NEWS FROM BACK HOME Newsservices v. Sunday, December 12, 1993-THE DESERT SUN A 11 EAST MIDWEST 972 people. Volunteers in the town of Santa Claus spend hours writing back. "We have to do it for the children. We have to carry on the tradition," said volunteer Mabel Ryan.
INDIANASanta Claus' is here, but its post office is swamped: Post offices around the nation bundle hundreds of letters to Santa Claus each year and send them to a southern Indiana town of from Cleveland were called to the scene. The fire started about 7:15 a.m. at the Van Buren Homes complex owned by the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority. Come To DansEi For Ail Your Holiday Gifts! Rock star Bob Seger leads jury in verdict DETROIT Rock musician Bob Seger served as foreman of a jury that convicted a California man of federal bank fraud charges. The U.S.
District Court jury in Detroit heard eight days of testimony and deliberated two days before convicting Louis C. Rossman, 44, of La Jolla, on Friday. Seger, known for his hits "Against the Wind" and "Hollywood Nights," was elected foreman by fellow jurors. He made no after the trial. Rossman, formerly of Bloom-field Hills, borrowed $4.1 million from First Wisconsin National Bank of Milwaukee to build a project called the West Bloomfield Tech Center, U.S.
Attorney Alan Gershel said Rossman presented the bank with false documents to deliberately inflate the amount borrowed by at least $1.6 million, Gershel said in a statement. OHIOFive die in apartment fire: Fire killed five people Saturday in a public housing project in the Akron suburb of Barberton, The fire, which took 15 to 20 minutes to put out, destroyed one apartment and caused moderate to heavy damage to a second, said firefighter Howard Prager. The cause had not been determined. State fire marshal officials EPA gives residents OK to drink tap water WASHINGTON Residents of Washington and nearby Virginia suburbs can resume drinking water straight from the tap, the Environmental Protection Agency said Saturday after tests showed water samples to be free of harmful "microbes. The EPA had imposed a warning Wednesday, telling people to boil their water because of concern that it may have been contaminated with the parasite Cryptosporidium.
This is the same microorganism found last spring in Milwaukee's water, causing thousands of people to become ill. No incidents of water-related illness were reported in the Washington area, officials said. "We feel confident the water is good to drink," Stanley Laskowski, the EPA's acting regional administrator, told a news conference. He then drank a glass of tap Water-and declared, "I feel great." VIRGINIADemocrats to hold Senate primary: U.S. Sen.
Charles S. Robb and Gov. L. Douglas Wilder moved one step closer to a showdown Saturday when Virginia Democrats decided to pick their senate candidate in a June 14 primary. The Democratic State Central Committee votefll25-75 to hold a primary instead a convention, the nominating method favored by the party since 1978.
The decision means the leading candidates likely will be Robb and Wilder, who are bitter rivals. VERMONTDaughter of Charles Lindbergh dies: Anne Spencer Lindbergh, a writer and the elder daughter of the aviation pioneer Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, died Friday at her home in Thetford Center, Vt. She was 53. The cause was cancer, said her husband, Noel Perrin.
Ms. Lindbergh was one of six children of her famous parents; she was born eight years after the kid-napping and killing of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. She grew up in Darien, and, after studying at Radcliffe "College for three years, moved to Paris to continue her education. While in-France, she met and married a fellow student at the Sor-bonne, Julien Feydy, who became a political scientist and university professorr- NEW JERSEYSchool chief to report to governor: The State Education Commissioner, Mary Lee Fitzgerald, emphasizing her concern about failure in the Newark schools, said Saturday that she would deliver a status report on the system to Governor-elect Christine Todd Whitman by Inauguration Day, Jan.
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