Selma Marks Bloody Sunday Memorial March Across Bridge
Thousands of Black civil rights marchers reenact the 1965 Bloody Sunday across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama. The peaceful memorial procession ends at the bridge with heavy police and federal oversight as the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. calls it a continuing struggle for liberation.
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Selma
Ala
Alabama River
Jim Luther King Jr
Montgmery
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Dallas County
Salt shaker poisoning from nitrite kills three in Chicago
Three deaths and seven illnesses traced to a salt shaker containing sodium nitrite in Chicago. Victims connected to a South Side rooming house. investigators note accidental poisoning and seek why the sodium nitrite was used.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Health
Edward King
King
Joseph Curtin
Charles Edwards
Late winter chill grips the nation across regions
A late winter chill spreads from the South to New England with tornadoes injuring scores from Missouri to Georgia. Snow slicks roads in Vermont while a new storm brings showers to the Pacific Coast and Lake Michigan winds whip up to eight feet.
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Missouri
Georgia
New England
Vermont
Pacific
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Wyoming
Russell County
Ala
Hatchehubbie
Grees
Huntsville
The
Mercury
Chilton
Alabama
Plains
Nebraska
Iowa
Lake Michigan
Wisconsin
Candle protest sweeps Little Elm over high electric rates
In Little Elm Texas residents and city leaders joined a one day candle protest over rising electricity bills. Denton County Electric Cooperative shut off power to about 90 homes and 22 street lights saving the town about 46 dollars. The move followed Brazos Electric Power Cooperative passing higher natural gas costs to customers as generators burn gas.
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Little Elm
Tex
Texas
Denton County Electric Cooperative
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative
Denton Cooperative
Brazos Cooperative
Utilities lax on reactor safety say federal study finds
A five page Nuclear Regulatory Commission analysis dated December 2 concludes that utility owners of most U S reactors operate only about 55 percent of capacity and show limited concern for safety and reliability. It faults state commissions and notes architects engineers lack incentives to prioritize long term reliability.
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Washington
Edwin G. Triner
Office of Policy Planning
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Triner
Daniel Ford
Union of Concerned Scientists
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Selma March
Marshall Segal
St. Bernard’s Hospital
Alphonzo Hoy
Gregory Smith
David Moore
Sheila Hoy
Jeanette Hoy
Alfonzo
Denson
Smith
Moore
United Press International
United States
Ford Administration
Tuiner
Treasury
Sharp
the Treasury
Lakewood
Carson St. & Paramount
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