Two mining vehicles were extensively damaged in a wall collapse that trapped two workers under thousands of tons of rock and dirt, a federal official said Friday. A backhoe and a bulldozer were found side by side Thursday night at the open-pit mine near Barton, about 150 miles west of Baltimore. Crews were meticulously removing debris near the vehicles in the frantic search for the missing miners, Bob Cornett, acting regional director for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said in a statement. Officials have said the miners were operating heavy machinery side by side when a wall collapsed Tuesday and buried the men under at least 45 feet of debris in the open-pit mine. They have not communicated using their CB radios. ...
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 Report: 113 Slain Over 3 Days in Somalia |
Three days of fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing the government has killed at least 113 civilians, a local human rights group said on Friday. The U.N. said hundreds of thousands of residents had fled. Sporadic fighting between Wednesday and Friday had wounded 229 people, said Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairman of the decade-old Elman Human Rights Organization. He said his organization collected the figures from hospitals, local residents and its agents recording burials in the Mogadishu. "We condemn both sides of the conflict and call on them to immediately stop the mass massacre in the capital," Ahmed told The Associated Press. On Friday, the U.N. refugee agency revised its estimates of people who fled Mogadishu to 321,000 more than one-tenth the total population of about 2 million. ...
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| Court papers detail four decades of Chicago mob hits |
A newly released court document details four decades of alleged Chicago mob killings, including the slayings of six men accused of robbing the vault of the Mafia's biggest boss.The 63-page document was submitted by federal prosecutors to U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel. He is to preside over the trial of 14 men accused in an indictment that blames the mafia for 18 long-unsolved murders. Jury selection is scheduled to begin June 1.The trial is the result of the FBI's long-running Operation Family Secrets investigation.In the robbery case, mob bosses wanted to send a message that they would not tolerate the theft of jewelry and other items from the basement vault of fellow boss Tony Accardo's house, according to the document unveiled Thursday....
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| San Francisco Hotel Celebrates With $100,000 Penthouse Stays |
San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel is making sure no one overlooks its 100th birthday. Its once-in-a- century offer: two nights in the penthouse for $100,000. For that rate, the luxury hotel is throwing in a few bonus items, including a 10-carat diamond bracelet, a Rolex watch, a gourmet dinner for 12, and a bottle of 1907 Madeira. If that isn't enough to keep the guests in their rooms, they can tool around in a Maserati Quattroporte -- a car that sells for about $140,000 -- during their visit. The Fairmont's centennial deal, part of a yearlong anniversary celebration, comes amid a wave of consumer spending on luxury items from wine and watches to private jets and special events. The Merrill Lynch Lifestyle Index, a measure of stocks linked with luxury brands, climbed 22 percent last month from a year earlier and more than doubled in the past five years. ``People buy Rolexes, they buy jewelry and ...
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| Paintings, Found In Back Room, Fetch $3.4M The Two Small Renaissance Masterpieces, Lost For Years, Had Been Bought For $200 In 1960s |
Two compact Renaissance masterpieces found hanging in a retiree's suburban house have sold at auction for almost $3.4 million. The two small panels, by Italian artist-monk Fra Angelico, were bought by an anonymous European bidder on Thursday at Duke's auction house in the southwestern English town of Dorchester. The purchaser outbid the Italian government, which had hoped to return the works to its homeland. Auction house spokesman Guy Schwinge said he didn't know whether the paintings would leave Britain. The 15th-century paintings, which depict two Dominican saints against a background of exquisite gold, hung for years in the Oxford home of retired manuscript librarian Jean Preston. She had bought them in California in the 1960s for a few hundred dollars. CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar says the panels are barely five inches wide. She points out that Fra Angelico is considered one of the great masters of Italian Renaissance Art, and has ...
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| Vt. Senate calls for Bush, Cheney impeachment 16-9 vote in non-binding resolution cites domestic, foreign policies |
Vermont senators voted Friday to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised "serious questions of constitutionality." The non-binding resolution was approved 16-9 without debate — all six Republicans in the chamber at the time and three Democrats voted against it. The resolution says Bush and Cheney's actions in the U.S. and abroad, including in Iraq, "raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of the public trust." "I think it's going to have a tremendous political effect, a tremendous political effect on public discourse about what to do about this president," said James Leas, a vocal advocate of withdrawing troops from Iraq and impeaching Bush and Cheney. Vermont lawmakers earlier voted to demand an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq in another non-binding resolution....
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