Mistakes

A woman who dated Kevin Lee Green in high school and later became his first wife said Sunday she never doubted his innocence and stood by him during his wrongful conviction for second-degree murder and 16-year imprisonment. Tina Marie Hunger said the two kept in touch by letters and telephone while Green was in various California prisons, serving time for bludgeoning his second wife on Sept. 30, 1979, in the couple's Tustin apartment and killing their unborn child.

Viewers of "Jeopardy" in 22 Chicago suburbs found themselves suddenly watching naked women rather than the usual three contestants phrasing answers in the form of a question. Continental Cablevision on Thursday inadvertently broadcast about 10 minutes of the Playboy Channel on the channel normally reserved for the game show. "Some equipment we use to cablecast was having some problems," spokeswoman Susan Bisno said. She gave no details. "There's no defense," she said. "It was awful."

At 11:12 p.m. Wednesday, KABC-TV broadcast a report that there had been a magnitude 5.1 earthquake in a volcanic region six miles east of Mammoth Lakes that had been subject to several swarms of much smaller quakes in previous days. A 5.1 quake could have led, after consultations among scientists, to the highest volcanic alert ever called in the Eastern Sierra. But the report was false.

Kevin Lee Green returned home to his joyful, tearful family Saturday after spending 17 years in prison for a murder that authorities now say he did not commit. "I knew I wasn't guilty, and I tried to tell everyone that would listen I wasn't, and it didn't work," Green told reporters. Vindication came Thursday, when the Orange County legal system realized its error and granted freedom to the former Marine, who promptly flew to St.

It was a joyous, tearful family reunion as Kevin Lee Green returned home Saturday after spending 17 years in custody for an Orange County murder that police now say he didn't commit. "I knew I wasn't guilty, and I tried to tell everyone that would listen I wasn't, and it didn't work," Green told television reporters. Vindication came Thursday, when a horrified legal system realized its error and granted freedom to the former Marine, who promptly flew to St.

What began as a college journalism project to investigate a possible miscarriage of justice has led to freedom for a man sent to death row 11 years ago. Verneal Jimerson, 43, was a free man after murder charges against him were dropped in Cook County. Earlier this month, three friends also convicted in the case were released on home monitoring while prosecutors evaluate evidence uncovered as part of the Northwestern University project.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" --JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I spoke to the winner of the 1972 Indianapolis 500 the other day. Had a long chat with him. "Wait just a doggone minute!" you say. "How can that be? How can you speak to Mark Donohue? He was killed in a race car in Europe in 1975." Well, it seems the facts are in some dispute. At Indy, they often are.

As freed prisoner Kevin Lee Green prepared Monday for a trip to Cabo San Lucas to celebrate his first birthday on the outside in 17 years, the suspected serial killer accused of bludgeoning Green's wife arrived in Orange County to face murder charges. The lives of the two Marines seemed to diverge Monday as dramatically as they had collided last week, after Gerald Parker's alleged confession to investigators abruptly ended Green's nightmare and he walked out of a Santa Ana courtroom a free man.

The U.S. Supreme Court could be the next stop for a daughter's campaign to force the Internal Revenue Service to refund a $7,000 check mistakenly written by her late father when he was 93 and senile. Although the IRS admits the Granada Hills man never owed such a sum, the agency has steadfastly refused to return his money, saying he missed the deadline to apply for a refund.

At a time when the United States is trying to defuse tensions with Iran, the U.S. government said Thursday that it will pay almost $62 million to the families of 248 Iranians killed when an American warship shot down an Iran Air passenger plane over the Persian Gulf in 1988. No money will go to the Iranian government. The settlement does not signal a change in relations with Iran, said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns.