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NEWS DIGEST -c i mi The AccuWeather forecast for noon, Thursday, Nov. 28. 30s Una tapamto high iwnparalur zona (or tw day Kroger gives $50,000 to feed hungry LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) The Kroger Co. gave $50,000 Tuesday to the Food Bank Council of Michigan as part of a month-long campaign to help feed the hungry.

Kroger stores in December are running "Food For The Hungry," a program in which customers may select bags of food valued at $5 each to be donated to area food shelters and food banks. School offers EPA to release explosion report DETROIT (AP) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will present results of its investigation into a methane gas release that caused an explosion in a Kingsford, home. The July 1995 explosion and fire happened after Robert Tuomela opened the door of a laundry appliance in the basement of his home and -created a spark that ignited methane gas that apparently had hnilf nn nver time. WEATHER By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN Tonight, mostly cloudy.

A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds about 10 mph. Thanksgiving: Mostly cloudy. A chance of flurries in the morning; becoming partly sunny in the afternoon.

Highs in the lower to mid 30s. Rest of the Thanksgiving weekend: Partly cloudy Friday. Chance of rain or snow Saturday. Chance of rain Sunday. Lows in the low to mid 20s Friday, in the 20s Saturday and 30 to 35 Sunday.

Highs 35 to about 40 Friday and 40 to 45 Saturday and Sunday. LAKE MICHIGAN Tonight, southwest winds 15 to 20 knots. Chance of snow. Waves 3 to, 5 feet. Thursday, southwest winds 15 to 20 knots.

Waves 3 to 5 feet. EXTENDED FORECAST Lower Peninsula Friday, partly cloudy. Lows in the low to mid 20s. Highs 35 to about 40. Saturday, a chance of snow north; a chance of rain or snow south.

Lows in the 20s. Highs 35 to 40 north and 40 to 45 south. Sunday, a chance of rain or snow north; a chance of rain south. Lows 25 to 30 north and 30 to 35 south. Highs 35 to 40 north and 40 to 45 south.

WEATHER PICTURE The highest temperature reported Tuesday in Michigan was 31 at Saginaw. The low was 13 at Houghton and Marquette. 1S AoouWlht. Ino. Thai floods kill 29, wreck crops BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -Summer flooding left 29 people dead and destroyed or damaged i 55,000 acres of farmland in this Southeast Asian country.

Khamphai Rasmy, deputy minister of labor and social welfare, announced the damage summary in the Laotian capital, Vientiane, the official KPL news agency reported Tuesday. He said about 52,000 families in hundreds of villages were affected by the August flooding, caused by heavy rain. Coffin shortage on Comoros Islands MORONI, Comoros Islands (AP)' Coffins were flown in Tuesday to help this Indian Ocean resort take care of bodies rotting in a warehouse three days after the crash of a hijacked Ethiopian jetliner. "We don't have coffins. We don't even have a person who knows how to make coffins," said Justice Minister Ali Ben Ali, spokesman for a government committee dealing with the disaster that killed 125 people.

The three-island chain off east Africa is predominantly Muslim, and under Islamic tradition the dead are buried within 24 hours, usually wrapped in shrouds. "We are not prepared for 100 dead," said Ben Ali. Saudis execute 5 for drug smuggling JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -Five people, including two Pakistani women, were beheaded Tuesday in this Red Sea port city after being convicted of drug smuggling, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry said the women, Bakhtawar Ghazi Khan and Sabati Khatoun Maghrabi, smuggled heroin into the kingdom and were met at the airport by their Pakistani ac-complices, Mohammed Morsi Bakhsh and Mohammed Ishaq Ali. It did not say when the crimes took place or when verdicts were reached.

Mexican jail riot injures inmates, guard REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) -Three inmates and a guard were injured Tuesday in a riot at a prison across the border from McAllen, Texas. About 250 inmates at the Cereso prison staged a protest Tuesday morning against the new prison security chief, who they said used excessive force against them, prison spokesman Jesus Hernandez Rivas said. Some of the protesters set fire to a car, a tractor and several workshops inside the prison, he said. The riot ended after several hours when prison officials agreed to hear their concerns. grants for teachers VESTABURG, Mich.

(AP) Teachers big on ideas but short on cash won't have to look very tar tor special-project funds. The school board on Monday approved five mini grants at up to $1,000 each for people to conduct special projects to benefit 'Vesta-burg Community School students in Montcalm County. Grants could be used for in-school or after-school projects conducted by teachers or community members, board members said. Most road work done for the year LANSING, Mich. (AP) Motorists in Michigan will find few road projects slowing their trip over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Most of the Michigan Department of Transportation's road work is finished for the season, MDOT Director Bob Welke said Tuesday. Just one state project is expected to affect drivers over the holiday. Southbound U.S. 27 near St Johns is reduced to one lane from Walker Road to Livingston Road to build a tie-in with the new U.S. 27 freeway.

Both northbound lanes will remain open for the weekend. Motorists were reminded that Interstate 75 in Toledo, Ohio, is reduced to one lane in each direction and is expected to cause traffic delays over the extended weekend. LOTTERIES TUESDAY MICHIGAN Daily Lottery: 9-8-1 Daily-4: 6-3-1-9 Cash-5: 4-13-14-20-31 Keno: 4, 7, 9, 13. 14. 16, 21, 25, 28, 32, 33, 34, 38, 42, 47, 55.

56. 59, 61, 68,69,70. Big Game jackpot: $5 million Lotto Jackpot: $6.3 million. ILUNOIS Pick Three-Midday: 8-6-5 Pick Three-Evening: 5-9-1 Pick Four-Midday: 5-9-0-4 Pick Four-Evening: 0-8-7-4 Lotto Jackpot: $20 million INDIANA Daily Three: 2-3-2 Daily Four: 3-7-9-8 Lucky 5: 8-9-29-30-32 Hoosler Lotto Jackpot: $3 million Powerball Jackpot: $9 million. The Associated Press E3 SNOW )C SUNNY FT CLOUDY CLOUDY Grand Rapids Las Vegas New York City Philadelphia Providence San Francisco St Ste Marie 28 64 58 58 59 67 24 22 48 50 48 1.58 41 1.40 45 13 .06 42 .62 cdy clr cdy cdy cdy clr cdy clr Washington.D.C.

63 National Temperature Extremes for Tuesday High 85 at Miami, Fla. Low -24 at Devils Lake, N.D. and Aberdeen, S.D. indicates missing information. TEMPERATURES Readings Tues.

noon to Wed. 6 a.m.: 12n 24 12m 23 3 p.m 21 6p.m 20 High 24 at 12 p.m. 3 a.m 21 6 a.m 20 Low 20 at 3 p.m. "It's sad to see it gone, but life goes on," Sands owner Sheldon Ad-elson said. "We're anxious to get on to the next level." The next level is a $1.8 billion, resort that Adelson plans to build on the 62-acre site.

Florida releases 400 violent inmates TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -Some 400 killers, rapists and thieves were freed from prison Tuesday and another 80 can go home for the holidays due to a state Supreme Court ruling that they must be given time off for good behavior. The court ruled last month that rules governing inmates' sentences can't be changed after their crimes were committed. Last week, it refused to let the state delay the releases until the U.S. Supreme Court hears the case.

Gov. Lawton Chiles was disappointed with the mass release but said the ruling only moved up by a few months what would have happened anyway. "These people would have been out (by) February," Chiles said. Tuomela was seriously injured amam EPA officials say they have not conclusively determined what caused the release of methane, a colorless, odorless gas that occurs from decomposition of organic materials. But the officials said they will share their information at the Dec.

4 meeting at the Kingsford High School auditorium. In response to the explosion, the EPA designed and installed a gas control system in the area to eliminate immediate threats to human health. Union asks HBO to yank commercial DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) The president of the Utility Workers Union of America has asked Home Box Office Inc. to pull a commercial that depicts two young boys tugging on an electrical wire.

The union's national president, Donald said the ad "gives a message to children that there is something fun at the end of a downed wire, while what really awaits them may be live electricity and death." In the commercial, the two boys yank a cable which is connected to a space station which loses its movie delivery when the boys pull the wire. Detroit group gets $18 million grant DETROIT (AP) The human rights group Focus: HOPE will receive $18 million in a grant and loan to finance a new residential learning and conference center, officials announced Tuesday. Focus: HOPE Tech Villas, on the west side of Detroit, will support the group's technology education programs and manufacturing operations. The grant was made through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and HUD Secretary Henry Cisne-ros was in Detroit for the announcement.

Tech Villas will be located in the former Yellow Pages building purchased for Focus: HOPE by Ameri-tech in 1995. The officials said the center will host educators, industry professionals and community leaders from around the country and the world for technology snaring and development. From COLD WAfUd STATIONARY Pntmn HK3H LO E3 El SHOWERS RAM El EZ3 TSTORUS FLURRieS The normal high temperature for Nov. 27 in Detroit is 43. The low is 28.

The record high for this date in Detroit is 69, 'set in 1990. The record low is 9, set in 1930. The sun sets today at 5:04 p.m. EST and rises Thursday at 7:30 a.m. EST.

The Weather Elsewhere Tuesday Temperatures indicate previous day's high and overnight low to 7:33 p.m. EST. Hi Lo Prc OlIk Anchorage Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Fargo 23 48 44 27 32 -4 0 47 .03 36 1.70 15 24 18 cdy clr cdy cdy cdy cdy road-killed deer on the highway, he thinks "Mmmmm, dinner." The Anne Arundel County police officer responded to hundreds of deer accidents and saw lots of venison go to waste. So he started a program with other officers businesses to give deer meat from roadkills to charity. The effort has yielded 300 pounds of venison for the county Food Bank in Crownsville and a food program at St.

John's Church in Arnold this year. For health reasons, officers only pick up freshly-killed deer. Las Vegas tears Sands Hotel down LAS VEGAS (AP) The grande dame of the Las Vegas Strip paused for a brief moment, like a faded star reluctant to leave center stage, then collapsed in a final bow. The Sands Hotel, once the playground for the entertainment world's elite, was reduced to a 30-foot pile of before dawn today in an implosion witnessed by thousands who gathered for the fi nal hurrah. '94 Fcrd Taurus IX Medi til' aBuMB 'EE Let us do your holiday baking.

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His widow walked into a funeral parlor three days after heart failure killed the bullwhip-cracking star of low-budget 1940s Westerns. She wanted to view her husband's body and get a lock of his hair, so he would always be with her. But the corpse wasn't there. "The mortician told me, 'Dear, I have very bad news. The body is gone.

It seems to us that somebody cremated him ahead of Marion Callahan LaRue said Tuesday, recalling the May 24 revelation. The early cremation was an honest mistake, said lawyer Andy Jar-dini, who represents Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Roadkill program helps feed hungry ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) When Officer Bryan Riddle sees a fresh ft Shopftog Sprees 2l)CemlDJal(aDium The Newspaper for Southwest Michigan P.O. Box 128 3450 Hollywood Road St.

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