Snowstorm buries Buffalo, kills 4
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Four people died during a storm that dumped more than 4 feet of snow around Buffalo and forced 150 motorists, including a women’s basketball team, to ride it out in their vehicles on a day when temperatures dropped to freezing or below in all 50 states.
One person was killed in an automobile accident and three others had heart attacks, including two believed to be shoveling snow at the time, Erie County officials said.
The snowstorm stranded cars, trucks and buses on a four-mile section near Buffalo. Officials expected them to be freed late Tuesday after the paralyzing ordeal that lasted nearly 24 hours for some motorists.
Snow blown by strong winds forced the closing of a 132-mile stretch of the Thruway, the main highway across New York state.
Young woman plans to marry Manson
CORCORAN, Calif. – Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.
Afton Elaine Burton said she loves the man convicted in the notorious murders of seven people.
No date has been set, but a wedding coordinator has been assigned by the prison to handle the nuptials.
Panel named to help heal Ferguson
ST. LOUIS – A business owner, two pastors, a community activist and a police detective are among the 16 people appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to an independent panel tasked with helping the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson heal after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Nixon introduced the nine black and seven white members of the Ferguson Commission Tuesday in St. Louis. The commission was created to study the underlying social and economic conditions underscored by unrest following the early August shooting of Brown, who was black, by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, who is white.
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