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On a bus trip to California in November, a youth group from the Chicago Apostolic Assembly Church endured the following: a two-delay delay getting out of Chicago; numerous breakdowns, including a tire blowout in Missouri; a junk-food Thanksgiving dinner aboard the bus instead of the planned sumptuous meal in California; clutch failure on the bus as it climbed an Arizona mountain during a blizzard; two days in a small motel in Flagstaff, Arizona, awaiting heater and engine repairs and emergency cash (which never arrived); the stench of uncleaned lavatories; convulsions by the driver while at the wheel due to a diabetic reaction; and citations issued by New Mexico police for having an unsafe vehicle (which finally ended the trip).
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The 19-member Odor Mitigation Task Force in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was called to action last summer to identify a rotten-egg smell permeating the city. Arrangements were made with a Chicago research company to identify the smell, and residents were required to use special devices to bottle the smell and send it away.
Ronald Clark, 30, was charged with assault in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in February for reportedly hitting Thomas Jones in the face with a frozen fish, breaking Jones’s nose. Clark had been confronted in his home by Jones in an argument over a woman.
