Copyright 1999 The Seattle Times Company
The
Seattle Times
December 16, 1999, Thursday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A12; DAILY BRIEFING
LENGTH: 332 words
HEADLINE:
DAILY BRIEFING
BODY:
Update
Denise Rossi, the Long Beach, Calif., woman ordered last month to turn
her entire $1.3 million California Lottery winnings over to her
ex-husband, has filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection from creditors.
Rossi's failure to disclose her winnings to her husband during their divorce
prompted Superior Court Judge Richard Denner to order her to give him all the
money. She plans an appeal of the ruling. When it collapsed, the Texas A&M
bonfire stack was four feet higher than the 55-foot limit, university
engineering instructor John Weese said. Twelve people were killed in the Nov. 18
accident.
A panel created to devise tax rules for the Internet has
decided to delay until March a decision on whether to recommend barring taxes on
Internet access and repealing a 101-year-old, 3 percent telephone
tax originally created to finance the Spanish-American War. The Justice
Department today accused the Adam's Mark hotel chain of discriminating against
blacks by charging them more than whites, offering less-desirable rooms and
requiring more security. NASA today delayed the launch of Discovery for 24 hours
after deciding to review welding seams on the space shuttle and its external
fuel tank. Meanwhile, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the launch of
a NASA satellite that will study Earth's environment was halted by a computer
moments before liftoff. Upcoming A zoning board has approved construction of an
8-foot fence around the house in Chappaqua, N.Y., recently purchased by
President and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Zoning rules normally prohibit fences over
6 feet tall. An appeals board also approved a guardhouse at the gate. Today in
history In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place. P.S. There's always room for
Jell-O - especially in Des Moines, Iowa. According to a new survey, Des Moines
leads the nation in per capita Jell-O gelatin consumption, beating out Salt Lake
City for top billing.
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