Dallas chateau burned ruin leaves owners in legal clash
A $45 million Dallas mansion named Chateau du Triomphe was destroyed by a fire that raged about eight hours last July. The owners sue the contractor and others claiming fire caused by vapors ignited by an electrical spark from an electrostatic air cleaner. Investigators ruled out arson. rebuild hinges on lawsuit outcomes and insurance.
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Peter Malouf
Texas
Jean Boulle
Boulle
Malouf
Honeywell
Honeywell International
Cleanup fund surplus grows unused across nation
Toxic plumes from 143000 underground gasoline storage tank leaks await cleanup while nearly 2 billion dollars motorists pay into the Leaking Underground Storage Tank fund sit unspent. The fund, fed by a tenth of a cent per gallon, collects about 180 million annually and could reach 2.1 billion by next fiscal year. Critics say presidents hid the surplus to balance budgets, hindering cleanup and prevention efforts amid EPA and GAO calls for greater use.
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U.S
Tom Osborne
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Frank Massano
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John Dingell
Michigan
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Trent Duffy
Bush Administration
Office of Management and Budget
Senate
Environmental Protection Agency
Christine Todd Whitman
EPA
Whitman
Congress
General Accounting Office
Bush
Calif
Judge sets March start for Nichols state murder trial
Oklahoma City judge said Terry Nichols will be tried in March on 162 state murder charges for the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Building bombing that killed 168 and injured hundreds. Nichols, 48, already serves a federal life term and faces two counts for two fetuses whose mothers died in the blast. Trial begins March 1 after debates on dates.
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Oklahoma City
Terry Nichols
Nichols
Alfred P- Murrah Federal
Steven Taylor
Residents ignore mercury warnings from Caddo Lake fish
UNIDENTIFIED residents in Uncertain Texas continue to eat bass and drum from Caddo Lake despite eight year old state advisories about mercury. Dwight Shellman heads a local institute seeking blood tests for residents to raise awareness, but most locals shrug off the risk.
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Uncertain
Betty Holder
Mercury
Caddo Lake
Holder
Dwight Shellman
Shellman
State Health Department
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