Convicts on San Quentin Death Row Await Mainline Transfer
San Quentin inmates on death row anticipate transfer to the mainline after the California Supreme Court rejected the capital punishment statute. Convicts describe eager plans to see their families, while officials consider appeals and review of the ruling. Two women remain under death sentence in Southern California as the court upholds concerns about the constitutionality of the law.
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High Court
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San Diego County
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Spokane
Wash
State Supreme Court
U.S
Los Angeles
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Park Place and Boardwalk Hotel Sold in Atlantic City
Joseph Panullo and Daniel Rizk bought the Claridge hotel on the Atlantic City beachfront for 3.5 million. Panullo aims to renovate the 46 year old property closed since bankruptcy and seeks a casino license. Rizk owns a Laurel Maryland racetrack. The purchase comes as New Jersey voters legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City on November 2.
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Claridge
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San Andreas quake rattles Arizona and Baja California
A 5.0 to 5.5 magnitude tremor shook southern Arizona, parts of southern California and Baja California, Caltech reported the San Andreas fault slip centered 50 to 90 miles south of the Arizona Mexico border. No damage or injuries were noted as residents along the line of quake shared shocked reactions and多数 calls to police.
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Ariz
UPI
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California
Mexico
Arizona-Mexico
Colorado River
Gulf of California
Caltech Seismological Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
Baja California
Yuma County
China hit by nine great earthquakes this century
Scientists at the American Geophysical Union report China has endured nine earthquakes of magnitude 8 or more since 1902, with the last in 1972, and at least 17 such quakes in six centuries. The United States has not suffered an 8.3 quake on par with the 1906 San Francisco event.
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UPI
China
American Geophysical Union
United States
University of Texas Center For Energy Studies
Bus driver cites brakes failure in Yuba City crash
Evan Prothero, 51, the charter bus driver, testified at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing that brake failure led to the deadly crash last May near Martinez. He described attempts to slow the bus as it plunged off a cosy ramp, killing 28 students and an adult adviser from the local choir trip. Prothero testified despite injuries that left him on crutches.
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Yuba City
Calif
UPI
National Transportation Safety Board
Evan Prothero
Prothero
Martinez
Soviet underground nuclear test signals detected in Siberia
UPI reports the Energy Research and Development Agency found signals at 11:57 p.m. EST from the Semipalatinsk test area in western Siberia, indicating a Soviet underground nuclear explosion. The agency described the signals as presumably from the test and recorded in the United States.
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UPI
Soviet Union
Energy Research and Development Agency
Semipalatinsk
Siberia
United States
Thousands protest at Mexican agrarian office over land disputes
In Mexico City hundreds staged a sit in at the Agrarian Reform Secretariat as peasant leaders and landowners prepared to meet. They pressed the government to honor expropriation promises and urged action on land seized in Sonora and Sinaloa, amid threats to escalate if reforms stalled.
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UPI
Federal Agrarian Reform Office
Mexico
Agrarian Reform Secretariat
Education
Victor Bravo Ahuja
Oaxaca
Jorge Rojo Lugo
Jose Lopez Portillo
Luis) Echeverria
Echeverria
Sonora
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