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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1977
Page
6
A winter storm warning remains in effect tonight with flurries and locally heavy snow squalls. Temperatures will dip, with a low around 10 to 15 tomorrow morning and a high near 15 to 20. Winds from the west at 30 to 40 mph.
Police charged Frieda Laguerre, 28, with second degree manslaughter after a candle lit blaze in a candle-lit Bronx apartment killed three of her children and injured two others. The fire at 595 East 188th Street started about 11 30 p.m. as electricity had been shut off by Con Edison. The mother and her estranged husband were at Jacobi Hospital for treatment around 2 a.m.
A 6 year old Brooklyn girl Niaka Pannell died when a bottle hit her head while she walked with her mother near 1680 Bedford Street. Police say the bottle fell or was thrown from a nearby roof and she was pronounced dead on arrival at Kings County Hospital at 10 p.m.
The nation faced icy winds and heavy snow from the Midwest to the Northeast. Temperatures plunged, highways froze, and schools and businesses closed as snowfall accumulated up to 9 inches in parts, with Midland states reporting wind chills far below zero and several deaths linked to the storm.
Harold Addington serves as chief editorial writer guiding Sundays opinion pages with a stance likely reflecting the newspapers official editorial voice.
Reporters scan Central New York for updates across Syracuse and nearby communities in the Herald Journal and the Sunday Herald American, plus the Post Standard, delivering current local coverage.
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