Space shuttle Columbia set for desert landing in California
At Edwards Air Force Base California forecasters monitored cloud cover ahead of a planned 1 22 p m Pacific time landing of space shuttle Columbia with astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly aboard. Officials prepared a staged exit and safety checks including heatshield tile inspection and toxic gas precautions as up to 600000 spectators gathered to view the descent and landing on the dry lake bed.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Tormmy Holloway
Houston
Columbia
Desert
Space
Engle
Richard
California
Scenic Big
Goldberg settlement called perfect by creditors and advocates
Creditors in the Meyer Goldberg supermarket bankruptcy celebrate a 20 million price fixing settlement with First National Pick-n-Pay Fisher Foods Fazio's and Stop-N-Shop plus a 400000 creditors payoff. A final decree hearing is set for Friday and details on scrip distribution to about one million Lorain Cuyahoga Lake Portage Geauga Medina county households are awaited.
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Cleveland
Meyer Goldberg
Adrian Fink
Goldberg
First National
Pick-n-Pay
Fisher Foods
Fazio’s
Stop-N-Shop
Thomas Lambros
Fink
Isem
Lambros
Bankruptcy Court
Lorain
Cuyahoga, Lake, Portage
Geauga
Suromit
Medina
Fazio
Katherine Walsh
Oberlin College
Michael Rosen
Marlene
Missing Solomon in Lambros court decision prompts arrest order
In Cleveland, Judge Lambros delayed sentencing Jeffrey Solomon after he pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute about two kilograms of cocaine. Solomon, 24, has not appeared. US marshals were ordered to arrest him two hours after the ruling. Solomon claimed he lacked awareness of his appeal rights and that his prior attorney pressured the plea.
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Cleveland
U.S
Thomas D. Lambros
Jeffrey Solomon
Solomon
Lambros
Schwartz Road
Avon
Toledo
Alan Konop
Konop
David Smith
Ohio to raise sales tax five cents Sunday
Nine regional offices of the Ohio Department of Taxation opened to issue new rate cards as Gov. Rhodes prepared to sign the budget making the higher tax take effect Sunday. New brackets replace the old five cents on the dollar with a 15.1 percent rate up to 15 cents. higher brackets range from one to six cents per purchase. Local piggyback taxes add to the state rate.
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Columbus
Ohio Department of Taxation
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Akron
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Dayton
Lima
Toledo
Youngstown
Zanesville
Leon Deming
Department
Weekend Weather Outlook Warm and mostly sunny
The forecast calls for clear skies tonight with a low around 36. Sunday will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 50s to near 60 and near zero precip chances. Southeast winds near 10 mph tonight. Details on Page A-3.
Dissection Cats Go Missing Then Reappear in Trash
Elyria High School biology teacher Bill Pierson reports dead cats used for dissection were dumped by the night custodial crew and later salvaged from a garbage truck. He retrieved seven of the twenty cats at the Oberlin landfill before returning to school, where he had an accident en route.
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Elyria
Bill Pierson
Pierson
Oberlin
Sanittation
Bill
Ehs
Bob Bailie
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Sur
High Desert
Bakersfield
Robert “Hoot” Gibson
Washington
Reagan
Camp David
Dell Publishing Co
Goldberg Settlement
Kathy Byland
C-T
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Lorain County
Phil Hicks
Elyria City
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