Wilma Pounds Florida with Devastation and Power Loss
Hurricane Wilma ripped across Florida with 125 mph winds, shattering windows and knocking out power to about 6 million. At least six fatalities raised the toll to 25 as the storm cut a swift path from Marco Island to Miami Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, causing mass outages, flooding, and widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure.
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Wilma
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Tropics
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Miami
West Palm Beach
Atlantic
Eddie Kenny
Plantation
Miami-Dade County
Naples
National Hurricane Center
Mark McInerney
Florida Power & Light
Daytona Beach
Key West
Melbourne
Carrie Carlton
Miami Beach
Brickell Avenue
Broward County
School Board
District votes to restrict field use to school teams only
Barbers Hill trustees approve limiting the district softball field to school teams citing scheduling and safety concerns. Opposing member Jaime Harvey laments limits on public access, while superintendent Wayne Rotan defends that opening the field would force high school games to be scheduled around Little League.
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Jaime Harvey
Harvey
Wayne Rotan
Larry Hope
Rosa Parks dies at 92 mother of civil rights movement
Rosa Lee Parks, the Montgomery seamstress whose 1955 refusal to give up a bus seat helped spark the modern civil rights era, died at her Detroit home of natural causes. She was 92, and became a enduring symbol after a defiant act that challenged Jim Crow laws and sparked nationwide activism.
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Detroit
Rosa Lee Parks
Parks
Karen Morgan
U.S
John Conyers
D-Mich
Montgomery
Ala
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Bush refuses to release Miers advice records
President Bush said he will not turn over documents detailing Harriet Miers private advice given while in the White House. He warned against revealing the decision making process and recommendations, calling it a confidentiality red line. Miers has held three White House posts and advised on sensitive topics.
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Senate
Bush
Supreme Court
Harriet Miers
White House
Miers
Senate Judiciary Committee
Experts Convene in Ottawa to Prep for Bird Flu
World health ministers meeting in Canada stressed preventing the virus from mutating into a deadly human strain as crucial as making vaccines. Officials at the two day conference discussed possibly overriding patent rules to produce generic Tamiflu to save civilians with technology transfers aided by Canada’s Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh.
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Ottawa
World Health Ministers
Canada
Ujjal Dosanjh
Associated Press
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