Railroad derailment prompts evacuation in Ridgway area
About 100 residents fled Ridgway as a train carrying toxic sulfuric acid derailed near the Allegheny National Forest. A pungent haze hung over Clarion River and Portland Mills as authorities sealed the leaking tank car and brought in lime to neutralize the acid. No injuries were reported.
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Buffalo & Pittsburgh
Washington bank robbery leader sentenced to prison
Virginia Marie Kay, 33, who led an all girl gang, was sentenced in Olympia to 10 years. She allegedly sent her 14 year old daughter and two 15 year olds plus a 20 year old to rob a bank on July 31, modeled on the film Set It Off. Kay’s daughter Tiffany Sullivan and two 13 year olds face potential adult robbery charges. Eight others pleaded not guilty in a Cuban spy ring case, while a husband and wife sought a plea deal.
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Virginia Marie Kay
Kay
Tiffany EJ. Sullivan
Nilo
Linda Hernandez
Hernandez
Hernandezes
Winds ease as fires burn near Banning in Riverside County
Dying winds slowed the Santa Anas aiding two large wildfires in Riverside County near Banning and Calimesa. Mount Edna blaze reached 23,893 acres while Taylor fire charred 4,200 acres with 2,500 firefighters, 11 air tankers, and 13 helicopters. Two firefighters died Monday, a state air tanker pilot Gary Nagel, 62, and Capt. Thomas Wall, 44, of the Orange County Fire Authority.
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Iral Evans
Santa Ana
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Thomas Oscar Wall
Orange County Fire Authority
Study finds access gaps to kidney transplants for minorities women and poor
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports Blacks are 32 to 50 percent less likely than whites to complete transplant pre steps, poor patients 22 to 33 percent less likely, and women up to 12 percent less likely to finish all four steps. Researchers studied 7125 pediatric dialysis patients in Indiana Kentucky and Ohio from 1993 to 1996, suggesting barriers before waitlisting may contribute to underrepresentation.
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U.S
Ashwini Sehgal
Indiana
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