Big Bertha Brings Destruction Along North Carolina Coast
The hurricane Bertha battered the Carolina coast with 115 mph winds centering over Bald Head Island and moving northward. Piers damaged, houses losing shingles, and a Marine base injuries reported. Sea-front towns flooded, a Ferris wheel wrecked, and at least one death confirmed in Kitty Hawk. Emergency crews evacuated coastal areas while tourism losses loom large for Myrtle Beach and the Outer Banks.
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Cape Fear River
Atlantic
Bertha
Bald Head Island
Tom Ditt
North Carolina
Emergency Management Division
Camp LeJeune
Barrier Islands
Morehead City
Pamlico Sound
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Cape Fear
Wrightsville Beach
Wilmington
Kill Devil Hills
Coast Guard
Hazel
Bill Nichols
South Carolina
Georgetown
Grand Strand
John Bone
Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce
Mike Hendrix
Myrtle Beach
Red Cross
Maryland
West Brunswick High School
Shallotte
Ocean
Susan Burstein
Guilford
North Carolina- Virginia
Rhode Island
Air Force
Dover Air Force Base
Delaware
Carswell Naval Air Station
Fort Worth
Texas
Fort Bragg
Fayetteville
Wolf Creek Lake opens for fishing with reservations
Wolf Creek opened as a Crown jewel of Kansas fisheries with limited daily fishing by reservation. Coffey County manages the program under WCNOC with 50 boat and 12 shoreline permits daily, four anglers per permit, and a $2 processing fee per quarter. Applications due August 15 for the last quarter of 1996.
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Kansas
Doug Lawrence
State of Kansas
Coffey County
Wolf Creek
Utilities
WCNOC
Kansas County
Kangas
Department of Wildlife and Parks
P.O
Burlington
Weather outlook for Kansas with warm trend and storms
The Kansas forecast shows Sunday and Monday bringing a chance of thunderstorms mainly south and west. Lows mostly in the 60s with some 50s in the northwest, highs in the 80s. Tuesday turns warmer with storms mainly south and west, lows in the 60s and highs upper 80s to mid-90s southwest. Local Ottawa water plant data lists yesterday's high and low, precipitation, barometer, and sunset and sunrise times.
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Kansas
Ottawa
Moscow Subway and Bus Bombs Heighten City Fear
A Friday blast on a No 48 trolley in Moscow injured and obliterated parts of the front of the vehicle. Police say the device was hidden under a seat and similar to a recent attack that wounded five. The third transportation blast since June raises anxiety ahead of Russia’s presidential vote.
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Avenue of Peace
Kremlin
Lyudmila Ivanova
Moscow
Interfax
Andrei Sokolov
Natasha Tolstaya
Paola teen held after drowning incident
A 13 year old Paola girl was charged after a drowning incident described by staff as horseplay. She gave multiple accounts to staff and was arrested Monday. The Miami County District Court filed the charge Thursday. county attorney David Miller released a statement. She remains in juvenile detention.
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Craig
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Miami County District Court
David Miller
Camptown Surrenders License To End Deg Racing Run
Camptown Greyhound Park operators surrendered their license to the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission in Anthony after the track near Pittsburg failed to meet license terms. The facility, opened in late 1995, posted heavy losses and shut in November after six months, with a bankruptcy filing dismissed for lack of a viable reorganization plan. The surrender followed nonattendance by Camptown officials at the meeting amid ongoing two week racing sessions at nearby Anthony Downs.
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Pittsburg
State Racing and Gaming Commission
Anthony
Camptown Greyhound Park
Camptown
Camptown Greyhound Racing
Robert Fleming
Commission
Myron Scafe
Harper County
Anthony Downs
Local Classifieds Ad Clerk Wide Read
Notices remind readers to pick up left pictures at Ottawa Herald Kid's Ink and paid ads. Recycling schedule lists Ta 1p on weekdays and Saturdays. Household cleaning service offers 25 years experience with Susan contact. Furnishings store advertises bedding and waterbed replacement. Smiley's Surplus promotes coffee makers lamps dinnerware toys and 10 percent discount with this ad.
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Ottawa Herald
Smiley's
S. Main
Nichols defense airs claims in Murrah bombing case
Prosecutors rebut Nichols testimony as potentially deceptive and manipulative with lies about age, money hidden in a mattress, and misinterpreted searches. Defense contends statements and evidence from Mariie and Nichols should be excluded, citing coercion, misunderstandings, and alarming interrogation. McVeigh and Nichols face death if convicted of federal conspiracy and murder in the 1995 bombing.
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United States
FBI
Nichols
Mariie
Marife
Michael Tigar
Waco
Branch
Davidians
Texas
Tigar
Timothy McVeigh
Stephen Jones
McVeigh
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
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Pamlico River
Washington City
New Hanover County
Jubilee Park
Carolina Beach
Kitty Hawk
Durraian
Ratah
Accu-Weather Inc., ‘Taather Service
APM
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Tolstaya
America
Yeltsin
Alexander Lebed
Lebed
Russia
Chechnya
Yuri Luzhkov
Caucasus
Luzhkov
Paola
FOR Friends
PET
Lynn West
Susan
The
John D. Montgray Bemis
Tom Love
Debra Challis
Gene Kelsey Wayne Snow Jean Rossman
Franklin County
Miami
Douglas
Osage
Anderson
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