Miner’s Brush With Death In Big Lick Mountain Mine
A miner recalls a March 1 disaster at Kocher Coal Co mines on Big Lick Mountain where flooding trapped nine workers. He and two colleagues drilled safety tests before a dynamite blast sent debris, smoke, and a deadly surge of water rolling through the tunnel. He survived while his two companions and others perished, leaving him haunted by the memory.
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Big Lick Mountain
Anna Mae
Kocher Coal Co
Brown hikes college pay offer to 5 percent
Gov. Brown drops the 2.2 percent cap for state college and UC faculty and offers 5 percent raises while proposing eliminating raises for state workers earning zero or more. He cites a study showing about 1,000 plus workers earning over 50 000, many in UC, and notes the 2.7 percent plan was based on disputed methodology.
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Brown
University of California
State College
University System
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California Association of Realtors
Swiss net hijacker in record piracy
Angalian hijacker Luciano Porcari was overpowered by Swiss police after a 44 hour hijack ending in Zurich. He seized a Spanish airliner during an 8500 mile flight from Warsaw to Moscow, wounding one officer with a Winchester rifle. Hostages were released unharmed. Porcari awaits investigative custody and possible extradition to Spain or Switzerland.
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Europe
West Africa
Luciano Porcani
Porcari
Spain
Iberian Airlines
Moscow
Ivory Coast
Maria Teresa Lloret Castell
Porcan
Turin
Italy
Warsaw
Ambassio
Poland
Jesus Millarado
Senate panel approves one year delay on sick-pay and foreign income
The Senate Finance Committee backed a one year delay on taxes for sick-pay recipients and Americans working abroad. It also advanced a two year jobs credit plan to spur hiring, offering a 23 percent credit on the first 1200 dollars of wages for new hires and a 12 percent option for new equipment investments. The package would not cap the credit a company can claim.
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Washington
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House
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Missing mother search spans Rose Bowl brushy canyons
Police comb the Rose Bowl area at night seeking a mother of four who vanished after leaving a doctor's office at 3 50 pm on Monday. Her car was later found after a teen driver collided at Chatsworth Street and Louise Avenue in Granada Hills. Witnesses followed a 11 year old and a younger companion to a county placement home in Van Nuys where a girl identified a boy from the Sparling vehicle. The youth, not charged due to age, has a criminal and drug history and was traced to a vacant South Pasadena house.
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Lint Bay
Chatsworth Street
Louise Avenue
Granada Hills
van Mun
Sand
Red Ya
South Pas
Wallace Zarifes win reelection on school board races
Incumbents Elizabeth Wallace and James Zarifes comfortably outpaced seven challengers to win reappointment to the Long Beach Unified School District and Long Beach Community College District boards. Turnout was about 21,100, roughly 11 percent.
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Elizabeth Wallace
James Zarifes
Long Beach Unified School, District
Long Beach Community College District
Wallace
Zarifes
Menis
Leader Kamal Jumblatt Shot Dead in Lebanon Ambush
Kamal Jumblatt, 59, top leftist leader in Lebanon’s civil war, was killed in a machine gun ambush near Deir El Kamar in Bankline. Two aides died. police launched a large manhunt as the fragile peace teeters. Jumblatt led the Progressive Socialist Party and Druze-backed leftist alliance.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Kamal Jumblatt
Bankline
Jumblatt
Progressive Socialist Party
Chouf
Deir el Kamar
Camille Chamoun
Syria
Rain drenches Long Beach with forecast for wetter weekend
A third of an inch of rain fell on Long Beach in two and a half hours this morning. Weather experts say showers may ease Thursday but expect more rain and a dreary weekend with another round of wet weather on the way.
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Teachers Association of
Bone Beach
Wayne Roy
L.B
Long Beach
Southland
National Weather Service
Joseph Vederman
Vederman
California
Santa Barbara
Highway Patrol
Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Mammoth Lakes
High Sierra
San Bernardino
Tommy Albrecht Convicted of Manslaughter in Babysitting Case
Tommy Albrecht, 13, was convicted of manslaughter for beating to death a girl he was babysitting. A psychiatrist testified he learned violence from his father’s beatings. News notes appear on Page A-2 and relate to the trial and defense.
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Tommy Albrecht
Tommy
New Deal type jobs for the unemployed start in Long Beach
A federal grant of two million dollars funds New Deal style employment programs in Long Beach. County health service cuts are discussed at a June hearing while proposed Long Beach reductions were tabled by supervisors. A winter storm threatens the Southland with potential rain and snow across mountain passes.
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