Weather aids in fight against Western wildfires
Cool weather helped slow a Leavenworth wildfire with 30 percent containment and rain forecast to arrive soon. The blaze cost 3.6 million to fight, with 50 homes evacuated and 18 families still unable to return. No homes were damaged. Across Oregon and California fires burned thousands of acres, while Utah and Wyoming saw evacuations near Salt Lake City and Palisades Reservoir.
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Wash
Chelan County
Mike Brickett
National Weather Service
Gulf of Alaska
Washington
Oregon
California
San Andreas
Utah
Salt Lake City
Wyoming
Idaho-Wyoming
Palisades Reservoir
Former crew sad to leave space station
SPACE CENTER Houston Former Alpha crew member Susan Helms Yuri Usachev and Jim Voss prepared to depart the international space station after 52 months in orbit aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery ferried up the new Alpha crew Frank Culbertson Vladimir Dezhurov Mikhail Tyurin and loads of supplies while returning with thrity seven hundred eighty pounds of trash and discarded equipment. The unmanned cargo ship carrying fuel and equipment was launched from Kazakhstan and is due to dock Thursday.
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Earth
Kennedy Space Center
Florida
Helms
Voss
Asachev
Space Station
Alpha
Discovery
U.S
Frank Culbertson
Vladimir Dezhurov
Mikhail Tyurin
Kazakstan
Bond denied for pharmacist in cancer drug dilution case
Kansas City Missouri prosecutor reports millionaire pharmacist Robert Courtney held without bond as he awaits trial. Judge cites flight risk due to over 10 million dollars in assets. Courtney allegedly diluted chemotherapy drugs for 30 to 35 patients, with federal probe examining moves of 2 million dollars to a Cayman Islands account and possible condo purchase in Saint Croix Virgin Islands.
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Kansas City
Robert Larsen
Robert Courtney
Courtney
U.S
Gene Porter
FBI
Cayman Islands
Driver charged after fatal Greyhound crash in Tennessee
Nathaniel B. Waugh of St. Louis faces charges for driving with a license suspended in New York in 1987 after a Tennessee crash near Nashville killed one passenger and injured 44 others. Officials say he later obtained a Missouri license, which Tennessee officials deem invalid.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
New York State
Nathaniel B. Waugh
St. Ouis
Waugh
Bud
Tennessee Department of Safety
Dana Keeton
Missouri
New York
Latin Grammys Move From Miami To Los Angeles
Protests near the Miami arena raised safety concerns prompting organizers to relocate the Latin Grammys to Los Angeles. The move ends Miami’s bid, which officials said would have generated about 35 million dollars for the area economy. Michael Greene announced the decision after Miami agreed to permit demonstrations in a nearby three block zone.
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Miami
Los Angeles
Michael Greene
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
Latin Recording Academy
Greene
Chicago cop killed during fight investigation
Police in Chicago killed a plainclothes officer during an alley fight probe in the South Side. Eric Lee, 37, a nine-year veteran, died after being shot while with colleagues on an unrelated narcotics operation. Aloysius Oliver, 26, was arrested and charged with first degree murder.
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Chicago
Ohe
Eric Lee
Aloysius Oliver
Lee
South Side
Rebels attack 13th century monastery near Tetovo
Ethnic Albanian rebels struck the Sveti Atanasi monastery in Lesok at 3 a.m., causing major damage and straining a fragile cease-fire central to NATO deployment plans in Macedonia. The assault follows months of violence as NATO prepares to disarm rebels under a peace accord granting Albanians more rights.
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Macedonia
NATO
Sveti Atanasi
Lesok
Tetovo
Sen Ait
Catholic party backs N Ireland reform
In Dublin the major Roman Catholic supported party in Northern Ireland urged Catholics to join the police, a policy shift boosting peace accord hopes. SDLP leader John Hume said the party would join a civilian policing board overseeing reforms, while Sinn Fein rejected the package.
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Ireland
Northern Ireland
Social Democratic and Labor Party
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Britain
SDLP
John Hume
Hume
Laure
Ate
Sinn Fein
Irish Republican Army
Twin panda cubs born at Chengdu research base in Sichuan
A giant panda at the Chengdu Research Base in Sichuan gave birth to twin male cubs, the second set of twins this year in China’s captive program. The hairless pink twins, born Monday, weigh 6.3 and 5.4 ounces, with the elder in an incubator and the younger with his mother Ya Ya. Both cubs and the mother are healthy, and officials expect three to four more births this year.
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Shanghai
China
Chengdu
Sichuan
Huang Xiangming
Huang
Ya Ya
Fin falls from missile lands near two kids in Florida
A 10-pound fin from a high speed HARM missile dropped Friday during an F 16 landing approach near Eglin Air Force Base. No injuries or property damage reported. Keith Cash said the fin landed within about 10 feet of his daughter and another child before he returned it to base authorities. The Air Force is investigating the incident.
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Valparaiso
Fla
Air Force
Eglin Air Force Base
David Donato
Keith Cash
Wear-Tyv
Near-hurricane Chan tal storms into Mexico
Tropical Storm Chan tal parked over the Yucatan Peninsula frightening tourists and prompting evacuations. It barely reached hurricane strength then touched land near here Monday night, missing resort areas from Cancun to Tulum. At 65 mph winds it remained nearly stationary as forecasts say it will weaken across the peninsula and reenter the Gulf of Mexico midweek. State media urged residents to stay indoors and stock two days of supplies.
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Mexico
Chantal
Yucatan Peninsula
Here
Cancun
Tulum
Belize-Mexico
Yucatan
Gulf of Mexico
Arafat Ready to Hold Berlin Truce Talks
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat announced readiness to hold truce talks in Berlin with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres indicated a gradual cease fire. a bomb exploded near a police building in Jerusalem with no casualties and a second bomb found in the car. Arafat met German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in Ramallah. Peres said a meeting date in Berlin has not been set, while Israeli officials suggested talks could occur early next week. The situation remains tense amid months of fighting and uncertain peace prospects.
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Yasser Arafat
Berlin
Shimon Peres
Arafat
Jerusalem
West Bank
Joschka Fischer
Peek
Shimoneres
Peres
Hungary
Israel Radio
Israel
Ariel Sharon
Fischer
Sharon
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