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Train with hazardous materials derails, burns near Louisville
BROOKS-- A dozen train cars carrying flammable liquid derailed and exploded south of Louisville Tuesday morning, sending a fireball high into the sky and shutting down Interstate 65 while forcing evacuations of nearby homes, businesses and a school, authorities said.
Fifteen of the 80 cars were carrying hazardous materials. Twelve of those derailed, and all of them were involved in the fire, Mark Rosenker, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Tuesday night.
Flames and smoke billowed from the crushed tanker cars, and flaming liquid lined the road next to the rails.
Nineteen people were treated at Jewish Medical Center South and released, hospital spokesman Brian Doheny said. There was no indication that any had suffered injuries in the wreck itself.
YEAR END DOUBLE ISSUE | The New Issue
Let every other newspaper and magazine in the country wax philosophic about 2006 with year-end overviews, highlights, lists, and synopses. Our annual double issue straddles two years — the old one and the new one — and, perennial optimists that we are, we've chosen to look forward, not back. So as we step into '07, we've got our eyes on the horizon, chins thrust forward, ready for whatever the New Year holds and hoping really, really hard that it's a lot of money. And peace on earth, what the heck, while we're wishing.
In the spirit of the New Year, therefore, we've dedicated our cover story this issue not to rehashing old news but to celebrating the new and the novel — trends and fashions, ideas and inventions, breakthroughs, icons, pastimes, people, places, and more. New is just more fun (and hairless).
After '90s plunge, Iomega rebuilds, posts modest profit
Plenty of technology companies that were once household names have become industry footnotes - thanks to management missteps or new technology leapfrogging over their products. But few companies have had a more tumultuous, lingering fall than Iomega.
Iomega's Zip drives for backing up computer data were so popular that the company became a top name in the technology industry.
At its zenith from 1996 to 1998, Iomega boasted $1.7 billion in sales and more than 4,800 employees worldwide.
Its shares soared above $100 thanks to the enthusiastic response to its Zip external computer disk drives. A national magazine pegged the stock as the first to become the subject of full-blown Internet chat-room frenzy.
That crest was followed by a precipitous plunge in Iomega sales, share price and employees.
Lyme disease alert issued as number of cases rises
An unsettling number of Lyme disease cases has prompted officials in Dunstable and Groton to notify residents about threats posed by the tick-borne illness.
According to state data, the number of cases of Lyme disease in Middlesex County almost doubled in 2005 from 2004.
Although the state Department of Public Health does not have figures yet for 2006, Groton officials say the problem is not going away soon and that Lyme disease remained a serious issue in the past year.
Groton Selectman Joshua Degen, whose 11-year-old daughter was hospitalized for three days after contracting the disease last year, said he knows anecdotally of at least 12 new human cases in town last year, including two employees who work out of his Groton home.
A Groton dentist is also reported to have died recently from the disease, according to Susan Horowitz, a member of the Groton Board of Health and a local veterinarian.
Virtues of plasma TV
It's 5:30 a.m. in Ubud, our last day in Bali. The sky is a bright coral color that seeps into the rice paddies surrounding Nick's Pension, where we stayed. Across the way, a flock of ducks quack their way to work. "Bebek, bebek, bebek," they say in Balinese, and so on this island, they are known as bebeks. .
Explore options when buying homeowners insurance
SALISBURY -- Skip Ash became very familiar with his homeowners insurance policy over the last month after his home in Frankford caught fire in early December. An electrical wire ignited the blaze, causing extensive damage to the middle of the home.
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Guard unit's return delayed
A change in policy at the Defense Department will delay the return of the Army National Guard Unit based in Pratt and currently serving in Iraq.The 1st Battalion, 161st Field Artillery, which is headquarted in Wichita and includes the Pratt unit, is attached to the U.S. Army's 1st Brigade, 34th Division which will have to extend their mission to Iraq by a maximum of 125 days, said Sharon Watson, public affairs director for the Kansas Adjutant Generals office."They were expected to return in the spring of 2007. This will push them back to some time in the summer of 2007," Watson said.
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With the passing of 2006 and a look ahead at 2007, it was an opportune time to pose a series of questions to Premier Danny Williams. The person who occupies the premier's chair is in a position to be knowledgeable about many aspects of the province and in governing. Allan Bock, editor of the Northern Pen, recently interviewed the premier for Transcontinental Community Newspapers in Newfoundland and Labrador about his views on events that shaped the past year and the year ahead.
Question: As you look back on the past year and glance ahead to the new year, what goals have you and your government set for yourselves?
Williams: “When I look back on our social commitments to health care and education, I'm quite pleased with the progress we're making.
Wednesday 1-2 Hull
Wednesday ended 2006 with a comfortable victory over one of the Championship strugglers - but they couldn't repeat the feat against another of the divisions relegation candidates as the were brought back down to earth with a thud thanks to a brace from Nick Barmby.
Neutrals having a bet on today's game at Hillsborough would have more than likely marked the Owls down as certs for another three points in their quest for promotion - but as an Owls fan, you're always wary when a win is expected - especially against a side struggling down at the other end of the table and with caretaker manager Phil Brown working his hardest to get the job full-time.
Deon Burton tried his best to get something from the game from an extremely poor Owls performance as his neat solo effort levelled the scores after the break - but Wednesday failed to make their dominance pay and were dealt a sucker-punch as Barmby followed up his dubiously offside-looking opener with anither dubious winner, this time after the ball seemed to canon off his hand en-route to the back of Mark Crossley's net.
