Fund Drives Struggle Over Tabatha Foster’s Life Support
Tabatha Foster, the ill Pittsburgh girl described as the world’s longest survivor of a five organ transplant attempt, remains in serious condition at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh after surgeries Nov 11. Funds raised for her care lag behind the evolving medical costs, with reported totals around 49 000 despite calls for help from the local Black community and schools in Hill District.
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Tabatha
Pittsburgh
Tabatha Foster
Children’s Hospital of
Pitttsburgh
Toe Williams
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Sue Cardillo
Madisonville
Doris Crawford
A_ Leo Weil
Black Hill
Greater Pittsburgh
Town of Keysville seeks new city government amid divided town
In Keysville a 70 percent Black majority pushes for a four town government to gain basic services like water and fire protection for about 200 residents. White residents resist as decades of racism, torn school, and vanished municipal boundaries shape a long battle over governance.
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Keysville
Caroline Bates
Waynesboro
Highway Death Toll Drops During Christmas Holiday
The National Safety Council reports 373 highway fatalities over the Christmas period, down from 380 last year and far below prior estimates. California logged 39 deaths while Texas and Florida each had 36. Alaska West Virginia and New Hampshire had no non-holiday deaths.
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Chicago
Pred Ranek
Council
Highway Traffic Safety Department
Ranck
California
Texas
Florda
Alaska
West Virginia
New Hampshire
Dellamano
National Safety Council
Actress sues over alleged kidnapping to make wartime film
Susan Richardson, 35, filed a federal lawsuit claiming she was lured to South Korea to film a movie that turned into a war production where she and about a dozen children were forced to work near live ammunition. She says she was sedated and held against her will and injured during an explosion scene at a church. The suit seeks 10,000 in punitive damages against the filmmakers and two U.S. Embassy employees and Korean Air Lanes. The incidents allegedly spanned three months starting October 1936.
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South Korea
Susan
Richardson
Miss Richardson
Susan Bradford
Lous Bradford
Dick van Patten
U.S
Harry Wachtel
Rampage killer in Devel Suspect Simmons faces bond hearing
In Pope County a 47 year old man named Simmons rampaged through a law office and three workplaces Monday, killing two and wounding four. Police say his wife and three daughters along with a son and possibly grandchildren are missing. Six family members feared dead as investigators piece together motive. The victims include Kathy Kendrick 24 legal secretary. Rusty Taylor 38 former employee. David Salyer 38 manager. Roberta Wood 46 employee. Joyce Butts 35 office manager. Authorities note Kendrick spurned Simmons years earlier. Autopsies to confirm fatalities.
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Simmons
Devel
Pope County
Jim Bolin
John KM
Bynum
Bolin
Jay Winters
Wren
Simmon
William “Dub’’ Brown
Little Rock
Kathy Kendrick
Ild. Chaffin
Rusty Taylor
Taylor Oil Co
Sinclair Mini- Mart
Taylor
David Salyer
Roberta Woo
Woodline Motor Freight
Joyce Butts
Woodline
Robert Wood
Kendrick
Wood
Snowstorm narrowly misses Central New York area
After a powerful system, major roads were cleared by 8 am but ice and lingering slush kept driving tough. Syracuse police logged about six minor accidents between 6 and 7 am as interstates 81 and 690 saw cars sliding. City crews kept 29 city plows and 25 contracted machines on duty, shifting to secondary streets once main routes opened. The Midwest portion of the storm dropped snow and caused 16 deaths in six hours, with travel impacts reaching Ohio, New York, and beyond as the system moved east with strong winds and freezing rain forecast for the Northwest and Sierra elevations.
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Onondaga County
Robert Burns
Syracuse
Rod Carr
Robert Moody
Department of Public Works
Midwest
Cleveland
Toledo
Ohio
Binghamton
Buffalo
Elmira
New
Colorado
New England
National Weather Service
Michigan
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Ware
Shelley Haynes
Nantucket
Bishops reopen debate over paper on AIDS education
The conference moves to review its December 10 policy paper on AIDS education amid mixed reactions. Cardinal O’Connor, Vatican awareness, and liberal bishops like Bernardin and Hunthausen defend the document while others offer milder clarifications.
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May
Washington
William Ryan
O'Connor
Bishops’ Conference
Rome
New York
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Manhattan
Bronx
Staten Island
Vatican
St. Patrick's
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
Chicago
Bernardin
John Law
Boston
John Krol
Philadelphia
Anthony J. Bevilaqua
Pittsburgh
Theodore ®. Meek
Newark
Roger M. Mahony
Los Angeles
Norman F. McFarland
Orange County
Calif
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Butts
Winters
Pel
Bill Payton
Bolm
Woolery
St. Cat Center
Baptist Medicaial Center
Salyer
Lave Firm
Tero
Sinclair Mink Mast
Woodiine Motor Freight
Gunman
Dover
Arkansas
Russellville
Arkansas Tech Univ
Jernard Wan
Ark
Herb Johnston
CNY
Island
Mass
Milwaukee
Rockford
Waterloo
Iowa
Denver
Stapleton International
Norm Avery
Sierra Mountains
Dyess
Bill Clinton
Bishops' Conference
Raymond Hunthausen
Seattle
John R. Roach
Minneapolis-St. Paul
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