Robbery at police convention fails
A retired chief says he was robbed at a police officers convention near Harrisburg as 300 narcotics officers from Pennsylvania and Ohio gathered. Jerome Marquis Blanchett of Harrisburg was arrested while attempting to leave in a taxi after a gun was shown. He remarked I am smooth.
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Ohio
John Comparetto
Comparetto
Jerome Marquis Blanchett
Blanchett
College Closes After Norovirus Sickens 100
Bab son College in Wellesley Massachusetts shuts down for several days as about 100 students and staff suffer severe nausea and vomiting from a norovirus. The campus remains open to dorm residents while classes and athletic events are canceled and cleaning proceeds. Authorities say the outbreak is not believed to be food related.
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Mass
Massachusetts
Babson College
Boston
State Department of Health
Tom Lyons
Lyons
Mount Redoubt Erupts Again Spitting Ash 50 000 Feet
Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupts with a 50 000 foot ash cloud at 1 20 a m as the Alaska Volcano Observatory notes strong seismic activity lasting over 20 minutes and a long tremor. The ash is moving toward the Alaska Range, missing Anchorage about 100 miles away. Since Sunday night the volcano has had about a dozen bursts. The last major eruption occurred during 1989 90.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Mount Redoubt
Alaska Volcano Observatory
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Afghan Pakistan praise new U.S. strategy to fight Taliban
Afghan President Karzai and Pakistani President Zardari welcomed the U.S. plan to disrupt and defeat al Qaida, with increased civilian and military aid aimed at reconciliation with selective Taliban elements. Obama urged reconciliation as a path to peace amid rising violence from cross border attacks.
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Afghanistan
Pakistan
U.S
Barack Obama
al-Qaida
Istan
Hamid Karzai
Zardari
Karzai
Taliban
Bush
Obama
Fargo relieved as Red River crest proves lower than feared
Fargo officials cheered as the Red River crest at 40.82 feet and then 40.61 feet, lower than forecast. City leaders warned the river could rebound and urged eight more days of vigilance while deploying drones, National Guard, and neighborhood dike patrols to safeguard 92,000 residents.
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N.D
Red River
National Weather Service
Mike Hudson
Dennis Walaker
Hudson
Weather Service
National Guard
Walaker
Discovery returns to Earth completing space station solar wing install
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven crew members landed at Cape Canaveral after a 13 day mission that installed and unfurled the station’s final solar wings and added electrical capacity. Mission Control delayed the return about 90 minutes due to wind and clouds before the end of the day. The new ISS crew had just begun their shift inside the orbiting laboratory.
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Fla
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Obama begins first overseas trip as president
President Barack Obama sails into his first overseas journey as leader vowing to listen to allies and lead by example. He plans speeches in France and the Czech Republic, a Turkey roundtable with students, and meetings with Saudi King Abdullah amid G-20 EU NATO talks.
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France
U.S
Czech Republic
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Abdullah
Denis McDonough
Afghanistan
Pakistan
NATO
Canada
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Middle East
Berlin
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