Protests in Tehran Turn Violent With Death Threats
Police and troops clash with anti shah demonstrators in Tehran across more than 20 locations. Protesters threaten Americans, set fires, and paralyze downtown. Five killed in Tehran and Mashhad. one death reported in Tehran, another in Mashhad. Officials say rioting is the largest in three months amid low oil supplies and mounting fuel shortages.
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Iran
National Front
Mashhad
Isfahan
Christmas snow hits Northeast with heavy storm
The Associated Press reports a Christmas storm delivered heavy snow across the Northeast and eastern Great Lakes. Winds whipped the region as snow depths reached up to two feet or more in parts of northwestern Pennsylvania, with continued snowfall overnight.
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Eastern Great Lakes
Morris Council Sets Meeting for 7 30 P M in Community Room
The Morris City Council will convene at 7 30 p m today in the Morris Savings and Loan Association community room on Wauponsee Street. Mayor Donald Davidson says no special items are on the agenda. Nationwide storms bring heavy snowfall in New York up to 18 inches and 23 inches in McKean County Pennsylvania with cold unsettled weather across the interior.
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Weather Outlook and Recent Temperatures at Local Sites
Forecast calls for variable cloudiness and cold with a chance of snow flurries then clearing and cooling tonight. Wednesday looks mostly sunny and still cold with highs in the low 20s and subzero to single digit lows. At Dresden Lock and Dam Sunday top reached 34 while lows fell to 13 with no precipitation. Monday highs 28 lows 13 and 7 am reading 14 with 0.3 inches precipitation and 0.5 inches snowfall. downtown Morris reported 15 degrees at 8:11 am.
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Federal officials seek adult trial for hijacker Oswald
A 17 year old Robyn Oswald faces possible adult charges in the Trans World Airlines hijacking with 87 aboard. She is jailed on a federal juvenile delinquency charge in Belleville Illinois. An assistant U.S. attorney said final decision rests with Attorney General Griffin Bell.
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Illinois
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Fires tied to Christmas decorations kill dozens over holiday weekend
Fire deaths traced to Christmas tree lights and short circuits across cities. In New Orleans five children of Ida Perkins and three grandchildren perished in a Christmas Eve blaze sparked by faulty lights, with two other children escaping. In Dallas a family of four including an infant died Christmas morning from a fire blamed on defective lights, with parents and infant found near the front door and an older child found in a bedroom. The ages ranged from 1 to 18.
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Ida Perkins
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Droom
Willmington Files for Re-Election to Morris City Council
Incumbent alderman Arthur Willmington 812 Armstrong St filed for re election to the Morris City Council Third Ward becoming the seventh candidate. Deadline for petitions is noon Saturday. Other filings include Jack Kutches 618 E Washington St and Max Lindsey 524 E Illinois Ave in the First Ward. Charles Roseland 719 Fremont Ave seeks Second Ward seat with Duane Mc Comas 520 Douglas St and Kenneth Kennedy 606 E Main St in the Third Ward. Del Linn, incumbent, moves to 1801 N Division St for the Fourth Ward.
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Washington St
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Fremont Ave
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Douglas St
Kenneth Kennedy
E. Main St
del Linn
N. Division St
Rivers scoured for bodies in Gacy case surge
Detectives met with a Cook County assistant state's attorney at the Des Plaines River bridge on Interstate 55 to review reports of several bodies dumped in the river in the Des Plaines murder case. Searches spanned Des Plaines and Illinois rivers with help from multiple fire departments and a helicopter as authorities pursue identifications and connections to John Wayne Gacy.
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Ottawa girl dies in I-55 crash near Joliet
A 19 year old Ottawa woman Cheryl Boe died on arrival at St Joseph Hospital Joliet after a one car accident on Interstate 55 near U S 30. Driver Timothy Smith 18 of Brooklyn New York is in critical condition. A Plainfield ambulance took the victims to the hospital. Two Chicago residents refused ambulance service after their car rolled over on I 55 near Reed Road. Richard H Francisco 30 and Ronda Francisco 30 were injured. both declined ambulance transfer.
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Quadruplets born in Romeoville welcomed to larger family
Keith and Linda Walski welcomed four newborns Richard John Brandy Lynn Kevin Edward and Nicole Marie in Romeoville. The four babies weigh 4 to 5 pounds each and remain in a Rush Presbyterian St Luke's special care unit in stable condition. All but one are off IV feeding and taking tiny bottles as doctors monitor their progress. The family faces mounting medical bills nearing 30000 dollars while the mother recovers from a cesarean birth after a nine week hospitalization.
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Israel Races to Restart Talks as Sadat Blames Extremists
Israel's Cabinet convened in a special session to consider resuming stalled peace talks with Egypt after President Sadat accused radical Arabs of pushing Israel toward expansion. Dayan reported on Brussels talks with Vance and Khalil, signaling possible endorsement of the Brussels framework.
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Minor Fire at Dresden Nuclear Station Puts Out Quickly
A minor transformer fire at Dresden Nuclear Power Station was reported at 3:15 p.m. Saturday. Coal City Fire Department assisted but the station’s own fire squad extinguished the blaze. Commonwealth Edison spokesman Bill Barnes said welding caused the fire by dripping onto oil-soaked paper inside the transformer. No major damages were reported.
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Coal City
Commonwealth Edison
Bill Barnes
Missing 2 month old boy sought in Marion mall
Police continued the search for Jason Mitchell, 2 months old, who disappeared from a Marion department store amid Christmas shoppers. Detective Lee Mauldon said investigators talked to witnesses, checked the area, and searched exits with security present, but no signs of the infant were found. The boy’s parents, Richard Mitchell and Linda, reported leaving him in a shopping cart briefly before returning to find him missing. The baby wears a white floral jumpsuit. no ransom demands have been received.
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Lee Mauldon
Richard Mitchell
Linda
Jason
Mitchell
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Michelle
Arizona inmate killed in uprising at Florence prison
Roman Stone, 26, serving 15 years to life for kidnapping and armed robbery, opened fire in a Florence cellblock. One inmate died, Jim my Ferra, 28, shot and seriously wounded, with Ferra also tied to a 1975 stabbing death.
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Arizona
Roman Stone
Stone
Jimmy Ferra
Ferra
Charles Schmid
Tucson
No suspects in Kendall homicide
Kendall County detectives pursue the stabbing death of 19 year old Viki M. Nelson found at 31 Whitney Way Boulder Hill Oswego. She died from a single chest stab wound at 1 05 a.m. and the case is being treated as a homicide pending further evidence.
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Kendall County
Oswego
Boulder Hill
Victor Frantz
Viki M. Nelson
Light Rd
Whitney Way
William Dugn
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