Worst Mexico air crash kills 166
Fourteen year old Francisco Rodriguez watched his parents die as their Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 plowed into a wooded hillside near Mexico City. Officials said 166 people perished when the jet crashed in what authorities called the worst Mexican aviation disaster. The cause was unknown, though maintenance complaints by airline workers’ union were cited as a prior warning.
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Mexico City
Francisco Rodriguez
Los Angeles
Mexicana Airlines
Airline Workers
Arturo Ramirez
National Union of Airline Workers
Mexicana
Pat Leimbach brings farmers laughter at Knox soil meeting
In Knox Indiana, Pat Leimbach entertained about 60 locals at a Starke County Soil and Water Conservation District gathering. The Ohio author and one woman show performer shared rural life humor, jokes, and stories from her Country Wife column and books to lift spirits amid hard times. She teased bankers with a sharp punch line about getting a banker out of a tree.
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Knox
Ind
Starke County Soil and Water Conservation District
Pat Leimbach
The
Wall Street Journal
Ohio
Leimbach
America
Lawson stores join post office box service in northeast Ohio
With USPS approval 100 Lawson Co. outlets in northeast Ohio including four Lorain County stores begin renting post office boxes. The deal, the region’s largest with a merchant, adds 100 to 150 boxes per store and aims to ease mail access for customers with irregular hours, while Lawson's expands services beyond lottery tickets and money orders.
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Cleveland
U.S. Postal Service
Northeastern
Ohio
Lawson Co
Lorain County
Lawson's
al Clark
Cleveland Post Office
Yolanda Crisp
Cuyahoga
Crisp
Postal Service
Ohio Edison seeks five fifty nine rate hike in Ohio
Ohio Edison plans a 143.8 million dollar rate increase to raise residential bills by about 5.59 a month, pending PUCO approval which could take 10 to 12 months. The rise funds Perry Nuclear Plant operations and would lift a 500 kWh bill to roughly 58.09 monthly, with stakeholders including Consumers Counsel planning to intervene.
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Akron — Ohio Edison Co
PUCO
Ohio Edison
Bud Carter
Carter
Stephen Ostrander
The
Consumers Counsel
Cleveland Electriclluminating Co
Toledo Edison Co
Duquesne Light Co
Pennsylvania Power Co
Inside France's Charles 1X April Fool's Day
Weather outlook shows tonight cloudiness with a 50 percent chance of showers and storms. Lows reach 40 to 45 degrees. Wednesday turns partly sunny with highs 55 to 60. Also brief items on a school bus driver chuckle and local automotive training ads.
Warm spell ends as cooler rain moves in Elyria
Elyria faces a shift from three days of record warm sunshine to much cooler weather by week’s end with highs in the mid 50s and lows around 20s. Rain is expected tonight as observers note a persistent dry spell since March 15 and rising demand for air conditioning and furnace services from Geisel Heating and Danesi Associates as residents seek cooling and repair options.
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Elyria
Ray Diederich
North Ridgeville
Diederich
Gulf
Janet Zimmer
Geisel Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc
Joe Danesi
Danesi Associates
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C-T
Gene Krebs
Milk and Mail
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Clark
Hivyria
Lake Ave
Oberlin Ave
Lorain
Broadway
Sheffield Township
C&w Enterprises Inc
San Angelo
Texas
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Luce
Texas City
Amy Richards
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Perry
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Jeff Parker
Parker
Perry Township
France
Charles
Accent AG
Louisville Sluggers
Louisville
Cardinals
Duke
Dallas
Billy Thompson
Jeff Hall
Robbie Valentine
Milt Wagner
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