Heavy hail and tornadoes sweep multiple states
A frontal system triggered severe storms across western Kansas and Nebraska with large hail and winds over 60 mph. Dickinson and Alliance reported marble sized hail, with flash flooding in Nebraska and North Dakota. Five tornadoes touched down in North Carolina, Colorado, Delaware and New Jersey, causing damage and injuries near Morehead City and Camden.
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Alliance
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N.D
Ern
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North Carolina
Colorado
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New Jersey
Morehead City
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Magnolia
Del
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N.J
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Sault Ste. Marie
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Washington
Government fails to meet promises on hiring women and minorities
AP reports that 76 percent of the top 265 Carter administration jobs are held by white men. Women hold 14 percent and Blacks 9 percent of top positions, with no American Indians and only one Asian American in senior roles. Cabinet includes Kreps and Harris.
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Washington
Carter
White House
Patsy Mink
America
Tration
Freddie Wechsler
National Women’s Political Caucus
Ann Kolker
Man says WWII rifle fired accidentally killing wife
Anthony Harcourt Biggs, 43, told police he accidentally shot his wife Eve Ann Biggs, 27, at their Little Rock home with a WWII Japanese rifle he believed unloaded. He was questioned then released with police handing the case to the prosecuting attorney.
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Little Rock
Anthony Harcourt Biggs
Eve Ann Biggs
Biggs
Farris Hensley
Hensley
L. Gordon Holt
Arkansas Democrat
Lonoke man convicted of second degree murder in farm shooting
Gerald Stroud 53 of Lonoke found guilty of second degree murder in the July 1976 death of neighbor John Wayne Cook at his farm. Jury deliberated three hours and recommended five years in prison after prosecutors sought first degree murder. defense cited self defense amid a long dispute.
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Clarendon, Ark
Monroe
Gerald Stroud
Lonoke
John Wayne Cook
Stroud
Cook
Jack Lessenberry
Lonoke County
Monroe County
William M. Lee
Clarendon
Searcy Daily Citizen Sold to Harte-Hanks
The Searcy Daily Citizen is sold by the Jones family to Harte-Hanks Newspapers Inc of San Antonio Texas. Perrin Jones remains editor and publisher with Jim Baugh Jones as general manager. The deal includes the weekly White County Citizen and expands Harte-Hanks Arkansas presence to two dailies and three weeklies. The sale is expected to close later this month.
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Robert Marbut
Harte-Hanks
White County
Harte- Hanks
Arkansas
Russellville
Arkansas mascot Big Red finds new home near Eureka Springs
The 275 pound Australian wild boar Big Red, longtime Arkansas Razorbacks mascot, moves from Little Rock Zoo to an animal park near Eureka Springs. UA officials credit the move to space needs and see it as a mutual arrangement benefiting tourism and the university's game-day rituals.
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Little Rock
University of Arkansas
Little Rock Zoo
Eureka Springs
Lon Farrell
Farrell
Fayetteville
Dallas
University
South
Arkansas
Cotton Bowl
Here
Big Red
C. A. Rogers
Rogers
Zoo
Senate approves two year extension for auto exhaust standards
Roll call from Washington shows Texas Senator Bentsen for and Tower against. New Mexico Senators Domenici for and Schmitt against. Arkansas Senator Bumpers for in a 56-38 Senate vote approving a compromise two year extension for tighter auto exhaust standards.
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Texas
New Mexico
Arkansas
Senate
Bentsen
Tower
Domenici
Schmitt
Bumpers
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Erence Board
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