Northeast states press EPA over Midwest smog
Several Northeast states led by Maine and Massachusetts plan a united legal approach under the Clean Air Act to push the EPA to curb windborne smog from Midwest coal plants. The petition seeks stricter emission limits on those utilities and other pollution sources crossing into their borders.
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Northeast
Midwest
New York
Imes
Maine
Massachusetts
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
White man posts race restricted land sale sign in Lincolnton
J C Nicholson posted an 18 5 acre for sale sign restricting buyers to Hispanics or blacks near Lincolnton North Carolina The white owner defended his act saying no one has the right to tell him what to do with his land The dispute stems from a denied permit to run a fruit stand on the property.
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Lincolnton
N.C
J.C. Nicholson
Nicholson
Charlotte
Five doctors charged in Miami Medicare home health scam
A dozen people including five doctors were charged with defrauding Medicare of 15 million dollars in a large home health care scam. Susan Regueiro, former administrator of Coral Gables based Mederi, is among six defendants in custody. FBI cites fraudulent patients and visits. more charges expected.
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Miami
Coral Gables
FBI
Anne Figueiras
Judge orders reunification of fighting twins at home
In Mount Clemens Michigan Probate Judge Pamela Gilbert O'Sullivan ruled that Gary and Tealisa Downes should regain custody of their seven year old twins and two older children. The children will remain with the Downes pending a November 10 review after the father videotaped a roughly 11 minute fight and the mother urged them to fight while the boy suffered a bloody nose and a split lip.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Thursay
Pamela Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gary
Tealisa Downes
Russell Ethridge
OJs mom pays for vehicle with pension check
Eunice Simpson testified from a wheelchair that pension and Social Security checks fund a leased vehicle driven by OJ Simpson, arguing the SUV should not be counted as his property amid the $33.5 million civil judgment. A judge tentatively ruled the SUV was a gift to his mother, with hearing scheduled to settle the car’s attachment.
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Santa Monica
Calif
J. Simpson
Eunice Simpson
Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Nicole Brown
Perez
San Francisco
Pilot's actions focus of Korean Air probe in Guam
NTSB investigators in Guam probe Flight 80's crash date during a rainstorm. They explore if the pilot steered into a hillside while thinking he was landing on the runway. The Boeing 747 carried 254 passengers. more than 200 died. Survivors and relatives endure memorials as officials seek the cause.
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Agana
Guam
National Transportation Safety Board
NBC
Pacific Island
Rika Matsuda
NTSB
Washington Post
ABC
Shim Yi-taek
Korean Air
Shim
Black
Shin Myong-suk
Kang Jung-won
Cargo jet with troubled history crashes near Venetagy
Witnesses describe a DC-8 taking off with steep ascent and loss of momentum, veering and nose diving into a field. Fire from a right wing engine and prior mechanical incidents in Miami link to engine and hydraulic failures. The Fine Air jet, among 15 DC-8s, had recent inspections and multiple past issues, with another cargo crash in Newark days earlier.
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Venetagy
Bill Garcia
United Parcel Service
Mary Schiavo
U.S. Department of
Miami
Miami International Airport
The
Herald
Fine Air
South America
Cental
Russian repair crew manually docks with Mir
A two man Soviet crew aboard Soyuz TM-26 docked with the crippled Mir space station after Solovyov had to override automated docking. The mission aims to repair the oxygen generator and return Mir to full power as the crew exchanges greetings with the existing three aboard.
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Mir
Moscow
Mir Space Station
Anatoly Solovyov
U.S
Soyuz
Solovyov
Pavel Vinogradov
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Central Asia
Earth
Yuri Blagov
Discovery satellite study of ozone layer on shuttle mission
NASA astronauts used the Discovery crew to deploy a nearly four ton German built satellite 184 miles above the Pacific for nine days of atmospheric research. The mission also tested a Japanese robotic arm and observed Hale Bopp with an ultravio let telescope while tracking ozone layer data and coordinating with ground teams to resolve a data relay glitch.
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Space Agency
Leak may ground NASA Cassini mission to Saturn
NASA delays Cassini launch due to a leaking liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket during a countdown test at Cape Canaveral. Officials caution that an Oct 6 launch could slip, delaying arrival from July 2004 to December 2005 if the window closes.
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Saturn
Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Cassini
Venus
Jupiter
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Associated Press
Matt Furman
Nancy Adels
United States
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Newark International
New Jersey
Associated
Sco
Metro Dade
Vinogradov
Space Station
Mission Control
Valery Lyndin
Maneerty Tee Cree Aryaya Generator Repair
Discovery
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German Space Agency
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