Karla Drenner is about to change the face of Georgia politics. After this November's election, she will become the first openly gay state legislator in the Deep South. Drenner defeated the Democratic incumbent, June Hegstrom, in the primary last month, and with no Republican or third-party candidates on the ballot in November, her election from her suburban Atlanta district to the Georgia House of Representatives will be a formality. The company that eventually bought the address is now in bankruptcy court, and that's causing problems for the unrelated business named ToySmart that Sadler and his wife started five years ago. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen is expected to recommend by the end of this week that President Clinton approve limited steps to begin construction of a national missile defense system, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
Mosquitoes threaten parts of the United States with the deadly West Nile virus.
Ticks feed off hikers. Fire ants and wasps invade picnics. This package explains what people can do to ward off these and other summer-loving bugs that can irritate people or make them sick. Click HERE to see today's closeup. A much-criticized law designed to expose those who collaborated with secret police during the communist era has ensnared both President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former President Lech Walesa in special court hearings to judge whether they were spies.