Deaf boy helps save injured man in Augusta blaze
Ten year-old Carlos Manor, deaf since 15 months, signaled danger as his Forest Hills Elementary School bus passengers watched. He alerted a classmate to fire as driver Dot Benson stopped and aide Judy Lively rushed inside. Firefighters rescued 85-year-old Alfred Hardwick moments before windows exploded. cause: electrical short. no smoke detectors reported.
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Augusta
Carlos Manor
Carlos
Lee
Dot Benson
Judy Lively
Forest Hills
Beverly Turbyfill
Alfred Hardwick
Tommy Cox
Lawmaker proposes outlawing poverty in California
California state senator John Burton floated half joking bills to criminalize living below the federal poverty line or having a child while poor. He argued that by outlawing poverty the state could spur welfare reform and challenge Governor Wilson’s approach to federal welfare changes.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
John Burton
San Francisco
Reblican
Wilson
Burton
Plane lands after bomb threat forces Pensacola landing
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 en route from New Orleans to Orlando landed at Pensacola Regional Airport after a note threatened a bomb. Federal charges will be sought against 39 year old Frank Lopez, arrested after interviews with 39 passengers and five crew. The plane was searched with bomb dogs but nothing was found and the flight resumed to Orlando three and a half hours later.
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Southwest Airlines
Pensacola Regional Airport
Florida
Pensacola, Fla
Pensacola
Fight
New Orleans
Orlando
Frank Miller
Ten Children Found Living In Squalid Atlantic City House
In Atlantic City authorities report ten children aged 1 to 16 were found in a two story home with no water heat or electricity. Raw sewage backed up from a toilet and two dogs roamed the upstairs while an aunt nearby checked on the youths.
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Atlantic City
Garry Alston
Gallagher
Publix settlement ends long discrimination suit
Publix Super Markets reaches an 81.5 million dollar settlement with a class of about 150 000 women alleging promotion and pay discrimination across 535 Florida Georgia South Carolina and Alabama stores since 1991. The EEOC will monitor promotions for seven years. The case, filed in 1995, covered past and current employees with funds including 63.5 million for claims and the rest for training a monitoring program and legal costs.
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Super Markets
Purday
Aper Iday
Caheaneiban
Publix
Florida
U.S. Equal Employment Cortunity Commission
Frederico Costales
EEOC
Georgia
South Carolina
Alabama
Food and Commercial Workers Union
Nonunion
Howard Jenkins
Lucky Stores
Norther
California
Albertson's
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Dallas
FBI
Frank Lopez
Lopez
Crestview
Celia F. Ball
Jackson
Miss
Royal Plaza
East Gadsden
Ala
Atlantic City Medical Center
Trenton
Camden
Philadelphia
Hugh Gallagher
Publix Super Markets
Sam Smith
Safeway Stores
Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems
Nema Omaamy
Cellular City Sf
N. Grandview
Odessa
Charles Marie
Andrews Hwy
Berkline
Andrews
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