NewsFebruary 27, 2005
Nation briefs 2/27/05
Case of brain-damaged woman ongoing battle; Governors seek to improve high schools; Search resumes for missing Fla. 9-year-old; WTC granite shard is part of new memorial
Case of brain-damaged woman ongoing battle
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's been 15 years since Terri Schiavo's heart stopped beating for several minutes, causing severe brain damage that put her into a persistent vegetative state. For almost seven years, her husband Michael has been fighting to stop her feedings, arguing that she didn't want to be kept alive artificially. Myriad twists and turns in a dramatic legal and ideological battle has pitted her parents against their son-in-law. On Friday, state Circuit Judge George Greer set a new date for removal of the feeding tube for March 18, prompting the Schindlers' attorney to promise yet another flurry of legal filings.
Governors seek to improve high schools
WASHINGTON-- The nation's governors offered an alarming account of the American high school Saturday, saying only drastic change will keep millions of students from falling short. The governors say they want to emerge today with specific plans for enacting policy, weary of statistics showing that too many students are coasting, dropping out or failing in college. The high school summit drew at least 45 governors from the 50 states and five U.S. territories, along with top names in U.S. industry and education.
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Search resumes for missing Fla. 9-year-old
HOMOSASSA, Fla. -- Jessica Marie Lunsford is missing, vanished from her bedroom during the night, and her father fears she has been kidnapped. Hundreds of police and volunteers turned out Saturday to search for the missing 9-year-old. Jessica, who lives with her father and his parents, has not been seen since Wednesday night. Mark Lunsford told authorities he was getting ready for work Thursday morning when he realized his daughter's alarm clock was sounding and she wasn't there. The clothes she had laid out for school were still in place. Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy told reporters Saturday that the girl's disappearance was not a confirmed abduction, but nothing had been ruled out.
WTC granite shard is part of new memorial
NEW YORK -- A fragment of granite bearing the name "John" -- all that remains of a memorial to the six people killed in the first terror attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 -- was installed Saturday as the central piece of a new memorial. In a ceremony above the gaping pit remaining from the Sept. 11, 2001, attack that destroyed the complex and the original memorial, the fragment was placed in a 9 1/2-foot-tall steel pylon shaped like one of the twin towers. The rose-colored granite was part of a memorial fountain erected in 1995 to honor those killed on Feb. 26, 1993.
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