Vandalism Suspected In Wreck Near Stratton Colorado
Investigators say hand brakes were released on 30 loaded grain cars that rolled away from a siding and struck a westbound freight at near 100 mph, killing two Kansas men. Vandalism is a possibility being explored by the NTSB.
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Stratton
Colo
Kansas
Dave Watson
National Transportation Safety Board
Watson
Kyle Railroad
Paul Lake
Goodland
Kan
Robert J. Miller
Arriba
Kyle
Limon
Legionnaires Disease Outbreak Linked to Air Conditioners
Health officials in California and Wisconsin pursue air conditioners as the Legionnaires disease source. At City of Hope in Duarte, California six vulnerable cancer patients were diagnosed with three deaths and two in recovery while investigations continue. In Sheboygan Wisconsin investigators sample cooling towers and puddles in a 15 block area as 28 people have pneumonia like illness with five deaths and thirteen hospitalizations. State epidemologist Jeffrey Davis calls it an outbreak.
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Associated Press
California
Wisconsin
Ralph Jung
City of Hope National Medical Center
Duarte
Calif
Sheboygan
Wis
Kansas wheat crop totals 326.4 million bushels in 1986
Kansas farmers harvested wheat from 10.2 million acres in 1986, about 11 percent less than last year. Sumner County led production with 11.1 million bushels, Reno County next at 10.9 million, and Ford, Harper and others fill the top ten. The overall yield averaged 32 bushels per acre, down six from 1985, with drought and disease shaving output.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Northwest
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Sumner County
Wichita
Oklahoma
Sumner
Thomas County
Reno County
Ford County
Dodge City
Harper County
McPherson
Sedgwick
Kingman, Finney and
Sherman
Wyandotte County
Kansas City
Linn
Bourbon
Jefferson
Miami
Atchison
Harper
Sedgwick County
Finney County
Atchison County
Haskell
Stevens
Grant
The
Statistics Agency
Judge Puts Spy Away in 365 Year Sentence
SAN FRANCISCO AP Convicted spy Jerry Whitworth receives a 365 year prison term and 60 year parole ineligibility for selling Navy code secrets to John Walker s ring over a decade. Judge John Vukasin calls him one of the century s most spectacular spies. Whitworth s defense decries the ruling while prosecutors push for harsh punishment.
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San Francisco
Jerry Whitworth
Whitworth
Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg
John Walker
U.S
John Vukasin
Navy
Walker
S. Walker
Tony Tamburello
United States
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
William Farmer
Vukasin
Michael
Baltimore
Arthur
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Jeffrey Davis
Essex
Miami, Linn and
Johnson
Missouri
Knights OF Columbus
NW Missouri
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Lawrence
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Labor Day
S. Main
Ottawa
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