Nantucket Secession Vote Signals Island Unity
Nantucket residents vote 1725 to 404 in a non binding referendum backing secession from Massachusetts. Leaders aim to use the result as a weapon in fights over representation amid a reapportionment dispute with Martha's Vineyard. Governors and other state offer paths to consideration as residents weigh next steps.
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Nantucket
Mass
Massachusetts
Wayne Holmes
Martha’s Vineyard
Cape Cod
John Conway
Associated Press Laserphoto
Madelyne G. Perry
Jill Burkhart
55 000 to lose benefit checks in New York
About 55 000 unemployed New Yorkers will lose federal extended unemployment benefits as the emergency program expired April 1. A scaled down version approved retroactively cuts the max from 65 weeks to 13 weeks and runs through January 31.
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Mary Fiess
Albany
New York State
Fed
New York Unemployment Claims Fall. 31,005 in Week
The New York Labor Department reports 31,005 new unemployment claims for the week ending March 25, down 122 from the prior week. Total claimants in the period reach 576,808, with 319,674 having exhausted all benefits since July 1975. The federal emergency program will phase out, leaving 26 weeks regular benefits plus 13 weeks extended. Maximum state benefit remains 95 dollars per week.
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Albany
UPL
State Labor Department
State Department of Labor
Philip Ross
Carter
Ross
New York
State's highest court upholds veto override in New York
The New York Court of Appeals, in a 4 to 3 decision, upholds the legislature’s override of Gov. Hugh Carey’s veto on the Stavisky Goodman bill. The ruling preserves the override without forcing immediate budget shifts for the city or specifying an extra $115 million for schools.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
New York City
Stavisky-Goodman
Hugh Carey
Carey
New York
Abraham Beame
Senate
DC9 Crash in Georgia Kills 68. Pilot Praised for Effort
An AP report from New Hope Georgia details Southern Airways Flight 242 crash during a lightning hailstorm. The DC9, en route from Huntsville to Atlanta with 85 aboard, struck trees cars and a grocery store, exploded, and burned. At least 68 died. 26 survived initially with some later dying. Cockpit voice recorder and black box recovered for analysis. two crew members were identified among the dead. Ground casualties included seven relatives of a store owner in a parked car. Witnesses described a terrible dream as the plane narrowly cleared a school before impact.
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Frederick Standish
New Hope
Southern Airways
Washington
Atlanta
William McKenzie
la Place
Lyman Keele
College Park
William E. Newman
Twister Kills 18 in North Alabama Suburbs
Albert Peoples survived a deadly tornado that struck Smithfield Estates in north Birmingham, killing at least 18. Rescue teams sift through rubble as more bodies are feared. dozens injured and many homes destroyed in the storm that also hit Fultondale and St. Clair County. Red Cross conducts blood drives and sets up a temporary morgue at Cooper Green Hospital.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
Albert Peoples
Alabama
Tim
Smithfield Estates
Peoples
Fultondale
Ashville
St. Clair County
Cooper Green Hospital
Red Cross
Central New York Faces Recurrent Snow Flurries Threat
Central New York weather outlook grim as temperatures fall to the mid-20s with a 50 percent chance of snow flurries tonight. Tomorrow’s high near the mid-40s, winds NW at 15 to 25 mph with gusts, and similar conditions expected Thursday.
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New York
Food Stamp overhaul urged by Bergland for 1978 plan
Agriculture Secretary Bergland urged a sweeping overhaul to expand eligibility and cut top benefits for the Food Stamp program. The plan would remove the cash purchase requirement, allowing 2.5 to 3 million more people to qualify while lowering income ceilings and trimming benefits for near-eligible households. The proposal, costing about 5.4 billion dollars in the year starting Oct. 1, must be adopted as a package with the administration seeking two-year program extension amid welfare reform debates.
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Washington
UPI
Hob Bergland
Bergland
House Agriculture Committee
Carter
Coffee smugglers face firing squad in Uganda case
Twenty four suspects face death by firing squad for allegedly smuggling 500 sacks of coffee out of Uganda last week. Vice President Mustafa Adrisi met them in Kampala and warned that smuggling will be punished under the country's laws. The 1977 decree carries the death penalty for diverting certain commodities to unapproved destinations.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Uganda
Radio
Mustafa Adrisi
Kampala
Adrisi
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