NJN News; Wednesday February 18, 1998

a judge ordered a fifteen year old sam dansie to stand trial as an adult in the rape and murder of at warner through jersey's new cigarette tax appears to be snuffing out a lot of sales action will have to wait twenty four hours before having abortions performed in new jersey but historically jersey for mostly from old mcdonald with the writers of that story and so far out learning at one new jersey school and k in use for wednesday february eighteenth yes this is bs the political party

i'm terry gross good evening sam nancy the teenager charged with killing eleven year old eddie warner as he sold candy door to door will stand trial as an adult nancy is charged with raping and strangling warner last september in nancy's jackson township home in court today prosecutors also revealed that he had taken a polaroid snapshot of his dead victim in his underwear are can say john has the latest on the murder case thirteen year old salem nc will now be tried as an adult following the waiving of his probable cause hearing this morning an issue with the way religious

side at the heinous nature of the killings ocean county prosecutors revealed that man's he had taken a polaroid picture of eleven year old addie warner after allegedly raping and strangling him the prosecution described it as a trophy photo i'm stupid authorities speculate that meant he told his mother of the existence of the photo meanwhile paul information from this is mandy investigators conducted is sort of the shoreline be a dissenter or men's he was being treated now sir checks

menzies defense team admitted they have no grounds to contest the waiver they were also asked if they're quite understood what was going on i have to ask him if he does mean i've certainly says yes there will be in the stands is a question that's far beyond my ability to make a determination that for psychiatry psychology or the police chief he reacted to a question but did say that meant his mental state will be a part of their defense strategy that's actually the facts because there's no one that this is i think a stable dispute affect the suffering from a mental illness it was bound for at the proceedings today but did not talk to reporters and he will be arraigned tomorrow in say german jan news conference cigarette sales in new jersey have gone up in smoke since the state implemented a new sales tax smokers purchase three million cartons last month before the hike the double the text ad says that number was at five million card solves a new jersey that represents a thirty two percent drop in sales dresser treasury officials say it was assumed there would be lower

revenues meanwhile convenience store owners charge of their bearing the brunt of the higher tax businesses along the pennsylvania border say the new tax is driven many customers across the delaware river to by their butts a coalition of abortion rights groups joined by senator frank lautenberg today blasted a proposal that new jersey and up a twenty four hour waiting period for abortions the aclu planned parenthood now and other groups call it a step backwards for women as michael allen reports they urge governor whitman to reconsider her support and this is yet another attempt at restricting a woman's fundamental constitutional rights the next front seat your jerseys abortion fight is being carried to places like this planned parenthood of mercer county where five hundred eighty three abortions were performed last year this is the room where it's done this is the recovery room ten thousand women come here each year for pregnancy counseling and other services now bill by

assembly speaker jeff collins and minority leader joe doria would change the rules here this was going to perform the procedure at least twenty four hours before coming back the pro choice forces say that kind of information is already being shared with prospective patients as if they'd already what is the problem with and just saying we're going to put in as a matter of law they said if that's all the build those she supported a lot of the critics into obstacles to abortion i'm not against the concept of twenty four when kerry i am against anything that will make it more difficult for women ultimately to exercise their right to choose that is exactly what the bill would do say the pro choicers for doctors are busy people they say sing the same on toys could take days and clinics like this only perform abortions twice a week delaney persia first trimester abortions into the second trimester making abortion procedure more risky

to have a second visit they say it could cause hardships for poor women in need of child care and a second day off from work and has an unsolvable women and their doctor legislators here are decided that a woman is true for a lot of it will make these slices and her own pro lifers disagree i think that a woman has a right to be fully informed of course she makes a decision about abortion because it is an irreversible one and we have heard from some women who've had abortions later regret it because they never got the information that they truly needed to make a fully informed decision casey says the us supreme court has upheld pennsylvania's twenty four hour waiting period but the new jersey supreme court in its landmark nineteen eighty two abortion decision wrote this intensely personal decision is one that should be made by a woman in consultation with trusted advisors such as her doctor but without undue government interference the case was called right to choose versus burn

its new jersey's roe v wade pro choicers think it makes the twenty four hour waiting till here are unconstitutional but michael the governor was talking about personal responsibility today when she awarded a million dollars in grants for pregnancy prevention which means education and outreach initiative grants are being distributed to community groups in all twenty one counties as part of an extensive effort to combat teen pregnancy the project also includes a toll free hotline and funding for media outreach campaign these twenty one grants can pay our message for young people you can't abstain from sex you can avoid teenage pregnancy and there's help out there if you need it the prevention initiative includes not only adult to adolescent mentoring but peer to peer counseling as well senate president donald the francisco says new jersey taxpayers should not provide matching funds for contributions that

