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Thursday,A Thursday, April 6,2000 ;nts A natio News in Brief Casserole blamed for E. coll outbreak i MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ground beet in an undercooked casserole caused an E. coll outbreak that sickened 18 schoolchildren, and meat from the same batch may 'have been served in school lunch- 'es elsewhere in the state, health of- businesses in airal Texas eing up to 90 percent ofl private lenders. General , J , „ u ficials said. i suppo s usinesse ■ j he out k reak was at Minneapo- natenals, like cotton, thai:(| s . Rjsen Chrjst Catho | ic Scho0 | ( ipped out of stateandbusi:. ;' where g cassero | e of ground beef |X0tic plants and ammat d ■ sauce was : served March 14, the state Health 'Department said Tuesday. The stu- I'dents starting showing E. coli symp- 'toms — severe or bloody diarrhea athv Reed, counsel forthelg lent ot'Agriculture, said the: eieased to the AP was pul 'X letter from tlie Texasattm 0 " ,ce ' , gind abdominal cramps — between Ae were relying on a pier i^| arc |-| and March 20. ;eneral opinion that detentiiB jpg Health Department con- credit repons are public i|fmed six students were infected by Reed said. the E. coli 0157:H7 strain and is that 1998 decision, art.^awaiting test results on 12 other anics seeking to preventtk.[students. epartment from releasingkil Two of those sickened had to be n was denied. hospitalized. All of the children are Ve believe that the public! tfecovering or have recovered, interest in how and to wberHealth Department spokesman Is agricultural loans.andttefiBuddy Ferguson said, lis interest is served byretea Meat containing E. coli may have iary financial information.' ibeen shipped to other Minnesota signed by Assistant Anora ischools from several processing •enHattaway. ’ Slants since December, said Carol hearing for a temporaryirdBlake, a spokeswoman for the U.S. pood and Safety Inspection Service. I "It's possible that we may issue I recall of the meat, but we’re not ■tthat stage yet,” she said. Blake would not identify the pro- moratoniessing plants. matter is expected to be xt week rrence in Washington, D.CA dty capital oftlie national)] i, it’s here in Texas.” lardon a death row inmate -time 30-day stay ofexeem t of the governor’s FAA releases info from Stewart crash WASHINGTON (AP) — Tension rew as air traffic controllers called In civilian and military planes to try ution, the governor doesnUpo contact golfer Payne Stewart’s m on the death penalty."kMearjet, which was flying off course that we have a system wt|ftnd not responding to messages .-that only guilty peopleartrtibefore it crashed last October, of a strong criminal justice m “We’re ... worried about this guy t of it," Jones said. ‘ that’s unresponsive, climbing and Bush has ignored pleastok-sprobably going to die,” one controller ; lead ol lllinois Gov.Gc .: ^radioed, hours into the chase, torium there. Controllers’ attempts to contact linois didn't pass any ip Athe doomed plane and efforts to get luence to push foramov:-'other pilots to help are heard on three hours of audio tape made ^public Wednesday by the Federal Aviation Administration. | While the investigation into the cause of the crash is not yet com plete, everyone on board the plane may have been dead or uncon scious by the time it crashed. After taking off from Orlando, Fla., sn a flight to Dallas, the plane climbed :o high altitude, then went off course - probably flying on autopilot — and inally crashed in South Dakota. Nuns indicted for failing to testify WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Bud dhist nuns were indicted Wednes- play for failing to appear as govern- Iment witnesses at last month’s trial in which Democratic party fund-rais- ;er Maria Hsia was convicted for ar ranging more than $100,000 in il legal donations during the 1996 jpresidential campaign. 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