Mystery of the Great Lakes ships reopens in debate
On August 8, 1813, two U.S. Navy warships from Oswego and Sackets Harbor battled near St. Catharines, their cannons overwhelming their balance as they sank 53 sailors. After 177 years, a seafaring robot named Jason fuels a new dispute over recovering and displaying these two colonial ships and their early naval methods.
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Lake Ontario
U.S
St. Catharines
Ontario
Oswego
Sackets Harbor
Jason
Great Lakes
Cicero Memorial Day Parade Honors Veterans and Flag
Carl Sullivan and Harold Loughnot share pride in Memorial Day ceremonies in Cicero as color guard members. Veterans speak of duty, remembrance, and renewed patriotism amid a community parade featuring a flag ceremony, band, gun salute, and tributes to those who served.
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Carl Sullivan
Cicero
Sullivan
Navy
American Legion Post
Harold Loughnot
America
Loughnot
American Legion
al Sotherden
Gorbachev appeals for calm in Moscow stores
Moscow clerks bar nonresidents from entry to curb panic after government plans to triple bread prices on July 1. President Gorbachev urged calm in a televised address, rebroadcast midday, as shoppers at Taganskaya and Dorogomilovskaya reported mixed reactions and some were turned away.
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Moscow
Mikhail Gorbachev
Taganskaya
Dorogmilovskaya
Colombia selects Gaviria in drug war victory
Cesar Gaviria, 43, won Colombia’s blood test election campaign as the hardest line against drug traffickers, telling supporters in a Bogota hotel that democracy prevailed despite threats from cocaine cartel sponsors. He praised Colombians for voting in defiance of terrorism and urged unity.
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Bogota
Colombia
Cesar Gaviria
Gaviria
Clouding Up Overnight With Showers Likely
A cloudy night brings a chance of showers toward morning. Tuesday looks to be mostly cloudy with showers likely. The item catalog includes sections like Classified Comics Entertainment and Obituaries with names such as Dick Case and Joe Ganley listed under Lifestyle and Money Matters.
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Case
Classified Comics Entertainment Food & Home Ganley
Joe
Grandson seeks hall honor for 1879 Syracuse star
Ken Osterhout aims to have Charles Osterhout inducted into the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame. The 1879 Syracuse Stars, briefly in the National League, beat Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox with Osterhout stepping in as a catcher and right fielder.
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Charles Osterhoul
Syracuse Stars
Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame
Ken Osterhout
Rutledge St
Stars
Syracuse
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
Charles Osterhout
Henry Ormsbee
Osterhout
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