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Show NATIONAL Sunday, June 5, 1994 13A | Standard-Examuner NATIONAL BRIEFS Woman is killed while watching TV OZARK, Ala. — A small truck careened off a rural highwayinto a house and overturned, killing a womansitting on her sofa watching television Annice Bright, 60, was crushed under bricks and smashed furniture late Friday when the truck driven by Michael Lee Johnson crashed into her living room, the coroner said. Bright's grandchild was treated for minor injuries, as was Johnson, 19. Johnson was charged with murder and drunken driving, state Trooper Charles Ward said. The house is about 60 feet from a slight curve on the highway north of Ozark in southeastern Alabama. It was raining at the time of the accident. “He had just passed a car and he lost control,” Ward said. Wife of Gates hasfiled for divorce SANTA ANA, Calif. — Blamingirreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage, the wife of former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates has filed for divorce. Sima L. Gates filed divorce papers in Orange County Superior Court on May 5, four days before a federal judge dropped her husband from Rodney King’s lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages for his 1991 beating bypolice. A phone message was left for Gates at his Los Angeles business office Saturday. Mrs. Gates’ res- | idence is unlisted. Court records show the couple have been living apart since early February. Mrs. Gateslives in their San Clemente condominium. The former chief lives in Highland Park. Gates retired two years ago following heavy criticism of his handling of the 1992 riots. New York police rattled by discovery oe ee wee wt ene ee ee ee ee NEWYORK — Police investigating a reported burglary discovered something that really rattled them. Sixty-two potentially deadly Western Diamondback rattlesnakes were found in a wnthing heap Friday in a wild kingdom that passed as a debt collection agency. And that’s not all. There were 30 dead rattlers in a freezer, a bunch of skinned snakes steaming in a crockpot and a dozen baby rattlers floating in pint bottles of vodka. The sixty-plus live rattlers were raising a ruckus inside a plastictopped box. The snaked-up booze is used by Koreans in the Queens neighborhood as medicine and sells for $100 a pint, authorities said. The other snakes were apparently sold as food — for the meat or as soup stock. “It was an interesting morning,” said John Behler, supervisor of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo. He helped pack the surviving snakes into three sealed drums andtransport them out the Queens borough. Three men were arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and violating environmental conservation laws, said police spokesman Lt. Raymond O’Donnell. All three worked at the debt-collection office, which doubled as a one-stop snake shopping outlet for local Koreans, O’Donnell said. $3 million donation turned out to be elaborate scam SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The mysterious $3 million donation seemed heaven-sent. It turned out to be the creation of worldly con artists. Officials at St. Joseph": Cathedral said the phony donation was money to Nigeria last month and Kettler made plans to travel to Africa to pick up the $3 million. But soon church officials became suspicious. They heard stories of similar scams from religious organizations in Texas, Missouri and part of a Nigeria-based scam that Ohio. “That's whatalerted us,” Kettler nearly cost the Roman Catholic diocese $90,000. “Certainly, I'll take a. certain healthy caution awayfrom this experience,” said the Rev. Don Kettler, the parish priest. “Even so, | still have a basic, unshaken faith in the goodness of people.” Kettler first got word of the alleged windfall in November, when he received a letter from the Senior Advocates Law Office in Lagos, Nigeria, that claimed a man named Harry Olson left the cathedral $3 million in his will. There was just one catch: The diocese had to pay $90,000 in “taxes” before it could pick up the money. The diocese wired the said. “Some of the names involved with these churches are the same ones we’re dealing with.” Kettler canceled his trip and diocese officials maneuvered to recover the $90,000. Parish lawyer John Wilka said the church put restrictions on the wire transfer that allowed the money to be deposited onlyinto an account for the Nigerian equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service. “The wire was carefully worded so the only way the people involved in the fraud could get their hands on the moneywasif it was a legitimate bequest,” Wilka said. eka 7) m Pel = 2 c a a * SERVICE IS OUR MIDDLE NAME « SERVICE 1S OUR MIDDL ee COOLER SALE ° NEW INSTALLATIONS SAVE ON ALL SIZES * ALL WORK GUARANTEED. * EXPERT INSTALLATIONS + LEGS ON ALL JOBS + FINANCING AVAILABLE : i pe) i waada =) 7) | See goad 773-4836/292-1636 2 > E a n m 2D < oO fa a 7 ie) oy D — CLEARFIELD So = fl ae 248 520 SO. 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Embalming fluid leak causes coffin fire BATON ROUGE, La. — Mourners smelled smoke at a funeral and when a mortician investigated, he founda fire inside the coffin. Investigators said embalming fluid leaking from the body of 25- year-old Wycliff Robertson, who was shot to death earlier this week, may have caused a chemical reaction inside the coffin, touching off the fire. After the Thursdaynight funeral at Mt. Gillion Baptist Church, officials from Winnfield Funeral Homesaid they would remove the body from the damaged coffin and prepare it for burial in a new ~ one. -Gum may have made children sick NANTY GLO, Pa. — Investigators want to know if bad bubble gum sickened 13 elementary school students. The pupils, who had slurred speech and complained about feeling sick, are believed to have chewed gum handed out by sixth-grader before classes Friday at Black Lick Valley Elementary Center, said ; ‘ Principal Kenneth Martinazzi. 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