New Year Celebrations Across Texas End With Quiet Reflection
A damaged Austin aircraft was dismantled for a 600000 dollar restoration project in July. Dallas billed itself as drawing 45000 with world peace talks concerts and a laser light show. San Antonio expected 250000 downtown with five stages and last night festivities. ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd played in Houston at the Compaq Center as revelers shut streets for midnight. Lou Warrington took his children to Stuart Little. A candle prayer outside Walls prison marked a jubilee inspired service. Laredo and Nuevo Laredo mayors planned an abrazo on the International Bridge to show cross border unity.
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Stuart Little
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Huntsville
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Jesus
Haynes-Sandel
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Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
International Bridge
Twins and other gifts mark late 1999 births
A woman in Fairfax Virginia welcomed a daughter at 11 52 pm as her brother arrived at 12 01 pm. In Seattle a boy born at 10 06 pm Friday was followed by his brother at 12 16 am Saturday. In Berlin a Bulgarian mother gave birth to Mircem and then Mircen near New Year.
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Inova Fairfax Hospital
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University of Washington Medical Center
Maria Cruz Mora-Rivas
Emiliano Villafuerte
Wenatchee
Berlin
Germany
Mircem
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Mircen
Las Vegas panics into millennium eve with 263 arrests
Riot helmets with visors closed the Strip to cars as police arrested 263 people. A reveler fell from a light pole near Bellagio and Paris Las Vegas after being jolted by electricity. Hotels slashed prices from $2000 rooms as Y2K fears linger amid heavy demand and high show prices.
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Paris
Las Vegas
Tom Hessler
Phoenix
Monte Carlo
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Odessa raid nets six adults and four juveniles on marijuana charge
A Odessa search at 3002 Robertson Ave. led to six adults and four juveniles arrested on state jail felony possession of marijuana. Defendants Omar Reyes Castillo Josue Israel Garden Alex Anaya Patricia Quesada Saenz Christopher Dale Poindexter and four juveniles faced bonds up to 2500. Poindexter remains jailed on probation revocation motions for criminal mischief and unlawfully carrying a weapon with no bond set on those charges.
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Robertson Ave
Omar Reyes Castillo
Ector County
Josue Israel Garden
S. Jackson Ave
Alex Anaya
Lotteman Drive
Patricia Quesada Saenz
Coronado Ave
Christopher Dale Poindexter
23Rd St
Taos drumming event draws worldwide participants
Organize Drumming using the Internet organized a four hour gathering in Taos to drum for healing and vibrational change. Julia Pyatt said people are drumming across the planet while Rosario V. Carelli of We Are the Drum emphasized drumming as livelihood and pleasure. The Taos High School gym filled with dancing as incense smoke briefly triggered alarms.
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Julia Pyatt
Rosario V. Carelli
Taos
Taos High School
Officials say power plant is safe Y2K test at Palo Verde
Arizona Public Service officials report a quiet night at the Palo Verde nuclear plant after debugging efforts. technicians were sent to Yonggwang Korea to monitor a nearly identical plant for Y2K rollover. The plant serves about 4 million customers across four states. Three U S nuclear plants unexpectedly shut down near the new year, but not linked to Y2K.
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Yonggwang
South Korea
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New Mexico
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South Carolina
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Midland student dies in Lancon border crash near Ojinaga
A Midland High School student Adriana Cisneros Aleman aged 19 died in a one vehicle crash near Lancon, about 12 miles northwest of Ojinaga, around 6 p.m. Tuesday. State police in Ojinaga reported she was driving a new model car and wearing a seatbelt. alcohol was not involved.
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Courts uphold media suit dismissal in San Antonio
The 4th Court of Appeals ruled the San Antonio Express-News KTSA and reporters did not defame or act with malice toward Patrick LaCombe, head of Senior Resources, in coverage of Kelly Air Force Base redevelopment and related HUD scrutiny. The decision affirmed a lower court's dismissal of LaCombe's 1998 suit.
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4Th Court of Appeals
Patrick LaCombe
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Andy Mireles
LaCombe
Kelly Air Force Base
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