Grain entombment battle as rescuers race to reach missing men
In Haysville Kansas, rescuers labor to reach four men trapped in an 800 foot tunnel beneath a grain elevator after a grain dust explosion. Wheat pours into the shaft as crews, including Oklahoma City Fire Department veterans and federal rescuers, dig slowly with shovels and vacuum lines. No signs of life have been detected since early Tuesday and relatives wait at a nearby school amid the dangerous, hour by hour operation.
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Haysville
Kan
Oklahoma City
Milo
Oklahoma City Fire Department
Clinton signs highway bill
President Clinton signed a $203 billion transportation package funding six years of highway work including widening and extending routes. The Ports-to-Plains corridor from Lubbock to Amarillo is a high priority, with New Mexico receiving $9 million for US Route 70 improvements southwest of Portales. Critics say the plan spends too much.
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Washington
Clinton
Texas
Lubbock
Amarillo
Keith Williams
U.S
Lanny Combest
R-N.m
Highway Bill Raises Pork in Election Year Funding
The piece argues highway spending is pork for Congress and funded by a per gallon tax. An 18.4 cent federal tax feeds the Highway Trust Fund, which in 1990 masked the deficit. The bill requires future gas tax revenues to be spent on highways.
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Congress
Alaska
Idaho
Senate
Tenn
Texas
Utah
W.va
Randall County bans fireworks for seven days amid drought concerns
Randall County commissioners endorsed a seven day countywide fireworks ban after local firefighters urged action citing extreme dryness. The move, not supported by current state drought guidelines, can be extended at Tuesday’s meeting. Canyon Deputy Fire Chief Joe Rice warned of a “monumental effort” to control fires if windy conditions arise. The ban follows Governor Bush's drought declaration affecting 207 counties.
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Randall County
Texas
Commissioners Court
Ted Wood
Wood
Canyon
Joe Rice
George W. Bush
Panhandle
Texas Forest Service
Randalloes
Amarillo Woman Strangled Before Apartment Fire
Amarillo police say Ronnie Dawn Hewitt 37 was strangled before her apartment at 1216 West Lith burned Monday. Preliminary autopsy and toxicology pending with officials counting the case as Amarillo’s seventh homicide of the year. Detectives are pursuing leads but no suspects named yet.
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Potter County
Lubbock
Ronnie Dawn Hewitt
W. Lith Ave
Miller
Hewitt
Daily News
Amarillo
Gerald Bailey
Madeina Holmes
APD
Special Crimes Unit
Holmes
Parents sue over teen sex leading to pregnancy case in Nebraska
In what may be a national first, Leanne Detmer and her husband sue the boy’s mother, alleging she knew their 16 year old daughter and Dallas Mills were sexually active and failed to stop them. The couple claim psychological and physical harm after the girl’s pregnancy and abortion. The judge noted 15 to 20 sexual encounters at multiple locations.
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Lincoln
Neb
Leanne Detmer
Dallas Mills
Detmers
Jeffre Cheuvront
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