Indiana Rosie the Riveter poster girl dies at 77
Rose Will Monroe known for portraying Rosie the Riveter died in Clarksville at age 77. While a riveter at Willow Run in Michigan she helped promote wartime labor in posters and a film. She later ran Rose Builders in Indiana and left two daughters, six sisters, nine grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
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Rose Will Monroe
Rosie
Clarksville
Ms. Monroe
Willow Run
Ypsilanti
Mich
Indiana
Rose Builders
Doc Cheatham suffers stroke at hotel in DC
Ninety one year old jazz trumpeter Adolphus Doc Cheatham was hospitalized in critical condition after a stroke in his hotel room in Washington DC. Spokeswoman Merle Goldberg of George Washington University confirmed his admission Sunday afternoon. Cheatham, who turns 92 on June 13, was scheduled for a New York Jazz Festival guest appearance on June 28 and has long led a Sunday brunch ensemble at New York’s Sweet Basil club.
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Adolphus
Cheatham
New York
Plane crashes in fog over Long Island parking lot
A Piper Cherokee PA-28 crashed in a vacant Melville parking lot late Saturday, killing all four aboard. The pilots, relying on instruments after a failed landing attempt at Farmingdale, perished as fog and deteriorating visibility hindered visual cues.
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Long Island
Melville
New York City
Jim Peters
Federal Aviation Administration
Farmingdale
Steve Williams
Booby trapped Dolly Sods awaits cleanup this summer
WILDERNESS W VA Ap thousands trek Monongahela area must heed rules dont litter feed wildlife or step on bombs. Army corps to clean 2136 US sites with Dolly Sods project costing 1.3 million covers 16 000 acres.
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Do.Ly Sops
W.va
Monongahela National Forest
Wally Dean
Dean
Winchester
Army Corps of Engineers
Rick Meadows
Army Corps
Dolly Sods
Dolly Sods North
Nancy Feakes
Petersburg
Andy Hiltz
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
Hiltz
David and
Leslie Beckner
Davis
W. Va
West Virginia
Thousands of caged minks freed in Oregon raid
In Mount Angel Oregon vandals released 8000 to 9000 minks from cages at a ranch. Many died from exposure and infighting and several hundred thousand dollars in losses were reported. No arrests were made and no group claimed responsibility. The Animal Liberation Front has claimed previous attacks in Utah and Oregon.
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Mount Angel
Ore
U.S
Marsha Kelly
Fur Commission
U.S.A
FBI
Pat Geonetta
Rick Arritola
Marion County
David Hussey
Arrizola
Utah
Oregon
Portland
Panel backs moratorium on human cloning tests
Washington experts urge President Clinton to ban human cloning for now citing safety gaps and moral concerns. The draft report favors a voluntary moratorium by research bodies until Congress enacts a formal ban, noting potential future allowances if values shift.
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Washington
Clinton
Carol Greider
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Dolly
White House
Thomas Murray
Commission
Feds run smuggling sting at N Y prison
Federal prosecutors describe a major corruption probe at Brooklyn s Metropolitan Detention Center involving 11 corrections officers. A drug dealer who turned informant and a guard named Rodney Robinson allegedly accepted bribes from 100 to 1000 dollars to smuggle contraband including denture glue heroin and to alter prison records. The probe began in 1995 and used informants undercover agents and surveillance over 18 months.
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Washington
Rodney T. Robinson
Metropolitan
Brooklyn
N.Y
Robinson
New York
Justice Department
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Knight-Ridder Newspapers
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U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Niehoff Htg. & Air, Inc
Lawrence Area
Bullene
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The
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