Myanmar forces push cyclone refugees from camps to vanishing villages
UN and church officials report the military government is relocating displaced villagers from eight Bogalay camps with little or no aid. Aid groups say authorities move people unannounced toward their ruined homes, hampering relief work as over 400 Labutta survivors are evicted from a Yangon church compound.
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Irrawaddy
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Refugees International
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Labutta
Karen Baptist Home Missions
Lorenzo Odone Dies at 30 After ALD Battle in Virginia
Lorenzo Odone, subject of the film Lorenzo's Oil, died at his Virginia home shortly after his 30th birthday. He lived more than 20 years longer than doctors predicted after being diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy. Augusto Odone announced his son's death, noting Lorenzo's struggle began with aspiration pneumonia.
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Lorenzo
Virginia
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Augusto Odone
Odone
Susan Sarandon
Nick Nolte
Michaela
Crane collapse in New York kills two workers
A 200 foot Kodiak crane on Manhattan's Upper East Side toppled during lifting, killing two workers and injuring others. Investigators focus on a failed weld at the turntable as authorities suspend crane operations and seek tighter safety measures amid a city building boom.
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Upper East Side
City Buildings Department
Manhattan
Scott Bair
Robert LiMandri
LiMandri
Michael Bloomberg
Tony Avella
West Lafayette boy wins 2008 Scripps spelling bee
Sameer Mishra, 13, from West Lafayette Indiana, won the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word guerdon. He defeated Bloomfield Hills Michigan participant Sidharth Chand who misspelled prosopopoeia in a tense final.
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Krishna Mishra
Scripps
Washington
Thong Outlaws Rob Arvada Convenience Store Heist
Police in Arvada Colorado seek two armed robbers who wore revealing women’s thongs as masks during a May 16 robbery at a convenience store. Both suspects in their 20s wore T shirts and pants and fled with an undisclosed cash amount and cigarettes. one carried a pink backpack. A surveillance video release shows the masked men inside the store and a separate photo from the gas station scene.
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Arvada
Colo
Colorado
Texas sect parents clash with judge over custody rules
In San Angelo Texas lawyers clash as Judge Barbara Walther imposes signatories for custody reinstatement. Forty parents must sign an agreement crafted by their attorneys and CPS before child returns begin, potentially delaying reunifications for 38 mothers. The case stems from the Yearning For Zion ranch raid and ongoing dispute over safety and religious rights.
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Texas
Barbara Walther
Texas Supreme Court
Andrea Sloan
Walther
Texas Child Protective Services
High Court
Zion Ranch
Supreme Court
Appeals Court
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
West Texas
CPS
Gary Banks
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