Baskin shark washes ashore on Scituate beach as officials identify it
A 30 foot basking shark carcass washed onto Man Hill Beach in Scituate, Massachusetts. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute curator Andrew Connorth Jr. confirmed the skeleton is a basking shark, not a sea serpent, explaining its decomposed state and long neck-like appearance. Police cordoned the area as spectators damaged the carcass awaiting removal by New England Aquarium officials and a Woods Hole zoologist.
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UPI
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Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
Connorth
Monterey
Calif
Edward Rowe Snow
Marshfield
Man Hill Beach
Board of Selectmen
New England Aquarium of Boston
Donald DeHart
Aquarium
DeHart
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Snow
Mohawk pilots agree to resume bargaining
Mohawk Airlines and the Air Line Pilots Association agreed to meet Tuesday in Utica to resolve the year‑old wage and benefit dispute. About 400 pilots are on strike after flights were canceled and 2,500 employees furloughed. Mohawk serves 87 cities in 12 states and Canada, and the strike disrupted service to several upstate New York cities.
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Utica
N.Y
UPI
Mohawk Airlines
Striking Air Line Pilots Association
Thomas G. Davis
ALPA
Horizon
Oneida County
Mohawk
Russell V. Stephenson
Jack Morien
National Mediation Board
Washington
Canada
New York State
Ithaca
Elmira
Binghamton
Olean
Jamestown
Rome
Glens Falls
MIT scientist predicts super genius machines
Life Magazine reports MIT researcher Marvin Minsky believes within eight years a machine will reach general intelligence near human level. It could read Shakespeare, perform tasks, and even educate itself to ever greater powers, while experts debate exact timing and warn on humanity's ability to control such minds.
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New York
UPI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Life Magazine
Life
Marvin Minsky
MIT
Project Mac
Minsky
Stanford Research Institute
Shaky
Moon
Earth
Vermont faces sludge removal ruling and water crisis alerts
Interior Department expected to decide on Vermont sludge cleanup at Lake Champlain tied to a new International Paper mill at Ticonderoga New York. Also a Vergennes water emergency prompts pumps and possible mandatory conservation as Addison County faces a looming crisis. Additionally Gerald Blondin’s first degree murder trial begins in Addison County Court while Plainfield loses state aid for a new water system but gains planning grants for nearby towns.
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UPI
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Vermont
Lake Champlain
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Ticonderoga
N.Y
IPC
New York State
Washington
Walter Hickel
Vergennes
VPI
Addison County
Vermont Civil Defense Office
New Haven
Richard Ogden
Ogden
Middlebury
Gerald Blondin
Barre
Blodin
Robin Farnham
Berlin
Blondin
Charles Barrett
St. Albans
Vermont teen gets double four year heroin sales term
Randy Allen Dahl of Burlington, 19, was sentenced in Vermont District Court to two concurrent four year prison terms for selling heroin. He was among about a dozen arrested in September during a series of drug raids.
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UPI
Randy Allen Dahl
Vermont
Dahl
City ponders sale of nativity display in dispute
Glens Falls officials table a mayoral bid to use taxpayer funds for a religious display amid doubts of legality. The chief calls for a ruling by the state attorney general while merchants may buy the exhibit. In Albany three more girls are reported missing, raising concerns after earlier disappearances.
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Glens Falls
Robert J. Cronin
Cronin
Louis J. Lefkowitz
Albany
Phyllis Delair
Katherine Wascherault
Melrose
Schaghticoke
Rensselaer County
Deborah Sansome
Donald Smit
Broadway
Sheila Allen
Colonie
Berkshire Airport Chief Keeps Post Amid Quarters Shortage
Richard W. Lord of Lanesboro remains Harriman Airport manager as new quarters are sought. Mohawk Valley administration building closed while the airport handles arrivals and departures. George A. West, Mohawk Valley founder, has resigned and relocated to Schenectady. In Pittsfield, a 19 year old with hepatitis died after injecting drugs with a contaminated needle, the first local case amid many hospitalizations for serum hepatitis.
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Schenectady
N.Y
Pittsfield
State eyes Greylock land deal for 45 acres
The Department of Natural Resources is negotiating with landowner George Rubesam of West Mountain Road to buy 45 acres at the base of Mount Greylock. DNR may use the parcel for a proposed recreational area linked to the Thiel Farm project, which has stalled due to access and water supply issues.
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Department of Natural Resources
George Rubesam
West Mountain Road
Mount Greylock
Rubesam
DNR
Thiel
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