Escalator Death At Mount Vernon Square Station
Washington transit authorities probe the strangling death of a woman in her 30s whose clothing snagged on an escalator at Mount Vernon Square station. A station manager halted the down escalator after she became entangled at the bottom. No witnesses, and police said no mechanical failure was found preliminary. victim pronounced dead at Howard University Hospital after attempts to revive failed.
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Cheryl Johnson
Metro Rail
Mount Vernon Square
Washington
Howard University Hospital
Johnson
California railroad closed for safety by federal order
The Federal Railroad Administration ordered emergency closure of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad from Humboldt to Napa counties due to safety risks. Storm damage and many broken highway signals raise risks to the public and workers as the 286 mile line along the Eel River canyon and Russian River is halted.
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Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Humboldt
Napa
Northwestern Pacific
Bob John
North Coast Railroad Authority
Eel River
Humboldt County
Sonoma County
San Francisco
House panel plans pricey trip to New Zealand and Australia
The Ways and Means Committee leads a 28-person delegation including Reps Crane Johnson Herger Dunn Jefferson and Sen Grassley plus spouses staff and escorts. They seek military planes hotel internet and a government van while asking embassies what to ask local officials.
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New Zealand
Australia
House
Ways and Means
Philip Crane
R-Ill
Nancy Johnson
Rconn
Wally Herger
Rcalif
Jennifer Dunn
Rwash
William Jefferson
D-La
Charles Grassley
A-Iowa
Chemical castration convict pleads guilty to new sex crimes
Joseph Frank Smith known as the Ski Mask Rapist faces charges for a June 1993 attack and is under investigation for up to 75 additional sexual crimes since 1987. Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Toby Vick says authorities are pursuing dozens more cases while noting Smith’s probation era injections and later arrest records. He appeared on 60 Minutes in 1984 as a success story for chemical castration.
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RichMonn
Joseph Frank Smith
San Antonio
Richmond
Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Baltimore
Smith
Toby Vick
Commonwealth
Henrico County
John Honey
The
Washington Post
Honey
Johns Hopkins
Vick
1998 costliest year for disasters in world history
Worldwatch Institute and Munich Re estimate 1998 global disaster losses reached 89 billion dollars for the first 11 months, with 32,000 deaths and 300 million displaced. Human activity and deforestation are cited as factors, highlighting Hurricane Mitch, Yangtze floods, and Bangladesh floods as major events.
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Worldwatch Institute
Munich Re
United States
Worldwatch
Frankfurt
China
Yangtze River
Bangladesh
Seth Dunn
Institute
Dunn
Honduras
Nicaragua
Guatemala
el Salvador
Yangtze
Ganges
Brahmaputra
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