Inflation ease keeps July CPI at 0.2 percent rise
UPI reports July CPI edged up 0.2 percent, matching June, easing year’s inflation to 5.5 percent annually. Energy costs fell 0.7 percent with gasoline down 2.2 percent, while food rose 0.3 percent. Excluding food and energy, inflation grew 0.4 percent, and apparel and transportation declined as end-of-season discounts aided price drops.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Federal Reserve
Cynthia Latta
Data Resources
Lexington
Mass
Latta
Court rules miniature horse Ragtime a household pet in Thousand Oaks
Ventura court decides Patty Fairchild may keep Ragtime the miniature horse after a two year dispute with Oakbrook Homeowners Association. Judge Edwin Osborne notes lack of clear guidelines and warns future cases will be handled individually. The case follows neighbor complaints over property values and health rules. Ragtime has drawn attention since the 1987 Thousand Oaks council order to remove the animal.
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Ventura, Calif
UPI
St. Bernard
Superior Court
Edwin Osborne
Osborne
Solomon
Patty Fairchild
Ragtime
Thousand Oaks
Oakbrook
Christen Henrichsen
Los Angeles
Henrichsen
Fairchild
Budget Deficit Seen Higher Yet No Sequestration Trigger
The CBO projects the fiscal 1990 deficit between 18 and 24 billion above Gramm Rudman targets, but not enough to trigger automatic sequestration. It cites slower growth, higher rates and inflation as reasons for differing estimates, with possible deficits near 105 to 124 billion depending on asset sales and full resolution of the budget plan.
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Washington
UPI
Congressional Budget Office
Gramm-Rudman
Administration
Office of Management and Budget
OMB
CBO
Robert Reischauer
Budget Office
Reischauer
Congress
9 1 1 rate hike hits Lee County system
The Lee County 9 1 1 emergency system, in operation about a year, faces a near doubling of costs for five agencies including the Lee County Sheriff's Department Dixon Police Dixon Rural and City Fire Departments and Advance Ambulance of Dixon. Center in Des Plaines notified a monthly rate increase to 49.78 per trunk, totaling 248.90, far above the expected 120. The ICC tariff is cited as the reason and officials await a response from the Illinois Commerce Commission.
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Lee County
Center
Illinois Commerce Commission
Icc
Bivins
Mary Fritts
Illinois
Ohio
Des Plaines
Vietnam veteran Richardson executed in Alabama chair
Herbert Lee Richardson, a 43 year old Vietnam veteran, was executed in Holman Prison for the 1977 pipe bomb murder of 11 year old Rena Mae Callins. He faced the chair calmly saying he held no ill feelings and received communion with an Assemblies of God minister before the single electric shock killed him at 12 14 a.m. local time.
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Atmore
Ala
UPI
Herbert Lee Richardson
Alabama
Richardson
Holman Prison
Brandie Thomas
Enterprise Radio
Horace Franklin Dunkins
Morris Thigpen
Assemblies of God
Debbie Herbert
United States
Supreme Court
Rena Mae Callins
Dothan
Bryan Stevenson
Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center
Montgomery
Guy Hunt
Doris Callins
Dothan Public Library
Rena Mae
Margie Callins
Ed Carnes
Alabama Attorney General's Office
Oakland
Calif
Dixon seeks annexation and B-3 rezoning for Bloody Gulch site
Dixon real estate broker Ed Yingling filed a petition to annex and rezone 5 016 acres at Bloody Gulch Road and Illinois Route 26 for a possible motel complex. The Dixon Planning Commission will hear at 7 30 p m Wednesday. The proposal seeks B 3 designation to allow business and wholesale firms. Yingling represents Iowa man Patel who owns motels in eastern Iowa and may build a 36 unit motel on the site. J H Hummel and Sons of rural Dixon own the property.
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Telegraph
Dixon
Ed Yingling
Bloody Gulch Road
Dixon City Planning Commission
Yingling
Magen Patel
Iowa
Patel
Lee County
J.H. Hummel and Sons
Indicted 16YearOld Linked to Oregon Boy Death
Oregon 16 year old Kyle Brandon was indicted by the Ogle County Grand Jury on three reckless homicide charges and one no passing zone violation after a Route 64 crash killed 11 year old Jeffrey Lynch. He posted 3000 bond and is due August 25 for arraignment. An unrelated indictment charged Floyd Jordan with unlawful weapon possession after officials seized 17 weapons and 620 rounds of ammo at his Shangri La home. Jordan faces a Class 3 felony.
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Oregon
Ogle County
Dennis Schumacher
Kyle Brandon
Brandon
Route
Jeffrey Lynch
Lynch
Thomas Lynch
Schumacher
Floyd Jordan
Rochelle
Ogle County Sheriff's Department
Jordan
Shangri-la
Jerry Brooks
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