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Show Wednesday, December 27, 1995 The Daily Herald liiofs crocodile visits the beach 9-fo- ot MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) crocodile that ambled out of the ocean onto trendy South Beach ended up setting a ride in the back seat of a car back to a A ot ".conservation area 40 miles away. A trapper says it was lucky for I the tourists who found the croc Tuesday and poked at it with sticks that the normally aggressive reptile was groggy from the chilly weather. Temperatures were in the mid-50- s. ' "That kept him pretty passive," said Todd Hardwick, the trapper who rounded up the errant croc. "If it had been August, he would have been all over the beach knocking people down with his tail." ; ' Hardwick, summoned by state .game officials, said that when he ;got to the beach he found the 250-t- p d croc "surrounded by tpeople who were poking sticks at ;him." "He snapped at them a couple of times. These guys use their tails to knock something down and sweep it toward their mouth, and they are very fast." 300-poun- Explosion leaves 3 children dead An AGUANGA, Calif. ( AP) mobile a explosion ripped through home that investigators suspect doubled as a drug lab, killing three 'children and burning their mother ;and two other people. I The mother, Kathy James, fled son the area with her 'before officials arrived, Sheriff's Department spokesman Mark Lohman said. A friend took her to the hospital where she was listed rn critical condition today. It was not immediately clear where the boy was taken. A neighbor said the boy was burned on his back. ; The intense fire gutted James' mobile home Tuesday afternoon in this rural area 60 miles northeast of San Diego. The children who Idied were ages l , 2 and 3, Lohman 'said. Two men visiting the trailer ; tyere burned but managed to drive to" a hospital, authorities said. One was treated and released, the other was listed in serious condition -- -- ; -- Volunteer gains fame for plowing sidewalks A prWASHINGTON (AP) medithe research group says ivate an medical malpractice jury award in the United States jumped 40 ; percent this year, to $500,000. - The increase from a median award of $356,000 in 1994 'marked a return to l99.Vs record-isettin- g half million dollar levels, Research Inc. said in Verdict Jury a report released Tuesday. The number of $l million jury awards also increased, the group said, with 35 percent hitting seven digits in 1995 compared to 27 percent in 1994. Jury Verdict Research is a division of LRP Publications, which publishes newsletters for the legal profession. ; The Physician Insurers Association of America, responding to ;the report, said 70 percent of .'claims filed against doctors never Result in any "payment to people Iwho file medical malpractice lawsuits. Police: Son killed father, ate brain A INDIANAPOLIS (AP) death father to his man stabbed with a Swiss Army knife, dismembered the body and ate part of the brain in an attempt to free what he believed were evil spirits, police ;said. ; : Joseph Garner, 37. was charged j,ith murder and was being held '.for psychiatric evaluation. ' He told police that he stabbed ; :Paul Garner, 76, in the back Tuesday morning with a knife he had .given his father for Christmas. '"He said that he was trying to free spirits that were living inside his father's body. He could hear them, the evil spirits, calling to be 'released and so he did that by cutting his father open." Marion County Sheriff's Department spokesman Scott Minier said Tuesday. Garner told police he took a ;shower after the killing and went to free spirits from a neighbor's "body, too. But the neitiilwr did not -- answer the door. i f A LANGHORNE, Pa. (AP) restaurant that attempted to organize a Christmas dinner for needy people was plagued by a shortage of needy people. "I sat down this morning and cried," said Carol Saunders, a volunteer who tried to round up poor families to enjoy the program planned at the Red Robin Grill. The dinner's organizers were left with food for 200. unopened gifts of toys for children and the unhappy task of figuring out what By TRUDY TYNAN SPRINGFIELD. -- i. . . 1 Mass. Snow piled up for a month on the sidewalks of the bridge linking Springfield and West Springfield across the Connecticut River. Neither city nor town would plow the span. The state balked, too. So Richard Sorcinelli fired up his vehicle and plowed the bridge himself. Now d politicians on both sides of the river are trying to work out a compromise on just whose responsibility it is to clear the pedestrian paths on Memorial Bridge. Sorcinelli, it seems, has plowed his way into the hearts of their constituents. "He took over where we L ;i ' ' : J i IL J l ...J in went wrong. "I got it all backward," said assistant kitchen manager Mike Lerro. "I figured getting the big corporations to give me the food would be the hard part, not finding people to eat it." The restaurant employees were looking for a way to help the poor last fall when Lerro came up with the idea: Feed local orphans on Christmas Day in the restaurant's relaxed surroundings, and have Santa show up and give the kids toys. rh red-face- failed," said Patrick Hourihan, chairman of West Springfield's selectmen. "I don't know him, but I would like to shake his hand. ... Mr. Sorcinelli started looking for without any luck. There are no orphanages in Bucks County, the generally prosperous county near Philadelphia where Lerro orphans gave a gift to us all." Somewhat stunned, Sorcinelli says his phone hasn't stopped ringing since he tackled the snow drifts last