Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 14:37:03 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;AMERICAN SCENE;WEST \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Settlement near on coastal cleanup LOS ANGELES - More than 150 Southern California cities and sanitation districts will pay $43.2 million for polluting coastal waters with toxic sewage more than two decades ago, a newspaper reported Saturday. The agreement is thought to be the nation's largest settlement of an offshore chemical contamination case, the Los Angeles Times said. The money could be used to clean up industrial PCBs and the pesticide DDT that were dumped into the Pacific Ocean from sewers in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. S=NEW STORY Police find girl's body in trash can OGDEN, Utah - Police found the body of a 5-year-old girl in a trash can Saturday night and took a teen-age neighbor into custody. The girl, Bobbie Jo Hart, disappeared while playing outside her grandfather's house Friday afternoon. Her body was discovered in a trash can behind the 15-year-old boy's house, about three houses away from the grandfather's home, said Ogden police Lt. Chuck Buzick. S=NEW STORY Family finds way to prevent truancy ALBANY, Ore. - When 14-year-old Dana Turner ignored her family's warnings to stop skipping class, they found a sure way to keep her in school: They went with her. "We started off grounding her, but that didn't work," said Yvonne Turner, Dana's mother. "So I threatened her with following her around school to make sure she was in class. She kept skipping so I had to follow through." But Dana, who says she doesn't like school and wants to hang out with her class-cutting friends, ditched class again three days after her mother stopped accompanying her. "This time Grandma goes," said Linda Hamilton, Dana's grandmother, who did three days of anti-skip duty. Dana's grandfather is next in line, but she says his services probably won't be needed. "I don't think I'll skip for a while," she said. "I've got relatives that can come to school with me every day of the year." This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM