Cable channel swap angers viewers in Branford area
Maat Branford Conn reports TCI Cablevision of South Central Connecticut replaced Nickelodeon with an adult channel called Spice on the dial. Despite scrambling, audio remains audible drawing complaints from Wallingford North Branford North Haven and Branford with 57,000 customers affected. Blaine Randles, TCI general manager, cites federal law limiting channel options and defends the slot choice.
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Branford
Blaine Randles
TCI
Flooding Swamps Philadelphia as Rain Lashes Suburbs
Two day heavy rains flood parts of Philadelphia and suburbs. Roads and basements submerged while traffic snarled across Montgomery Bucks and Chester counties as Perkiomen Wissahickon Neshaminy Brandywine creeks rose. By nightfall water levels receded and Schuylkill runoff swollen parts of city.
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Philadelphia
Perkiomen
Wissahickon
Montgomery County
Neshaminy
Bucks County
Brandywine
Chester County
Schuylkill
Boston Owes 2.2 Million In Overpaid Parking Tickets
The Boston Herald reports the city must refund about 2.2 million to motorists and 60,000 businesses nationwide who overpaid on parking tickets over several years. Refunds range from 1 to 61392, based on a 3.5 million ticket records analysis.
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Boston
Boston Herald
Naval Academy midshipmen die in crash after game return
Three Naval Academy midshipmen were killed when their car struck a fallen oak near the campus as they returned from the Army Navy game in East Rutherford New Jersey. Killed were Robin Pegram Autumn Pevaner and Lisa Winslow. A fourth student Brian Clark was injured.
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U.S. Naval Academy
East Rutherford
N.J
Robin
Pegram
Tampa
Fla
Autumn Pevaner
Bentonville
Ark
Lisa M. Winslow
Bowling Green
Ohio
Brian L. Clark
Tigard
Ore
Two Die When Charter Boat Sinks Off Chesapeake Bay
A 60 foot charter boat named El Tora II sank about four miles from Point Lookout Maryland as water gushed through a loose plank. Two people died and six were injured with one in critical condition. Five others including the captain were hospitalized after twenty three passengers were tossed into rough Chesapeake Bay.
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Point Lookout
Chesapeake Bay
Senior citizens injured as Christmas float crashes on rain slick hill
A tractor pulling a 20-person Pinecrest Hospital float slid on a wet hill in Beckley West Virginia hitting a telephone pole. Ten people in their seventies were injured. all treated and released. The crash followed the float winning the blue ribbon in the city parade. No passengers were thrown from the float.
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Cpl
al Gray
Public support grows for Kevorkian hunger strike
A Harris poll of 1,254 adults conducted Nov 11-15 shows 58 percent support the jailed suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian, up from March. Seventy three percent favor allowing doctors to end a dying patient’s life in severe distress, with a 3 point margin of error.
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Detroit
Jack Kevorkian
Harris
Kevorkian
Pepcen! Uhh U
Cas
Louis Harris and Associates Inc
Denver prayer event unites faiths to seek peace
About 1,200 worshipers and 36 leaders from Christian Jewish Buddhist Muslim and Native American faiths gathered at the Colorado Convention Center to pray for peace amid a summer of youth violence that prompted a state legislative special session. A 16 year old attendee said he fears for his future as deadly violence continues.
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Denver
Dorothy Nelson
Church of Women United
Colorado Convention Center
Jared Peters
Associated Press
Deluge of dollars fuels flood relief toilet contracts
An Associated Press review of 24.6 million dollars in emergency contracts shows the Army Corps and FEMA often paid high prices for urgent items like portable toilets during midwest floods. Some contractors gained lists or favored status, while officials say price comparisons and data on suppliers were lacking.
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Associated Press
Corps
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Tom Bales
Army Corps of Engineers
Rock Island, NL
Larry Zensinger
FEMA
Interagency
Washington
Hubble repair crews add solar wings and gyros
Space shuttle mechanics plan a year in orbit with Hubble repairs underway. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman spent hours in the open cargo bay aligning a misaligned door and installing a new wide field camera, corrective mirrors, gyros, fuses, and solar wings to restore the telescope’s vision.
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European Space Agency
Story Musgrave
Jeff Hoffman
Hubble
Dr. Goodwrench
Endeavour
David Leckrone
Hubbie
Musgrave and
Hoffman
Spacewalk vets offer view from here
Spacewalk veterans Mario Runco Jr. and Jerry Ross provide play-by-play and color commentary from Mission Control as astronauts repair the Hubble Space Telescope aboard Endeavour. The NASA Select coverage, supplemented by C-SPAN for the nationwide telecast, highlights the operation while detailing telescope size and orbital speed.
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NASA Select
C-Span
Ross
Houston
Kyle Herring
Penalver’s campus protest drives Latino issues debate
Penalver, longtime president of La Asociacion Latina, led a four day Day Hall takeover by about 70 students demanding more Latino faculty staff and books in the library along with more Latino American history courses. The peaceful ending saw administrators pledge talks with protesters.
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Tor. Penalver
la Asociacion Latina
Penalver
Penalver Reflects on Rhodes Bid and Oxford Plans
Eduardo Penalver said university officials encouraged his Rhodes Scholarship application but he doubted winning. He viewed studying at Oxford as a path to learn more and boost his activism credibility, though the protest left him too busy to worry about the award. He plans to attend law school and feels he is not finished learning.
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Penalver
Oxford
Rhodes
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