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Cuevas' tale was bizarre, which makes this investigation that followed especially surprising; she never wavered from her conviction that her baby had been taken before the blaze, and then she came back with fresh evidence that the girl she named Delimar Vera was alive. The 6year-old was found across the Delaware River in Willingboro, N.J., 15 miles from Cuevas' Philadelphia home. Carolyn Correa, 42, a distant cousin of Cuevas' then boyfriend, Pedro Vera, was charged with kidnapping the child and setting a fire to cover her tracks...
...gusto for witty improvisation that has flattened MCs on both coasts. Before he’d even graduated from high school, first-place trophies from countless freestyle tournaments were taking up bookshelf space next to James Joyce and A Brief History of Time. After winning the famous World Blaze Battle in 2000, broadcast on HBO and judged by rap extraordinaire KRS-One, Eyedea hung up his gloves because there wasn’t anyone left to fight. (Contrary to popular belief, he’s never battled Eminem, and would only do so “maybe if we?...
...meantime, some families have moved into surrounding slums. Hundreds of others are jammed into tents just meters from the scene of the blaze. Flora Naig and her five-month-old daughter are living with 40 relatives and former neighbors in a five-meter?by?five-meter tent, and she hopes to sell some old clothes to buy milk for her infant. Naig has survived two previous fires in the past two years, both of which destroyed her residence. "We keep on being tossed around," she says, "from one corner to another...
During the blaze, Holyoke—age 74 at the time—stood in his nightgown passing buckets of water in the middle of a snowstorm, but despite his efforts the College library and the only known portraits of John Harvard were destroyed, Shoemaker said...
Apathy toward fire alarms, developed by a series of false alarms, may have been a prime cause in the deaths of three Seton Hall University students in a dorm room blaze in January...