Toll workers strike frees rides on turnpike disruption
EAST BRUNSWICK New Jersey toll workers staged a one day strike on the Turnpike causing free rides for motorists as officials and strikers failed to reach a new contract. The dispute involved Local 194 of IFPTF E and the authority aimed to resume toll collection with replacement workers today.
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East Brunswick
New Jersey Turnpike
Delaware
New York City
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
New Jersey Turnpike Authority
Faulkner aims for Citadel amid stalled state plan
Shannon Faulkner toured Converse College as South Carolina pursues a leadership program to keep her from The Citadel. A federal appeals court ordered her admitted to The Citadel next month unless the state offers a viable alternative. In Miami, Anthony Williams and Leroy Rogers were sentenced to life for the robbery and murder of a German tourist, with Williams getting 30 years for a habitual offender status and Rogers an additional 15 years for theft.
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Spartanburg
Shannon Faulkner
Converse College
Faulkner
Women’s College
Citadel
Charleston Mtary
Converse
Miami
Anthony Williams
Leroy Rogers
Williams
Rogers
Barbara Metler-Jensen
Berlin
Hot air balloon hard landing kills one in California
In Davis California a hot air balloon tour ended with a hard landing. The gondola bounced three times throwing nine clients from the gondola. One person died and two others were treated and released from a hospital.
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Davis
Calif
Cable car crash injures ten in San Francisco
An abrupt backward roll of a cable car on a steep hill left ten passengers with cuts and bruises. The car slipped after stopping in front of it, the driver applying the emergency brake as it moved, causing several riders to be thrown from the car.
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San Francisco
HEROISM BRINGS HONORS FOR 13 SYRACUSE OFFICERS
Thirteen Syracuse police officers were honored in 1994 for outstanding performance. Cases included tracing clues from fingerprints and license plates to New York City and Maryland to arrest three suspects, and an officer wrestled a loaded handgun from a wife ready to shoot her husband. Other heroes saved a colleague facing a meat cleaver, or stopped a man with a knife.
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Syracuse
New York
Officer David Jones Herald Award Hero of 1994
Twenty one Syracuse firefighters and police officers are honored for heroism in 1994. Officer Jones responded to a domestic dispute at 1821 8 State St and disarmed a gun-wielding suspect. A separate incident at Henninger High School drew a crowd as a student fought a woman. Rockwood intervened, attempting to subdue a knife-wielding Angela Fuvers who sprayed him with Mace and slashed at him during the arrest.
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State St
Rockwood
Shanna L. Steth
Smith
Angela M Fuvers
Helle Gaiel
Stall
Syracuse
David Jones
Herald
Firemen cited for saving lives in Syracuse honors
Eight Syracuse firefighters were cited for life saving actions during 1994. Robert Creary Francis Hendricks Thomas Galvin Cleary and Coogan were among honorees for courageous rescues through heavy smoke at RID Neen Street Otisco Street. They carried or pulled unconscious civilians to safety and all victims survived.
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Albert Farhmnar
Patty Coogan
Callin Coogan
Callin
City Hall
Officer Kathy Swete Receives PBA President's Award
Off duty officer Kathy Swete spotted a building fire on December 20 1994 at 1901 West Fayette Street. She rushed into the burning apartment to rescue a choking man then returned inside to ensure everyone else escaped.
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Kathy Swete
PBA
Swete
West Fayette St
Detective Pautine Eggers Wallie Howard Award
Detective Pautine Eggers earned the Wallie Howard Award for leading 1994 drug arrests. Her street level busts ranged from violations to felonies, removing numerous dealers and a large quantity of cocaine and marijuana, making 1994 the department’s largest year for drug investigations and seizures.
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Pautine Eggers
Wallie Howard Award
Eggers
Mariana
Gers
Distin guished Service Award Recognizes Two Officers
On Dec 24, 194, two officers responded to a house fire at 113 Elliott St. They found the home ablaze and entered to search for occupants. Zinter rescued three children and Thompson saved two others. They reentered a third time to ensure all were out.
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Elliot St
Zinter
Thompson
Detective Leo Dadey earns Meritorious Service Award
Detective Leo Dadey of the Special Investigations Division led multiple major drug investigations. He coordinated a multi agency effort with Onondaga County District Attorney's Office, secured warrants for 21 houses, resulting in 22 suspects and 42 charges, and disrupted a large cocaine trafficking ring.
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Dadey
Special Investigations Division
Onondaga County District Attorney’s
Police officers recall rapid arrests from 1994 case files
In 1994 officers McLoughlin and Kuss tackled armed suspects and criminal suspects during separate incidents. McLoughlin detained a knife-wielding assailant at the Rescue Mission after a December 24 dispatch. Kuss stopped a burglary in progress near Ra-Lin Discount Store on September 19, arresting one man and pursuing another who fled with multiple weapons discarded. Earlier, detectives Lynch and Brennan used informants to solve the November 1993 homicide of Marshall Solomon at 205 Cherry St, leading to three arrests including a NYC and two Maryland suspects. Rathbun, in March 1994, confiscated illegal handguns and crack cocaine, stopping a man on Gifford Street with a sawed-off shotgun and later stopping another on west Borden Street with two loaded handguns and crack cocaine.
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Burnet Avenue
Kuss
Ra-Lin Discount Store
William 5. Bosell
Homcide
Marshall Solomon
Cherry St
Lynch
Brennan
New York City
Maryland
Rathbun
Gifford Street
West Borden Street
Firefighters Legg and McCauley Save Victim in Early Morning Fire
Firefighters Charles R. Legg and Daniel McCauley were alerted to a blaze at 824 W Onondaga St in the early hours of May 14 1994. They entry searched the second floor amid heavy smoke and flames finding 29 year old Frederick Leonard unconscious under clothes. they carried him outside where rescue workers attempted revival but he died about an hour later.
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Legg
McCauley
Onondaga St
Frederick Leonard
Leonard
Firefighters Responded to House Fire on Onondaga Street
Firefighters Dennis Craner and Robert Perkins with Valor Avants aided by rescue team partners searched the two family home at 824 W Onondaga St on May 14 1994. They rushed to the second floor through heavy smoke found Tammy Jones 27 and her son Freddy Leonard 4 in a bedroom and carried them outside. They were taken to University Hospital where Leonard died six days later and Jones died later from injuries.
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University Hospital
Firefighter Edmund L Taylor Valor Award Rescue Hero
Firefighter Edmund L Taylor rescued a badly injured child from a burning building on Sept 18 1994 at Fobes Ave. He crawled through smoke to the second floor and found 3 year old Robert Winslow in bed. Taylor carried the child outside and he recovered. He later said God led him to the boy.
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Coogan
Otisco St
Lea Ubrich
Fobes Ave
Taylor
Robert Winslow
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