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Texas rabbi: Captor grew "belligerent" late in standoff
(National News ~ 01/17/22)
Associated Press COLLEYVILLE, Texas -- A rabbi who was among four people held hostage at a Texas synagogue said Sunday that their armed captor grew "increasingly belligerent and threatening" toward the end of the 10-hour standoff, which ended with an FBI SWAT team rushing into the building and the captor's death...
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Snow, ice blasts through South with powerful winter storm
(National News ~ 01/17/22)
ATLANTA -- A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice was sweeping through parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, knocking out power, felling trees and fences and coating roads with a treacherous, frigid glaze. Tens of thousands of customers were without power in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. ...
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New Zealand sends flight to see damage from Pacific volcano
(International News ~ 01/17/22)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's military on Monday morning was able to send a surveillance flight to Tonga to assess the extent of the damage from a huge undersea volcanic eruption. A towering ash cloud had prevented the military from launching any flights earlier to the Pacific island nation...
- Surge in virus hospitalizations makes transfers difficult (State News ~ 01/17/22)
- Police: 1 dead after shooting on Amtrak train in Missouri (State News ~ 01/17/22)
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Out of the past: Jan. 17
(Out of the Past ~ 01/17/22)
Former Meadow Heights High School principal Rick Chastain, who was fired after blowing the whistle on financial improprieties in the school district, has filed a lawsuit asking for his job back and unspecified monetary damages; the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau, names the school district and former and current members of the school board as defendants and asks for a jury trial...
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