Month: September 2016

Shawn Price
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 30 (UPI) — The wildfire in the mountains near Santa Cruz, Calif. has grown to 4,147 acres and is 34 percent contained, Cal Fire said.
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Shawn Price
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 29 (UPI) — Libertarian nominee for president Gary Johnson couldn’t come up with the name of a foreign leaders he respects in an awkward moment during an MSNBC interview.
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The Sports Xchange
When Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer looks across the field to the other sideline on Saturday afternoon in Ohio Stadium, he’ll see several familiar faces.
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Shawn Price
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sept. 26 (UPI) — Shootings near the University of Illinois in Champaign have left one person dead and four others wounded, police said.
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By United Press International
On Sept. 25, 1934, District Attorney Samuel Foley announced that the case against Bruno Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping was ironclad, and that “final proof” had been found.
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By United Press International
On Sept. 24, 1957, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Ark., to enforce the Supreme Court’s desegregation decision.
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By United Press International
On Sept. 23, 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the corn fields of Iowa to find out what made the American farmer tick and urged that the earth “be furrowed by plows, not rockets and tanks.”
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By United Press International
On Sept. 22, 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford escaped a second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by self-proclaimed revolutionary Sara Jane Moore, who tried to shoot him as he walked from a San Francisco hotel.
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By United Press International
On Sept. 21, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor received a unanimous vote in the Senate to become the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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