Dear Abby Advice on Evacuation and Diaper Manners
Dear Abby addresses two reader questions. A worried building manager fears unsafe stair only evacuations and warns against a disabled list. NFPA chiefs urge a safer, maintained plan and offer an evacuation guide. In the second, a father asks if sniff tests at table are proper diaper change etiquette, advised to rely on experience and observation until potty training ends.
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Abby
Austin
Texas
Rhoda Mae Kerr
International Association of Fire Chiefs
IAFC
Allan Fraser
National Fire Protection Association
NFPA
Bill Scott
West
Gingerbread man suspect caught after taunting police
Pittsburgh area burglary suspect Heath Emory Miller, 25, taunted officers by referencing the nursery rhyme the Gingerbread Man while eluding capture in woods and later hiding in an attic. Wanted on warrants from West View and Ross Township burglaries, Miller remains jailed without an attorney.
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Pittsburgh
Sheriff's Deputies
Heath Emory Miller
Emory
West View
Ross Township
Allegheny County
Miller
Pope open to study on women deacons in Catholic Church
Pope Francis proposed creating an official commission to study whether women can serve as deacons, following a closed-door talk with about 900 women’s religious order leaders in Rome. He noted the issue warrants clarification while making no promise to ordain women as priests, and asked for liturgy staff to explain why women cannot give Mass homilies.
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Pope
Vatican City
Francis
Rome
National Catholic Reporter
Catholic News Service
Vatican
Women's Ordination Conference
Phoebe
St. Olympias
Dionysia
Hints from Heloise brighten daily routines and hacks
Readers share quick tips from Heloise on freshening up during travel using hotel fitness rooms, storing luggage before check-in, and practical stain removal. Topics include rust removal with lemon juice and salt, shopping by taking photos of needed materials, terrarium watering with a baster bulb, and a windstorm repair using a market umbrella as a swing canopy.
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Heather A
Heather
Heloise
Indianapolis
Heloise.com
P.O
San Antonio
Dorothy R
Pittston
Prosecutor outlines five more Grim Sleeper killings
Los Angeles prosecutors plan to present evidence of five additional slayings by Lonnie Franklin Jr in seeking the death penalty for the serial killer. A jury will decide in the penalty phase whether Franklin receives death or life without parole as the trial parallels his 1985 to 1988 murders of young Black women.
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Los Angeles
Beth Silverman
Lonnie Franklin Jr
Superior Court
Franklin
Seymour Amster
Silverman
Amster
Kathleen Kennedy
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Ded
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Bobby Jr
Becky
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