Evacuation Ordered After Maysville Fertilizer Plant Fire
Evacuees along the Ohio River left homes Sunday as a fire at the Cargill Inc fertilizer facility in Maysville Kentucky burned for over 14 hours. Officials chose to let the blaze burn out rather than spray water to avoid spreading toxic chemicals toward the river. The plant housed herbicides pesticides and 420 tons of ammonium nitrate. Deputy State Fire Marshal Kenny Johnson said the cause may never be known and the incident appears accidental.
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Maysville
Cargill Inc
Federal Building
Oklahoma City
Kenny Johnson
Ten Die in Pennsylvania Auto Crashes
The Allentown accident killed five teens and a 20 year old after missing a turn sent their car into frigid Lehigh Canal water. In Luzerne County, five others and a woman perished when their Jeep sank through ice on a trailer road. Ruth Cunningham mourns her son Chris Richardson, 19.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Allentown
Bill Heydt
Lehigh Canal
Luzerne County
Ruth Cunningham
Chris Richardson
Associated Press
Sprint hearing impaired service hit by traffic surge
Sprint faced a saturated hearing impaired telephone service across 21 states as calls rose 51 percent above the 32,000 expected on Saturday. Spokesman James Fisher said the overload caused delays, with the issue persisting most of Saturday and resolving by Sunday. A Monday meeting was set to investigate the cause.
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Columbus
Ohio
Sprint
James Fisher
Misher
Washington, D.C
Ethiopian inmate dies after hunger strike in Arizona
Teshome Abate, 38, an Ethiopian convicted of murder, died at St Mary’s Hospital in Tucson after a prolonged hunger strike to protest his prison diet. Officials said he ripped out feeding tubes and weighed 75 pounds, with doctors saying he could not be force-fed due to a court finding of mental competence.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Teshome Abate
St Mary's Hospital
Tucson
Mike Arta
Abate
Arta
Camilla Strongin Strongin
Bomb Packaged as Gift Injures Four in Vallejo
Police report a Christmas gift bomb exploded on a Vallejo front porch injuring four people. A teenage recipient Malcolm Penton, 15, carried the device inside and was burned on face arms and chest. The device resembled a candy canister with a switching mechanism. Federal agents investigated the incident.
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Vallejo
Calif
Malcolm Penton
Oakland Polepital
Ron Jackson
Lunar Prospector Set for Moon Survey to Seek Water
A 660-pound Lunar Prospector from the United States launches from Cape Canaveral to circle the Moon at 62 miles, crossing poles in an 18 month mission. It will map composition and search for water ice with a neutron spectrometer and other instruments, aiming for global lunar data and potential resources.
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William C Feldman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Mexico
Feldman
Los Alamos Laboratory
Earth
Mars
Diana burial island tours offered to public this summer
Admirers can reserve tickets to view Diana’s burial island at Althorp in Northamptonshire for 15.50 with discounts for seniors and children. Earl Spencer has set up 24 hour phone lines to sell tickets. US number 611-44-1604-592020. Up to 2,500 visitors daily from July 1 to August 30. Profits go to the Diana, Princess of Wales charity.
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Diana
Earl Spencer
Althorp
Northamptonshire
United States
Diana, Princess of Wales
Kentucky Teen Brides Spark Lawsuit Over Magazine Article
Tabatha Frost Gray and other Kentuckians sue Lucy Broadbent over an article in Marie Claire titled Americas Child Brides. Plaintiffs allege the piece disclosed intimate details of marriages at ages as young as 12 and 13, stereotyping Appalachian residents and prompting a legal challenge.
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Appalachia
Tabatha Frost Gray
Gray
Kentucky
Swing Mane Clare Magazine
Marie Claire
America
Clay County
Los Angeles Free-Lance
Lucy Broadbent
Broadbent
David R. Marshall
Marshall
Jet shows new technology, trainer may be hazardous
Soaring over California's Mojave Desert a tiny remotely piloted jet demonstrates agility and stealth potential beyond today’s fighters. The X-36, controlled from the ground, made 31 flights last year, has no tail, uses thrust vectoring, and reduces radar visibility and weight. Time reports the British T-3 Firefly trainer used for U S Air Force cadets is more dangerous to fly than the B 1 bomber or F 117. Six people, three student pilots and three instructors, have died in T-3 crashes since 1995, with its predecessor, the T-41, having no fatalities from 1964 to 1994. General Merrill McPeak commented on the trainer’s role in producing warrior pilots rather than casual flyers.
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California
Mojave Desert
U.S. Air Force
Time Magazine
Time
Merrill McPeak
Air Force
Acapulco
Karpov Anand tie in chess championship third match
Karpov and Anand played to a draw in Game 3 of the World Championship match in Lausanne. Karpov kept a minimal edge from the first move, while Game 2 saw Anand claim a Ray Lopez and Karpov resign earlier in the game. The match stands Karpov 14, Anand 1 with 314 points needed to win and a $1.3 million purse.
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Karpov
Anand
Anatoly Karpov
Viswanathan Anand
Lausanne
Switzerland
Mate
Ray Lopez
Gary Kasparov
San Diego couple builds elaborate catwalk home for nine cats
The Walker Mooney residence in San Diego evolved from a small remodeling project into more than 100 feet of elevated catwalks. The couple created cat sized holes, a fiber scratching post, and a hidden illuminated room for their nine pets TomCat Jerry Lee Bernard Charlotte Denise Frank Louie Little Jimmy Molly, with a leaded glass window feature and playful details throughout.
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San Diego
Bob Walker
Frances Mooney
Walker
Mooney
TomCat
Jerry Lee
Bernard
Charlotte
Denise
Frank
Louie
Little Jimmy
Molly
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