida last Sept. 25, is programmed to automatically fire its thrusters and start orbiting Mars even if contact isn't re-established by Tuesday afternoon, assuming the propulsion system was properly pressurized. Mars Observer is supposed to go into a long elliptical orbit around the planet, then spend more than two months maneuvering into a near-polar circular orbit 234 miles above the Martian surface. Then, after a month of tests, it is to spend at least 687 Earth days one Martian year studying the geology, climate and weather of Mars while taking tens of thousands of pictures and other measurements. Engineers lost touch with Mars Observer several times during its 11-month, 450-million-mile cruise from Earth.
But in each instance, the spacecraft went into "safe" mode within hours and contact was restored. Engineers have said they believed they fixed the computer programming glitches that caused those incidents. In addition to carrying the most FAMILY Continued from page 1 years to win an elective office almost any elective office. His father, Drex Davis won them seemingly without really trying. In a slight twist recently, Linda Breathitt, the daughter of the former governor, has been appointed to a seat on the Public Service Commission a job her father once held.
There's another generational fork in the tree looming in 1995. Two of them, in fact. Bob Babbage, secretary of state and former state auditor, wants to be governor And he may run for it in 1995, or maybe not. At any rate, Babbage takes some pains to tell people that his grandfather was Keen Johnson, who was governor from 193943..
