Posts Tagged ‘great’

Interstates reopening after Great Plains snowstorm (AP)

An unidentified youth tosses a snowball while playing along a street in Solomon, Kan., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. A deadly storm that halted travel throughout the Great Plains weakened Tuesday as it headed east into Missouri and toward the Great Lakes, and officials reopened interstates in areas where motorists had been forced to adjust holiday plans mid-trip. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP – Holiday travelers were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday after a snowstorm that shuttered interstates across the Great Plains moved out of the region, allowing crews to plow away snow drifts and free stranded motorists from roadside hotels.


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Drifting snow makes travel tough in Great Plains (AP)

Fog begins to lift from the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, after a major winter storm moved through the state. New Mexico highway officials say they are mopping up and getting major thoroughfares reopened. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)AP – A deadly storm that halted travel throughout the Great Plains weakened Tuesday as it headed east into Missouri and toward the Great Lakes, and officials reopened interstates in areas where motorists had been forced to adjust holiday plans mid-trip.


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Deadly snowstorm halts travel across Great Plains (AP)

AP – A late-autumn snowstorm lumbered into the Great Plains on Monday, unleashing snow and fierce winds that turned roads to ice, reduced visibility to zero and jeopardized thousands of holiday motorists’ travel plans just two days before the official start of winter.

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New Yorkers are helping each other, but the need is still great  

Daily News readers are answering the call to community service since Help NYC launched last month.

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No brotherly love for late boxing great Frazier

They all came, the great and the small. Bus drivers, lawyers, doctors and boxers. They came from around the corner, from across town and from across the country.

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Boxing great Joe Frazier dies after cancer fight (AP)

FILE - In this March 8, 1971, file photo, boxer Joe Frazier, left, hits Muhammad Ali during the 15th round of their heavyweight title fight at New York's Madison Square Garden. Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier is seriously ill with liver cancer. His personal and business manager says Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, the 67-year-old boxer was diagnosed four or five weeks ago and is under hospice care. (AP Photo, File)AP – He beat Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, battled him nearly to the death in the Thrilla in Manila. Then Joe Frazier spent the rest of his life trying to fight his way out of Ali’s shadow.


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51 people injured in horrific crash in Great Britain 

At least 51 people were injured and at least seven were killed in a horrific car accident in England on Friday night — a pileup authorities are calling one of the worst in recent history.

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