New Hampshire Trooper Shot After Funeral Rampage
In Littleton two days of gunman violence claim two state troopers. Rookie Jeremy Charron and two officers discuss danger before Charron is fatally shot during a vehicle check. Two suspects escape custody after a highway chase ending in their arrest. The toll includes the Tuesday deaths of Troopers Scott Phillips and TaclaTard AS Tanjvillane Glen.
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Littleton
N.H
Jeremy Charron
Charron
Scott Phillips
TaclaTard
Tanjvillane Glen
Imei West Soul
Police shoot escaped bull at Lowell festival
A 1400-pound bull broke from a trail rider during a Sunday bullfight in Lowell, charging through streets, knocking over a motorcyclist and goring an officer before being fatally shot by authorities. A bystander rescued the officer by placing a car between them. The officer, operated on at Lowell General Hospital, was in good condition Sunday night. Another person was injured by a second bull at the annual Portuguese festival attended by several hundred people.
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Lowell
Mass
Weipen
Patrick Cook
Lowell General Hospital
Belle of Louisville Steamboat Sinks Toward Sinking
Spectators photographed and videotaped as towboats pumps divers and a large crane tried to save the Belle of Louisville. The night watchman found the unoccupied sternwheeler, built in 1914 and owned by Jefferson County since 1962, once a freighter and now a joint city excursion boat for up to 890 passengers.
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Belle of
Louisville
Jefferson County
Biplane Crash Off Maryland Coast Kills Three Aboard
A sightseeing biplane went down about one mile off Ocean City Maryland on Sunday afternoon. Divers found the front engine in 32 feet of water but the three people aboard are missing. Witnesses described the crash as ghastly with the plane performing acrobatics. Pilot John McLaughlin 44 of Florida and passengers Crystal Blankinbiller 25 Laureldale Pa and Judy Lesher 25 Fleetwood Pa were identified.
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Ocean City
Maryland
John McLaughlin
Florida
Crystal Blankinbiller
Laureldale
Judy Lesher
Fleetwood
Man says he got AIDS in prison files federal suit
Paroled inmate Michael Blucker sues authorities in a federal case claiming prison rapes at Menard Correctional Center subjected him to repeated infection with HIV. He alleges a prison gang forced sexual slavery and that officials ignored pleas for help.
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Man
East ST. Louis
USA
Michael Blucker
Blucker
Chicago
Menard Correctional Center
Chester
Corrections
Nic Howell
Tragic two year old dies in Galena trailer fire
In Galena Missouri a two year old boy died after following his mother back into a burning trailer home. Robin High age 37 was rescued after returning inside to save her other two children and remained in critical condition. Fire officials said the cause was under investigation.
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Galena
Jacomb
Police: Woman who took baby is mother of 2
Police say a mother of two, Kirzewski, 30, took her newborn son leading to a missing child case. The infant was found nearly a day later in a cardboard box in Lakewood near St. in Tacoma suburb. She wore a white lab coat when she entered the hospital to retrieve the baby, and prosecutors consider charges of attempted abduction.
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Police
Tacoma
Wash
Kirzewski
App Ag
Lakewood
Pope John Paul II rests after World Youth Day triumph
After leading more than a million youths through Paris heat and smog, Pope John Paul II rests at his summer palace. He spoke of church challenges in the new millennium, urged a civilization of love, and warned of heroic moral prices while aging and weathered by the four day visit.
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Rome
John Paul II
Paris
Ponaff
John Paul
Vatican
Joaquin Navarro-Valls
Mauritius
Trocadero Plaza
Doria
Jean Marie Lustiger
Heaven's Gate survivors spread Applewhite message
In Berkeley a crowd of about 75 heard Heaven's Gate survivors explain their beliefs while skeptics left unconvinced. Attendees included former member Cldody Ody and observer Janja Lalich, with videos and books sold about the cult led by Marshall Applewhite.
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Heaven’s Gate
Berkeley
Calif
San Diego
Marshall Heff Applewhite
Lyndon
Chuck Humphrey
Denver
Heaven's Gate
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Lansmark
Ohio River
Tori
Slf
John’ Tibert
On'ss Ik
Pope
California
Applewhite
University of California-Berkeley
Raven's Gate
Humphrey
May
Rancho ‘Santa Fe
Eldrie Simon
Uc-Berkelley
Simon
Janja Lalich
East Bay
Simmanmitawa
Manyan
Crlody
Carlan Ody
Arbinallir Feam Madionn
Ody
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