Atlanta hotel blaze leaves one dead
MARIETTA -- Fire broke out in a suburban Atlanta hotel early yesterday, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others. Firefighters rescued about 20 of the hotel's 168 guests, who barricaded the doors of their rooms to keep the smoke out. The fire started about 3 a.m., apparently on the second floor of the 30-year-old Holiday Inn. The cause was under investigation. (AP)
MONTANA
Rescuers find bodies caught in avalanche
KALISPELL -- Rescuers yesterday found the bodies of two snowmobilers who disappeared in an avalanche west of Glacier National Park. Authorities had been alerted to Saturday's avalanche by a third snowmobiler who escaped. The search resumed after being suspended overnight because of the continued avalanche danger. The names of the victims were not released. (AP)
CALIFORNIA
Inmate, 76, faces execution tomorrow
FRESNO -- Barring a last-minute reprieve, Clarence Ray Allen, 76, will become the oldest inmate put to death in California at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow. Allen's attorneys asked the US Supreme Court to intervene, arguing that executing him would amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Allen, who was convicted in a 1980 Fresno slaying, is deaf and blind and uses a wheelchair. (AP)
Troops should leave Iraq, Cronkite says
PASADENA -- Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable influenced public opinion keenly then, said yesterday that he'd say the same thing today about Iraq. ''It's my belief that we should get out now," Cronkite, 89, said in a meeting with reporters. At the end of a 1968 documentary on Vietnam, Cronkite said the United States should pull out. (AP)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Officials say viruses resistant to 2 flu drugs
Federal health officials over the weekend advised physicians not to use two common influenza drugs because nearly all the viruses in current flu outbreaks in the United States are resistant to them. Ending the use of amantadine and rimantadine leaves practitioners with Tamiflu and Relenza. (
FLORIDA
Teen murder suspects surrender to police
FORT LAUDERDALE -- Two South Florida teens suspected in the beatings of homeless men turned themselves in to police yesterday. Family lawyers negotiated the surrender of Brian Hooks, 18, and Thomas S. Daugherty, 17. They will face murder and aggravated battery charges, police said. (AP)
