Ecuadorian president freed after Taura base kidnapping
President Leon Febres Cordero was released more than ten hours after his capture by renegade paratroopers during a Taura air base visit. The government freed the leader of an earlier revolt as part of the negotiated outcome.
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Quito
Ecuador
Leon Febres Cordero
Taura
USX and USW Reach Tentative Steel Strike Settlement
Negotiators for USX Corp and the United Steelworkers reach a tentative agreement after 170 days of walkout potentially ending the longest steel strike. Details await presentation to local union presidents and member ballots set for late January.
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Pittsburgh
USX Corp
United Steelworkers
Dick Fontana
Fontana
al Pena
Lawyer seeks return of $11000 seized in drug case
Defense attorney accuses prosecutors of defying judge by not returning more than $11 000 seized in the August arrest of Mark C. Russo and then notifying the IRS. Cirigliano had ordered $11 729 returned after Russo pleaded guilty to marijuana trafficking. Prosecution had argued the money remained as evidence.
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Elyria
Internal Revenue Service
Gerald M. Smith
Lorain
Common Pleas Court
Joseph Cirigliano
Cirigliano
Mark C. Russo
Cleveland
Russo
Sheffield Lake
Abbe Road
IRS returns life savings seized from girl in Calif
The IRS agreed to return the $694 life savings of 10-year-old Shannon Burns after seizing deposits in her passbook for back taxes linked to her father Kevin Burns. Shannon said she was upset and found the seizure insulting as officials provided passbook documents showing small deposits and no withdrawals.
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San Jose
Calif
Internal Revenue Service
Kevin Burns
IRS
Burns
Shannon
Seattle study links prenatal alcohol to slower child attention
A long term Seattle study of 1,500 pregnant women and their children finds that alcohol exposure in pregnancy associates with shorter attention spans and slower reaction times in 7 year olds. Researchers note in addition to physical deformities and mental retardation, subtler effects correlate with alcohol levels.
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Seattle
Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth
University of Washington
Department of Psychiatry
Streissguth
School of Medicine
Ambulance confusion in Elyria as Life Care replaces EMS services
Residents report delays after Life Care Ambulance began service in December under a city contract. Elyria EMS closed its station, but old directories and stickers keep Elyria numbers in use. Life Care arrives within five minutes on average, while Lorain crews from Lorain take longer, up to 14 minutes.
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Elyria
Peter Esch
Elyria Ems
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Esch
Lorain Area Ambulance Service Co
Lorain
Lorain Area
Weekend Weather Update With Mixed Precipitation Risk
The forecast calls for variable cloudiness with a high near 32. Snow is likely overnight with possible sleet or freezing rain. Lows around 28. Sunday brings a mix of snow and sleet then freezing rain changing to rain.
Mrs Rhodes in Cleveland Clinic After Bypass Surgery
Hospital spokeswoman Marion Moseley says Helen Rhodes wife of former Ohio Governor James A Rhodes is doing fine after a groin to knee bypass in the left leg at the Cleveland Clinic. Surgeon Dr Edwin G Beven notes she is dying well after Friday’s operation with no official condition report to be issued until today.
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Cleveland
Helen Rhodes
Ohio
James A Rhodes
Cleveland Clinic
Marion Moseley
Rhodes
Edwin G. Beven
Moseley
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