come from outside the state he sent a letter to the election law enforcement commission pushing for that change the francisco wants rules that make it impossible for independent candidates like libertarian mary saber to qualify for matching money saving got almost half of his money from sources in other states during his nineteen ninety seven gubernatorial bid he was able to use those dollars to qualify for half a million dollars in matching funds there's one is a head tonight on a day and this post princeton tigers continue their tear on the hard work there's a move to preserve this land that dates back centuries and the world need to come to our email

it's been life be a new jersey native was among at least four americans killed in monday's crash in taiwan a china airlines jet can of cow and a tv producer in boston was originally from flanders mars county the thirty five year old was on a scouting trip for wgbh tv in indonesia

two hundred people died in that crash no word on the cause a new study raises questions about the water quality in new jersey's lakes and streams adp study of one hundred and twenty six lights in the state found twenty to water bodies have quality problems because of some pollution source the study also found improvement in the water quality in the delaware and brittany and with many rivers the study is part of a deeply effort to meet federal clean water act requirements it's a key link in the open spaces of northwest new jersey and now it will be saved and historic farm located in sussex county will be safe from any future development environmental reporter ed rogers traveled to tranquility far that's how larry free born or third generation dairy farmers they were super to support of tranquility form the six hundred eighty acre tract is on the border of warren in sussex can ease

perform as ecologically important contains forests wetlands in fields or so middle of the great limestone valley and it's no way we can only just a part of jenny jumps reporters locations are a key for open space forces to continue their dream like elaine dates back to the seventeenth century and is owned by the estate inside a sense a historic new jersey family and geniuses learn the land will be safe from development and apportion will still be used for farming is unique and complicated plan involved a degree groups are free ports will purchase three hundred twenty five acres for forming the new jersey chapter of the nature conservancy purchase the remaining property for open space projects says a variation a life within our cultural community local governments of demonstration i think it's it's a great opportunity for us it's it's a chance to get this form of the markets and a puts it makes it available for purchase by acid of it more closely related to its to its farmland that many farms across the state surveys green waste corridors between woodlands that are used by wildlife on a

crew how state officials say forty thousand acres of farmland were lost in new jersey in the last seven years to development and it was going to be purchased by former agent is because insurance costs of another form of presentation comes in every board family has been a part of tranquility farm for more than forty years larry's father pete least the landing ran the farm will see his son follow him for me and rogers media news tranquility officials still don't know how to deal with the black bear problem in northwestern new jersey so far there's little agreement on how to reduce the number of paris south jersey farmers don't want them in the animal rights activists oppose a bear hunt and the food and drug administration does not approve a method of bear birth control so there are an

estimated five hundred black bear in the northern part of the state science class at one perth amboy school was out of this world today students got a rare chance for a close up view of something that has inspired songs and minds just i guess press has the far out stories it was not an ordinary day for science teacher mark yesterday he arrived at school before police escort and with military precision entered the gym in handcuffs actually needed just he was handcuffed to the treasure he was reading to school today moon rocks any kgb just need a jet ski is one of just a handful of teachers in the united states who has authorization from nasa to handle the rocks in fact there are only ninety samples like this one to go around to become authorized he had to take a nasa course and had his background check by the secret service all in preparation for the

big day to bring the rocks to school it's a very very distinct and riyadh are under such secretive and secured condition reverse if you're a secret service justine stop rocks were pretty impressive to fighting this is very nice because it shows how the movers are similar to the earth's be armed police on the year for the next several days and they will spend their nights live securely in the evidence room at the police department to make science one day trish began brazilian use for example a twelve tickets business report is coming up shortly and is here now with a preview of technologies that one hundred billion dollars on the future when soldiers that are revived the enemy within its cost power plants fb

is because the pay how does a gown than the devil you know is where he said no you don't know there's a voice i could get a big engineering company of bridgeport gloucester county says it is still recovering from a july nineteen ninety six incident in which a former employee allegedly sabotaged the companies' computers

in a federal indictment unsealed yesterday to the lord willing to delaware is a cue the planting a so called software bob it'll make its computers that went off when an employee switched on a terminal july thirtieth nineteen ninety six webb on toledo make his design and production programs costing the company so far but two point for him million dollars of damage at an estimated seven a half million in lost sales what was of the state is experiencing boom times some counties are still recovering from the last recession case in point so on top of all the county's unemployment rate has declined to match that of most other areas of the state the county still lags the developed land which reduces tax revenue but this farmland will soon be cleared to make way for sale county's first business park complex and a low construction has not begun are already has its first tenant connect electrical assistance as close as this is a win win situation for the economy because you're seeing people that will

