Former cop guilty in Olympic bomb plot and hero claim
Jimmy Pearson, 41, who resigned after the incident, pleaded guilty to possessing explosives and faces four years in prison. Sentencing is Sept. 20. He accompanied a bus carrying Turkish athletes to LAX last Aug. 13, claimed to find a pipe bomb, removed it, then disarmed it. He was hailed as a hero before police alleged he planted the bomb to gain recognition.
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Los Angeles
Jimmy Pearson
Pearson
Los Angeles International
House proposes Medicare tax on high income seniors
A House subcommittee backed a new Medicare tax for elderly recipients with incomes over 20 000 dollars and couples over 40 000 dollars, as part of Medicare changes. The panel rejected an across the board premium rise and framed the plan as an income related premium collected by the IRS.
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House
Ways and Means
Pete Stark
D-Calif
Subcommittee
Stark
Internal Revenue Service
Lightning strikes pot, kills woman on Brooklyn ledge
Amelia Lynch, 28, was on a pay phone at an eight story high Brooklyn building when a 100 pound flower pot struck her during a storm. Witnesses report a lightning bolt hit the pot and sent it falling to the street, killing Lynch instantly. Her mother, in Colorado, spoke with her ten minutes earlier. The police call it a freak accident.
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New York
Amelia Lynch
Brooklyn
Tony Vallelong
Sherry Church
Colorado
Flames and fumes from Cedar Rapids plastics fire force city evacuation
A dense plume of toxic fumes from a smoldering plastics fire forced about 900 people into Red Cross shelters in Cedar Rapids. Police and fire officials said the evacuation area extended roughly five miles south and up to ten miles across, with several facilities including an elderly housing complex and a children’s home affected. Seven people were treated for throat and eye irritation as responders worked to contain the blaze and assess methods to extinguish it.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Red Cross
Gerald Claton
Cedar Rapids
Ron Hansen
Mountain men reminisce at Green River Rendezvous in Pinedale
Mountaineers in buckskins and muzzle loaders reenact the Green River Rendezvous of 1833 in Pinedale Wyoming. The pageant and events draw locals and visitors, supporting the Museum of the Mountain Man with a $1 million fund-raising effort and no public funds.
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Pinedale
Wyo
The
Historical Society
Museum of the
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