Severe storms hit Upper Midwest cause floods and damages
A Minnesota man is missing after floodwater inundated a road near Wanamingo as thunderstorms raked the region. A South Dakota city hall was destroyed and a farm cooperative building flattened while a tornado briefly touched down in the southwest corner. The National Weather Service warned of more storms with hail and damaging winds.
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Wanamingo
Minn
Midwest
Minnesota
South Dakota
National Weather Service
Wisconsin
Weather Service
Jeffrey Zelinske
Mona Boomgaarden
Osaka
Faulkton
the Weather Service
Jackson defense counters gag order during Jackson trial
Attorney Thomas Mesereau said he has not authorized any news conferences for Michael Jackson and will honor the gag order as jurors wrapped a third day of deliberations in the molestation trial. Jackson’s spokeswoman had spoken publicly, and Rev. Jesse Jackson also advocated for the singer.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Michael Jackson
Thomas Mesereau
Jackson
Mesereau
Raymone Bain
Jesse Jackson
Bain
Rev
FBI
Edwin Comenencia
Aruba judge upholds detention of 2 hotel guards
An Aruba judge ruled there was sufficient cause to hold Nick John age 30 and Abraham Jones age 28, former hotel security guards, for nearly four months. They are investigated for possible murder and kidnapping in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance. Holloway, 18, vanished May 30 during a high school graduation trip.
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Oranjestad
Aruba
Nick John
Abraham Jones
Natalee Holloway
Cassini finds possible ice volcano on Titan
Cassini imagery suggests Titan lacks methane oceans but reveals a spiral 19 miles across that may be an ice volcano. Cryovolcanoes could replenish Titan's methane, with subsurface water ammonia methane mix flowing beneath and erupting to release gas into the atmosphere.
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Cassini
Saturn
Titan
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Earth
Record map sold for 1 million at Christie's London
A nearly 500-year-old map that helped name America sold for a record 1 million dollars at Christie's London. The four surviving sheets were created by a group under Martin Waldseemüller and bought by Charles Frodsham and Co. Ltd. Scholars note the map helped depict the Pacific and identify America and part of South America.
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Auction House
London
New World
America
Pacific Ocean
Sald
Martin Waldseemueller
Charles Frodsham and Co. Ltd
Christie’s Auction House
Christie’s
Richard Stenning
Charles Frodsham
South America
France
Library of Congress
Washington
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Westdats Mall
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