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The authorities said they planned to ask at a hearing today that low bail be set for a 19-year-old Trenton woman who is accused of fatally stabbing her former boyfriend.
After three weeks of standing before the jury as his own lawyer, Reginald McFadden, a paroled killer from Pennsylvania who is charged with raping a 55-year-old South Nyack woman, finally got the chance he had been waiting for today. Mr. McFadden walked with confidence to the witness stand, faced the jury in the Rockland County Courthouse, and in a methodical, sometimes unflappable manner, testified that he had nothing to do with the brutal five-hour attack. He was home, he said, meditating and renouncing the world, a part of his routine as a believer in Islam, which he has since rejected.
In an extraordinary act of contrition, ABC News publicly apologized last night for asserting in a news program that two giant tobacco companies add extra nicotine to their cigarettes. In joint statements, Capital Cities/ ABC, Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds said ABC agreed to apologize for a report on its program "Day One" that said Philip Morris and Reynolds controlled and manipulated nicotine levels to addict smokers.
Borough President Guy V. Molinari yesterday named Jerry Cammarata, a conservative local school board member and speech therapist, as Staten Island's representative to the central Board of Education -- just in time to weigh in on the selection of a new schools chancellor. Mr. Cammarata, 48, is expected to be part of the conservative bloc of four on the board on social issues like the H.I.V.-AIDS curriculum and the multicultural curriculum.
A melee between about 100 police officers and hundreds of parishioners broke out Sunday night at a Pentecostal church in South Jamaica, Queens, injuring 34 people and prompting the Mayor and the Police Commissioner to order an investigation into how the police handled the clash. By the time the standoff ended, about 4:30 A.M. yesterday, 7 people had been arrested on charges including rioting and obstructing justice, and 28 churchgoers and 6 police officers had been hurt, some by pepper spray and others after being struck by objects, possibly police batons.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1995, covering August 22, 1995.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Hootie & The Blowfish
Selena
Raekwon Guest Starring Tony Starks (Ghost Face Killer)
TLC
1995Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter[†]
Dua Lipa is an English and Albanian singer, songwriter and actress. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards.
1995Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager (born 1919)[†]
John Joseph Carey was an Irish professional footballer and manager. As a player, Carey spent most of his career at Manchester United, where he was team captain from 1946 until he retired as a player in 1953. He was also a dual internationalist, playing for and captaining both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI. In 1947 he also captained a Europe XI which played a Great Britain XI at Hampden Park. In 1949 he was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year and in the same year captained the FAI XI that defeated England 2–0 at Goodison Park, becoming the first non-UK team to beat England at home. Carey was also the first non-UK player and the first Irishman to captain a winning team in both an FA Cup Final and the First Division. Like his contemporary Con Martin, Carey was an extremely versatile footballer and played in nine different positions throughout his career. He even played in goal for United on one occasion.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]