 Rain drenched the Midwest and much of the South on Monday, while tornadoes were reported in Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Hail fell in Indiana, Kentucky and portions of the Southeast. Parts of Pennsylvania and New York had light snow mixed with freezing rain. A tornado touched down in Lyons, Ga., destroying two trailer homes and blowing down trees and power lines. Two other tornadoes were reported in Palmer, Tenn., and Hardin, Ky. The West Coast and parts of central California also had rain, and snow fell in the Northwest and Rockies. The central U.S. was mostly dry. Temperatures across the southern Plains and Gulf States were above normal, while the northern states had afternoon highs in the 20s and 30s. ...
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 At least five dead in German ice rink roof collapse |
An ice rink roof collapsed onto dozens of skaters after heavy snowfall in the Bavarian Alps on Monday, killing at least five people, including two children, and trapping other victims between piles of debris and the frozen surface of the rink. Parents called out their children's names and rescue workers — some arriving from neighboring Austria — swarmed around the building in the town of Bad Reichenhall. Doctors set up a makeshift infirmary at a sports hall next door, where injured people lay with intravenous hookups, and fire crews worked to shovel away debris. A helicopter kept a floodlight on the scene as rescue workers scrambled to find victims and to prop up what remained of the roof. A police dog searched the wreckage. Two boys were among the dead, at least 10 people were missing and at least 32 were injured, officials said. The search continued through the night, and police said the death toll was expected to rise. ...
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| Violent Backdrop For Peacemaking |
A suicide car bomber targeted police recruits riding in a bus north of Baghdad on Monday, killing seven people, and gunmen in the capital killed five laborers, police said. Iraq's Kurdish president met with the Shiite prime minister in northern Iraq for talks on the formation of the country's next government. At least three police recruits were killed by the car bomb, and another four people also died, although officials couldn't immediately say whether they were recruits or civilians. Thirteen people were wounded, the Diyala police said. The bus had been traveling to a training center in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. In the capital, gunmen in two cars opened fire on laborers, killing five, police Capt. Qasim Hussein said. Meanwhile, in a step toward peace, Iraq's main Sunni Arab group made an unprecedented trip north to see the Kurds and agreed Monday for the first time on broad outlines for a coalition government possibly opening a way out of the political turmoil ...
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| Scandal Cost Governing Workers Party Credibility, Brazil's President Says |
Brazil's governing Workers Party committed an "incalculable error" and has lost its credibility with the corruption scandal that has snared legislators and the party's top officials, Brazil's president said. The party, known as the PT, "will have to sweat blood to recover its credibility and its prestige with Brazilian society," President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in an interview Sunday with the Globo TV network. The scandal has hurt the government since last May, when former Congressman Roberto Jefferson accused the PT of illegal campaign financing and of paying legislators monthly bribes of $12,900 to support government bills in Congress. Top party officials were forced to resign, including PT President Jose Genoino and Silva's chief of staff, Jose Dirceu. Both also were expelled from Congress. ...
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| Doubts raised about asbestos cancer study |
A doctor on the front line of treating asbestos disease in Libby said he believes a new state study of a rare form of asbestos-related cancer is skewed.Dr. Brad Black, medical director of the Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, told the audience at a recent Community Advisory Group meeting that the Montana Department of Health and Human Services study of mesothelioma, a rare and deadly tumorous cancer, “poorly reflects” the strong link between the disease and exposure from the former W.R. Grace vermiculite mine near Libby.Black said he knows of at least seven cases of mesothelioma, people who got the disease and were diagnosed in other states, who weren’t included in the study.“It’s very skewed,” he said. “This study doesn’t include all these people we hear about, and statistics [like those in the new study] goof up the understanding of the disease.” ...
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Editor - 16:20:00 01-02-06
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| No rain for fire-stricken Texas Wildfires in New Mexico, Oklahoma force evacuations of hundreds |
Weary fire crews kept up their fight Monday to contain major grass fires across Texas that had burned dozens of homes and apparently destroyed a couple of tiny towns.Other fires across the drought-stricken region had charred thousands of acres in Oklahoma and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate.Officials warned that the dry, windy weather and extreme fire danger would continue. “We don’t know where we will be today,” Oklahoma City Fire Department Maj. Brian Stanaland said Monday morning. “At this point, we consider the whole city a target for grass fires.”Computer models Monday showed no rain in the foreseeable future, said Jesse Moore, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fort Worth. He said the region’s last appreciable rain was about a quarter-inch on Dec. 20....
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