Bush nominates Ashcroft and Whitman for top Cabinet roles
President-elect Bush named Sen. John Ashcroft as attorney general and Gov. Christie Whitman of New Jersey as head of the Environmental Protection Agency to balance his future administration. Ashcroft, a conservative Republican, and Whitman, a moderate, bring opposed views on civil rights and abortion as Bush closes his Texas governorship and returns to Austin to pack up.
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New Jersey
Christie Whitman
Environmental Protection Agency
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Whitman
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Judiciary Committee
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Justice Department
Department of Justice
Missouri
Julian Bond
Naacp Board An
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Mitch Daniels
Eli Lilly and Co
Reagan White House
Office of Management and Budget
Virginia
James Gilmore
Republican National Committee
EPA
Madonna Weds Guy Ritchie in Secret Scottish Castle Ceremony
Madonna and director Guy Ritchie wed in a private Skibo Castle ceremony in the Scottish Highlands. The Rev. Susan Brown confirmed the event, noting a secluded, invitation-only service with about 60 guests rumored by tabloids and details kept tightly under wraps.
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Dornoch
Scotland
Madonna
Guy Ritchie
Susan Brown
Skibo Castle
Scottish Highlands
Brown
The
Sun
the Mirror
Enriched Math and Science Motivate New Charter School
The Syracuse charter school, guided by Shorish and a four-teacher team, uses mixed-ability math groups and frequent Spanish sessions to manage an eight-hour day. Students face MBC essays for behavior, with 450 enrollment the budget aim. Most students are African American or Latino with 62 percent eligible for free lunch.
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Shorish
Cincinnati
Siorish
MBC
Muller
Syracuse
Allen Anderson
Beacon Education Management
Anderson
Paradise
Herald-Journal urges correction of factual inaccuracies
The Herald-Journal invites readers to report errors in coverage by calling 470-0011, seeking a full, fair, and accurate news report. The note emphasizes ongoing corrections and accountability from reporters and editors.
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Herald-Journal
Syracuse Herald Journal postal notice summary
Postal service notice from Syracuse Herald Journal printed address and mailing details. Mentions publication number, postage class, address for changes, and rate references for New York state zones. Includes stray OCR errors but conveys a routine publication mail information item.
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Syracuse Herald-Journal
Syracuse
N.Y
Weather data phone and online weather services brief
Information lines list numbers for NewsLine weather forecasts and travel advisories. It also cites a Red Cross winter survival tip line and a daily weather trivia prompt. Online weather data from the Syracuse Newspapers homepage provides frequent updates and Nexrad images.
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Red Cross
Brian Samson
Mexico Middle School
Syracuse
Nexrad
Syraciss.com
Prisoner Martinez gains release path after parole review
Catholic groups backed her, Costello sent letters to Pataki on Martinez's behalf. Martinez, jailed since 1989 for cocaine offenses, earned high school equivalency and degrees while studying nursing and HIV education. At 23 she supported relatives, faced parole board scrutiny and future residence with Providence House in NYC.
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Oyacuse University
Hector
Parole Board
Saheaneay
New York City
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Marymount Manhattan College
Rampart scandal officers’ convictions tossed by judge
Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Connor overturned the convictions of LAPD officers Edward Ortiz Brian Liddy and Michael Buchanan in a Rampart anti gang case ruling that jurors focused on issues not raised at trial and found the verdict unfair The decision reversed charges tied to framing gang members amid calls to fix the scandal while assessing fairness of proceedings.
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Los Angeles
Associated Press
Superior Court
Jacqueline Connor
Connor
Spts
Edward Ortiz
Brian Liddy
Michael Buchanan
Rampart
Rampart Station
Rafael Perez
Newspapers push to unseal Florida ballots for inspection
A coalition of papers including the South Florida Sun Sentinel Orlando Sentinel New York Times and Miami Herald asks Holmes and Dixie County judges to vacate mid-December orders sealing Nov 7 election ballots. They contend ballots are public records and should be open for inspection as part of a statewide accurate count effort led by Sun Sentinel editor Earl Maucker.
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Fla
Florida
Holmes
Dixie
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Orlando Sentinel
New York Times
Miami Herald
Holmes County
Bonifay
Dixie County
Cross City
Sun-Sentinel
Earl Maucker
South Florida
Sun-Sen
Kolkata Returns to Indigenous Name for Calcutta City
New Delhi announced Calcutta will now be Kolkata with the Bengali spelling to end the colonial era imprint. The change follows a year and a half of deliberation and applies to all government departments and agencies. Mumbai Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram are among other Indian city name changes already adopted.
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New Delhi
India
Calcutta
Kolkata
West Bengal
Great Britain
Bombay
Mumbai
Shiv Sena
Madras
Chennai
Trivandrum
Thiruvananthapuram
Pipeline explosion shuts I-76 as Philadelphia blaze erupts
A gas pipeline blast at a Philadelphia Gas Works facility lit the night sky and prompted Interstate 76 closures. Fire crews fought the flames in an industrial area while several residents sought shelter at a nearby police station. No serious injuries were reported.
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Philadelphia
Canada awards first medical marijuana supply contract
Prairie Plant Systems of Saskatoon won a 3.78 million five year contract to supply standardized medical cannabis for Health Canada. Marijuana will be grown and processed in a Manitoba copper mine. About 140 exemptions have been given since the 1999 program began.
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Prairie Plant Systems of
Saskatoon
Health Department
Manitoba
Prairie Plant Systems
Brent Zetil
Canada
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