Teachers see layoffs benefit cuts across states
NEA surveys show teacher layoffs or benefit cuts feared in over half the states this spring with health care benefit cuts identified as a top bargaining issue. About 15 states expect more job actions this fall while many districts offer little new money toward national education goals.
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Fla
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U.S
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Mississippi
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Wisconsin
Illinois
Minnesota
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Computer glitches trigger outages in major cities
A small telephone equipment maker blamed software glitches for recent pms system failures that shut down switching networks in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, and Pittsburgh. Repairs are underway after the company reproduced the fault in a lab and implemented software changes.
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Dallas
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Washington
Pittsburgh
Divers contest charges over Atlantic shipwreck dive
In Erie area, California Mar Dive Corp may contest Ontario charges against two divers for illegally diving the 1852 Atlantic wreck off Lake Erie, which Ontario authorities deem in Canadian waters. In Texas, up to 200 Africanized honey bee swarms invade south Texas. entomologist Dr. John Thomas says attacks unlikely and most deaths linked to South America.
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California
Lake Erie
Ontario
Mar Dive Corp
Los Angeles
Mar Dive
Detroit
Buffalo
N.Y
Houston
Texas
John Thomas
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
South America
Thomas
Quake Hits Southern California Shakes Castaic Borders
A 4.0 magnitude quake struck three miles from Castaic at 10 40 a m as Gov Pete Wilson approved rapid recovery aid for last week s 5 8 quake damage. The tremor caused about 26 million in private property damage to 2300 homes and businesses and 7 5 million to public agencies officials said.
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Castaic
Calif
California
Pete Wilson
Here
Katrin Douglass
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Riot erupts at Tallassee hospital after carnival shooting
A 150-strong crowd including relatives of Rodney Brooks surged at Tallassee Community Hospital after a July Fourth carnival shooting. Windows were smashed, a nurse struck in the face, and two others injured as police from six towns and state troopers restored order. Brooks, 21, was killed and a man was charged with the slaying.
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Tallassee
Ala
Tallassee Community Hospital
Billy Clayton
Clayton
Rodney Brooks
Grantsville man surrenders after shooting
A Grantsville resident, Terry Beitzel, 35, surrendered to state police after eluding them overnight. He is charged with first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and reckless endangerment in the shooting death of a Baltimore man. Police searched a wooded mountainous area near Grantsville in Garrett County. Meanwhile in Kiev Gorbachev warned Yugoslavia crisis could threaten the Soviet Union and sought Western aid for reforms.
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Baltimore
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Gary Berkebile
Beitzel
Garrett County
Kiev
U.S.S.R
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Helmut Koht
Gorbachev
Slovenia Demobilizes Militia as Border Coping Fights Continue
Slovenia moves to seal a truce by demobilizing its militia and offers to keep border checkpoints under its control if customs revenues go to the federation. In Croatia fresh ethnic clashes kill two and the Croatian Defense Ministry reports ongoing battles while prisoners of war are released under the ceasefire. международный
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Yugoslavia
Slovenia
Croatia
Republic
Defense Ministry
Serbia
Stipe Mesic
Bild
States confront budget stalemates as workers rally for pay
Across Pennsylvania Maine Connecticut Illinois and California lawmakers struggle to pass budgets while public workers demand pay. In Pennsylvania about 10 000 of 107 000 workers were unpaid on payday with unions urging action. Maine and others seek tentative deals to reopen agencies and balance multi billion dollar budgets. North Carolina operates under an emergency plan but lacks a full year budget.
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Maine
Connecticut
Ilinois
California
North Carolina
Fred Davis
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Harrisburg
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