European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 4, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 7 radioactive escapees show plenty of Bounce Knoxville Tenn. Apr in a Case that at first glance could pass for a science fiction movie plot radioactive frogs Are Loose at a government lab. About 100 so called a hot frogs have been caught hopping away from a contaminated Pond where they hatched this Spring said officials at the department of Energy soak Ridge National Laboratory. A they done to have six legs and four eyes a said Frank Kornegay the labs environmental coordinator. He said they look like Ordinary Leopard frogs common in Tennessee. The radioactive frogs Are Safe unless eaten and Leopard frogs Arentt exactly a delicacy. The frogs a Brownish Green and up to 2 inches Long with Long Skinny legs a appear healthy but will set off Geiger counters with radiation Levels Well above background readings officials say. The lab is planning to install a Frog fencing a a Fine mesh screen about 3 feet High to prevent them from escaping Kornegay said. The frogs became contaminated while growing up in the mud of a half acre holding Basin for waste Waters from the labs nuclear research of the 1940s and 1950s. A you can to be harmed by rubbing them picking them up or moving them around. But they Are contaminated internally a Kornegay said. A they done to represent a health risk unless you choose to eat them a he said adding that the chances of that happening arc slim because a Thev Are not an edible size or a species of Frog that generally would be  Quot employees have been instructed to return escaped frogs to the Pool if they re alive and treat them As radioactive waste if they re dead. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is located on a 55,000-Acrc reservation. The facility was created to enrich uranium for the country a first atomic bombs. King of Funk arrested for alleged torture by the los Angeles times los Angeles a Singer Rick James the grammy winning a King of Funk of the 1980s, was arrested with his 21-year-old Girlfriend Friday for allegedly imprisoning and torturing a 24-year-old woman with a hot cocaine pipe Over three Days at James Hollywood Hills Home police said. James 43, who with Prince spearheaded the 1980s merger of Funk and Rock was held in lieu of $1 million bail after he was arrested Friday morning at Home with his Girlfriend Tanya Anne Hijazi. Hijazi was held on $500,000 bail. James and Hijazi were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon false imprisonment forced Oral copulation making terrorist threats and furnishing narcotics police said. James and his Girlfriend met the unidentified victim who apparently was unemployed at a party Ana offered to put her up at their House police said. On july 16, James threatened the victim with a gun telling her he would kill her if she tried to leave and he and Hijazi tied the woman up and severely burned her about 20 times with the hot end of a crack cocaine pipe officers said. That night and Early on july 17, James forced the victim to perform Oral sex on Hijazi while he watched police said. Officers said that throughout the ordeal James and Hijazi smoked crack cocaine and intermittently forced the victim to smoke it too. Los Angeles police detective Dennis Cicioni said the victim was a just let. Go by James and Hijazi on july 18. She went to Cedars Sinai medical Center where her injuries led Hospital workers to notify police. She was released after treatment officers said. James a native of Buffalo ., is Best known for super Freak a taut sexually charged dance number that broke into the top 20 in 1981. The song so distinctive Bass line was adopted by rapper . Hammer As the basis last year for the smash u can to touch this single. James listed As co writer on the song won a grammy in february when u can to touch this was named Best rhythm and blues song of 1990. James began his music career in the mid-1960s in Toronto where he and a then unknown Neil Young formed a Rock band called the Mynah Birds. After the group split up James moved to Detroit and joined motown As a writer producer. In 1979, motown released Jam so debut album a collection featuring a song you and i that reached no. 13 on the National pop charts. The album come get it was the first of four a a Gold records a reaping More than 500,000 sales a that James recorded for motown. The biggest album 1981�?Ts Street songs sold More than 1 million copies. In addition to his own recordings James produced hits for such acts As the Mary Jane girls Teena Marie and actor Eddie Murphy. James left motown in the late 1980s to sign with Warner Bros. Records where his last album wonderful failed to re store him As a potent Chart Force in 1988. A spokesman for Warner Bros said James last album was released two years ago and his contract with the record company was dropped earlier this