Storms stall travelers in South and Midwest chill tourists
bitter Arctic air spread across the nation with record lows from Havre Montana to Detroit while six deaths were blamed on exposure in Louisiana. a Lakeland citrus group warned damage estimates will come after morning inspections as Florida citrus worth 2.5 billion faces weather disruption. tourists in miami lament cold near record lows and travelers huddle as highways and airports report delays and rolling closures across the northeast and west.
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Florida Citrus Mutual
Ernie Ness
Havre
Mont
Michigan
Indiana
Indianapolis
Upper
Midwest
Washington State
Young Westport girl with Hoaglin’s disease gets three Christmas wishes
Seven year old Amy Benham from Westport Washington fulfilled three Christmas wishes after visiting Washington DC to light the national Christmas tree and receiving a canopy bed and a backyard playhouse. Local shops donated the bed and bedding while a coal yard Lions Club and a Veterans of Foreign Wars post provided the playhouse materials. The Make-A-Wish Foundation arranged the White House visit aimed at brightening children with life threatening diseases.
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Hoagkin's
Reagan
Amy Benham
Washington, D.C
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youngZel
Amy
Santa Claus
Machaeling
Sidall
Copalis Beach
Westport
Community Lions Club
Veterans of Foreign War Post
White House
Quarter-mile crawl for help saves life in New Hampshire
A 16-year-old boy, after a Christmas Eve snowmobile crash in Manchester, crawled over a quarter mile through sub zero cold for about four hours to seek help. He reached Robert Ahern’s rural home around 4 am Sunday, with hands blackened from the cold and his body found partly inside the breezeway. Police withheld the name. he is in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
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California
Manchester
N.H
R.J. Cale
Elliot Hospital
Robert Ahern
Ahern
Cale
Lebanon Army Fights Militia Units in Beirut Killings Reach Fifty Three
In Lebanon heavy fighting left 53 dead and 108 wounded as the army moved into militia positions in south Beirut and surrounding suburbs after Christmas Eve French troop withdrawals. Four Italian and four Lebanese soldiers were wounded. Stray rounds hit a U.S. Marine camp as combat escalated before a cease-fire late Sunday. Bob Hope visited U.S. troops amid shelling and jokes on duty at the coast guard base.
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Page A
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Chalilla
U.S. Marine
Bob Hope
Ae Jones
Hope
U.S
Charlee Herne
Amin Gemayel
Chicago
Jesse Jackson
Syria
Navy
Robert O. Goodman Jr
Animal rights group claims holiday raids on labs and shops
The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for stealing dogs from a Los Angeles research lab and vandalizing shops in the Miami area during the holiday weekend. A spokeswoman said the group also stole laboratory rats from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, while Johns Hopkins reported no break-ins. Ingrid Newkirk of PETA linked the three Christmas raids across California Florida and Maryland to the group.
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Animal Liberation Front
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Miami
Johns Hopkins University
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Johns Hopline
California
Florida
Maryland
Ingrid Newkirk
People For Ethical Treatment of
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