Belated Christmas Bomb Case Update at Clifton Park
Ten year old Jordan Reardon returned home for a belated holiday celebration as state police ruled out a link between a live pipe bomb found in Troy and the package bomb that burned her. She suffered burns over about 27 percent of her body and had minor plastic surgery at Westchester County Medical Center. The family remains under state police protection.
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Clifton Park
N.Y
Jordan Reardon
Reardon
Westchester County Medical Center
Hair chewing Cabbage Patch doll bites girl in South Carolina
In Rock Hill and across South Carolina a Cabbage Patch Snack Time Kid has bitten several girls, including 7-year-old Hanna Spears, prompting hair cuts and doll destruction. Mattel says incidents are under ten since September release. A separate Springfield evacuation occurred after a ticking luggage noise proved to be a vibrating sex toy.
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Rock Hill
S.C
Gail Spears
Hanna Spears
South Carolina
Mattel
Springfield
Mass
Amtrak
Robert Thibodeau
Atlanta
Thibodeau
Gazette Wire Services
Northwest storm paralyzes Seattle area with heavy snow and outages
A second major storm in a week dumped up to 10 inches in Seattle and unleashed 90 mph winds. Highways closed across Washington and Oregon, the Space Needle shut, and the governor declared a disaster in 11 counties as transit failed and power outages mounted.
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Seattle
Northwest
Washington
Oregon
Mike Lowry
National Guard
Space Needle
Lynn Blackpool
Peru rebels shift demand seek legal political party status
MRTA guerrillas holding 83 officials in Lima appear to favor an intermediate solution. They want recognition and a path to legal political party status while freeing imprisoned comrades. A rebel spokesman in Hamburg reiterated the call for better prison conditions and liberation of political prisoners as part of a broader deal.
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Washington Post
Lima
Peru
Tupac Amaru
Alberto Fujimori
Akihito
Hamburg
Germany
Reuter
MRTA
Isaac Velazco
Fujimori
Shining Path
San Francisco Ordinance Demands Domestic Partner Benefits
The city moves to require health and other benefits for employees’ same sex partners from about ten thousand city contractors. Critics call the rule costly and poorly studied while supporters frame it as a anti discrimination measure. Major firms including Gap Levi Strauss Disney already implement policies. Bank of America questions the policy. Supervisor Tom Ammiano defends the effort.
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San Francisco
U.S
Dennis Wyss
Bank of America
San
World plans lavish millennium celebration across nations
World powers outline ambitious events for 2000 celebrations. Concorde cross time zones and ships head for the first sunrise of the century while Iceland England Sri Lanka Brazil and the Vatican stage major ceremonies. Times Square in New York will host global millennium visuals as Rome prepares a Jubilee Year draw of pilgrims.
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Associated Press
Iceland
England
Sri Lanka
Colombo
Indian Ocean
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
New York
Times Square
British Airways
London
Vatican
Rome
Edward McNally
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