summer. The spokesman who asked not to be identified had no comment on James arrest. Rick James in 1983 a file teen killed outside theater showing Boyz san Bernardino Calif. Up a 15-year-old girl was killed and three others were wounded Friday in a drive by shooting in front of a theater where the controversial movie Boyz n the Hood was playing. Sherrie Guerrero a police spokeswoman said it was unknown whether the shooting was related to the movie but that the attack appeared to have been gang related. The Krikorian Premier theatre a with the Glass on one of its doors shattered a was shut for the evening in the Wake of the shooting. Nearly 100 people were in the lobby of the theater and standing outside when several shots rang out about 5 p.m., sending the patrons scurrying for cover Guerrero said. The slain girl a san Bernardino resident was not identified pending notification of her family. Guerrero said a Friend of the girls Lupe Padilla also 15, was wounded in the Groin. The boy was listed in stable condition at Loma Linda medical Center. The two other victims included another Patron Jose Haro 17, who suffered a slight wound to the head and the theater a assistant manager Julie Telfer 23, who was shot in the lower left leg. Both were in stable condition at san Bernardino county medical Center. Detectives questioned witnesses to the shooting but it was not immediately known How Many people were inside the suspects car described Only As a Tan vehicle possibly a general motors design. There were five movies scheduled to begin showing about the time the shooting erupted including Boyz n the Hood Guerrero said however that a at this Point there a no Way we can connect the violence to the film. The opening of Boyz n the Hood last month was marked by violence across the country. The mayhem that accompanied the film which depicts the struggles of growing up in South Central los Angeles was blamed largely on Street hoodlums triggering panic among theatregoers and prompting several Heaters to cancel showings. One Man was killed in a Chicago suburb during the height of the violence on the weekend of the movies debut nationwide in mid july and More than two dozens others were wounded. The film has been praised by critics for its anti violent message and has done Well at the Box office despite the violence. Riot starts when Deputy kills Man wielding bottle Light los Angeles a hundreds of residents of a Public housing project hurled rocks and bottles at two sheriffs deputies Early saturday after one of the officers fatally shot a Man armed with a Beer bottle and a flashlight police said. The Man had snuck up behind the deputies and hit one of them Over the head with a Beer bottle while they were questioning another Man who threw a bottle at their squad car Deputy Bill Linnemeyer said. The Man whose name was not immediately available then snatched the Deputy a flashlight and raised it to strike the officer again. The Deputy a partner shot him three times in the Chest after he refused to drop the flashlight Linnemeyer said. About 300 angry residents stormed into the streets throwing bottles and rocks at the deputies. The deputies called for help and 75 officers responded. Most residents went Home shortly afterwards Linnemeyer said. One of the deputies was hospitalized for treatment of a concussion severe facial lacerations and a broken Finger. The other Deputy was not injured Linnemeyer said. Their names were not released. Officers remained at the scene saturday. Linnemeyer did not know if any arrests were made. 35 injured when bus overturns in new York Caroline  Apr a greyhound bus in route to Buffalo from new York City overturned on a rain slicked Road saturday morning injuring 35 people police said. The bus overturned in Caroline a town about 50 Miles South of Syracuse said county sheriffs dispatcher Jeff Mead. The cause of the Accident was not immediately Clear but Mead said it was raining at the time of the incident. No critical injuries were reported from area hospitals. Twelve people were taken to Tompkins memorial Hospital in Ithaca for bruises and Back and neck injuries said Hospital spokeswoman Gail Longfellow. A it was not that bad considering what it could have been a Longfellow said. A three More passengers were being evaluated at Cortland memorial Hospital in nearby Cortland but a none of the injuries seem life threatening Quot said nursing supervisor Gloria Allen. A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-okl sister were listed in serious condition at Wilson regional medical Center in Johnson City said nursing supervisor Debbie Lis. Five other people were listed in Lair condition at Arnot Ogden medical Center said nursing supervisor Rita Duranty. Three people were being evaluated at st. Josephus Hospital in Elmira. The bus made stops in Scranton pa., and Binghamton and was scheduled to Stop in Rochester police said