Punkin Brown Dies From Snake Bite At Revival
Knoxville reporter recounts the death of Punkin Brown Jr a leading Southeast snake handling evangelist. Bitten on the left finger during a Sand Mountain Alabama church revival he died about 13 12 p m CDT at Jackson County Hospital. Brown aged 34 left five children. He had survived about 22 prior bites and his wife Melinda died years earlier from a similar snake bite.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Punkin” Brown Jr
Sand Mountain
Alabama
East Tennessee
Punkin
David Kimbrough
Brown
Pankin
Appalachia
Rock House
Scottsboro
Billy Summerford
Macedonia Church
Parrottsville
Jackson County Hospital
Jackson County
Jim Grigg
Melinda
Full Gospel Tabernacle
Jesus Name Church
Middlesboro
Newport
Join
Peggy Brown
Marshall
N.C
Dennis Covington
Punkin Brown
Grigg
Summerford
Jamie Coots
Melinda Brown
Coots
Amish Plead Guilty in Drug Conspiracy Case
Two Amish men Abner King Stoltzfus aged 23 and Abner Stoltzfus aged 24 pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to conspiring to sell cocaine to fellow members. They faced five to 40 years in prison and up to $2 million in fines. From 1992 to 1997 they bought cocaine from the Pagans motorcycle gang and sold it to Amish youth. eight Pagans members were charged. The case drew attention to modern pressures on Lancaster County’s conservative Old Order Amish and their response to drug use.
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Amis
Abner King Stoltzfus
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Pagans
Lancaster County
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Balloon crash kills passenger as wind halts base power
An oversize hot air balloon struck power lines at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque after battling high winds. One woman died, 12 injured, four critical, nine stable or improving. The gondola detached and dropped about 13 feet as the pilot attempted an emergency landing.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Kirtland Air Force Base
Thomas Thompson
Mark Flett
University Hospital
Cereal tops as main source of vitamins for US children
A government study reports cold breakfast cereal as the primary source of vitamin A iron and folic acid for American children ages 2 to 18 based on 1989 to 1991 data. Experts caution cereals may replace fruit and vegetables though fortified cereal can still be nutritious. overall diet matters.
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Chicago
Amy Subar
National Cancer Institute
Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics
Wildfires lash Southern California amid first Santa Ana winds
Fires erupt across Riverside County as autumn winds reach 30 mph threatening tens of thousands of acres. A firefighter dies while fighting blazes and a tanker pilot is presumed dead after a crash near Poppet Flats. Evacuations affect hundreds in Banning and Cherry Valley as districts rush to contain the flames before winds rise again.
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Banning
Calif
California
Santa Ana
Los Angeles
Riverside County
California Department of Forestry
Jim Wright
Wright
Badlands
Aeres
Cherry Valley
Jerry Jacques
Calimesa
Poppet Flats
Karen Terrill
Two still missing after Kansas City floods claim seven lives
Kansas City officials and residents faced a devastating flood after heavy rains. At least seven people died across the metro area, with four others rescued from a washed away truck on Brush Creek. Police and fire crews warn it could take days to stabilize the situation as power outages and road closures linger.
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Kansas City
Orlando Hudson
Hudson
Brush Creek
Bonita Black
Kansas
John Palmer- Jee
Blue Springs
Azalech Zewada
Walter Knott
Kenneth W. Tucker Jr
Johnson County
Kan Knott
Tucker
American Royal
Emanuel Cleaver
Amnesty claims U S rights abuses in domestic practices
Amnesty International released a 153 page report accusing the United States of violating its own human rights standards. It cites stun belts and police brutality, notes the U S has not signed the U N Convention on the Rights of the Child, and urges abolition of the death penalty as racist and unfair.
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Washington
United States
Amnesty International
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