Skydiving elf disrupts holiday crowd at Norwalk Mall
In Norwalk California a skydiving Christmas elf off course due to strong winds landed outside the Norwalk Square shopping mall during the sixth annual Jingle Bell Jump. A one year old girl sustained serious skull fractures and brain injuries and is in Children's Hospital Los Angeles. A 21 year old woman two months pregnant was also injured and hospitalized for back pain.
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Los Angeles
Steve Rutledge
Craig Elderry
Kabc-Tv
Passion wins Best Musical at London drama awards
Sondheim’s Passion topped the Evening Standard Drama Awards though it flopped on Broadway and lost money in Britain. Stanley won best play. Paul Scofield earned Best Actor for John Gabriel Borkman, and Diana Rigg was Best Actress for Mother Courage and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Delegates at the World Youth Forum complained of ignored voices as UN officials spoke.
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Evening Standard
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Neh Vile
Diana Rigg
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Edward Albee
Virginia Woolf
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Serb soldier jailed for 10 years over Srebrenica massacre
Drazen Erdemovic, a Bosnian Serb army member, received a 10 year term from the U.N. tribunal in The Hague for his role in the July massacre near Srebrenica. He pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity as part of an eight man execution squad.
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U.S
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Radovan Karadzic
Ratko Mladic
Louise Arbour
Arbour
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Tough negotiations ahead on tax cuts
Washington talks on tax cuts reveal bipartisanship chatter and deep rifts over paying for them. Republicans push for broader cuts and spending restraint while Democrats seek higher education breaks and business credits. Key battles center on capital gains cuts, ethanol credits, and revenue sources, with Summers defending admin proposals.
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Bill Archer
Texas
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Gunman Salvi kills himself in Massachusetts prison
John C. Salvi III, who shot two abortion clinic workers in Brookline in 1994, was serving two consecutive life terms when he died in his cell at Cedar Junction. Authorities say he died from asphyxiation after using a plastic trash bag. He was 24.
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Massachusetts
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U.S
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Brookline
Ronald Duval
Massachusetts Correctional Institution
Cedar Junction
Duval
Vampires Arrests Link Kentucky Teens to Florida Murders
In a Florida murder case, Roderick Ferrell and Scott Anderson, both 16, and Dana Cooper, 19, from Murray Kentucky, plus Heather Wendorf 15 and Charity Keesee 16, face murder charges after slayings of Richard and Naoma Wendorf in Eustis Florida. Investigators connect the group to a so called vampire cult with ties to a Kentucky group. The youths are held on warrants as authorities track further leads amid juvenile protections.
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Eustis
Fla
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Crawford brushes off Letterman jibes during tour stop
Toronto star Cindy Crawford says David Letterman’s quips about her makeup were confusing not upsetting. She explained on tour for Basic Face that viewers should expect playful insults from the host and noted Letterman later sent flowers and apologized. Separately Kirsten Dunst discusses her current ER role as a teenage prostitute befriended by George Clooney.
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