Amtrak Night Owl Derails In Chester Causing Dozens Injured
An Amtrak Night Owl train carrying about 100 people derailed after striking a ballast regulator on a track in Chester Pennsylvania. At least 24 were hospitalized with minor injuries, with no deaths reported. Rescue teams routed passengers down an ice covered embankment and crews worked to clear wreckage across three blocks.
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Chester
Amtrak
Washington
Boston
Peter McEneaney
Night Owl
Clifford Black
John Jacobsen
Bill Waldron
Public Safety
Delaware River
Jim Barber
Philadelphia
Jacobson
Conrail
Chase
USDA projects weed resistant crops via engineered tomatoes
The Agriculture Department reports limited field trials approved for Calgene Inc. to test tomato plants engineered to tolerate herbicides bromoxynit and glyphosate. If successful, these trials aim to show surviving plants produce normal fruit, potentially boosting yields and lowering costs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
James W. Gilosser
Department
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Calgene Inc
Davis
Calif
Calgene
Welfare fight tests county aid role in 1986 case
Lila Catanzaro seeks emergency county aid after loss of state welfare payments. Attorneys clash over whether she pursued all available medical and income supports before relying on Crawford County Commission funds. The hearing, tied to a 1973 statute on emergency expenditures, continues with expert testimony on income thresholds.
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Pittsburg
Crawford County Commission
Michael George
State Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Lila Catanzaro
Stovall
Catanzaro
Eric Rosenblad
Southeast Kansas Legal Services
Wichita State University
William Terrell
Garden City Included In Ethnic Study
The Ford Foundation funds about 150000 to study Garden City's ethnic diversity, part of a six city, two year project led by Don Stull of the University of Kansas. The study examines community relations amid rapid growth and immigration with Garden City the only site focusing on Vietnamese populations.
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Garden City
Ford Foundation
San Francisco
Houston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Miami
Don Stull
Stull
University of Kansas
Ken Erickson
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation
Kansas State University
Wichita State University
University of Colorado
Erickson
Colorado
Bueno Center For Multicultural Education
State Univeristy of
New York
Binghamton
U.S
America
Kansas
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SRS
Dave Ranney
Morris News Service
Pittsburg State University
George
Catan
Zaro
Cantanzaro
Crawford County
Carla Stovall
Art Campa Jr
Campa
Els
Ottawa
Brea
Mercury
Lincoln
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