Six Bodies Found At Lake Placid Florida Home
Police found at least six people dead Sunday in a Lake Placid house in the Placid Lakes subdivision. Lt. Susan Benton said authorities had not yet determined if the deaths were homicides, with as many as eight bodies possible. Family members had spoken to relatives Friday. Lake Placid, population about 1,200, lies 80 miles southeast of Tampa.
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GM Talks Yield Little Progress in Strike Impasse
General Motors and the United Auto Workers ended a holiday weekend session with little progress toward ending crippling strikes. Since June 5, 26 of GM’s 29 North American plants have idled and about 172,000 workers remain off the job. The Detroit News warns that about half of GM’s remaining 850,000 cars and trucks could be missing by August if buyer demand continues.
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Time apologizes for nerve gas defector report with CNN
Time magazine and CNN retract a June 7 Newsstand report alleging U.S. commandos used nerve gas to kill American defectors in Vietnam. Managing Editor Walter Isaacson says the apology follows an internal review aligning with CNN’s reinvestigation and finds no supporting evidence.
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Barbershop Harmony Convention Draws Dense Talent
Tom Larsen explains the barbershop origin in the 1900s when saloons and barbershops served as social hubs. The Harmonizers, a 124 member group from Alexandria, VA, won the chorus competition, while Revival from San Diego topped the quartet entries.
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Four killed in Tacoma Viet restaurant shooting
Four people died and six were wounded in an early Sunday gun attack at the Trang Dai Vietnamese restaurant and karaoke club in south Tacoma. Police described the assault as gang related with several gunmen entering the venue around 1:30 a.m. Two wounded remained in critical condition at Madigan Army Medical Center, others treated at local hospitals. No arrests had been made and investigators sought gang connections.
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Gettysburg Civil War Reenactment billed as largest ever
About 15 000 reenactors staged the Battle of Gettysburg with 35 000 spectators over three days on a 300 acre farm near the battlefield. The event featured blue and gray combatants, historic sabre touches, and a final Pickett charge reenactment that drew large crowds amid heat and sunburns. Medical staff treated hundreds for heat exhaustion and injuries while the cannons and cheers highlighted the spectacle.
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Presidential hopefuls map 2000 campaign on policies
Three Republicans Ches Kasich Ashcroft and Alexander said a Gore race would center on government role and policy not Clinton scandal. Alexander warned voters that Gore as vice president has backed a Democratic president with personal conduct seen as national embarrassment.
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NBC locks in big names with multimillion contracts
NBC News has awarded Tom Brokaw and peers such as Geraldo Rivera Katie Couric Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips lucrative long term raises. Reports place Rivera at 30 million over six years and Couric at up to seven million annually, fueling a top ratings surge across Nightly News Today Meet the Press and Dateline NBC.
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