Police deny story tying Hillside Strangler to vice cop
New West magazine suggested a Los Angeles police vice officer may be the Hillside Strangler after a witness report and alleged ligature marks on victims. LAPD spokesman Dan Cooke dismissed the claim as irresponsible journalism and criticized the magazine for publishing before contacting authorities.
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Combined News Services Special Task Force
New West Magazine
Los Angeles
New West
Frank Lalli
Iter
Task Force
Los Angeles Police Department
Larry Dietz
LAPD
Cooke
Californians urged to light wisely this Christmas season
California utility commission mocks Ebenezer Scrooge as it urges residents to conserve power. It explains how to calculate consumption and recommends practices such as using small bulbs, limiting indoor lights, and delaying illumination. It also suggests energy saving options for shoppers like low flow showerheads and thermostat setbacks.
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Commission
DC-8 Yule mail plane crashes on snowbound peak
A United Airlines DC-8 cargo jet attempting to land for Christmas mail crashed on a snow covered Utah peak after gear trouble. Rescuers found wreckage eight hours later, as two men descended by helicopter and a dozen hikers searched through four feet of snow for survivors or casualties.
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Salt Lake City
United Airlines
Siowshoes
Dub Lawrence
Begin outlines peace ideas with Egypt and West Bank autonomy
United States officials see Begin's proposals as constructive but not yet endorsed by Carter. He aims to meet Anwar Sadat in Ismailia around Christmas for talks on Sinai withdrawal with a security corridor and Palestinian self rule with Israeli forces still in place. The plan seeks broad regional acceptance and goodwill for a border peace.
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Washington
Menacem Begin
Carter
Israel
Middle East
U.S
Anwar Sadat
Begin
United States
CBS
Sadat
Egypt
Cairo
Suez Canal
Ismailia
Sinai
West Bank
Jordan
Gaza Strip
Holiday jet crashes off Madeira island killing 19
A charter Swiss jet with 57 aboard from Geneva crashed into the Atlantic near Porto Novo while approaching Madeira airport. At least 19 killed, 21 rescued, 17 treated at Funchal hospital. Plane floated briefly before sinking. cause unknown. Rescue vessels aided in the offshore incident.
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Funchal
Madeira
Porto Novo
Geneva
Weekend storm ends as cold nights linger
The weekend storm dropped .74 inch of rain in the Southland and is over, but cold nights remain with lows around 48. Skies clear to partly cloudy, with possible showers later in the week. Temperatures reach 65 today and near 70 Tuesday, while power outages affected thousands of LADWP customers for up to 40 minutes.
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Southland
National Weather Service
Air Quality Management District
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Four Georgia Black Churches Burned in Arson Probes
Four black churches within 20 miles of each other in rural eastern Georgia were destroyed by fires Sunday night. Three Lincoln County teens, about 10 years old, were in custody and likely to be charged. Investigators and sheriff's officials described it as arson with no injuries reported.
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Georgia
Wilkes County
Cecil A. Moore
Moore
Lincoln County
Wilkes
Lincoln County Commission
Curry Colvin
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
State
Antioch Cme
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mulberry Baptist Church
Zara
CME
Moore's
Zora
Barner Gartrell
Board of Stewards
Herman Gartrell
Baltimore
East Coast flood warnings as winter storm drenches region
A broad storm system drenched the mid Atlantic coast and upper Ohio Valley with rain and freezing rain while a Western storm dumped heavy snow across Utah, Colorado and the Rockies. North Dakota suffered widespread power outages from an ice storm with up to four inches of ice on lines.
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mid-Aontie Coast
Ohio Valley
Delaware
New Jersey
North Dakota
Aston
Chester Creek
National Weather Service
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Mississippi Valley
Utah
Rockies
Wasatch Mountains
Colorado Rockies
Great Plains
Weather Service
Plains
Plateau
Roseglen
N.D
Brownsville
Junction
Texas
Maryland
Balti
Independent President Carter’s Image Improves in Poll
Independent presidential candidate Carter shows a more favorable image in a public opinion poll reported on page A-8. The rise comes amid ongoing coverage of national politics and campaign dynamics.
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Carter
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