Woman sues Jackson for child support
Woman sues Jacksonfor child support
CHICAGO -- The mother of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's out-of-wedlock child has filed a lawsuit seeking child-support payments and visitation arrangements.
Karin Stanford filed the lawsuit about two weeks ago in Los Angeles after unsuccessful negotiations with the civil rights leader and his attorneys, said Stanford's spokeswoman Michelle Jordan.
Jackson insists he and Stanford are not at odds.
"The process of resolving the settlement is ongoing. There is no contest," Jackson told the Chicago Tribune.
Though there is no formalized agreement, Jackson previously has said he pays Stanford $3,000 a month in child support.
Jackson's attorney, Willie Gary, said details of a settlement have been worked out with Stanford's attorneys. It requires Jackson to increase payments to $4,000 a month, establish a college fund and take out a life insurance policy for the child.
But Jordan said late Friday, "There is no agreement on the table. The negotiations are ongoing."
Jackson, 59, said in January he is the father of Stanford's child. Stanford, 39, is a former Jackson aide who worked in the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Washington office, but now lives in Los Angeles with her daughter.
Descendants of slavesof Madison gather
ORANGE, Va. -- Rebecca Coleman was in her 40s when she learned the log cabin down the road had been built by her great-grandfather, a slave of James Madison.
"Older folks really don't talk about slavery," Coleman said. "A lot of people were ashamed about the past and the heartbreak of those times."
No longer. Coleman was among a few dozen descendants of Madison's slaves who gathered this weekend at Montpelier, his 2,750-acre estate in central Virginia.
It was the first commemoration honoring the black families who were the foundation of the fourth president's household. Madison owned more than 100 slaves who worked as cooks, carpenters and brick masons at his 55-room mansion and raised wheat and rye in the fields.
"Slaves were critical to the success of Montpelier," said Michael Quinn, president of the Montpelier Foundation, which operates the 240-year-old estate. "The reason why it still stands is it was well built."
The foundation was able to track down descendants of five slaves: George Gilmore, a carpenter; Paul Jennings, a man servant; Susan and Walker Madison; and a field hand named Mandy.
The descendants attended workshops on genealogy, and staffers recorded stories that have been passed down for generations.
Editor, businessmankilled in plane crash
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The president of the multinational Techint construction group and a top editor at the Argentine newspaper La Nacion were killed Saturday in a small plane crash along with eight others, authorities said.
Agostino Rocca, 56, president of the Buenos Aires-headquartered Techint group, and German Sopena, 54, a prestigious journalist and editor at La Nacion, were killed instantly in the crash, authorities said.
The Cessna 15-seater plane, carrying two crew and eight passengers, had left Don Torcuato, north of Buenos Aires, on an early morning flight Saturday when it crashed in countryside some 120 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. There were no survivors.
The air force said the plane was on a flight to Trelew in southern Argentina at the time. Authorities say the plane was found in cattle and farming country outside the capital, the scene of recent flooding.
Negative test results
LONDON -- The first 13 humans tested for foot-and-mouth disease have all been cleared, but two more suspected cases are being investigated, the Public Health Laboratory Service said Saturday.
The last confirmed human case in Britain was a man infected in 1966. Human infections of foot-and-mouth disease are extremely rare, and victims recover quickly.
The Ministry of Agriculture said 13 new cases of foot-and-mouth disease in livestock were confirmed in the 24-hour period ending Friday evening, raising the total to 1,495 since the first case was confirmed Feb. 20.
Associated Press