Times Square plans Big Idea for millennium celebration
Report recounts New York's Times Square BID inviting ideas for global New Year festivities with giant video screens linking revelers. Winners advocate streaming midnight celebrations while ball drop remains iconic. Other locales race to be first to greet the new century on time zones near the date line.
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New York
Times Square Business Improvement District
Dykstra
Times Square
Barry Manilow
Link International
Greenwich
England
Millennium Adventure Co
Mount Hakepa
Pitt Island
Christchurch
New Zealand
North Island
Gisborne
Kingdom of Tonga
Republic of Kiribati
South Pacific
American Samoa
Plane lands on Bluefield golf course after emergency approach
A two engine plane made a forced landing on the No 7 hole at Bluefield Country Club after circling Bluefield seeking a landing site. All seven aboard were unharmed as crowds gathered at the club, then the plane was salvaged and sold for parts.
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Princeton
Robert
Bluefield
Rodgin
WHIS
Missouri
Bluefield Country Club
Marion Gooch
College Avenue
Gooch
No. 1
No. 5
No. 3
Skyway Freight Company
Roanoke
Skyway
Guatemalan rebels sign end to 36 year civil war
Guerrilla leaders and government officials signed a peace accord at the National Palace in Guatemala City ending 36 years of conflict. Leaders from Central American nations and UN negotiators oversaw the ceremony as hundreds watched. The accord aims to address poverty, repression and discrimination underlying the war.
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Guatemala
Central America
Ernesto Zedillo
Mexico
United Nations
Break-in and multiple incidents murky in Bluefield blotter
Bluefield Virginia police log details a break-in at Graham Middle School with windows broken and possible self-inflicted cuts. Additional entries include DUI arrests at 2 a.m. and 2:40 a.m., a Friday night fight on Virginia Avenue, assaults, a gun detention at the Brier Motel, and a 911 patrol request for Culbert Road near Matoaka amid suspected drug activity.
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Graham Middle School
J. Altizer
P. Menefee
D. Belcher
Virginia Avenue
J.A. Williams
Holiday Hills
J.A. Jones
Brier
Mercer Sheriff's Department
Culbert Road
Matoaka
C.J. Smothers
Mark Anthony Hicks
Princeton
W.W. Worley II
Jeffrey Lynn Harrington
R.E. Haynes, Jr
Door to door fundraising shifts as parents step in
In Chicago, workers report a rising tide of colleagues buying for their children’s fund raising efforts, from cookies to birdseed. The trend shifts door to door selling from youths to adults, sparking concern among buyers who dislike inflated prices and pressure. National groups say fund raising totals reach about 4.5 billion annually, funding basics like textbooks and even salaries.
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Chicago
Mike Triolo
Triolo
Nabisco Biscuit Co
Triple
Laurel Wintersteen
State Farm Insurance Co
Association of Fund Raisers and Directors
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