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1999 Stories by Chuck Shepherd

Archives: 2000 | 1999 | 1998
  • News of the Weird

    published December 30, 1999

    Lead StoriesSaskatchewan physician John Schneeberger, 38, implanted a thin, six-inch tube of... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published December 23, 1999

    Lead StorySynergy!: In October the pharmaceutical division of Japan Tobacco, the world's... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published December 16, 1999

    Lead StoriesLife imitates Weekend at Bernie's: In November government officials in... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published December 9, 1999

    Lead StoryAccording to a November Boston Globe story, upper-crust restaurants in New... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published December 2, 1999

    Lead StoriesIn November in Tokyo, a passenger was killed in a car accident that occurred... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published November 25, 1999

    Lead StoriesPolice in North Platte, Nebraska, have been looking for a man who has appeared... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published November 18, 1999

    Lead StoriesEx-policeman Paul Harrington, 53, was arrested in Detroit in October for killing... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published November 11, 1999

    Lead StoriesScotland Yard detectives said they overestimated the number of dead in a fiery... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published November 4, 1999

    Lead StoriesIn October Washington state's Department of Labor and Industries began an... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published October 28, 1999

    According to a story on the Agence France Presse wire, Stepan Kovaltchuk, 75, emerged from 57 years of living in his sister's attic in remote... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published October 21, 1999

    Lead StoriesIn August, Bob Thompson, who had just sold his Thompson-McCully road-building... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published October 14, 1999

    Lead StoriesIn September Italy's highest appeals court ruled that a spouse's obsession with... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published October 7, 1999

    Lead StoriesIsrael rolled back its clocks one hour in September to support Orthodox Jewish... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published September 30, 1999

    Lead Stories Department of Energy security guidelines released in August, in response to reports of Chinese espionage, include a... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published September 23, 1999

    Lead Stories An August Knoxville News-Sentinel story profiled the self-described "prophet [that] God spoke of," Richard Settle,... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published September 16, 1999

    Lead Stories For an August feature on Rhonda Lenair, a Newbury, Massachusetts, "medical intuitive," a Boston Globe editor... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published September 9, 1999

    Under a bill expected to become law next year, the government of the Netherlands recently proposed to loosen restrictions on euthanasia for... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published September 2, 1999

    Lead Stories The city commission of the border town of El Cenizo, Texas, voted in August to establish Spanish as the town's official... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published August 26, 1999

    Lead Story In May Arizona state Representative Tom Gordon inexplicably faked a Naval Reserve order, hopped a military plane to the... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published August 19, 1999

    Lead Stories In April, Citizens Bank, the holder of the mortgage on Edward J. Brown's $90,000 Dartmouth, Massachusetts, home, sold it... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published August 12, 1999

    Lead Stories In July the director of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York, finally got around to forming a committee... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published August 5, 1999

    Lead Stories According to a July announcement by police in York Haven, Pennsylvania, at least 17 kids aged seven to 16 created a club... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published July 29, 1999

    Lead Stories In July, Birmingham, England, office worker Beverley Lancaster, 44, won about $110,000 in damages from the city because of... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published July 22, 1999

    Lead StoriesOn the same day in June that the Colombian government was announcing that it would henceforth count cocaine farming... More >>

  • News of the Weird

    published July 15, 1999

    Lead Stories In the course of a June report decrying the Canadian economy's discrimination against people who do unpaid work, mostly... More >>

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