Leaders were trying to heal boy, pastor says
By LISA SINK and ALLISON L. SMITH
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug03/164521.asp
"A pastor said Saturday that church leaders were trying to heal an autistic 8-year-old boy when he inexplicably stopped breathing and died during a prayer service Friday night."
Church expects clearance in death
By KELLY WELLS
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug03/164632.asp
"Members of a small church where an 8-year-old autistic boy died during a prayer session gathered Sunday at the home of their pastor, who said he was confident no church members or staff would be charged in the case."
Autistic boy dies at faith healing service
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/08/24/autistic.boy.death/index.html
"An 8-year-old autistic boy died during a prayer service at a Milwaukee church that the pastor said was meant to heal him of "spirits," and the pastor's brother is facing child abuse charges, police said Sunday."
Infant dies after parents reject aid
By MICHELE HOLTKAMP
Johnson County Daily Journal
<http://www.thejournalnet.com/main.a...&ArticleID=38049&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=113>
"A Johnson County infant less than 2 days old died Tuesday at her parents' home of a treatable infection, after her parents failed to seek medical treatment during or following her birth."
ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD
by DAVID CLARKE
Fortean Times
http://www.forteantimesmag.co.uk/articles/170_angelofmons.shtml
"During the Great War thousands came to believe that a miracle had happened during the British Army's first desperate clash with the advancing Germans at Mons in Belgium. In some versions a vision of St George and phantom bowmen halted the Kaiser's troops, while others claimed angels had thrown a protective curtain around the British, saving them from disaster. The battle of Mons took place on 23 August 1914 and within weeks the 'angels of Mons' had entered the realms of legend. By the end of the war it became unpatriotic, even treasonable, to doubt the claims were based on fact."
Merger dilemma: Who gets custody of lake monster?
by EILEEN TRAVERS
Montreal Gazette
<http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=08177FD6-59BD-4780-80CC-A0D713E340E9>
"Merger mania around Lake Memphremagog is sweeping both sides of the border - in the Eastern Townships and Vermont."
Group maintains watch for unearthly encounters
by Michael Clancy
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0824b2calstory24.html
"Where have all the UFOs gone?"
Forget Martians; how will we handle a 'new' truth?
by Rob Bignell
Iowa City Press-Citizen
http://www.press-citizen.com/opinion/cornfieldsoul/082403cornfieldsoul.htm
"The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming!"
Bigfoot remains a fascinating possibility
By DAVID LITTLE
Chico Enterprise-Record
http://www.chicoer.com/Stories/0,1413,135~25090~1588984,00.html
"As an avowed skeptic, I have a hard time admitting my fascination with Bigfoot. But I can't deny it: I'm intrigued."
Martin Gardner, reaching 89, a national intellectual treasure
By Michael Pakenham
Baltimore Sun
<http://www.sunspot.net/features/booksmags/bal-bk.gardner24aug24,0,1517961.story>
"I seldom discuss on these pages, or assign to other reviewers, books comprised of material that has been previously published. There are just so many new books (about 100,000 a year in the United States alone), and so little time and space. Yet I cannot resist making an exception for Martin Gardner."
Science (non)fiction
Press of Atlantic City
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/columns/082503BLOB.html
"Little Egg Harbor's infamous giant blob - a foul-smelling, car-sized gelatinous mass found in a six-foot deep lagoon this summer - certainly was gross. We can't blame the folks who live on the lagoon for being alarmed. And all the science-fiction jokes about a mysterious creature from the deep were kind of fun."
Clairvoyants called in to find missing chopper
Agence France-Presse
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s931176.htm
"Russian officials have sought help from clairvoyants to help them trace a helicopter that has vanished over the Kamchatka peninsula with a regional governor on board, the Interfax news agency reports."
Tale of hairy Proctor Valley beast has persisted for years
By Chris Moran
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030824-9999_1m24monster.html
"They weren't the first boy and girl to seek seclusion in Proctor Valley."
Bigfoot buffs trail elusive giant of myth
By Stephen Dyer
Akron Beacon Journal
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/6612355.htm
"It starts as a shadow. But Marc A. Dewerth sees a legend."
Illusions of grandeur
by Lawrence Donegan
The Observer [UK]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1028506,00.html
"Of all the tricks, stunts and illusions performed by David Blaine perhaps the most impressive has been to convince contemporary audiences that the ancient, vaudeville art of magic can be twenty-first-century fashionable. One need only drive through Las Vegas to realise how much of an achievement this is. Amid towering casinos and perma-tanned dinosaurs, David Copperfield and Lance Burton serve up a steady diet of disappearing tigers and levitating assistants for the convention crowds and middle Americans. Entertaining to some though Copperfield and co may be, none of them could be described as hip."
Skull theft may be linked to religion, police say
By TERRI SANGINITI and MAUREEN MILFORD
Wilmington News Journal
<http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2003/08/25skulltheftmaybe.html>
"The classic granite tomb on a sloping knoll overlooking the Brandywine River is a peaceful spot by day, shaded by tall evergreens and surrounded by ancient boxwoods."
New evidence on Champ is luring sea-monster fans to Vermont
By Diane E. Foulds
Boston Globe
<http://www.boston.com/travel/neweng..._champ_is_luring_sea_monster_fans_to_vermont/>
"On a chilly morning in June, a team of scientists using underwater microphones picked up a series of strangely high-pitched ticking and chirping noises, similar to what a dolphin or Beluga whale would make. Trouble is, they were miles from the ocean, on Lake Champlain."
'Under the Banner of Heaven': Book ties religion to violence
By JANE ZHANG
St. George Spectrum
http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20030825/topstories/126042.html
"Stopping for gas three years ago on the Utah-Arizona border, Jon Krakauer was shocked to see residents dressed in 19th century-style bloomers and long underwear."
'Banner' examines sect's violent history
By CLAY EVANS
Scripps Howard News Service
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/books/article/0,1406,KNS_306_2199805,00.html
"That The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, would object to this book is hardly a surprise."
64 years after death, White Feather still subject of local lore
NEPA News
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10058036&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6>
"Relatives of President Eisenhower are buried there, alongside the founder of Lingletown and other well-known townsfolk."
Couple find hoax suspect painfully familiar
by BRYAN DENSON
The Oregonian
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1061639888140400.xml>
"Kurt Julian was driving home from his overnight nursing shift at a Seattle hospital earlier this month when a radio news report jerked him alert."
Seeing Red
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/6612926.htm
"We've waited thousands of years to get this close to Mars, and unless you want to wait 284 more, better grab a telescope and head outside this week."
Emissions cover-ups
By KEN LEISER
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...E8E?OpenDocument&Headline=Emissions+cover-ups>
"The Corvette was soused. Tanked up. Three seat covers to the wind."
Do you believe in magic?
by MIKE ARGENTO
York Daily Record
http://ydr.com/story/mike/12542/
"Now we know why U.S. troops are having such a hard time finding Saddam Hussein."
High-tech mosquito gizmos often hit and myth
By Neil Santaniello
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-ppskeeter24aug24,1,1672106.story>
"Killing mosquitoes once was manual labor. A swat of the hand: a flesh-meets-bug thwack."
County recorder tries to clear reputation
By J.M. KALIL
Las Vegas Review-Journal
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Aug-24-Sun-2003/news/22009287.html>
"Shaken by a series of controversies that focused unprecedented attention on her usually obscure office, Clark County Recorder Frances Deane wants to clear the air."
Alleged devil worshipper convicted in death of college student
Associated Press
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030825/APN/308250723>
"An alleged devil worshipper faces life in prison for killing a college student in his apartment and then setting her body on fire."
Blades find a prank: police
New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3519976
"The etching of the name of missing woman Mona Blades on the concrete floor of a Huntly home is a prank police have investigated before."
Jax bouncer convicted in devil worship murder
Associated Press
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-825devilworship,1,6910453.story>
"An alleged devil worshipper faces life in prison for killing a college student in his apartment and then setting her body on fire."
Department of Public Safety E-mail Scam
KUHF
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuhf/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=537911
"A fake e-mail about the Texas Department of Public Safety is circulating through the state and causing a lot of hassle for DPS officers and staff. Laurie Johnson reports that the problem seems to be even worse in Houston."
'Man-eating sorcerers' held
Agence France-Presse
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1406746,00.html
"Eleven people have been arrested for murder in Cameroon after the killing of 17 people through witchcraft and cannibalism, a local newspaper reported on Monday."
