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Centenarian retires
After more than three-quarters of a century working for public transit agencies, a Los Angeles bus maintenance worker will retire on Wednesday on his 100th birthday. For decades, Arthur Winston reported to work at a bus yard at the crack of dawn. By 6am he would be supervising a crew of workers as they cleaned and refueled the region's bus fleet. "I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long," Winston said. He has missed only one day of work in his entire career, transit officials say. That was in 1988, when his wife died.
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Marooned family rescued
A family who disappeared in a remote mountain area were safely back at home on Wednesday after spending nearly three weeks marooned in their snow-bound motor home. The Stivers family van was stuck in more than a meter of snow after sliding off a road in south-western Oregon. They survived by rationing dried food and drinking snow using propane to heat the van. While the area was too remote to have mobile phone reception, they monitored their plight on their television set. On Monday, when news stations reported that rescue teams had called off the search for the lost family, the husband and his wife decided to strike out on foot.
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