New Year Celebrations Across Cities Brace For Varying Fanfare
In 2001 festivities, Denver pledges a fireworks extravaganza for downtown crowds of 100000 plus. Las Vegas plans a 500000-strong Strip spectacle while Boston hosts an underground New Year’s Eve party inside the Big Dig tunnels. Philadelphia marks City Hall’s 100th anniversary with a Rocky Run. Detroit gears up for a tricentennial opening events, but Los Angeles foregoes a citywide bash after 1999’s rain-soaked failure.
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Yo Adrienne
Detroit
Dennis Archer
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Los Angeles
Peter Hidalgo
Richard Riordan
Arkansas
Marvin Stewart
New Orleans
Eureka Springs
Dallas
Jill Magnuson
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South Beach
Key West
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New York
Bradford
France
Barbara Esposito
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Jeff Allen
Procrastinators Club of America
Les Waas
Janet Jackson estranged husband sues over pre marriage assets
Rene Elizondo Jr sues Janet Jackson in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming she promised to share pre marriage assets and post relationship wealth from her Rhythm Nation 1814 proceeds. The suit seeks over 10 million dollars and follows their 1999 separation announcement.
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Janet Jackson
Rene Elizondo Jr
Jackson
Michael Jackson
Los Angeles Superior Court
Y2K disaster leaves Oklahoma in cold darkness
In Swink Oklahoma Sequetta and Benny Perry endured a year of outages after ice toppled electric poles on Christmas Day. More than 75 000 Oklahomans faced cold dark homes as subfreezing weather and snow slowed utility crews. The Red Cross had prepared in seizing Y2K fears.
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SWINK
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Benny Perry
Mother Nature
Sequetta Perry
Oklahoma
Civil Emergency Management
Michelann Ooten
American Red Cross
Police Tragedies Highlight Texas Deaths Across Towns
A string of incidents in Big Spring Odessa Lamesa and surrounding areas includes two children swept away in Mustang Creek near Big Spring with 6 year old Dalton Harbour and 18 month old Peyton Harbour later found dead. A prison riot at Lamesa's Smith Unit killed Fernando Trejo with 21 others injured. A drug smuggling case disrupted Permian Basin trafficking meth to Mexico with seven suspects arrested May 5. Firefighters found 19 year old Stefanie Hill in an Odessa apartment fire May 29. A 17 year old Big Spring man was indicted for capital murder tied to a June shooting leaving three dead. Police investigations span multiple decedents including an unidentified baby girl in a Big Spring farmhouse and several other homicides and violent incidents across Ector and surrounding counties.
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Peyton Harbour
Lamesa
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Trejor
Smith
Mexico
Department of Public Safety
Amarillo
Lubbock
Stefanie Hill
Hill
Odessa
Texas Tech University
Texas Women's University
Micheal Kent Chilcoat
Midland
Benito Santiago Calderon
Eisenhower Ave
Eisenhower Avenue
Calderon
Ector County
Jennifer Gutierez
Kwes-Tv Channel 9
Loop 250
Big Spring
David Martinez
Sixth St
Simona Deleon
Janie Tejerina Mendez
Mendez
Chris Delgado
Ron Joy
Odessa Department of Public Safety
Kyle
DPS
Randall Vetter
San Marcos
Melvin Edison Hale
Vetter
Hale
Hays
Interstate 20
Howard County
Wilson Street
Dave Spear
L M Boyd pens final column and contact notes
Informed Source L M Boyd writes his last column and shares contact options. Readers can reach him by email at sayhello LMBoyd.com or by mail at RO Box 99126 Seattle WA 98199.
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Sayhello
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Clintons shop for furniture before holiday
In Frederick Maryland the President and first lady after buying a 2.85 million home in Washington visited antique stores with Chelsea Rodham and Linda Bloodworth Thomason. They browsed Best and Embassy Antiques for about an hour and posed for onlookers in downtown.
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Clintons
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Dorothy Rodham
Hollywood
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Harry Thomason
Clinton
Roger
Frederick’s Best
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Frederick's Best
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Thomason
Odessa American postal masthead note
The Odessa American publishes morning editions from Odessa Texas offering local news. This USPS notice lists mailing details including the Odessa address, second class postage and postmaster address changes for subscribers.
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Odessa American
E. 4Th Street
Odessa
Odessa American Classifieds Contact Info and Subservice Hours
Display lists contact numbers for readers and advertising offices, plus hours for customer service and delivery problems. Includes out of town line and telecommunication options. Provides editorial and staff contacts for publishing sections and departments.
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