Saturday, November 16, 2024

Out of medication, US woman finally boards flight from Peru

A 33-year-old American woman running out of her life-saving medication to treat her auto-immune disease finally boarded a flight home Wednesday after being stuck in Peru for about 10 days, but hundreds of other U.S. citizens remained stranded after the South American nation closed its borders due to the coronavirus …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

US tourists stranded abroad desperate as they try to return

Linda Scruggs and Mike Rustici trained for months to hike the winding trails leading to Machu Picchu's complex of Inca ruins. So they were thrilled when their flight landed earlier this month in the Peruvian capital.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

US tourists stranded abroad desperate as they try to return

Linda Scruggs and Mike Rustici trained for months to hike the winding trails leading to Machu Picchu's complex of Inca ruins. So they were thrilled when their flight landed earlier this month in the Peruvian capital.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Man charged in suspicious letters case

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Man charged in letters case described as troubled

OXFORD, Miss. - A Mississippi man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and other officials was described Thursday as a good father, a quiet neighbor and an entertainer who impersonated Elvis at parties. Other accounts show a man who spiraled into emotional turmoil trying to get attention for …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Painful questions still unanswered

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Deal in McAllister/Nissan lawsuit

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BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle

NEW ORLEANS - In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP's capped oil well was holding tight.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Gulf oil spill out of control

VENICE, La. - An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Saviors as tornado hit: A table, a wall, a freezer

YAZOO CITY, Miss. - One prayed to God under a communion table as his church was blown to pieces around him.
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