Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 2, 1995 TAG: 9504030086
SECTION: NATL/ITNL PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - As fans streamed to Corpus Christi by the thousands to mourn Selena, the 23-year-old diva of Latin pop music who was slain here Friday, police announced that they had arrested the founder and former president of the Selena Fan Club and charged the woman with murder.
The 32-year-old suspect, Yolanda Saldivar, a registered nurse in San Antonio who had recently been dismissed as an employee of Selena's family's boutique, was being held in jail here after surrendering late Friday.
- The New York Times
Church founder dies at age 81
CHICAGO - Bishop Louis Henry Ford, leader of the 8.5-million-member Church of God in Christ, has died at age 81.
Ford, founder and pastor of St. Paul's Church of God in Christ, died Friday.
He began preaching in the countryside around Lexington, Miss., while attending college there in the early 1930s. He moved to Chicago in 1933 and preached on the street until founding St. Paul's in 1935.
- Associated Press
Social Security now independent
WOODLAWN, Md. - The Social Security Administration became an independent agency Friday, a move designed to insulate it from partisan politics and help it begin reforms.
Separation from the Department of Health and Human Services brings new accountability and visibility to the federal agency, Commissioner Shirley S. Chater said.
- Associated Press
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