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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Snowstorm threatens to paralyze crowded Northeast
AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews
Pedestrians walk through wind-swept snow in down-
town Brooklyn, Monday. More than 35 million people
along the northeast corridor rushed to get home and
settle in Monday as a fearsome storm swirled in with
the potential for hurricane-force winds and 1 to 3 feet
of snow that could paralyze the Northeast for days.
NEW YORK (AP) —
Tens of millions of peo-
ple along the Philadel-
phia-to-Boston
corridor
rushed to get home and settle
in Monday as a fearsome
storm swirled in with the
potential for hurricane-force
winds and 1 to 3 feet of
snow that could paralyze the
Northeast for days.
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build into a blizzard, and the
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day and into Tuesday.
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2015 legislative session.
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that will help them become
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Oregon stopped payments
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go but up when it releases
the graduation rate for
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Thursday.
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EUGENE (AP) — An
open house is scheduled
Thursday for the new $84
million state psychiatric
hospital at Junction City.
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are expected in March. It
eventually will serve up to
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the Oregon State Hospital
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pc
sn
pc
s
c
c
c
pc
c
c
c
c
pc
s
s
