Thousand of Angelenos Flee Raging Brush Fires
Los Angeles battled massive brushfires scorching about 20000 acres and destroying around 70 luxury homes. Gale winds fanned flames hundreds of feet high driving residents to shelters as firefighters fought hard with aviation incidents resulting in minor injuries.
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Los Angeles
Santa Ana
Mandeville Canyon
Mojave Desert
Agoura
Santa Monica Mountains
Pacific Palisades
Malibu
Oceanside
Albert Street
Pope eyes Poland trip as sign of thaw with Warsaw
Pope John Paul II told a crowd in Vatican City he hopes to visit his native Poland, signaling possible papal contact with a communist state. He spoke after meeting Poland’s president and amid upcoming church events and Polish celebrations for St Stanislas.
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Vatican City
John Paul II
Poland
John Paul TI
Henryk Jablonski
Rome
Warsaw
Pope
Jablonski
Vatican
Krakow
John Paul
St. Paul
St. Stanislaw
Boleslaus
Paul VI
Communist Party
Edward Gierek
Stefan Wyszynski
St. Peter's Basilica
Cutter crash hearing opens in Baltimore Virginia Coast Guard disaster
Navy divers resume search for five missing from the Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga after a Friday night collision with the Argentine coal freighter Santa Cruz. The death toll rose to at least four as a 125 foot ship sank in 57 feet of Chesapeake Bay. A joint hearing by the Coast Guard and NTSB was slated for 10 a.m. in Baltimore as salvage vessels prepared to raise the cutter. A survivor described the moment of sinking, and memorial services were planned for the victims.
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Portsmouth. Va
Coast Guard
Navy
Cuyahoga
Chesapeake Bay
Raitimore
Nai Transportation Safety Board
National Weather Service
Potomac River
Santa Cruz
Screw
Charles Crosby
Yorktown Reserve Center
New Castle teachers go to court tomorrow
Wilmington AP reports a contempt of court hearing is set for Wednesday in Chancery Court before Chancellor William Marvel regarding New Castle County teachers continuing an illegal strike. The NCCEA faces possible fines or jail terms for the walkout that has kept about 89 percent of 3901 teachers off the job and disrupted classes for seven days. No new talks have occurred and federal mediator Charles Butler notes the union has not addressed the district’s concerns.
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Del
New Castle County
Chancery Court
William Marvel
Gilbert 5
Scarborough Jr
Woud Ie Gay
New Castle County Education Assoriation
Charles A. Butler
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Outh. G. Wirts
Frederick County
Wauwaen
Westminster Shopping Center
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Seamus Michael Meyers
Tecows
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Chace
New Castle
NCCEA
Everly's
McGregor
Boyerly
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