Heating oil prices to rise 10 to 15 cents a gallon
The Energy Department forecasts heating oil costs to increase by 10 to 15 cents per gallon for next winter with similar high gasoline prices as 1996. With Christmas averages around $1.16, prices could ease in early 1997 if weather normalizes, though cold snaps could add 5 to 6 cents.
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Weather Outlook With Daypart Briefing
Monday will be cloudy and cold with likely showers and a high near 25. TSESBAY reports cold with scattered snow showers and a high of 25 and low around 15. WEBHESTAY shows partly sunny skies with a chance of flurries and a high near 25.
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West Coast flood disaster leaves 115000 displaced in California
Amid ongoing floods, about 115000 Northern California residents flee to shelters in schools, churches, and bases. Coast Guard rescues stranded motorists and farmers as rivers burst banks. Governor declared disasters in eighties counties. Roads closed, coast highway damaged, Reno casinos and airport affected, evacuations expand from Olivehurst to Sacramento and Idaho areas.
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Fred Altmann
Sun Valley
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Sutter County
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Yuba County
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Cosumnes
Seattle
Bomb probe shifts to radical Egyptian cleric ties
Investigators tracing eight letter bombs pursue a lead that followers of radical Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman mailed bombs to a prison and a newspaper. Three of the cleric’s followers are inmates at Leavenworth where five bombs were found this week. another was sent to the prison parole officer. FBI and State Department officials say Cairo cooperation is underway as the investigation weighs Semtex-like devices mailed from Alexandria. The cleric, jailed for conspiracy to wage terror, remains a central figure amid related attacks and calls for protest against prison conditions.
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Syracuse officer hurt chasing shooting suspect
Syracuse officers pursued a suspect after shots were fired from a car on the South Side. Officer Mike Smith sustained minor injuries, twisting his ankle, during a foot chase with the armed man who fled as Don Hilton fired a round that missed. The suspect was later captured without incident.
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Deadly European Deep Freeze Tops 220 Lives Lost
Europe endures its coldest stretch in a decade with death toll rising to 228 as Arctic air holds the continent in a deep freeze. In the French Alps near Nice a 220 pound rock dislodged by rain and snow crushed a 23 year old woman in a car while her parents watched in a following vehicle.
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Chirac Guards Struggle With Frozen Anthem at Elysee
In Paris the Republican Guard failed to play La Marseillaise as Jacques Chirac spoke, the Elysee courtyard sits at 14 degrees below zero and brass instruments would not function. In England animal activists rescued swans frozen to icy ponds. the National Swan Sanctuary reports hypothermia and torn toenails among birds. By Friday 22 more deaths raise the toll to 228 from the cold wave. Nuuk Greenland reports 34 degrees on Friday with unusual warm notes amid the cold spell.
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Jacques Chirac
England
Dot Beeson
National
Egham
Surrey
Gumbel bids farewell after 15 years on NBC Today
Bryant Gumbel, after fifteen years at NBC’s Today show helm, said goodbye to colleagues in an emotional tee-hour tribute. A production mixup displaced the Page 1 notice, appearing instead on page A10 in today’s Herald-Journal.
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