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By LISA SINK and ALLISON L. SMITH
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug03/164521.asp
"A pastor said Saturday that church leaders were trying to heal an autistic 8-year-old boy when he inexplicably stopped breathing and died during a prayer service Friday night."
Church expects clearance in death
By KELLY WELLS
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug03/164632.asp
"Members of a small church where an 8-year-old autistic boy died during a prayer session gathered Sunday at the home of their pastor, who said he was confident no church members or staff would be charged in the case."
Autistic boy dies at faith healing service
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/08/24/autistic.boy.death/index.html
"An 8-year-old autistic boy died during a prayer service at a Milwaukee church that the pastor said was meant to heal him of "spirits," and the pastor's brother is facing child abuse charges, police said Sunday."
Infant dies after parents reject aid
By MICHELE HOLTKAMP
Johnson County Daily Journal
<http://www.thejournalnet.com/main.a...&ArticleID=38049&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=113>
"A Johnson County infant less than 2 days old died Tuesday at her parents' home of a treatable infection, after her parents failed to seek medical treatment during or following her birth."
ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD
by DAVID CLARKE
Fortean Times
http://www.forteantimesmag.co.uk/articles/170_angelofmons.shtml
"During the Great War thousands came to believe that a miracle had happened during the British Army's first desperate clash with the advancing Germans at Mons in Belgium. In some versions a vision of St George and phantom bowmen halted the Kaiser's troops, while others claimed angels had thrown a protective curtain around the British, saving them from disaster. The battle of Mons took place on 23 August 1914 and within weeks the 'angels of Mons' had entered the realms of legend. By the end of the war it became unpatriotic, even treasonable, to doubt the claims were based on fact."
Merger dilemma: Who gets custody of lake monster?
by EILEEN TRAVERS
Montreal Gazette
<http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=08177FD6-59BD-4780-80CC-A0D713E340E9>
"Merger mania around Lake Memphremagog is sweeping both sides of the border - in the Eastern Townships and Vermont."
Group maintains watch for unearthly encounters
by Michael Clancy
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0824b2calstory24.html
"Where have all the UFOs gone?"
Forget Martians; how will we handle a 'new' truth?
by Rob Bignell
Iowa City Press-Citizen
http://www.press-citizen.com/opinion/cornfieldsoul/082403cornfieldsoul.htm
"The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming!"
Bigfoot remains a fascinating possibility
By DAVID LITTLE
Chico Enterprise-Record
http://www.chicoer.com/Stories/0,1413,135~25090~1588984,00.html
"As an avowed skeptic, I have a hard time admitting my fascination with Bigfoot. But I can't deny it: I'm intrigued."
Martin Gardner, reaching 89, a national intellectual treasure
By Michael Pakenham
Baltimore Sun
<http://www.sunspot.net/features/booksmags/bal-bk.gardner24aug24,0,1517961.story>
"I seldom discuss on these pages, or assign to other reviewers, books comprised of material that has been previously published. There are just so many new books (about 100,000 a year in the United States alone), and so little time and space. Yet I cannot resist making an exception for Martin Gardner."
Science (non)fiction
Press of Atlantic City
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/columns/082503BLOB.html
"Little Egg Harbor's infamous giant blob - a foul-smelling, car-sized gelatinous mass found in a six-foot deep lagoon this summer - certainly was gross. We can't blame the folks who live on the lagoon for being alarmed. And all the science-fiction jokes about a mysterious creature from the deep were kind of fun."
Clairvoyants called in to find missing chopper
Agence France-Presse
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s931176.htm
"Russian officials have sought help from clairvoyants to help them trace a helicopter that has vanished over the Kamchatka peninsula with a regional governor on board, the Interfax news agency reports."
Tale of hairy Proctor Valley beast has persisted for years
By Chris Moran
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030824-9999_1m24monster.html
"They weren't the first boy and girl to seek seclusion in Proctor Valley."
Bigfoot buffs trail elusive giant of myth
By Stephen Dyer
Akron Beacon Journal
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/6612355.htm
"It starts as a shadow. But Marc A. Dewerth sees a legend."
Illusions of grandeur
by Lawrence Donegan
The Observer [UK]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1028506,00.html
"Of all the tricks, stunts and illusions performed by David Blaine perhaps the most impressive has been to convince contemporary audiences that the ancient, vaudeville art of magic can be twenty-first-century fashionable. One need only drive through Las Vegas to realise how much of an achievement this is. Amid towering casinos and perma-tanned dinosaurs, David Copperfield and Lance Burton serve up a steady diet of disappearing tigers and levitating assistants for the convention crowds and middle Americans. Entertaining to some though Copperfield and co may be, none of them could be described as hip."
Skull theft may be linked to religion, police say
By TERRI SANGINITI and MAUREEN MILFORD
Wilmington News Journal
<http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2003/08/25skulltheftmaybe.html>
"The classic granite tomb on a sloping knoll overlooking the Brandywine River is a peaceful spot by day, shaded by tall evergreens and surrounded by ancient boxwoods."
New evidence on Champ is luring sea-monster fans to Vermont
By Diane E. Foulds
Boston Globe
<http://www.boston.com/travel/neweng..._champ_is_luring_sea_monster_fans_to_vermont/>
"On a chilly morning in June, a team of scientists using underwater microphones picked up a series of strangely high-pitched ticking and chirping noises, similar to what a dolphin or Beluga whale would make. Trouble is, they were miles from the ocean, on Lake Champlain."
'Under the Banner of Heaven': Book ties religion to violence
By JANE ZHANG
St. George Spectrum
http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20030825/topstories/126042.html
"Stopping for gas three years ago on the Utah-Arizona border, Jon Krakauer was shocked to see residents dressed in 19th century-style bloomers and long underwear."
'Banner' examines sect's violent history
By CLAY EVANS
Scripps Howard News Service
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/books/article/0,1406,KNS_306_2199805,00.html
"That The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, would object to this book is hardly a surprise."
64 years after death, White Feather still subject of local lore
NEPA News
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10058036&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6>
"Relatives of President Eisenhower are buried there, alongside the founder of Lingletown and other well-known townsfolk."
Couple find hoax suspect painfully familiar
by BRYAN DENSON
The Oregonian
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1061639888140400.xml>
"Kurt Julian was driving home from his overnight nursing shift at a Seattle hospital earlier this month when a radio news report jerked him alert."
Seeing Red
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/6612926.htm
"We've waited thousands of years to get this close to Mars, and unless you want to wait 284 more, better grab a telescope and head outside this week."
Emissions cover-ups
By KEN LEISER
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...E8E?OpenDocument&Headline=Emissions+cover-ups>
"The Corvette was soused. Tanked up. Three seat covers to the wind."
Do you believe in magic?
by MIKE ARGENTO
York Daily Record
http://ydr.com/story/mike/12542/
"Now we know why U.S. troops are having such a hard time finding Saddam Hussein."
High-tech mosquito gizmos often hit and myth
By Neil Santaniello
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-ppskeeter24aug24,1,1672106.story>
"Killing mosquitoes once was manual labor. A swat of the hand: a flesh-meets-bug thwack."
County recorder tries to clear reputation
By J.M. KALIL
Las Vegas Review-Journal
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Aug-24-Sun-2003/news/22009287.html>
"Shaken by a series of controversies that focused unprecedented attention on her usually obscure office, Clark County Recorder Frances Deane wants to clear the air."
Alleged devil worshipper convicted in death of college student
Associated Press
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030825/APN/308250723>
"An alleged devil worshipper faces life in prison for killing a college student in his apartment and then setting her body on fire."
Blades find a prank: police
New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3519976
"The etching of the name of missing woman Mona Blades on the concrete floor of a Huntly home is a prank police have investigated before."
Jax bouncer convicted in devil worship murder
Associated Press
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-825devilworship,1,6910453.story>
"An alleged devil worshipper faces life in prison for killing a college student in his apartment and then setting her body on fire."
Department of Public Safety E-mail Scam
KUHF
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuhf/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=537911
"A fake e-mail about the Texas Department of Public Safety is circulating through the state and causing a lot of hassle for DPS officers and staff. Laurie Johnson reports that the problem seems to be even worse in Houston."
'Man-eating sorcerers' held
Agence France-Presse
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1406746,00.html
"Eleven people have been arrested for murder in Cameroon after the killing of 17 people through witchcraft and cannibalism, a local newspaper reported on Monday."
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