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Plane Panic: Overreaction or Under-Prepared?

Despite some concerns that a small plane got too close to the White House (search) and the Capitol (search), key lawmakers and the Bush administration said the emergency response went according to plan. “One of the things we learned was that the evacuation procedures worked swimmingly … It was all …

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Cleveland Mourns Nine Killed in House Fire

CLEVELAND – Adella Gary’s life was saved when neighbors banged on her door and dragged her out of her home as fire engulfed the building next door. Two men carried her husband, who lost a leg to diabetes, down the stairs. “I heard some popping, some pop-pop-popping, and I thought, …

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Thurl Ravenscroft, Known as the Voice of Tony the Tiger, Dies

FULLERTON, Calif. – Thurl Ravenscroft (search), who provided the rumbling “They’re Grrrrreeeat!” for Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger (search) ads and voiced a host of Disney (search) characters, has died. He was 91. Ravenscroft died Sunday of prostate cancer, said Diane Challis Davy, director of Laguna Beach’s Pageant of the Masters. …

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