ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 30, 1996 TAG: 9601310003
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
12-year-old joins pal, 13, in prison
CHICAGO - A judge Monday accepted a state request to send a 12-year-old boy to a state juvenile penitentiary, making him the nation's youngest inmate at a high-security prison.
That boy and a 13-year-old boy, who was also sentenced to a juvenile penitentiary, were convicted of murder for dangling and dropping 5-year-old Eric Morse from a 14-story building after the youngster refused to steal candy for them. The boys were 10 and 11 at the time of the killing.
In court, witnesses for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services described the boys, whose names have not been made public because they are minors, as ``unrepentant,'' ``disruptive'' and ``dangerous to others.''
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Seven months after his nomination as surgeon general was killed by the Senate, Dr. Henry Foster was named Monday as a special adviser to President Clinton to lead a national campaign against teen pregnancy.
A new whooping cough vaccine appears safe enough to give to infants, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said in unanimously recommending the approval of Tripedia as an injected whooping cough vaccine in infants ages 2, 4 and 6 months.
Federal regulators extended to March 1 their examination of Hillary Rodham Clinton's former law firm and its role in a land transaction the government says was a sham, the chairman of the Senate Whitewater committee said Monday.
An independent commission on Monday chose St. Louis, San Diego and St. Petersburg, Fla., as the sites for three presidential debates this fall. Hartford, Conn., was chosen for a vice presidential debate.
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