Tornado Toll Rises Across Pennsylvania and Ohio
Torrential storms spawned multiple tornadoes sweeping from near Pittsburgh to Lake Erie and across northeast Ohio. In Mercer and Erie counties Wheatland and Albion faced widespread destruction, with 50 homes lost and dozens missing amid power outages and emergency responses. Ohio saw ten tornadoes, hitting Niles and surrounding towns with extensive collapse and looting as Gov Celeste declared disaster areas and mobilized National Guard units.
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Lawrence County
Mercer County
Wheatland
Pennsylvania Army National Guard
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Ann Fister
Shenango
Centerville
Linesville
Atlantic
Cochranton
Crawford County
Vota
Cherry Tree
Dempseytown
Cooperstown
Sunville
Venango County
Erie County
Mercer
Butler
McKean County
Beaver County
Penn
Pittsburgh
Lake Erie
John Peterson
Awful
Peterson
Venango
Runkle
Niles
Ohio
John P. Shaffer
Shaffer
Trumbull County
Arthur McGee
Board of Commissioners
Richard F. Celeste
Mahoning
Columbiana
Celeste
Ohio National Guard
Newton Falls
Hubbard Township
Kip Button
Critically burned inmate dies in Pittsburgh
George Arms, 28, an inmate at Western Penitentiary, died in West Penn Hospital Burn Trauma Center after suffering burns covering 70 percent of his body in a cell fire on January 28. He was serving 10 to 20 years for murder, paroled May 14, and then began a consecutive sentence of 1 to 4 years for aggravated assault.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
George Arms
West Penn Hospital
Arms
Reading
City Woman Reports Rape on West Side
A Beach Street resident told city police she was raped early Monday after a man she knows picked her up around 2:30 a.m. They traveled through Sampson and Front streets, then to a West Side apartment where the assault occurred about 4 a.m. Another man was present but not alleged to have assaulted her.
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Beach Street
Sampson
Front Streets
West Side
Bus Crash Kills Six in North Carolina
A fiery crash on U S 13 near Snow Hill NC killed five children and a man and left at least 22 injured. A military truck driver died in the wreck involving a school bus two other vehicles. Survivors describe a devastating scene as officials investigate and note critical injuries to several children.
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Snow Hill
N.C
UPI
U.S
North Carolina
North Carolina Highway Patrol
C.W. Oakley
Oakley
Pitt Memorial Hospital
Greeneville
Goldsboro
Wayne Memorial
Nationwide PCP ring cracked in multi state bust
Federal agents and police say they disrupted a nationwide PCP operation producing up to 150 million dollars in drugs yearly. Eleven arrested coast to coast and over one million dollars in PCP seized amid a 10 month undercover probe. PCP mix relied on stolen Kodak piperidine shipped from Rochester to Los Angeles and Baltimore Washington routes.
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Washington
UPI
Eastman Kodak Co
Eastman Kodak
Rochester
N.Y
Los Angeles
Baltimore- Washington
Chicago
Texas
South
Baltimore
Carl Jackson
Drug Enforcement Administration
Correction, clarification notice to call editor Len Kolasinski
A reader is advised to contact Len Kolasinski executive editor at 654 6651 for corrections or clarifications when reporters or departments cannot be reached. Calls should be made between 8 30 a m and 3 p m.
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Len Kolasinski
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UPI Photo
Albert Vota
Albion
Cranesville
Nick Sleptzoff
Erie County Emergency Management
Jack Waller
Sylvania Power Co
Penn Power
Allegheny
Crawford Counties
Mercer Counties
Ohio Edison
Pennsylvania
Lucille Runkle
Cochrantown
David Runkle
Dick Thornburgh
Thornburgh
National Guard
Warren
Daniel Sferra
John Mandopoulous
Button
Licking County
Eastcentral
Columbus
William O
Westervelt
Trumbull
Licking
Ashtabula
Stark
Geauga
Adams
Madison
Muskingum
Xenia
Hermitage
CLIF
Mercer County News
Robert Miller
Duke University Medical Center
Duke
Edith Roberts
Dennis McKinney
McKinney
Robert Warren
James Arthur Lee
Ricky Corbett
Shawanna Albritton
Mittie Mumford
District of Columbia
Michael Bland
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