Stark returns to sea on test run after May attack
The USS Stark set out from Bahrain for a few hour cruise marking the first voyage since the May missile strike that killed 37 crewmen. Repairs were described as ahead of schedule with patched hulls and visible bandage spots removed. An expert said more work may be needed but the ship now appears healthy and capable.
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Stanley Fischer
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Gunmen fail escape and kill guard outside Palm Beach office
In a botched jailbreak, two gunmen opened fire on a downtown doctor’s office and killed Fred Griffis a 40 year old corrections officer who had resumed duties at Glades Correctional Institute. Another guard was wounded as the suspects fled in a van later captured near Palm Beach International Airport.
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Fred Griffis
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James J. O'Brien
Volusia County
Ohio reports twelve boating deaths in state waterways
State officials say 12 people have died on Ohio waterways since March with two recent fatalities on Lake Erie in Ottawa County and the Scioto River in Ross County. None wore life jackets, and officials estimate life jackets could reduce fatalities by at least 70 percent. Last year saw 34 boating deaths.
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Ross County
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Division of Watercraft
Weather Outlook: Thunderstorms, Showers Across Regions
The forecast calls for thunderstorms or showers Friday across the Southwest Midwest and Southeast with tonight's thunderstorms possible. Lows in the 60s, Friday partly cloudy with scattered showers and storms ending, highs 75 to 80. Saturday through Monday look fair with mid 70s to low 80s and 50s lows. Lake Erie winds SW 10-15 knots tonight, NW 10-20 knots Friday. waves 1-3 feet tonight with occasional showers and storms tonight.
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Iraq attacks ship near Kharg Island amid Gulf tensions
Iraq said its naval units hit a large maritime target with rockets near Kharg Island close to Iran’s oil export terminal. The claim follows three Iraqi attacks on Persian Gulf shipping in five days. Lloyd’s reports a Turkish vessel named Hira III struck off the Iranian coast with seven crew injured.
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Tanker Collision Near Rouen Leaves 4 Dead 2 Missing
Divers hunted the Seine for two sailors feared dead after a collision between the Greek registered Vitoria and the Japanese Fuyo Maru. Four bodies recovered. explosion shattered windows within a two and a half mile radius as Vitoria sank.
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Ling Ling Panda Cub Survives First Days at Zoo
Zookeepers keep distance from a 2 day old panda cub nursing out of sight as Ling Ling, the mother, takes her first steps outside the nest. General curator Benjamin Beck says the surviving cub is likely to live, despite a second apparently stillborn cub found moments before.
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Tulsa teen violinist shot. suspect in custody
A 60-year-old man, Homer H. Hubbard, is jailed on $100,000 bond after surrendering on a shooting warrant. Keith Edward Hurn, 17, was struck in the head by a shotgun blast while delivering newspapers for an orchestra trip abroad and remains in fair condition at St. Francis Hospital.
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Randy Orndorff
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No jackpot winner in Ohio Super Lotto drawing
Ohio Lottery reports no jackpot winner for the Wednesday Super Lotto drawing with numbers 2 5 9 10 33 41. The Number produced 456 as the daily number and Pick 4 was 6305.
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Ohio Lotter
Lottery
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Cold front cools wide swath of United States
A cold front stretched from Wisconsin to the Texas Panhandle bringing rain and lowering temperatures as it moved east. Severe thunderstorms spread ahead of the front into the Great Lakes region while western areas stayed mostly clear or partly cloudy. Rain was scattered from Virginia to Florida and across the Southeast.
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Contras Kill Seven at Las Mercedes Cooperative Attack
In Nicaragua seven people were killed and eight wounded including children when Contra rebels attacked the Las Mercedes farming cooperative 94 miles northwest of Managua before dawn on Tuesday. The rebels also burned five homes and then withdrew, a Defense Ministry source said. The area had been considered safe from such attacks.
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Nicaragua
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Defense Ministry
Rebels abduct prominent defector from resettlement camp
Gunmen stormed a Lingayen resettlement camp for former rebels abducting Ramon Manuel, a former regional spokesman for the National Democratic Front who left the insurgency last month. Police call the incident possibly undermining President Aquino’s amnesty offer to surrendering rebels.
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Philippines
National Democratic Front
Romeo Odi
Lingayen
Ramon Manuel
Manuel
Odi
Corazon Aquino
World's oldest twins claim title in Guinness book
Allie Hill and Maggie Lambert, both 103, are named the world's oldest living twins by the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records to be published in October. They reside in a Denton North Carolina nursing home near their lifelong home.
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Allie Hill
Maggie Lambert
Denton
N.C
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