Gas truck crash on Orlando overpass kills two, sparks collapse fears
A gasoline tanker overturned on a curving toll onramp to I 4 in Orlando, bursting into flames and hurling concrete onto traffic. Two SUV passengers died and five were injured as heat damaged the 30 foot overpass. The span will be closed for up to 60 days for repairs.
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Travel industry seeks national tourism agency
William Norman of the Travel Industry Assn calls for a national tourism marketing corporation to boost U S overseas marketing. He notes the United States is the only major industrialized nation not directly spending on global marketing and will urge Congress this fall at the Florida Governor's Conference on Tourism. International travel to the U S is a $103 billion annual market.
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Advances in medical care lower murder rate nationwide
A 40 year study led by Anthony R. Harris of UMass Amherst and Harvard Medical School finds emergency care improvements cut deaths among assault victims by nearly 70 percent and reduce the national murder rate. The May study in Homicide Studies notes deaths from assaults dropped as firearm and knife injuries declined and trauma care expansion saved countless lives.
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Nine Florida children unaccounted for by welfare agency findings
The South Florida Sun Sentinel used law enforcement files and interviews to identify nine children declared missing by Florida's child welfare agency. The report covers Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami Dade cases, spotlighting multiple vanishings, long-standing unknowns, and the agency's resource strains amid the Rilya Wilson case and other missing-children scrutiny.
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Palestinians boosted by Washington talks and stalled hope
Palestinian officials said talks in Washington gave renewed hope in U S backing while lamenting White House silence on Israeli troop withdrawals. Arafat aides praised the meetings with Condoleezza Rice and George Tenet as constructive, but demanded Israeli troop pullouts as a condition for progress.
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