Toddler reunites with mom after Chicago kidnap arrest
A 16 month old girl Jasmine was found unharmed in West Virginia after being abducted on Christmas Eve. Sheila Matthews 35 was arrested in federal court on kidnapping charges in Charleston. Jasmine arrived at Yeager Airport with her mother Marcella Anderson thank to an FBI jet.
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Yeager
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Bob Wise
Wise
Amy Shuler Goodwin
Joe Ciccarelli
Matthews
Anderson
Milwaukee
Alicia
Leo
Dewallis Cortez Harris
Washington State
Alice Casanova
Seattle
Yeager Airport
Bush fires threaten Sydney as second surge feared
Fire officials said 150 homes were destroyed and more than 100 fires burned across New South Wales near Sydney. About 4,400 people evacuated as 15,000 firefighters battled hot dry winds and possible second wave threats. Insurance losses reached 25.4 million dollars with wildlife losses likely high.
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Sydney
Australia
Phil Koperberg
New South Wales
Koperberg
Israeli soldiers kill Islamic Jihad attacker in Gaza ambush
Israeli troops killed one Islamic Jihad attacker after an early morning assault near Netzarim in the central Gaza Strip. They found fragments of an explosives belt by the assailant and the second attacker fled the scene as security forces returned fire. Israel later lifted a Bethlehem blockade amid a Gaza West Bank easing.
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Yasser Arafat
Islamic Jihad
Gaza Strip
Israel
Bethlehem
West Bank
Arafat
Netzarim
Erez Katz
Katz
Economists see signs of recovery in confidence and sales
The Conference Board reports December consumer confidence at 93.7 up from 84.9, the first rise in six months. New home sales jumped 6.4 percent in November, the largest gain in almost a year, aided by mild weather and lower mortgage rates. Orders for big-ticket items also rose, underpinning cautious hopes for a 2002 recovery.
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New York
Conference Board
Commerce Department
Van examined after Herald Square crash kills seven
Police tore apart a commercial van in Herald Square to check for a defect that could have caused it to lurch into pedestrians outside Macy's. The driver, Sidney Weinstein, 76, was questioned and released with no charges. He had minor injuries. Investigators will probe vehicle malfunction and any medical issues.
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Herald Square
Macy’s
Sidney Weinstein
Valley Stream
Weinstein
Five-year-old Ebola victim pushes toll to twenty one
In Mekambo Gabon a 5 year old boy died in an improvised isolation ward as Ebola outbreaks lift the toll to 21 across Gabon and Republic of Congo. The child was the fifth family member infected including his mother a nurse. health workers carried the body by truck to a jungle grave.
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Mekambo
Gabon
Adamou
Mekambou
Republic of Congo
John Otolany
Conta
Gion, Otolany
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