Week of August 22, 2002

Human remains are fond in a shed behind the Oregon home of ward Weaver, a

toolmaker with a history of violence toward women. He is the prime suspect in

the disappearance of Ashley Pond (12) and Miranda Gaddis (13) who vanished

this winter in Oregon City and remain missing.

Unsolved for decades - Michael Skakel is sentenced to 20 years

to life in prison for the October 1975 murder of his 15-year-old

female friend/neighbor. Skakel (41) was convicted in June of

with a broken golf club in their Greenwich, CT

neighborhood. He was also 15. Attention focused on

Michael in the early 1990’s after he changed the

story he gave police about the night of the murder

when he talked to private investigators hired in 1992 to clear the

Skakels’ name. Skakel is a nephew of Robert F. Kenney’s widow

Ethel.

Grand juries in Detroit and Seattle charge six alleged Islamic

militants with supporting global terrorism activities. One is a U.S.

citizen.

Two men who were reported missing after the World Trade Center attacks have

been found alive in New York hospitals.

In Utah, polygamist Tom Green is sentenced to spend five years to life in prison

for a child rape that occurred when he took a 13-year-old girl as his “spiritual”

wife more than a dozen years ago.

Vice President Dick Cheney spells out the Bush administration’s rationale for

ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He said he believed that the dictator

will add the nuclear bomb “fairly soon: to his arsenal of weapons of mass

destruction.”

Qatar and Saudi Arabia refuse to support the U.S. effort in Iraq, giving the Bush

administration complications on any attack plans from those areas.

Also In the news - West Nile virus. It’s been around three years and is slowly

spreading west.

President Bush is seen on the cover of Runner’s World Magazine.

Week of August 22, 2002

Technology -

Women, who logged on to the female-based IVillage.com, also got other people’s

private messages, in an apparent e-mail glitch. Each time the sites users logged

on, they saw a different person’s messages. The messages were part of

Ivillage’s free e-mail service.

Sony announces that it would stop making the last

two models of the Betamax videocassette recorder

by year’s end. The company made fewer than 3,000

of the VCR’s last year and sold them only in Japan.

New - T-Mobile’s Pocket PC phone. Now you can

log-on, just like your PC. Just $500.

KPIG - an FM station near Santa Cruz, CA and a

station that was popular with Internet listeners until it

shut down its stream (due to costs) is back up and

available, but you’ll have to pay a fee. The $5.95 a

month subscription fee offsets the expense of the

service and music royalties.

night before reaching agreement on a new labor contract, averting a baseball

strike.

Radio news -

WNEW-FM (New York) shock jocks Opie and Anthony have been off the air all

week after a stunt in which a couple were charged with having sex during Mass

in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In an update, the pair is fired by the station for the

stunt. Apparently, they broadcast a live account of the act.

Music news -

In Chicago, a judge rules that singer R. Kelly, who has been free on bond since

was indicted on child pornography charges, can leave the state to appear at a

nightclub in Miami this weekend. Kelly (35), whose

first name is Robert, was indicted in June on 21

counts of child pornography stemming from a

videotape authorities say shows him having sex with a

13-year-old girl.

Eminem’s “Without Me” walks off with best video of

the year as well as the awards for best male video,

Week of August 22, 2002

“Behind The Music” becomes VH1’s longest running show at five years. This

week, it is presenting a marathon including some of its most popular and

notorious episodes and hosted by Cedric the Entertainer.

Television news -

Producers of CBS’s “The Late Late Show with Craig

Kilborn” apologize after repeating an episode in which the

passed away earlier this month.

NBC and fox will air Saturday morning educational

programs for kids this fall, designed to comply with the

Children’s Television Act. NBC’s will be produced by the Discovery Channel

while Fox will get its programming from 4Kids Entertainment.

Top movies this week -

Signs

XXX

SpyKids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Blue Crush

Serving Sara

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Undisputed

Simone

Blood Watch

Week of August 22, 2002