New Year's storm dumps record snow on southeastern Michigan
A fast moving New Year’s Day storm dumped 10 to 16 inches of snow in Oakland Lapeer and St Clair counties north of Detroit. The weather service said the region’s heaviest New Year’s Day snowstorm on record caused spinouts and minor accidents with power outages affecting thousands in Michigan and Ohio.
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Ohio
Oakland
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St. Clair
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David Shuler
Oakland County
Chicago
O’hare International
Michael Conway
Suicide bomber kills 32 mourners in east Baghdad
A self- detonating attacker targeted a funeral in Zayouna killing 32 men as mourners gathered for a retired Iraqi army officer. The blast follows a separate car bombing in Tayaran Square that killed 13. Security officials confirmed the death toll.
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al-Qaida
Iraq
London
Nouri al- Maliki
al Reconciliation
Ali al-Dabbagh
Zayouna
Nabil Hussein Jassim
Tayaran Square
FBI Revisits D B Cooper Skyjacking Case in Portland
The FBI asks the public to help identify D B Cooper after reopening details from the 1971 skyjacking. New sketches and a landing-area map accompany statements about his uncertain fate and past claims of a parachute escape.
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Dan'c
D.B. Cooper
Northwest Orient Airlines
Portland
Ore
Dan Cooper
Northwest
Seattle
Cooper
American diplomat killed in Khartoum by gunmen in passing car
John Granville of USAID and his Sudanese driver Abdal-Rahman Abbas were killed when a vehicle cut off their car and opened fire in Khartoum at about 4 a.m. The embassy said motive is not yet determined while Sudanese officials denied terrorism links.
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Khartoum
Sudan
U.S
John Granville
U.S. Agency For International Development
USAID
Granville
Interior Ministry
Abdel-Rahman Abbas
Walter Braunohler
Henrietta Fore
Africa
John
Buffalo-area
Brian Higgins
Rifle shot kills two at New Year party in Denver
Police say a high powered rifle fired around 12 20 a m may have been an accidental celebration. An 11 year old girl and a woman at a Denver home party were killed as witnesses heard several shots and a second bullet was found nearby.
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Denver
Gerry
Whitman
Sonny Jackson
New Orleans records 30 percent rise in murders in 2007
New Orleans reported 209 homicides in 2007, up from 161 in 2006, a nearly 30 percent increase. With an estimated population around 295,450, the city's homicide rate hovers near 71 per 100,000, higher than Gary and Detroit, as police link the surge to drug activity and retaliation despite added patrols and new police classes.
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Gary
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Detroit
National Guard
Rafael Goyeneche
Metropolitan Crime Commission of
Greater New Orleans
Goyeneche
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