Eleven Gamblers' Special plane bodies recovered high in Sierra
Recovery teams near Lone Pine airlift 11 of 35 victims from the Gamblers' Special wreck in the Mt. Whitney area after a six month delay caused by heavy snow and weather. Bodies found along the slide path and near wreckage, with further remains expected as roping and cutting work proceeds.
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Mt. Whitney
Lone Pine
Sierra
Mineral County Airlines
Hawthorne
Nev
Long Beach
Nevada
Mt. Whitney Group
Gerard M. Bruggink
Bruggink
National Safety Transportation Board
Bishop Airport
Desert heat claims three travelers near Death Valley
Arnold Dobson 65 of Irvine Harold Mast Sr and Harold Mast Jr 16 Corona died after driving into Saline Valley to visit El Capitan Mine and getting stranded without water. Deputies say they walked toward a ranch house and a willow spring a mile in the opposite direction would have offered help. Bodies found seven fourteen and seventeen miles from their disabled car. Temperatures in the area reach 120 degrees or more.
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Death Valley
Red Landergren
Landergren
Saline Valley
Arnold Dobson
Irvine
Harold Mast Sr
Harold Jr
Corona
Independence
Calif
el Capitan
Eureka Valley
Slaying Suspect Held After Brother-in-Law Shot
Diane Maureen Morgan, 25, of 434 W Laurel Ave Compton is held on suspicion of murder after her brother-in-law Richard Harrison Woodard, 24, was found mortally wounded in a doorway at about 7 20 p m and died later at Las Campanas Hospital. Detectives said officers arrived to the scene and Morgan is in custody.
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Compton
Richard Harrison Woodard
Laurel Ave
Las Campanas Hospital
Diane Maureen Morgan
Laurel Avenue
Tot Drowns Unnoticed by Parents in Buena Park Pool
A 4-year-old boy, Michael James Stark, drowned at a Buena Park apartment pool while his parents swam nearby unaware of the tragedy. He was pronounced dead at Beach Community Hospital at 3:25 p.m. Police noted he was seen at the shallow end before his mother later found him floating near the pool bottom.
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David Arias
Los Angeles
Queen’s Park
Long Beach
Buena Park
Michael James Stark
Walter Stark
Faculty Ave
Apt. A
Beach Community Hospital
Stark
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Gambler
MT. Whitney Heates
Temt
Sandergren
Dodson
Tot
Alfred
E. 45Th St
San Juan Capistrano
California
Staiv
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