Wildfires burn thousands as California evacuations rise
NATIONAL News Roundup reports fires in California seizing thousands of acres with evacuations. Angeles National Forest blaze near Castaic expanded to 1,200 acres, two outbuildings destroyed, temperatures near 100 F, containment expected late Sunday, cause under investigation. In New York, Arlene Aguirre faced a heartwrenching choice as twin sons Carl and Clarence Aguirre recover separately after a 17 hour operation. Carl left for a routine CAT scan while Clarence stays in PICU. doctors say sedation may ease soon.
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Angeles National Forest
Los Angeles
Castaic
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US. Forest Service
New York
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Clarence
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx
Arlene Aguirre
Steve Osborne
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Three killed in church bus crash in Florida
A church bus carrying about 25 from First Baptist Church of Hillsboro Coconut Creek was struck by a Ford Explorer, ran off Turnpike and plunged into a canal. Three people died and a missing child fear was ruled out after divers failed to find anyone else aboard.
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Hillsboro
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Marine Killed in Nam Coming Home
SMITHVILLE TEXAS AP The remains of Marine 2nd Lt Donald John Matocha missing since the 1968 Dong Ma mountain firefight are being returned home after new information from a former enemy helped locate his burial site. Defense officials had largely given up locating his body by 1993, but in 1996 Nguyen Van Loc a Vietnamese farmer and former squad leader turned in the discovery and burial details.
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Texas
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Dong Ma Mountain
Republic of South Vietnam
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Johnson
Austin American- Statesman
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People’s Army of Vietnam
Army
Hanoi
Dong Ma
Scientists rescue historic sounds from fragile recordings
Berkeley physicists Carl Haber and Vitaliy Fadeyev develop optical readout of grooves to digitize wax cylinders and discs without touching, enabling restoration of Edison tin foil recordings Queen Victoria voice and the JFK assassination Dictaphone belt for clearer sound and broader access.
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Thomas Edison
Queen Victoria
John F Kennedy
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Vitaliy Fadeyev
Lawrence Berkeley
National Public Radio
Library of Congress
Haber
England
Sam Brylawski
National Archives
Fadeyev
Kennedy
California Republicans oppose stem cell bond measure
California Republicans at a three day state convention voted to oppose a November ballot measure that would issue 3 billion dollars in state bonds for human embryonic stem cell research. They described Proposition 71 as unaffordable with a six billion dollar cost including interest and warned of an unaccountable agency and cloning.
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California
Bush
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