CAMARILLO – After dropping to less than $2 per gallon last month, the national average price for a gallon of gas is rising again, in large part because of higher crude oil prices, an industry analyst said Sunday. Between Oct. 8 and Friday, the combined national average price for all grades of gas rose from $2.02 to $2.07 per gallon, said Trilby Lundberg, who publishes a semimonthly survey of gas stations across the country. The biggest-selling grade of gas, self-serve regular, was pegged at $2.04. Premium grade was priced at $2.23 a gallon, and mid-grade at $2.14.
Note prompts delay of flight
A note found on a food cart prompted authorities to pull a United Airlines passenger jet from service Sunday at San Francisco International Airport. The passengers ticketed for Flight 150 to Chicago had yet to board when the note, characterized as suspicious, was discovered by a crew member loading a catering cart. The passengers were transferred to another plane, causing a delay of about two hours, airport spokesman Mike McCarron said.
Ambulance plane crashes; 5 dead
Rescuers hiked though rugged terrain near the Mexican border Sunday to reach the remote site where a private jet went down after taking off from San Diego, killing all five people aboard. The Learjet was being used as an air ambulance when it crashed early Sunday carrying two pilots, two paramedics and a nurse on a flight bound for Albuquerque, N.M. The cause of the crash had not been determined.
Ohio: Children die in apartment fire
Fire raced through a Toledo apartment building Sunday afternoon, killing six children and critically injuring another, authorities said. The victims were six girls and one boy, ages 6 months to 7 years old. Fire Chief Michael Bell said no adults were in the building when firefighters arrived, but he wasn’t sure whether adults were inside when the blaze broke out.
N.Y.: Torah comes out of hiding
A 150-year-old Torah, hidden for a half-century in the former Soviet Union, was paraded through New York’s streets Sunday on its way to its new home at a Brooklyn synagogue. The scroll, worth about $15,000, is one of two Torahs the Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe Synagogue has acquired in recent years from former Soviet Jewish immigrants. The other scroll, originally from Ukraine, was also rededicated Sunday for use at its services.
Maryland: Einstein idea confirmed
A key prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been confirmed by an experiment showing that the Earth’s rotation drags the surrounding fabric of space-time along with it. The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, was one of the last untested predictions of general relativity. A NASA satellite, Gravity Probe B, was launched earlier this year to test the same effect, said Errico Pavlis, of the Joint Center for Earth System Technology at the University of Maryland, one of the leaders of the international team of researchers that measured the effect.
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