Ex-postal worker ends 9 hour hostage siege in Denver
A fired postal employee, David Lée Jackson, 42, surrendered Christmas Eve after a 9 1/2 hour standoff at a regional mail center in Denver. Seven hostages released unharmed. About 50 police, FBI agents, SWAT, and postal inspectors manned the scene as hundreds were evacuated. The center handles most Colorado and Wyoming mail with 3,000 workers present.
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David Lée Jackson
Dennis Cribari
Jackson
SWAT
FBI
Cribari
Colorado
Wyoming
Patrick Henry Sherrill
Edmond
Okla
Milwaukee
Paul Mendrick
Woman dies rescuing loon on Florida road
Cilicia H. Crawford, 25, died after attempting to rescue a loon in the roadway. Her shock delayed, she was pecked by the bird then struck by a red Volkswagen Rabbit, while her children watched. An FHP officer called cautionary words amid the tragedy.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Cilicia H. Crawford
Robert Wayne
Florida Highway Patrol
T.L. Crawford
Crawford
FHP
Girl uses candy wrappers to lead rescue in Oregon
A 17 year old girl in Lake Creek Oregon led rescuers to her injured father after his all terrain vehicle toppled on an icy slope. She marked the route with butterscotch wrappers, bundled him in jackets and a tarp, then drove to a store to call 911. The father, Andrews aged 48, was found in good condition.
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Lake Creek
Ore
Krystal
Andrews
Snowy figures frame holiday mail and sledding trends
The piece notes 1995 downhill skiing popularity with 9.3 million participants and December snow averages in several cities. It reports a 300 percent Christmas mail surge, 40,000 temporary workers, and 5 billion cards handled, plus a Chicago Santa letters workshop answering 12,000 wishes from needy families.
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Wasere
Ee Marie
Mich
Juneau
Alaska
Buffalo
N.Y
Burlington
Duluth
North Pole
Santa
Chicago
Holiday travel peaks as families visit over Christmas
In 1995 about 9.5 million families traveled daily during the Christmas season per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Most trips were to family or friends with car travel the dominant mode amid rising traffic, notes Jane Muir of W Travel.
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Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Jane Muir
Ueda
Seuss Memorial Drive Backed by Barbara Bush Honor
Barbara Bush named honorary chairwoman of a 4 million Springfield memorial fund for Theodor Geisel known as Dr Seuss. Campaign has 1.85 million raised, including Audrey Geisel’s 1 million. Memorial to be built at Springfield library grounds, with Cat in the Hat and Grinch statues. Geisel died in 1991. Aides note Bush supports reading initiatives.
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Springfield
Mass
Barbara Bush Appares
Theodor Geisel
Dr. Seuss
Bush
Seuss
Geisel
Audrey
Cat In the Hat
the Grinch
Joseph Carvailho
Christmas at St Christopher's Inn Crowded Yet Hopeful
Addicts find shelter at St Christopher's Inn where about 115 can be housed. Residents enter via courts, employee programs or street life and join six priests and brothers in Friar Tuck robes. They engage in recovery programs, therapy, crafts, and a Christmas play aimed at giving back and building self esteem while awaiting space in a halfway house after the holidays.
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Thomas Banacki
St. Christopher's
Banacki
Rudolph
Stephanie Rosen
Bill Curtis
Phelan
Sisters Reunite After Decades in Separate Foster Paths
Baumgardner and Blair, separated as children in New York state foster care, reconnected after decades of searching. Baumgardner, a teacher from Odessa, learned Blair had tracked her from Ohio with help from a police chief. Their bond rekindled over shared memories and now includes visits and shopping trips, easing years of longing.
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New York State
Baumgardner
Blair
Brooklyn
New York
Ohio
Virginia
Margo
Joyce
Odessa
Bai
Baum
Nichols fight over death penalty burden shapes Oklahoma trial
U.S. District Judge Matsch weighs if the government proved its case to seek the death penalty in the Nichols case linked to the 1995 Murrah Building bombing. If not, the jury cannot consider the death penalty. Nichols faces possible federal life or future Oklahoma charges.
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Matsch
Timothy McVeigh
Nichols
Larry Pozner
Denver
Kansas
McVeigh
Alfred P. Murrah Federal
FBI
Waco
Tigar
Darlene Welch
Oklahoma
James Nichols
Rebels dynamite Colombian oil pipeline near Saravena
Leftist rebels blew up a section of the Cano Limon Covenas pipeline near Saravena suspending pumping of about 175000 barrels a day for the Caribbean coast. It was the year’s 65th attack, with Ecopetrol noting increased sabotage since 1986 inauguration.
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Bogota
Colombia
Ecopetrol
Saravena
Caribbean
National Liberation Army
Guerrila Band
Odessa American User's Guide
An early note outlines the Odessa American publication rights and contact numbers for permission. It lists dial lines 333-7777 and 333-7619 for written authorization. The page appears fragmentary and references internal publication procedures.
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Johnson
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Robin
Mark Sterkel
Michael Julian Scott
Lee Benson
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Music City Mall
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Kathleen Ryan
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Ken Brodnax
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