| Residents leap from fire, drop baby from second-story
Residents of a second-story apartment jumped out of a window and dropped an 8-month-old baby girl to safety as a blaze raged in their Sunnyvale home early this morning, officials said. The family -- two women, a man and an infant -- were forced to scramble to safety after the two-alarm fire broke out in their apartment just west of Highway 101 near Fair Oaks Avenue around 4:10 a.m., Sunnyvale city spokesman John Pilger said. The first woman to jump out of the second-story window injured herself. The commotion from people yelling for help woke Desiderio Solice, who lives downstairs and a few apartments away from the inferno. Solice, 35, ran outside and saw people trying to jump from the window. By instinct, he said, he ran to the parking lot behind the building and jumped into his large Chevy van.
Partial List of Grammy Award Winners
Partial list of winners at Sunday's 49th Annual Grammy Awards: Short Form Music Video: "Here It Goes Again," OK Go. Long Form Music Video: "Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run," Bruce Springsteen. Recording Package: "10,000 Days," Adam Jones, art director (Tool). Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: "Stadium Arcadium," Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith and Matt Taylor, art directors (Red Hot Chili Peppers). Album Notes: "If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!" Dan Morgenstern, album notes writer (Fats Waller). .
NAACP leads rally to push "people's agenda" at N.C. Legislature
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- An eclectic mix of more than 2,000 civil rights activists, anti-war protesters and low-income workers rallied behind one banner Saturday to demand North Carolina legislators pass a "people's agenda" this year. "The forces against us don't know how powerful we are when we work together," the Rev. William Barber, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the crowd that filled downtown Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium. The group then marched one mile to the Legislative Building, where hundreds signed an 11-foot wooden "scroll" to endorse a 14-point action plan. The plan endorsed diverse concerns from expanding health care coverage to abolishing the death penalty and withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Barber said the General Assembly has forgotten about the needs of ordinary people who struggle to make ends meet and still face racial discrimination and disparities in education and housing.
Von Anhalt Gets Cryptic About Dannielynns Daddy
LATEST: ZSA ZSA GABOR's husband PRINCE FREDERIC VON ANHALT insists he knows who the biological father of tragic ANNA NICOLE SMITH's baby daughter is, but has backed down from claims it could be him. The Hungarian royal added a bizarre new twist to the paternity battle over baby DANNIELYNN yesterday (09FEB07) when he stated he could be the child's father. Speaking on CNN talk show LARRY KING LIVE last night (09FEB07), the prince revealed he only came forward with his claims because Smith told him who her baby's biological father is, and it isn't her ex-boyfriend LARRY BIRKHEAD or partner/lawyer HOWARD K. STERN, who are fighting for paternity rights. But Von Anhalt, who claims he enjoyed a romance with Smith after the death of her late husband J HOWARD MARSHALL in 1995, was cryptic when asked if the mystery father he refers to is himself.
Baby boomers flocking to EV
In many ways, Dan Dekett is just like traditional snowbirds who spend part of the year in the East Valley. At the onset of each winter, he heads southwest to a warmer climate, driving in a 39-foot motorhome from his primary residence in Standish, Mich., to an RV park in east Mesa. .
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