NEWS LITE : GIFT TO HELP BUILD CRIME LAB SCHOOL.Crime writer Patricia Cornwell Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels on June 9, 1956) is a contemporary American author. She is widely known for writing a popular series of crime novels featuring the fictional heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. has given $1.5 million to help the state of Virginia create an institute to train forensic scientists and pathologists. The state forensic lab building in Richmond will be the home of the new Virginia Institute of Forensic Science The application of scientific knowledge and methodology to legal problems and criminal investigations. Sometimes called simply forensics, forensic science encompasses many different fields of science, including anthropology, biology, chemistry, engineering, genetics, and Medicine. The first class of 10 students will begin studies next week. ``This is a direct way to fight against the very thing I hate so much - violence against people,'' Cornwell said Tuesday. ``I envision this as becoming the Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. of forensic science and medical training. I want it to be an international learning center.'' The state forensic lab is where Cornwell picked up many of the details for her novels. Her Kay Scarpetta Kay Scarpetta is a fictional character and protagonist in a series of crime novels written by Patricia Cornwell. The series is noted for the use of recent forensic technology in Scarpetta's investigations. Fictional character biography Dr. character was inspired by Dr. Marcella Fierro, Virginia's chief medical examiner A public official charged with investigating all sudden, suspicious, unexplained, or unnatural deaths within the area of his or her appointed jurisdiction. A medical examiner differs from a Coroner in that a medical examiner is a physician. . Rocker loses effort to sue his lawyer Motley Crue singer Vince Neil lost his bid to reinstate a lawsuit he filed against an attorney for allegedly botching his bankruptcy case. ``This motion is utterly without merit,'' Superior Court Judge Alan Buckner told the rocker's lawyer, David Cordrey, in his ruling Wednesday in Los Angeles. Neil claimed attorney Joseph Eisenberg failed to advise him ``honestly and appropriately'' during his personal bankruptcy case and added it cost him ``a large amount of money in settlement.'' In May, Buckner dismissed the entertainer's lawsuit, which sought unspecified damages for professional negligence professional negligence n. See malpractice. . Cordrey asked the judge to reconsider Wednesday. In saying no, the judge said the request was based on ``no new law, no new facts and no new circumstances.'' Trade Stairmaster for a masterpiece So you're in the market for a trendy status symbol: The Wall Street Journal says the personal trainer has been replaced by the art adviser. Gas tax foe trapped in D.C. traffic jam A day after declaring that Virginia should not raise the gasoline tax to pay for road projects, Gov. Jim Gilmore got stuck in traffic en route to a radio station. For about the first half of an hourlong call-in show Wednesday on WTOP in Washington, Gilmore spoke by cell phone from a traffic jam on the Key Bridge leading from Virginia into the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . The bottleneck was caused by a federal highway project on the George Washington Parkway, which is on National Park Service land. Although the state has no role in the project, the delay was illustrative of the type of frustrations commuters encounter daily in gridlocked grid·lock n. 1. A traffic jam in which no vehicular movement is possible, especially one caused by the blockage of key intersections within a grid of streets. 2. northern Virginia and the rest of the Washington area. ``This just goes to show there are bottlenecks outside of Virginia,'' Gilmore told listeners as his car driven by a state trooper inched along. Celebrities pitch art for museums Celebrities are getting into the museum act, or it's the other way around. Kevin Kline narrates the audio tour of the ``Impressionists in Winter'' show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890). . Candice Bergen narrated the same show when it was in San Francisco. Steve Martin narrated last year's Picasso show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and Lyle Lovett does a presentation at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. Madonna says advisers cost her millions in state taxes Madonna has sued her former financial advisers for $2.5 million, apparently because she believes they caused her to lose more money to taxes than a material girl should pay. Madonna's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York, charges partners and associates in the firm of Padell, Nadell, Fine, Weinberger & Co. with breach of contract and fiduciary duties, and malpractice. Bert Padell, the firm's senior partner, said the lawsuit stems from Madonna's having to pay $2 million in state income taxes in New York after he prepared a 1992 tax filing saying she was a California resident. ``The state came in and said she was a New York State resident because she lived here more than 183 days (in 1992),'' Padell said, and that made her subject to New York's income taxes. Padell said Madonna fired him in 1996 and hired a Los Angeles firm to handle her finances. He said Madonna paid the taxes. Padell said Madonna might be angry at him, but he likes her, anyway. ``She's a good person. I have no malice toward her.'' The lawsuit, in which Madonna's personal corporation and her record company are plaintiffs, asks $2 million in compensatory damages A sum of money awarded in a civil action by a court to indemnify a person for the particular loss, detriment, or injury suffered as a result of the unlawful conduct of another. and $500,000 in punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. . News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1) Tender trap Actor Michael Douglas and Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, rumored to be caught in love's bonds, arrive Wednesday for the Scottish debut of ``Entrapment entrapment, in law, the instigation of a crime in the attempt to obtain cause for a criminal prosecution. Situations in which a government operative merely provides the occasion for the commission of a criminal act (e.g. ,'' in which she stars. The film previously debuted in the United States. (2) CORNWELL (3) GILMORE (4) MADONNA |
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