Jewell did not make 911 call about Olympic Park bomb
Attorney says official phone records show security guard Richard Jewell pointed out a suspicious knapsack minutes before a pay phone call and far from the park. Records place the 911 call at 12:58 a.m. with the blast at 1:20 a.m. July 27, injuring over 100 and killing one woman.
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Olympic Park
Jewell
Jack Martin
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Tom Davis
Blind climber scales El Capitan in Yosemite
Erik Weihenmayer, a Phoenix elementary teacher, scaled El Capitan, a 3200 foot granite spire in Yosemite Valley, during a mid afternoon ascent. About 20 spectators cheered including three sighted climbers who finished ahead. Weidenmayer, 28, said the four day ascent showed potential rather than limits. He previously hiked Mount McKinley through ice and snow for 19 days last year.
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Yosemite Valley
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Phoenix
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Ex governor Tucker to undergo liver transplant prep
Former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, 53, awaiting a liver transplant, will travel to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota for a week of medical tests to evaluate heart and lungs and health details for a possible transplant. He was convicted May 28 of fraud and conspiracy in the Whitewater case. He resigned in July amid ongoing liver illness.
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Mayo Clinic
Minnesota
Rochester
Londonderry avoids march violence as sectarian tensions ease
Protestant marchers kept away from Catholic areas and a planned Catholic rally was cancelled, averting broader clashes in Londonderry. Police described scattered youth violence with seven arrests as Apprentice Boys paraded through Protestant neighborhoods, and leaders from both sides urged calm and compromise to keep the city peaceful.
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Apprentice Boys
Donncha MacNiallais
Bogside
MacNiallan
Apprentice Boys Club
England
James II
MacNiallais
Smithsonian marks 150th with bell from Liberty Bell foundry
Smithsonian Institution celebrates its 150th anniversary in Washington with the new bell from the Whitechapel Foundry hoisted 150 feet to the castle turret. The event honors the 1846 act by President Polk and the Smithson bequest. The museum complex now includes 16 museums and global research, displaying artifacts from Lee's surrender desk to Judy Garland's ruby slippers.
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James Smithson
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London
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Gillespie
Judy Garland
West Coast Power Outage Strikes Seven States
A massive sweltering outage hit at least seven Western states from Oregon to Texas, affecting over a million customers in Los Angeles and extending to Las Vegas Albuquerque Phoenix Boise El Paso and parts of Mexico and Canada. The disruption traced to the Pacific Interconnect grid as hospitals airports and malls switched to backup power and traffic signals failed.
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Neighbor Arrest Ties Man to Missing Kali Poulton Case
Monroe County authorities arrested security guard Mark Christie, 100 yards from Kali Poulton’s home, confessing to strangling the 4 year old in May 1994. Police later found a badly decomposed body in a 30,000 gallon water tank at the housing estate building. An autopsy is pending DNA confirmation. Christie, once neighbor and acquaintance of Kali’s mother, is jailed on second degree murder charges.
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N.Y
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Kali Poulton
Pittsford
Kali
Judy Gifford
Christie
David Poulton
Gifford
Gleason Estates
Gananda
Monroe County
Andrew Meloni
Letterman digs Branson and a trespasser joins the headlines
Branson jokes by Dennis Miller drew mixed feelings in the Ozarks where singer Jim Stafford shrugged off the criticism. In Noblesville Indiana a Letterman trespasser pleaded guilty to shoplifting near Dave's mom Dorothy Mering, with a sentencing date set for August 23.
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