Radical group claims Oregon forest industry fire
An underground environmental faction, the Earth Liberation Front, claimed credit for the December 26 fire at the U S Forest Industries headquarters in Medford. The group said the act was retribution for forest and animal losses caused by corporate greed. Police await investigation. ELF previously claimed an October 12 fire at Vail, Colorado, destroying ski lifts, a restaurant, a picnic facility and a utility building.
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U.S. Forest Industries
Medford
Associated Press
Earth’ Liberation Front
ELF
Vail
Colo
Octuplets update and Vermont court ruling noted
In Houston one of the seven surviving octuplets, a girl named Gorom Louis, faced a ventilator setback as an infection emerged while Ikem, a baby boy, remained on antibiotics. Both weighed around 4 pounds at birth and have seen slight weight gains. Separately, Vermont’s Supreme Court ordered $3 million to dissenting shareholders in the Trapp Family Lodge case, ending a dispute over share prices and company reorganization from the 1990s.
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Houston
Gorom Louis
Nkem Chukwu
Tyke Louis
Carol Lynn Berseth
Ikem
Wass
Vermont Supreme Court
Trapp
Lodge Inc
Maria‘von Trapp
Julie ‘Andrews
Johannes
Lodge
Teenager on trial in death of classmate in Clearfield
In Clearfield Pennsylvania Jessica Holtmeyer 16 and Aaron Straw 19 face murder trial for luring Kimberly Dotts 15 to a woodland gathering dubbed the Runaway Gang. A noose over a tree, a rock to the head, and a cover of branches ended in Kimberly’s death as seven youths watched and some helped hide the body. Prosecutors seek the death penalty and jury selection began in Bloomsburg.
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Clearfield
Kimberly Jo Dotts
Florida
Kimberly
Jessica Holtmeyer
Aaron Straw
Jessica
Straw
Bloomsburg
Pittsburgh
Shiloh
Gallows Harbor
Ms. Lewis
Jessi
Supreme Court to hear lawsuit against NCAA
Renee Smith, a former college volleyball player, sues the NCAA alleging sex discrimination under Title IX over eligibility waivers. The case, arguing that men receive more waivers, will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, with advocates noting the NCAA’s stance on federal funding and voluntary compliance.
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Renee
NCAA
Carter Phillips
Washington
Smith
St. Bonaventure University
Upstate New York
Hofstra University
Long Island
University of Pittsburgh
U.S. District Court
Pittsburgh
Eesah Smith
U.S. Circuit Court Appeals
Passalophia
Wally Renfro
Phillips
Congress
Renfro
BeSan
AP Pao
Renee Smith
Winterville
Ohio
U.S. Supreme Court
St. Bonaventure
Hofstra
Train collision kills two in Ohio freight crash
Three freight trains crashed into each other near Bryan Ohio early Sunday killing two crew members and derailing sixteen cars. Fog reduced visibility as an eastbound train from Portage Indiana struck a westbound train from Boston to Chicago, throwing two men from the engine. The wreck blocked a main line and prompted hours long evacuations in Bryan.
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Napoleon, Ohio
Bryan
Chicago
Toledo
Jay Kirowitz
National Transportation Safety Board
Napoleon
Ohio
RH. Bell
Oregon
R.A. Corell
Angola
Ind
John Maats
Morrisville
Boston
Bim McGeehan
Philadelphia
Conrail
Portage
River Rouge
Mich
Detroit
McGeehan
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Vermont
von Trapp
Runaway Gang
Dawn Lanager
Tracy Lynn Lewis
AP Paro Jodi Dotts
Kimberly Dotts
Joe Fuleno
Clearfield County
Clearfield-area
Ms. Dotts
Supreme Court
New Tie Fitness
New Life Fitness
Taylor Allen Lawrance
Kansas
Tay
Ole Tathla
Price Shoes
Seaston
Easton's Ltd
Mass
Lawrence
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