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No one lost more than (Jimmie) Wallet, who had gone out for ice cream when the mudslide hit, killing at least 10 people. His wife, Mechelle, was the first to be found. Around 2 a.m. Wednesday a group of firefighters and several of Wallet's friends carried her to the makeshift morgue at the town's gas station.Two hours later, his youngest daughter, 2-year-old Paloma, was removed on a stretcher. Her older sister Raven, 6, was next, soon followed by 10-year-old Hannah. The three girls were found next to each other, apparently sitting on a couch when the slide broke apart their...

Howard Dean was robbed! If Howard Dean ever had any reason to scream his head off, this was it. The former Vermont governor - whose once-frontrunning presidential campaign ended with a shriek, not a whimper - was on his way last week from a Canadian vacation to a Washington, D.C., fund-raiser. But on his layover in the American Airlines terminal at JFK, he was told that bad weather would keep him from arriving on time at the Women's National Democratic Club. There, on Wednesday night, some 350 Dean fans - who gave thousands of dollars to Dean's Democracy for America...

A Vancouver man in Canada has gone to court to have an 11-year-old winning lottery ticket dusted for fingerprints, hoping forensic tests will prove he is due the $US7.3 million prize that was awarded to his former neighbour over a decade ago. Michael Ufnal filed a petition this week asking British Columbia Lotteries Corp to hand over the ticket to determine whether his fingerprints are still on it and allow him to claim the prize. He said he bought the ticket at a local convenience store on the afternoon of May 12, 1992, placed it in his wallet along with...

FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) -- Casimiro Naranjo III has some new memorabilia for his U.S. Marine scrapbook that chronicles the nine months he spent in Japan in 1957. It's all from the wallet he lost almost 50 years ago. Members of a Japanese construction crew renovating the theater at Camp Foster, once Camp Hague, found the leather wallet in May among some mud and rubble. The wallet apparently was in a ventilation duct at the Okinawa base where Naranjo was stationed as a 19-year-old. "It's so hard to believe that the wallet was there for so many years," Naranjo said in...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Scientists say a leather wallet found on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley may provide details about one of the eight men who died on the vessel during the Civil War. Work on excavating the 3 inch-by-5 inch wallet began Monday, the 139th anniversary of the hand-cranked submarine's disappearance. The Hunley became the first sub to sink an enemy warship when it rammed the U.S.S. Housatonic in Charleston Harbor on Feb. 17, 1864. While the Union ship was destroyed, the Hunley and its crew were also lost. Much of the scientific salvage work done so far has shown...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Scientists say a leather wallet found on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley may provide details about one of the eight men who died on the vessel during the Civil War.Work on excavating the 3 inch-by-5 inch wallet began Monday, the 139th anniversary of the hand-cranked submarine's disappearance. The Hunley became the first sub to sink an enemy warship when it rammed the U.S.S. Housatonic in Charleston Harbor on Feb. 17, 1864. While the Union ship was destroyed, the Hunley and its crew were also lost.Much of the scientific salvage work done so far has shown the technology...

WASHINGTON Watch your wallet ... domestic surveillance Scripps Howard News ServiceMay 31, 2002WASHINGTON - Watch your wallets as Congress comes back from its Memorial Day break: What happens between now and the fall campaign will hit Americans where they live. Pension and accounting reforms to prevent future Enrons have stalled. Also treading water: a crackdown on personal bankruptcies, supported by credit card companies, that would stick it to debtors. President Bush's effort to make his $1.35 trillion tax cut permanent looks dead, too. Must-pass money bills to run government are about all that moves. Policy stalemates let lawmakers address campaign...