No Match for Italy's Dark Disease at Naples Hospital
In Naples Santobono pediatric hospital distraught mothers watch a closed circuit monitor as infants die from a mysterious illness termed the dark disease. An international team links it to a deadly mutation of syncytial virus. no cure exists and experts warn it may fade only with warmer weather.
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Naples
Italy
UPI
Santolono Pediatric Hospital
Europe
Renato Rosselli
Santobono Hospital
Giuseppina Barone
Giulio Tarro
U.S
Tarro
Rome
Robert Chanock
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Bethesda
World Health Organization
Geneva
China signals withdrawal after limited Vietnam counterattack
Chinese Ambassador Chen Chu told the United Nations Security Council that Beijing seeks immediate talks with Hanoi to restore peace and denoted its Vietnam advance as a limited frontier counterattack. In Columbus, FBI Director William Webster urged tweaks to the Freedom of Information Act, arguing it hinders enforcement and aids inmates and organized crime by revealing sources.
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United Nations
UPI
China
Hanoi
Chen Chu
Security Council
Vietnam
Columbus
FBI
William Webster
Webster
FIA
San Diego teen to face adult trial over Cleveland Elementary shooting
Sixteen year old Brenda Spencer was ordered to stand trial as an adult on two murder charges and nine assault counts for the January 29 schoolyard attack that killed principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar and wounded eight children and a police officer.
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San Diego
UPI
Brenda Spencer
William F. Tood Jr
Miss Spencer
Cleveland Elementary
Burton Wragg
Mike Suchar
Two Norton boys found dead in dumpster
Two Norton youths Mark Holcomb fourteen and John Ehrich thirteen were found dead in a East Side Akron dumpster five days after leaving home to search for beer can memorabilia. The Summit County Coroner's office preliminary diagnosis is exposure with a statement that they likely crawled into the container and were trapped when paper fell. Both boys were fully clothed.
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Akron, Ohio
UPI
Norton
Summit County
Mark Holcomb
John Ehrich
Victor Norman
Ohio education funding proposal to seek ballot
Local leaders of the Ohio Education Association will meet in Columbus to decide if they should place an education financing plan on the Ohio primary ballot. The plan would shift funding from local property taxes to the state, cutting property taxes but raising personal and corporate income taxes and the sales tax, affecting about 85,000 teachers.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio Education Association
Ohio
Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium
DEA
Eugene Brundige
Weather shifts to snow as rain falls this afternoon
Rain begins this afternoon then changes to snow by evening with snow flurries Sunday. Highs near 40s and a low in the 20s. Precipitation chances 90 percent tonight and 60 percent Sunday. North winds 15 to 25 mph tonight. Births list multiple families with newborns and hospitals. Obituaries note William Klein and Chester Paplinski. The Lincoln oath era five ex-presidents were still alive.
Drug raid nets over 1 million in street drugs and guns
Homestead Florida and Broward County authorities arrested 11 suspects in a pre dawn raid on two residences yielding more than a ton of marijuana, a kilo of cocaine, Quaaludes, firearms and over $107000 in cash. Five more were later detained when following the seized truck. Emmons, 34, held on conspiracy to commit a felony and related charges in Dade County Jail.
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Homestead
Fla
Norwalk
Douglas Ray Emmons
Emmons
Dade County
Miami
Dade
Broward County
Philip H. Lorcher
Jericho Road
New Jersey
Knowlton Township
Blairstown
Warren County
N. J
Dade County Public Safety Department
Robert James Ashenoff
Sweetwater
Donald Burnsed
Eugene F. Smith
Key West
Smith
David John Hicks
Garland
Tex
Christopher Harapas
Hubert S. Turnbull
William Wolfe Burkley
Anthony Restucci
Nancy Lee Williams
Debrann Mallory
Ohio
Steven Wolosky
Brookline
Louis Pisagna
Akron
Lynn Berry
Goulds
John Langevin
Margate
Joseph Palazzo
Broward County Sheriff's Police
Narcotics and Intelligence Bureau
Fort Lauderdale
Bay Harbor Islands
Biscayne Bay
Miami Beach
Westchester
Man Sentenced For Cutting Tire On Sheriff's Cruiser
A rural Wellington man Timothy A. McMahon 21 was sentenced to 90 days in Huron County Jail and fined 100 for criminal damaging after slashing a Huron County Sheriff's Department cruiser tire. The case was heard in common pleas court due to county property involvement.
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Wellington
Huron County Sheriff's Department
Huron County
Timothy A. McMahon
Common Pleas Court
Robert W. Smith
Richard Hauser
McMahon
Shelby
Weis Road
Willard
Marty Collins
Smith
Mansfield Reformatory
Collins
Inflation At 11.2 Percent Drives GOP Blame on Carter
Inflation hit 11.2 percent in January fueling GOP charges of Carter bungling while the White House argues the rise is not surprising and calls for sacrifice. CPI rose 0.9 percent, wages fell, and purchasing power slipped as food housing and medical costs surged.
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White House
America
Carter
Labor Department
GOP
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Petersen Nominated as First Black General in Marines
General Col. Frank E. Petersen Jr. is nominated to become the Marine Corps first black general. Petersen, also the Marines first black pilot, has a Korea service record and is photographed in a UPI telephoto image.
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Col
Frank E. Petersen Jr
Marine Corps
Petersen
Korea
UPI
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