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Snowfall tops 100 inches, with more expected

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 11, 2007

The National Weather Service said the town of Parish in upstate New York - about 25 miles northeast of Syracuse - reached a milestone early Saturday with 100 inches of snow during the past seven days. Late Saturday, the total had risen to 110 inches. Unofficial reports pegged totals at 123 inches in Orwell and 122 in Redfield, but those measurements include snow from another storm a couple of days before the current weather system. The towns are in Oswego County.

10 fire victims are remembered

Nearly 1,500 people packed a high school gymnasium and a few hundred more huddled outside Saturday to mourn 10 members of an extended family who died in a house fire on Tuesday. Seven caskets lined the floor of the gym at Bardstown High School because family members had arranged for some of the victims to be buried together.

Wiesel accosted by man in hotel

A man who approached Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust scholar Eli Wiesel seeking an interview at a San Francisco hotel later roughed him up, police said. Police are investigating the incident in which they say a man, who may have been a Holocaust denier, approached Wiesel in an elevator at a peace forum at the Argent Hotel Feb. 1 and requested an interview. When Wiesel consented to talk in the hotel's lobby, the man insisted it be done in a hotel room and dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator on the sixth floor, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said. The assailant fled after Wiesel began to scream.

Bush asks passage of fuel proposals

In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush asked Congress to help solve "one of the great challenges facing our generation" by approving proposals he says will cut U.S. gasoline consumption by up to 20 percent over 10 years. Bush's proposals, made in his State of the Union address last month, include ramping up the production of alternative fuels such as ethanol made from new, noncorn feedstocks. Bush wants to require the use of 35-billion gallons a year of ethanol and other alternative fuels, such as soybean-based biodiesel, by 2017, a fivefold increase over current requirements.

Elsewhere

Atlanta: Unintentional fatal drug overdoses in the United States nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004, overtaking falls to become the nation's second-leading cause of accidental death, behind automobile crashes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. It said the number of accidental drug overdose deaths rose from 11,155 in 1999 to 19,838 in 2004.

New Orleans: A barge struck Carnival Cruise Lines' Fantasy ship Saturday on the Mississippi River, forcing the cancellation of a five-day cruise to the Caribbean. There were no injuries.

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