British town plagued by teen vandal and theft spree
In Elland England a 14 year old, blamed for a six year crime wave, has caused insurers to raise premiums and local firms to relocate. Courts struggle to lock him up while residents blame parents and call for harsher action as theft, break-ins, and property damage surge in the textile town.
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Elland
England
West Yorkshire
Jackie Smith
Pennines
Yorkshire Dales
London
David Taylor
Russian oil spill threat sparks ecological disaster warning
A Russian government commission warned that spring thaws could spread oil from a large spill near Usinsk into the Pechora River and Barents Sea. They criticized slow cleanup and pipeline construction, blaming financing delays and bureaucracy for potential ecological catastrophe.
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Moscow
Russia
Startass
Pechora
Barents Sea
Usinsk
Komi
Komineft Company
Show reveals 1880s NYC a city that never sweeps
The New York Public Library exhibit "Garbage" surveys 150 years of city trash with photos artifacts and sounds. It notes 1880 saw 15 000 dead horses hauled from streets and describes tenement cellars lacking indoor plumbing and alley waste. Col George E War ing Jr modernized street cleaning and was hailed as the apostle of cleanliness. Observers note progress since then yet echoes of past debates on recycling incineration and landfills persist.
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New York
New York City
New York Public Library
George E Waring Jr
Johns Hopkins University
Ms Fee
Detroit mayor probes volunteers private lives in test
Detroit AP reports Mayor Dennis Archer requires volunteers for public service to complete a 15 page questionnaire covering criminal background medications business ties lobbying litigation and financial issues including parking tickets bankruptcies and alimony The mayor’s staff says the intent is to uncover potential conflicts of interest and ensure suitability for appointments with input from executive assistant Darchelle Strickland who defends the process against claims of dirt digging.
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Dennis Archer
Donald Softley
Archer
Darchelle Strickland
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