Lead Stories
Michael Guilbault, 19, pleaded guilty in December to robbing a convenience store two months earlier in Raleigh, North Carolina. According to the prosecutor, a delayed getaway aided police in their capture. Guilbault and his accomplice were to meet their friends Heather Beckwith, 18, and Curtis Johnson, 19, at the getaway car nearby, but when the robbers arrived, they found the doors locked and the couple engaged “in the act,” as the prosecutor put it. Guilbault and his colleague were forced to wait until the couple had finished before they could get in the car, but by that time passersby had noticed the two men pacing and yelling at the couple.
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vandalizing a wall in a school corridor, causing the school to suspect him of being the person who previously had gouged doors, woodwork, and furniture in the building. Sonnenfeld had recently been passed over for the position of dean of Emory’s business school. Georgia Tech subsequently offered him a deanship but reneged after the videotape’s contents became known.
Can’t Possibly Be True
In August the Oregon supreme court ruled unanimously that Perry A. Lang, a white man, was entitled to worker-compensation damages despite the fact that his on-the-job injury came from being punched in the face by a black coworker whom Lang had just racially insulted. The court said a sensitive colleague is just one of the “myriad of risks” workers face. And in July the Hawaii supreme court upheld a law defining on-the-job illness to include stress that is caused by being disciplined for poor work.
Well Put
New mother Shellie Lee, 20, of Porterville, California, who claimed she was unaware she was pregnant, described the birth of her son in July: “I was sitting there [on a toilet] when all of a sudden, a head came out. It just came out, bam! It slid right out and was hanging on my leg.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration by Shawn Belshwender.
