Child with lighter eyed as blaze’s cause
LORAIN — Deborah Brewer rushed feverishly with a pot full of water to put out the blaze in her apartment Monday, but she was too late. By the time the 26-year-old made her third trip back to the sink, the fire on her 4-year-old son’s mattress had spread to the nearby outlet and wall, [ ]
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Video of frail Castro sobers Cubans
HAVANA, CUBA, 08/16 - The government video of a weakened Fidel Castro convalescing in bed brought home a growing awareness to many Cubans on Tuesday that neither he nor the country will likely be the same again.
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Attack claimed as stab motive
A 12-year-old boy told police he stabbed a man to keep him from choking the boy’s mother early Tuesday. Police were called to a home at 4715 Lillie St. just after midnight and found the man lying on a mattress with a laceration to his stomach. The woman he’s been dating and living with for a year was tending to him.
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Elderly man escapes fire in his home
MUSKEGON -- Careless smoking may have been the cause of a mattress fire Tuesday that started in an upstairs bedroom at 148 Allen. The fire resulted in significant damage to the upstairs, said Muskegon Fire Marshal Major Metcalf.
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