week. Scores of grateful walkers and drivers his answering have jammed machine with messages of thanks and praise. Some even suggested he run for office. "People say you can't change the world, but it's amazing what this has produced," Sorcinelli said Tuesday. The painting and wallpapering contractor, who lives in West Springfield, said he became increasingly upset at seeing pedestrians struggle through the sidewalk drifts or skitter on the' icy edges of the traffic lanes. More than 26 inches of snow has fallen AP Photo over-the-kn- Richard Sorcinelli of West Springfield, Mass., clears snow off the sidewalks of the Memorial Bridge over the Connecticut River Thursday. Sorcinelli took matters into his own hands when he saw the sidewalks had not been cleared and phone calls to officials proved futile. Then Sorcinelli took matters in and the bureauhis own hands cratic ice melted. West Springfield's Hourihan said he was meeting with his highway officials to discuss working out an arrangement with Springfield to keep the bridge sidewalks clear. "We don't need an international treaty." said Springfield Mayor-eleMichael Albano. "Let's just get the job done." in the city this month. When Sorcinelli called city and town hall to ask why the sidewalks had not been plowed on the busy four-lan- e bridge, officials in Springfield, West Springfield and at the state Highway Department maintained that it wasn't their job. The city and town pointed out it was a state bridge. The state said the municipalities were responsible for the . ct sidewalks. Flat tax proposals gaining steam he and House Speaker Newt Gingrich created. Dole aides said. Until now. Dole has avoided backing any particular scheme. While expected to stop short of advocating a pure flat tax, it will call for a "flatter, fairer" tax. according to Kemp, a former New York congressman who was hous- - Candidates utilizing idea in campaigns By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Flat, flatter, flattest. Those are the kinds of taxes that Republican presidential candidates are proposing for the nation. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown was generally ridiculed by other candidates when he proposed a "flat tax" during the 1992 Democratic primaries. But this year, Republicans have latched onto the old concept and are making it their own. Under a flat tax, all households would be taxed at the same fixed rate beyond a minimum income level. There would be no or few deductions. Steve Forbes, the wealthy publishing executive, has even made the flat tax his campaign center- ul Forbes said halfway ing secretary in the Bush administration. Participants said :he panel was likely to propose no more than two down from the current tax rates and to propose five brackets doing away with many deductions and credits, although not those for home mortgages and charitable passes front-runne- which fairer for putting us room. The only is by scrapping By turned to Saunders, who runs ing Our Neighbors, a service for the needy. - A saliva WASHINGTON test that could be used to confirm infection by the AIDS virus is nearing approval by the Food and Drug Administration, a biotechnology firm says. Epitope Inc. said in a statement Tuesday that it had received an FDA letter calling the firm's application to market an HIV test using oral fluids "approvable." An FDA spokesman declined to verify that a letter had been sent to Epitope, but explained that in the normal process of agency action, such a letter was "tantamount to approval, provided the company meets the requests contained in the approvable letter." 27TH Annual Winter PEES ! 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Many economists like the notion of a flat tax for its simplicity, but suggest many plans offered by candidates are not well thought out. r, liniittanon l ' 5 She found that many pcibr families had already planned to Va; Christmas dinner at the Jocal Salvation Army chapter, and others said they depend on public transportation and had no w ay to gel to the restaurant. Saunders, who thought bhc could find 70 poor people to aime to the diner, had to admit Sunday night that she found only 25. ; The dinner of ham. rice, salad and rolls was canceled. ; Saunders plans to deliver some gifts to families in need, and local hospitals have agreed to accVpi some toys. The food is being given 1 ' to local agencies. Liirro Bowed but not broken, and Saunders said that next year, they plan to start organizing ;ihc dinner earlier. Selected Dresses Asa New v - Add- foo'd-dejiv-e- code)." We JAMESTOWN v '. Ltfro r,' FDA milestone By PAUL RECER AP Science Writer won't do the job. He makes fun of what he calls "the E.R. candidates who talk about simpler, flatter, contributions. Senate Majority Leader Bob probDole, the GOP ably will endorse the recommendations of the commission, which plan. 1222I ls Cdii'nty-otJi-cia- New saliva test for HIV Steve Forbes, presidential candidate ul Rsa Langhorne is located. told Lerro that childftn without parents celebrate Christmas with their foster families.' ' ; '. Meanwhile, food came pouring in. A dairy donated 250 cartons of milk. An ice cream maker" sent; 21 gallons of its product.' A bakery sent 250 dinner rolls. r "You can literally fill it out on a post card. It will improve the quality of life." piece. "You can literally fill it out on a post card," Forbes says. "It will improve the quality of life." Not to be outdone, other candidates have come forward with their own versions. Some form of a flat tax might even make it into the GOP's 1996 platform. 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