Trains collide near Chicago Loop injuring over 140
An elevated train rear ended another near downtown Chicago during morning rush hour injuring 141 people. Most injuries were not life threatening as passengers were stranded on the trains and rescued by firefighters and ladder teams.
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Chicago
Michael Cohen
Yvette Pughsley
Chicago Fire Department
Dennis Gault
Chicago Fire Commission
James Joyce
Frank Kruesi
Chicago Transit Authority
Kruesi
Hubble Camera Reaches 100000 Images Milestone
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera-2 captures an edge-on galaxy with a warped dusty disk. The 100000th image milestone marks the camera's long service since its 1993 installation by astronauts.
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Hubble Space Telescope
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Shuttle
Hubble
Wonder Woman Star Lynda Carter Sets Return Film Tattered Angel
Lynda Carter is returning to the screen mid month in an independent feature titled Tattered Angel. The former Wonder Woman actor faced 1990s drama including her husband Robert Altman’s acquittal in the BCCI bank fraud case in 1993. Her public battle with alcoholism followed with two hospital stays, after which she said she gained control. Carter also had a small role in Super Troopers shown at Sundance.
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Creators Syndicate
Lynda Carter
Wonder Woman
Washington, D.C
Robert Altman
BCCI
Carter
Sorkin denies feud with Sheen over rehab pressure
Aaron Sorkin says Martin Sheen did not threaten to quit The West Wing over his drug issues. Sorkin notes Sheen warned he was more important to the show than the project and would quit to help him, while Sorkin later pleaded guilty to drug possession.
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West Wing
Aaron Sorkin
Martin Sheen
Sorkin
TV Guide
Martin
Sheen
Elvis mural painted on Memphis park stage erased by city
A Baptist youth group painted a mural of Elvis Presley with a cross, menorah, and Star of David on a city park band shell in Memphis. City officials, citing church state separation, painted over the artwork last month, erasing the King’s likeness from public property.
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Memphis
Elvis Presley
Presley
Stewart to star in Priestley revival on British stage
Patrick Stewart, famed as Captain Picard, returns to theatre in Johnson over Jordan at West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds. He says theatre is where he must be, seeking meaningful roles after television and film. Stewart, born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, spent 27 years with the RSC before joining Star Trek.
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Associated Press
Patrick Stewart
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Jean-Luc Picard
J.B. Priestley
Jordan
Priestley
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Leeds
Stewart
Mirfield
Yorkshire
Royal Shakespeare Company
United States
Today’s birthdays for entertainers and performers
Singer Frankie Ford and actor Richard Belzer join birthday notices along with Billy Bob Thornton and Rob Cieka of the Boo Radleys. Marques Houston of immature, and actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse of Grace Under Fire receive birthday mentions.
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Richard Belzer
Homicide
Billy Bob Thornton
Rob Cieka
The
Boo Radleys
Marques Houston
Dylan and
Cole Sprouse
Clinton Baseball Card Gimmick Promotes Hot Springs
Clinton appears on a publicity card for Hot Springs Arkansas with one side showing golf and the other listing fun facts about the ex president life and the resort. The stunt invites readers to swap six Bob Ueckers for one Clinton card and notes his boyhood home.
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Bob Ueckers
Bill Clinton
Free World
Hot Springs
Ark
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