Miss America Tara Holland Faces Kansas Home Question
Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America, has lived in Overland Park for about a year while studying at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Some Kansans question her Kansas ties, but Holland and supporters insist home is where her hat hangs as she returns for a week of appearances.
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Wichita, Kan
Tara Dawn Holland
Kansas
Holland
Florida
Overland Park
University of Missouri
Kansas City
Wichita
Joyce Carron
Miss Holland
Merv Griffin to begin radiation therapy for prostate cancer
Merv Griffin, entertainment mogul and creator of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, will start four weeks of outpatient radiation treatment for prostate cancer in Los Angeles. Doctors expect a full recovery despite the cancer diagnosis. Dirk Bogarde, the British actor known for Death in Venice, is recovering from a stroke after circulatory surgery in London, with doctors predicting a full recovery.
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Los Angeles
Griffin
NBC
CBS
London
Dirk Bogarde
Brock van den Bogaerde
Bogarde
Venice
Aiken Standard Subscription Rates and Postal Details
The notice lists HOME DELIVER and MAIL subscription rates for Aiken Standard, with monthly and multi month options. It provides advance payment details and publishing information including ISSN, ownership, and mailing address in Aiken South Carolina.
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Aiken Standard - PM
Aiken Standard
Reunited Bus Brings Brothers Together After Four Years
In Sarajevo, Remzija and Nurija Strujic reunite after five years apart as a Belgrade to Sarajevo bus arrives at the shell shattered station. Tears flow as the brothers embrace, signaling a thaw in Yugoslav relations and a long awaited return route from Belgrade after four and a half years of war.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
Remzija
Nurija Strujic
Belgrade
Sarajevan
Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic
Bosnia
Lasta Transportation Company
Nurija
Belgrade-Sarajevo
Nurijic Strajic
Lone death in Kobe tents marks quake aftermath
In Kobe, Japan, Masao Yamashita was found dead in his temporary housing room after 10 months. Officials note widespread loneliness in the settlements still housing over 80,000 people nearly two years after the quake, with thousands left homeless or in shelters.
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Masashi Fukushima
Kobe
Japan
Masao Yamashita
Yamashita
Fukushima
Masayuki Takahashi
Takahashi
Children Live Two Weeks With Slain Mother's Body
In Sacramento, neighbors noticed nothing unusual as an 8 year-old boy and his 14-year-old sister lived alone for two weeks while their mother Janice Castorena lay dead in a closed bedroom. Police say Robert Castorena, a 38-year-old high school social studies teacher, stabbed and beat her, fled, and remains sought as investigators probe motive. The boy’s shoplifting led officers to the scene and prompted discovery of the body.
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Sacramento
Calif
Bob Mitchell
Mitchell
Janice Castorena
Robert Castorena
King Hussein visits Jericho signaling Palestine unity
King Hussein of Jordan arrives in the West Bank for his first autonomous Palestinian enclave visit. He flies by helicopter with Yasser Arafat to Jericho to pressure Israel’s Netanyahu to push the peace process forward, retaining strong West Bank support among older Palestinians.
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West Bank
Jordan
Hussein
Israel
Yasser Arafat
Kabul Damaged Capital Amid Taliban Clash News Report
The report describes heavy fighting near Kabul's northern outskirts as Taliban forces block exits and keep control of the Baghram air base while Masood loyalists conduct guerrilla actions north of the capital. Also covered are Hong Kong's repatriation of 199 Vietnamese boat people and Pope John Paul II's recovery steps after surgery.
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Baghram
Ahmed Shah Massood
Hong Kong
Jong Kong
Hanoi
Vietnam
Britain
China
Farm owner says no reason to suspect militia violence
Associated Press reports from CHURCHVILLE WV where the West Virginia Mountaineer Militia trained on a remote farm. Neighbors and a retired Army medic who permitted use of the land express shock at the accusations. Floyd Looker, named as commanding general, is praised as a patriot while six others face charges for conspiring to bomb three federal buildings including an FBI complex near Clarksburg.
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W.va
West Virginia Mountaineer
John Wooster
West Virginia
Militia
Floyd “Ray” Looker
Wooster
Looker
FBI
Clarksburg
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