L'Ambiance Plaza Collapse Ends With Last Body Recovered
The final body was recovered from the L'Ambiance Plaza wreckage in Bridgeport after the 60 percent complete apartment project collapsed. Investigators consider human error as a possible factor alongside multiple causes. Twenty eight workers died and four bodies had been found earlier. officials had treated rescue as a search for survivors until the last body was located. The collapse cost about $17.6 million and investigators warn months may pass before a full ruling.
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Bridgeport
Demonstrators Gather at Seabrook Plant In Evacuation Zone Protest
Hundreds of protesters converge on Seabrook nuclear plant to challenge reductions in the emergency evacuation area. About 300 demonstrate near the south gate, some carry mock shelters, and dozens are arrested after ignoring leave orders. Police process arrestees without incident. In Berkeley County, Sangaree seeks voluntary water use limits during peak hours amid drought.
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Seabrook
N.H
Charleston
Berkeley County
Sangaree
J. Marc Hehn
County Water and Sewer Authority
Rebels Attack Salvadoran Base Leaves 18 Dead
In San Francisco Gotera El Salvador about 200 leftist rebels backed by artillery and mortars assaulted the main army base. The base commander Col Mauricio Vargas said 10 soldiers 7 guerrillas and a civilian woman were killed and 14 civilians 14 soldiers wounded in the fighting.
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San Francisco Gotera
el Salvador
Mauricio Vargas
San Salvador
Vargas
IMF Decertified HMO IMC Ends 135000 Client Care
Federal regulators removed International Medical Centers Inc from Medicare certification citing ongoing financial troubles. IMC will operate under 90 days supervision to allow beneficiaries to enroll in private plans or rejoin Medicare with no intended gap, HCFA administrator William L. Roper said. In San Diego, a separate distressed submarine false alarm prompted a Coast Guard Navy search 70 miles southwest of the city with no evidence of a real Soviet vessel.
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Miami
International Medical Centers Inc
Medicare
William L. Roper
Health Care Financing Administration
San Diego
Coast Guard
Navy
Pacific Ocean
Dresnavia
Charles Hartsen
Landfill Mayor?: Man Willing To Accept Orphan Refuse
CID Landfill owner Ricard Penfold says his site could accept the Long Island garbage if asked by New York officials. The aging 3,100 tons barge, loaded March 22, has traveled 3,000 miles seeking a port after North Carolina rejected it, with Coast Guard and DEC officials coordinating a search for willing facilities.
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Chafee
N.Y
Long Island
Ricard Penfold
CID Landfill
Buffalo
Alabama
North Carolina
Key West
Fla
Fred Kephart
U.S. Coast Guard
New Orleans
Penfold
CID
Strange Alliance Between Posner and Steel Union to Save Sharon
Victor Posner, Miami Beach financier and Sharon Steel chair, backs a union-friendly path to reorganize the Chapter 11 debtor, with USW District 28 director Frank Valenta mediating talks. The two sides aim to protect pension plans and medical payments while facing Quantum Fund’s resistance and Posner's own legal troubles.
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Miami
Sharon Steel
Victor Posner
Miami Beach
Sharon
Ronnie DeSillers
Frank Valenta
United Steelworkers Union
USW
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Valenta
USX
Posner
NVF Co
Chesapeake Insurance Co
NVF
Quantum Fund N.V
Quantum
James Traficant
Dohio
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
NSW District 28
Mueller Brass
Mueller
Demonstrators disrupt Lutheran Church merger convention
About 40 protesters from a labor clergy coalition disrupted the Ohio convention of the newly unified Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at the Columbus center. Defrocked pastor Daniel Solberg and Rev. Douglas Roth were arrested for criminal trespassing after being escorted out. The event proceeded with delegates electing Rev. Lowell G. Almen as secretary amid security escorts and restraining orders in place.
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Columbus
Ohio
Daniel Solberg
Alison Park
Ohio Convention Center
New Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
Martin Luther
Pittsburgh
Solberg
Douglas Roth
Clairton
Lutheran Church In America
Denominational Ministries Strategy
Lowell G. Almen
Minneapolis
Aiken Standard Contact and Address Information
Aiken Standard provides phone numbers for subscriptions 649-5316, classifieds 649-1555, news ideas 648-2311 and display ads 648-2311. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sundays at 124 Rutland Drive. Mailing address P O Box 456 Aiken SC 29802 with USPS 0100-2000.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
P.O
Aiken
S.C
Emergency Numbers from The Aiken Standard
Emergency numbers section from The Aiken Standard provides contact information and publication details for the newspaper. It notes the paper began in 1867 and is published on weekdays and Sundays by Aiken Communications Inc with the mailing address and post office box in Aiken South Carolina.
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Hartnett
Thomas F. Hartnett
Carroll Campbell
South Carolina
Mount Pleasant
Robert G. Clawson
Willis
Southeastern Steel Corp
Florence
W. Melvin Brown Jr
Clawson
Brown
Chile
Santiago
Augusto Pinochet
Millhuff
Lynchburg, Va
Chuck Millhuff
Church of Nazarene
PTL
Jerry Falwell
Olathe
Kan
Mark DeMoss
Falwell
Jim Bakker
Richard Dortch
Bakker
DEC
R.W. Groneman
State Department of Environmental Conservation
Steel Union
Herbert Chilstrom
Corinne
Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
Lutheran Convention
Julia
Vanity Fair
Augusta
Edgefield
Greenwood
Walton's Corner
PBM
Aiken Communications Inc
P.O. Box
Abused Persons Coalition
Aiken Police
Emerg
HCA
Jackson Police
New Ellenton
New Holland
North Augusta
S.C. Highway Patrol
Salley
Volun
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