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...Court this week will hear a similarly heartrending family conflict. Jenifer and Gary Troxel, whose son Brad committed suicide in 1993, wanted increased visitation rights with their two granddaughters. When the Troxels couldn't agree with the girls' mother, Tommie Granville, on the details, they sued, under a Washington State law that allows any nonparent to be awarded visitation when it's in the "best interests of the child...
...Troxels visitation rights: one weekend a month, one week in the summer and four hours on each grandparent's birthday. But the Washington supreme court sided with the mother, ruling that parents have a right to make decisions about their children. The court was also troubled that Washington State's statute allows visitation not only by grandparents but also by any adult who can persuade a court to order it. Mandatory visitation for nannies and soccer coaches, anyone...
...disciplined. Rocker agreed to start the testing immediately. Evidence that he might be somewhat disturbed surfaced during last fall's National League championship series when the Braves played the New York Mets. The pitcher began feuding first with the New York fans and later with the entire Empire State. Braves president Stan Kasten says he believes Rocker, who saved 37 games during the 1999 season, should be punished. He also expressed concern about Rocker's ability to repair relations with his teammates and "the community...
...some parts of the U.S. as many as half of all women under age 35 have an active case. Yet 99 out of 100 women who are HPV-positive will never get cervical cancer, estimates Dr. Joanna Cain, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., and vice president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "If those 99 women live their lives as if they're going to develop cancer," she says, "we're not necessarily doing them any good...
SETTLEMENT PROPOSED. FOR 1,281 ATTICA INMATES, in a 25-year-old class action that stemmed from guard-inflicted beatings after the 1971 upstate New York prison uprising that left 43 dead and 80 injured; for $8 million from the State of New York, by a federal judge's order; in Rochester...