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Wednesday, December 6, 1995
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ABCplans24-hournewsnetworkfor1997
Affiliates will contribute news and share profits
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — ABC plans to launch a 24-hour news channel early in 1997, touting the new service as an alternative, rather than a direct challenger to CNN.
"We're going to try to take (24-
hour news) to a different level," said ABC News president Roone Arledge at a news conference with Robert Iger, president of Capital Cities-ABC Inc.
One key difference would be participation by ABC's 200-plus affiliate stations, which will help with local news-gathering and will share in the new channel's earnings, the two men said.
The service also would draw
on the resources of the ABC-owned Worldwide Television News, a syndicator of international news.
ABC, whose "World News Tonight" is the top-ranked network news program, will seek distribution of the all-news channel through cable and direct satellite, as well as through new delivery systems being devised by telephone companies.
Last week, media magnate Rupert Murdoch said he planned to establish an all-news network to challenge CNN, which he complained had become too liberal.
Capital Cities-ABC Inc. is being acquired by the Walt Disney Co.
The Turner Broadcasting System began CNN in 1980. TBS chairman Ted Turner has agreed to sell TBS to Time Warner Inc.
Canadian torturer's house of horrors torn down
OThe Associated Press
ST. CATHARINES, Ontario — It was the typical house next door, before it became Canada's house of horrors.
On Tuesday, a volunteer demolition crew tore it apart in a ritual intended to help this city move beyond the trauma inflicted by Paul Bernardo, who tortured, raped and killed two schoolgirls behind the pastel-pink walls.
"I'm glad it's coming down," Debbie Mahaffy, mother of one of the slain girls, said as she watched from behind a police barrier. "But it's not the house that was evil."
Her 14-year-old daughter, Leslie, was abducted from the nearby town of Burlington in June 1991, taken to the two-story, Cape Cod-style house near the shore of Lake Ontario, raped and beaten, then strangled.
In April 1992, Bernardo and Karla Homolka, his wife at the time, abducted 15-year-old Kristen French off a St. Catharines street. She suffered the same fate as Leslie.
The house has been abandoned since Bernardo's arrest in February 1993. The ground-floor windows were boarded up after being shattered by vandals. Graffiti was
Neighbors grew disgusted by a steady stream of curiosity-seekers who came to gawk at the house where Canada's mostly widely publicized sex crimes had occurred. After a few bureaucratic hitches, local authorities finally completed arrangements for the demolition.
spray-painted on the pink clapboard: "Burn in hell." "One day, Paul, you'll pay." A few obscenities.
A few dozen residents, outnumbered by reporters and TV crews, watched silently as one of the backhoes tore into the shingled roof at 8:04 a.m. Within an hour, the house had been razed, and trucks were loading the rubble for shipment to a landfill at an abandoned quarry.
two backhoes and a small fleet of dump trucks, got to work.
Mrs. Mahaffy, who cried briefly as the demolition began, said she hoped the owners of the lot — who had rented the house to Bernardo — would build a new house there.
On Monday, Bernardo's sports car — used to abduct the two girls — was towed away to be scrapped. Early Tuesday a demolition crew of 20 volunteers, equipped with
"It's important that something new goes up there," she said. "Out of destruction comes rebuilding."
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees Invites Public Comment On the Issues Facing Our Community Hospital
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LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT NOVEMBER 1995
Prepared at the request of Howard E. Mossberg, Chairperson Board of Trustees
Public Hearings LMH Auditorium 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.20 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan.8
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- Written comments are also encouraged prior to Jan. 10, 1996
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