be more focused in salem county as a place to do business and that would only stand to increase commerce county officials all the complex away new professional and support service jobs to the beleaguered salem county economy listen technologies of our email us on the venture capital fund to invest in emerging technologies at the company's annual meeting today stockholders committed one hundred a million dollars to the fund was recalled wilson venture partners the venture capital's important to start a company is developing new products wilson says it'll focus on high growth areas include a wireless data networking and semiconductors and communication software company k also announced two for one split of that stock effect of april first six record setting sessions in a row now with a dow average above eighty four hundred for the first time ever dated archive that you don't have to call the eighty four fifty one or six pack the amex divided as dr floyd up one the nasdaq composite debt again to all the core ideas of the five hundred added native a quarter buys took their lumps today the long run off have appointed rice and it's he'll back

above five point eight percent and as it's got a company could face fines of half a million dollars for allegedly switching the long distance carriers of customers in florida without the consumer's consent cedar grove base minimum rate pricing has been accused of what they call slamming fifty consumers florida authorities were reportedly fined the company ten thousand dollars for each violation that was sick and prove that the customers okay this went minimum rate pricing claims it complied all regulations complaints have also been filed against the company in tennessee and here in the majors thank you still to come tonight a check of our forecast is ahead for you and can sync and sitting in tonight for kerry well the stanley cup was in new jersey today we'll show you why i am both princeton tigers continue their support is coming up next stephen here is eight again

consent and sitting in tonight for jerry prince fan came out of tiger in their tank turrets that has the rest of the ivy league climbing a lot of the migrant tide has continued there are three beating the quakers and then last night at princeton and seventy wanted to win they'll give the tigers aren't bp did add nada nil win the ivy league another overall record this season is twenty one and one state voters let president's court would like a point of this was the fourth straight win for the

tigers eggplant mr corwin and steiger hockey coaches among those coming home with the gold lisa brownmiller still can't believe her dreams come true a member of the us women's hockey team brian naylor let princeton university in nineteen ninety six to pursue what she says is the pinnacle of her career the us women's team beat the canadians in a two to one nail biter after losing all four world have been shipped to canada in nineteen ninety nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety four nineteen ninety seven that ended meanwhile caltrans is on track for gold and about all the ones on soldiers in it was there until they all to place second in last nights short program but fifteen year old defending world champion will skip a second and final part of the competition the free skate friday night while some new jersey devils are convening in the olympics of those who stayed here had the stanley cup back a couple days of police double word smiles the patients are children specialized hospital now assad today when the cup was on display they also visited st barnabas medical center at hackensack university

medical center another gop is on a percentage or will the national hockey league has its first ever midseason break look it's my mind as a bid in on the game because we get time off in iowa did you spend any time i had it i admit that i just think i think about the rest of the year because i traveled just get away from it and i feel like i'm a comeback natalie is using a great to reach out to communities in a jet age nhl cities to raise more than a million dollars to charities and that sports but seton hall records tonight there's no road when recruits fortunately maybe they can turn it around and buildings or five hundred cells rather than in and what would they do tonight their season the people with that that you can better like the middle of the impact of the rafters with lights a prior knowledge or hazily and five he started the day to day and the crowds continued to hover in the region we saw the mercury to they get into their sixties as far as our pollution much goes for tomorrow moderate levels are

forecast in the northeastern part of the state while the rest of new jersey should have good conditions that he has a look at our state forecast in the northern part of new jersey tonight cloudy with a chance of some drizzle overnight lows in the mid thirties tomorrow a cloudy day with a high around fifty degrees in south jersey tonight cloudy with lows in the low or forties and tomorrow cloudy with a chance of a shower highs in the upper fifties and finally tonight the world is coming to the new jersey performing arts center and a pack will feature different countries each year and this year it's portugal world festival one is underway and he says the heavy metal band made of musicians from all countries in the world that speak portuguese that the portuguese speaking people are called and this group is called sonatas softly on the sound of the

business and verdi now this is important the good sense that they just thought that's a worker and dozens from africa from europe when they can become a different sings and adopted he doesn't pretend to fuse together music from seven nations across three continents for the salad or then the melting pot discovering what they share in common across the centuries and what news stories are told through time is the same as they are in brazil elaine fans from all over the

world to this world festival saturday night victoria wheelchair in new orleans i mean new england very nice and that's our news for tonight i'm staff at the hanford reporting can say thank you for being with us everyone is again tomorrow night's state or you know only a moon rose in the world oh these pieces it's

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