Tragedy in Vermont and Rutgers student death
A man died when his light truck crashed into the Windham County district courthouse. Police found a second body at the victim’s mobile home. Autopsies were planned for both Tarbox, 60, and Fiermania, 76. In New Brunswick, Rutgers student Jason Greco, 20, died after a fall at the Theta Chi house following heavy drinking. Autopsy pending and BAC not released per family request.
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Brattleboro
Robert Tarbox
Eno Fiermania
Tarbox
Windham County
Dan Davis
Piermania
New Brunswick
N.J
Rutgers University
Jason Greco
Riverton
Theta Chi
Greco
Singer shot to death on New Orleans street
The gospel singer Raymond A. Myles, 41, praised as a rising national star, was found dead of multiple gunshot injuries on a New Orleans street corner. Police had no motive and continued investigations. He began performing with his mother in churches and released a regional hit single “Prayer From a 12-year-old Boy.”
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New Orleans
Raymond A. Myles
Myles
South
Man Survives 110-Foot Fall While Evading Police
Wet footprints led Cleveland officers to an assault suspect who leaped from a highway bridge into the Cuyahoga River and survived. He attacked his former girlfriend and her new partner with a baseball bat at the Euclid apartment, suffered minor injuries, and was jailed. The victims also had minor injuries.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga River
Eucllid
Euclid City
Mother and toddler drown when car sinks in lake
Elizabeth Pugh, 25, and Kayla Stinson, nearly 2, died after a car plunged into a lake in Hollandsburg Indiana. Melissa Stinson, 20, escaped with an injured foot and called for help as rescuers freed the submerged two door Toyota. Pugh was driving back from a wedding and seemed unfamiliar with the area. Indiana Conservation Officer Michael L Portteus provided details on Monday.
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Hollandsburg
Ind
Elizabeth Pugh
Kayla Stinson
Kayla
Melissa Stinson
Pugh
Indiana
Michael L. Portteus
Train crushes six Mexican migrants in Texas roadbed tragedy
Six unidentified men, believed Mexican migrants, were killed when a Union Pacific freight train crushed them while sleeping on railroad racks near NORIAS Texas around 3 15 a m on a route from Houston to Brownsville Police cited that snakes lure migrants to seek sleep on tracks and warned trains pose the real danger Officials said the men were undocumented and the incident underscores perilous migration paths in the region.
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Norias
Texas
Union Pacific
Mark Davis
Mexico
Brownsville
Houston
Washington executes man who killed three
Washington state carried out the death sentence of Jeremy Sagastega, 27, by lethal injection early Tuesday, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay. Sagastega had killed three people in 1995, including a 35 year old boy he was babysitting. The ruling marked Washington’s third execution since 1976 when the death penalty bans were lifted.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Jeremy Sagastega
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S
Court of Appeals
Washington
Girl shoots girl with gun found under porch
In Burlington Iowa a five year old girl eating lunch in an apartment yard was shot in the head by another five year old using a .22 pistol found under a porch. Dacia Nicole Watson was in critical condition as police sought ownership details.
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Burlington
Iowa
Dacia Nicole Watson
Conjunto singer Ruben Naranjo dies in Alice Texas
Ruben Naranjo known as El Hijo del Pueblo died Monday in Alice Texas at 53. A renowned conjunto singer and accordionist, his hits included Sin Delito Prenda de Alma and Angel de mis Angeles. Conjunto traces roots to late 1800s South Texas with German Czech and Polish immigrant influence.
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Ruben Naranjo
Alice, Texas
Naranjo
UN report cites vast losses of peacekeeping goods in 1993 95
The United Nations logged 16 337 lost items valued at 1 500 or more across three years of peacekeeping missions including Cambodia. Vehicles and housing units dominated the losses, with theft and accidents driving most disappearances. The report warns prevention can raise costs.
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United Nations
U.N
Cambodia
Hun Sen
Norodom Ranariddh
Serbs in Kosovo angry at both sides
Grim mood in Kosovo and across Yugoslavia as embassies close and observers flee. Milosevic’s apparent acceptance of UN demands sparks cautious speculation of a diplomatic breakthrough, while NATO airstrikes loom amid ethnic strife and mass displacement.
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Kosovo
Pristina
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Clinton
New York
Slobodan Milosevic
U.N
NATO
Milosevic
West
Kosovo unrest explodes as Serbs target reporters and civilians
Civilians in Kosovo express fear and anger as Serb attacks rise. A Kosovan civil servant criticizes Americans while families plan escape to Serbia. European and American diplomats evacuate, embassies close, and NATO reporters face threats near Pristina. Local residents beg NATO for peace while noting abductions and displacement.
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Ljubisa
Kosova
Pee
Milosevic
Jasna
Lough
Serbia
Kosovo
Macedonia
NATO prepared to strike if Milosevic reneges
Blair states NATO ready to act if Milosevic backs away from a deal. Verification would start soon with a noncombat aircraft aerial inspection under OSCE oversight. OSCE chief Geremek to Yugoslavia to sign. Clark and Solana to sign aerial mission. Hill leads Kosovo talks with ethnic Albanians in Macedonia.
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Blair
NATO
Milosevic
Yugoslavia
Organization For Security and Cooperation In Europe
Holbrooke
Bronislaw Geremek
OSCE
Wesley Clark
Javier Solana
Kosovo
Christopher Hill
U.S
Macedonia
First lady Clinton keeps low profile in Europe trip
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton avoided media during a four day Eastern Europe visit. In Sofia she spoke to about 500 students at the American College of Sofia and praised Bulgaria's reform efforts. In Prague she met President Vaclav Havel, his wife, and prepared for a conference with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel before returning to Washington.
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Prague
Czech Republic
Europe
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Vaclav Havel
Dagmar
Rodham Clinton
Sofia
Lenges
New
Bulgaria
American College of Sofia
Emerical College of
Elie Wiesel
Washington
Vaclav
St. Vitus Havel
Clinton
Eastern
Hanna Europe
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Rutgers
Alad Press
Singer
New Orleans Street
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Carl T. Grimm
Placentia
Calif
Grimm
Mickey Manley
Budapest
Hungary
Milena Popovic
Golubovic
Qazim Berisha
Berisha
Grand Hotel
Terdevc
Kosovo Liberation Army
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