Holiday train derailment injures thirty six travelers
A Broadway Limited derailment near Downingtown Pennsylvania during the holiday rush injured 36 passengers. Four remained overnight in hospitals while none sustained serious injuries. About 200 aboard. 95 bused to Harrisburg to continue by train. power loss restored within two hours as Amtrak investigates the cause.
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Downingtown, Pa
Chicago
Amtrak
Coatesville General Hospital
Chester County Hospital
Lois Moraseco
Downingtown Senior High School
Harrisburg
Chester County
Philadelphia
Miss Morasco
Downingtown
Holiday fire kills three Reynolds children in Maine
Fire swept through the Reynolds home in Fairfield killing three young boys Keith four, Carl three, and Dirk two as the Christmas tree sparked the blaze. Surviving siblings Eight, including Mellody twelve, escaped or were rescued with injuries. Dorothy Reynolds and others hospitalized. Fire marshal investigators suspect the Christmas tree and baseboard heating contributed to the rapid spread.
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Fairfield
Maine
Dorothy Reynold
Reynolds
William
Dwayne
Benjamin Leighton
Mellody
Keith
Carl
Dirk
Mid-Maine Medical Center
Leighton
Ida Hays Recovers From Preat Christmas Face Reconstruction
Ida Hays after a rare orbital hypertelorism surgery at NYU Hospital describes her Christmas as preat and notes the community funded about 6000 for the operation plus air fare. School absences due to headaches linger as she adjusts to using both eyes. further surgery is planned for Nov 6 with an upper jaw rebuild possibly in Portland or Seattle.
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LA Grande, Ore
Ida Hays
Ida
New York University Hospital
Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
Oregon
Jacquie
New York
Portland
Seattle
Oil slick from Argo Merchant stalls near Nantucket
A vast oil slick from the Argo Merchant, estimated at 30 by 100 miles and comprising 7.6 million gallons, halted about 19 miles from Nantucket as a southerly wind shifted. Captain George Papadopoulos resumes courtroom testimony in New York on the grounding, while Cape Cod fishermen file two $120 million suits against the captain and shipowners.
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Boston
Nantucket Island
Coast Guard
New York
George Papadopoulos
Argo
Thomas P Griesa
Cape Cod
Northeast Petroleum Corp
Chelsea
Mass
Geologic mapping completed on shale lands in USGS study
Geologic mapping was completed last year on 1,850 square miles of oil shale lands to support the U.S. Geological Survey's land classification and tract evaluation activities.
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U.S. Geological Survey
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Charlie’s Lakeside Inn
Tytus Ave
Arthur Murray Studios
Arthur Murray
Jn Fox
Discount Beverage
Tytus Avenue
Country Kitchen
East Second Street
Franklin
Tytus
Verity
Middletown
Minnesota
Waterville
Matinees
Walt Diskey
Eee
Aires
Coon
The
Thebes Shipping Co
Thebes
Tal
Sean Connery
Michael Caine
HTT Titel
James Caan
United Arting
Laur Hadles
Aclle
Nickelodeon
Cinema
Ene Wilder Ric
Walt Disney Recoverien
Shaggy D.A. Jones
Conway Pleset Te
Albert Taylor
Robin Springs Apartments
Cincinnati-Dayton Rd
Lefferson Rd
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