Lightning deaths and injuries strike families at camps and games
A couple and their three children were struck by lightning while sheltering under trees at a mountain campground near Crystal Lake east of Salt Lake City, killing the parents Richard and Lisa Goff and injuring the children. A 14 year old Maine girl died after lightning struck during a soccer tournament in Fredericton New Brunswick.
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Maine
Canada
Crystal Lake
Salt Lota City
Richard
Lisa Goff
Salt Lake City
West Jordan
KUTV
Dakota Goff
Makenzie
Megan
Fredericton
New Brunswick
Sarah McLain
Springfield
Bill proposes naming center for Thurmond
A bill by Rep. Gresham Barrett aims to name the U S Capitol Visitor Center project after Strom Thurmond. The $350 million center would honor the late longtime senator who died at 100 after a 48 year career, though many question using his name due to his segregationist past.
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Gresham Barrett
S.C
Thurmond
Senate
Congress
Capitol
NASA weighs public display of Columbia shuttle debris
NASA officials weigh whether 84,000 shattered Columbia pieces should be shown publically or kept for research. Smithsonian curators plan to review debris for preservation as historic artifacts, while survivors and relatives express mixed feelings about displays. The debris sits at Kennedy Space Center as investigators prepare a report.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Columbia
U.S
Kirstie McCool Chadwick
Willie McCool
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Wash
Sean O'Keefe
Smithsonian Museum
Valerie Neal
Air and Space Museum
Gus Grissom
Atlantic
Grissom
Arizona Science Center
Phoenix
Challenger
Peter Jakob
Aeronautics
Joel Walker
Oklahoma City National Museum
Oklahoma City Federal Building
Jane Thomas
Oklahoma City Memorial
Kennedy Space Center
Driver extends sympathy to crash victims families
An elderly driver, Russell Weller, spoke publicly for the first time about the Santa Monica Farmers Market crash. He said his heart is broken over the tragedy as mourners buried victims aged 7 months to 78 years and the market reopened amid injuries and anger at his age.
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Los Angeles
Russell Weller
Molok Ghoulian Nabatian
Brendon Davidi Esfahani
Mission Hills
Weller
Rami Zan
Beverly Hills
Santa Monica
Stephen C. Lien
Brentwood Presbyterian Church
Arizona Avenue
Lien
Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ dies at 81
Miami AP William R. Bright founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and longtime evangelical leader died at his Orlando home from pulmonary fibrosis at 81. He built the organization from UCLA outreach into a 374 million dollar yearly operation with 26 000 staff in 191 countries. He shared the stage with Billy Graham and helped energize postwar evangelicalism and created the Four Spiritual Laws. Bright won the Templeton Prize in 1996 for progress in religion.
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Miami
William R
Bill” Bright
Campus Crusade For Christ
Bright
Orlando
Steve Chapman
Campus Crusade
Billy Graham
America
UCLA
Steve Douglass
Crusade
U.S
Jesus
Equity Retirement Plan Seminar in Lawrence Kansas
John Fries announces a free educational seminar on equity management and tax free retirement income. PrairieFire Financial Group Inc sponsors with no charge for North-East Kansas homeowners. RSVP at 785-856-9900 for guaranteed seating.
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Heartland Educational Foundation
Peterson Rd
Lawrence
Kansas
PrairieFire Financial Group Inc
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Morning Call
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Washington, B.C
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U.S. Capitol
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Rs.c
Ington
Space Agency
Columbia Accident Investigation Board
Texas
Com
Homa
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Uncle Sam
John Fries
PrairieFire Financial Group, Inc
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