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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, February 23, 1992                   TAG: 9202230069
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LITTLE ROCK, ARK.                                LENGTH: Short

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JUDGE UPHOLDS LIBEL AWARD FROM TABLOID

A judge followed a jury's recommendation and ordered a supermarket tabloid to pay $1.5 million to a 96-year-old woman it falsely identified as a pregnant 101-year-old newspaper carrier.

In December, a U.S. District Court jury in Harrison found that the Sun invaded the privacy of Nellie Mitchell and committed actual malice.

Mitchell had sought $1 million in a libel lawsuit against the Sun, of Boca Raton, Fla., and its parent company, Canada-based Globe Communications Corp.

U.S. District Judge H. Franklin followed a jury's recommendation Friday, awarding $650,000 in compensatory damages and $850,000 in punitive damages. - Associated Press

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