Tornadoes across Tennessee injure dozens and cause damage
In Tennessee early Saturday a dozen tornadoes raked the state injuring nearly four dozen people in Chattanooga and other areas. Cars were tossed hundreds of feet, utility poles bent, and trees damaged while no fatalities were reported. Residents described sudden, deafening winds and quick actions to seek shelter.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Todd Womack
Erlanger Medical Center
Kelly
Trudy Smith
Shannon
Kelly Smith
Wife of store executive faces trial after fur protest incident
In Bellevue Washington Gina Pickell wife of a department store executive used a garden hose against anti fur demonstrators who followed protesters to her home She was charged with two counts of simple assault and faces a May trial If convicted she could face up to 1000 dollar fines and 90 days in jail per count Public support rallied outside the courtroom with about 100 people bearing placards and hoses
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Bellevue
Wash
Gina Pickell
Coates
Vermont House backs later last call for bars on Saturdays
The Vermont House approved a bill to let bars and restaurants serve alcohol an hour later on Saturdays, shifting last call from 1 am to 2 am. Ski towns push change arguing current early closing hurts business. the bill, effective January 1 1998, awaits Senate approval and governor Howard Dean's consent.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Senate
Govoward Dean
New method uncovers cracks in jet engines
FAA official Robert Guyette says a new inspection approach has found a flaw in an engine similar to the Florida runway disaster. Five Pratt & Whitney fan hubs removed since March after the method flagged flaws. the earlier test relied on fluorescence. The order adds a magnetic test to hub inspections.
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Atlanta
Florida
Robert Guyette
Federal Aviation Administration
Pratt & Whitney
Guyette
Guyotte
National Transportation
Pratt W Whitney
FAA
Northern Frontier aims to boost tourism with historic sites draw
A regional initiative to unite battlefields and historic homes aims to mirror Civil War site tourism. Backed by Oneida Nation funds and a $4 million Fort Stanwix center, the project seeks partnerships among museums and battle sites to tell the region's Revolutionary War and early empire history.
Northern Frontier Heritage Project links up upstate historic sites
A proposed four million dollar National Park Service center at Fort Stanwix Rome aims to weave Oswego to the Vermont border into a tourism and heritage corridor. The project highlights decisive Revolutionary War clashes on the New York frontier and the multiethnic origins of America as interpreted by historian Robert Moss and local resident Joe Robertaccio.
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National Park Service
Fort Stanwix
Rome
Oswego
Vermont
Revoluton
United States
Oriskany Battlefield
Adirondack
Baron von Steuben
Mohawk River
Nicholas Herkimer
Oriskany
Schoharie Valley
U.S
America
Robert Moss
Moss
Troy
France
England
Benedict Arnold
Oskanondonha
Joseph Brant
John Herkimer
Nicholas
Gen. Herkimer
Joe Robertaccio
Utica
Robertaccio
HR Peese
Stanwix
Gary W. Warshefski
Oriskany Battle Seen as Turning Point of Revolution
National Park Service historian Ed Bearss calls the Battle of Oriskany vital to the American victory. He notes the siege of Fort Stanwix and Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga shifted international recognition from France and others, aiding the alliance that helped end the war.
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Stanwix
France
Spain
Netherlands
Battle of
Oriskany
Ed Bearss
National Park Service
Army clears Watervliet arsenal managers
Army investigation finds quality-control issues at Watervliet Arsenal but no evidence of an overall conspiracy to withhold inspections or ship defective weapons. Some workers claimed management knowingly sent faulty materiel. whistleblowers call the report a coverup. Watervliet, oldest U. S. arsenal, makes large-caliber cannons including the MLA1 Abrams gun.
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Watervliet
Army
Associated Press
Watervliet Arsenal
Police identify motorcyclist killed in Northway crash
Investigators near Clifton Park sought to identify a man about 50 who died in a fiery motorcycle crash on the Northway north of Albany. The bike lost control on Friday, slid 125 feet, struck a guardrail, then became airborne for 100 feet before the gas tank ruptured. the rider died at the scene.
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Clifton Park
Northway
Albany
AIDS activists accuse NY police of brutality
AIDS activists from ACT UP accuse New York police of brutality during a Manhattan protest about high AIDS drug prices. They claim heads were banged on the ground, protesters were dragged, strip searched, kicked, and hair pulled, with anti gay remarks. 72 demonstrators were arrested. Police officials deny the allegations.
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New York
Bill Thorne
ACT UP
San Francisco
Manhattan
NYPD
Marilyn Mode
Former assembly aide sentenced for wire fraud in tax scam
Juliana Cassiliano a former Assembly Banking Committee lawyer was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for trying to extract 20000 cash to secure a 480000 tax refund for Petron Oil Corp. She admitted cash payments of 5000 each in 1992 and warned a former lover and deputy state commissioner about an FBI probe.
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Albany
State Assembly
Juliana Cassiliano
The
Assembly Banking Committee
U.S
Lawrence Kahn
Cassiliano
Petron Oil Corp
Petron
Amtrak R.R. Corp
Rensselaer
Keith Hercules
Office of General Services
Albany Times Union
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