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Show [ORNING 8 i LOTTERY NUMBERS > IDAHO PICK THREE: 1-4-1 Wednesday, October 9, 2002 i ratingssrace early wininner powerful Monday and Thursday night lineups. CBS said its audience was 21 percent higher last week than the comparable week in 2001. The WB’s audience is 33 percent higher this season than last, with the drama “Everwood” establishing itself as a family-friendly companion to ”7th Heaven,” and “Smallville” blossoming into a breakout hit. One concern for NBC is the decline of the Emmy-winning “The West Wing,” down 28 percent in viewers since last year. ABC, desperate for good news, was encouraged last week by the performance of its Tuesday night comedies, particularly ”8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teen-Age Daughter” and “Life with Bonnie.” OOnS Judge says: Sull no Miss N.C. RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina, which has had two reigning beauty queens for a -month, now has none. A judge on Tuesday ordered the Miss North Carolina pageant to not recognize anyone as the state titleholder until Rebekah Revels, who won the pageant but was forced to resign over topless snapshots, resolves her legal dispute with the national organization. A month ago, state judge Narley L. Cashwell ruled that Revels, who was crowned in June and stepped down in July, had a valid contract with the Miss North Carolina Pageant Organization. Fla. woman set to die The Associated Press pen at the Association to Rescue Kritters in St. Helen, Mich. The association has set up a wildfire are 22 raccoons, and at one point there were 60 on bottles during the busy baby season. Actress Garr reveals she has multiple sclerosis Knight Ridder Teri Garr, nominated for a best supporting actress for her role in the 1982 hit movie “Tootsie, ” has announced that she has multiple sclerosis, reports Agence Garr France-Press. In a brief statement issued Tuesday, Garr said she had suffered symptoms of the disease for 19 years. “I didn’t tell people because I didn’t want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn’t get work,” said Garr, 52, who also starred in “Young Frankenstein” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Today’s birthdays Singer Jackson Browne is 54. Sharon Osbourne is 50. Singer PJ Harvey is 33. Rocker Sean Lennon is 27. ‘MIAMI - She may be America’s only death row inmate to have inspired an opera — a six-time convicted murderer with a bleak childhood and rough life who has puzzled and intrigued criminologists. And this morning, she is due to die. At 9:30 a.m. EST, executioners at Florida State Prison are scheduled to empty two syringes of potassium chloride into the bloodstream of Aileen Wuornos, stilling the heart of a rare female serial killer. The 46-year-old former prostitute, who murdered seven mostly middle-aged men along Florida highways more than a decade ago, battled in court to bring her own end closer, firing her lawyers and dropping her appeals. Carjacker gets life PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A key accomplice in the carjacking murders of two college students was sentenced _ Tuesday to life in prison. Harry Burdick, 23, had pleaded guilty to federal carjacking charges for holding up Jason Burgeson and Amy Shute, who were later killed by their kidnappers. “TI don’t belong on the streets,” Burdick told U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux on Tuesday. “I don’t know how to say I’m sorry to the victims’ families.” Dad killed daughter ERIE, Pa. — A man has ~ |