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FLORIDA

Sisters survive plane mishap

TAMPA — A pilot and her sister scrambled to safety yesterday when their single-engine plane ran a few feet off the end of the Davis Island runway and into the water.

Only the tail of the Aero Commander was sticking out of the water after the plane’s nose dipped.

The pilot, Camille Branch-Turley, 43, and her sister, Sharon Branch, 49, both of Tampa, did not require medical treatment, said police spokeswoman Laura McElroy.

NEW YORK

Hidden Torah finds new home

NEW YORK — A 150-year-old Torah, hidden for a half-century in the former Soviet Union, was paraded through New York’s streets yesterday on its way to its new home at a Brooklyn synagogue.

Many in the procession of hundreds of former Soviet Jews sang English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian songs as the foot-high scroll was taken to the Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe Synagogue.

Senya Dovidov, 68, a one-time shoe factory worker in Latvia, gave the Torah to the synagogue. Mr. Dovidov brought the scroll with him when he came to the United States in 1995.

ARKANSAS

Veteran honored for documentation

BENTON — For more than two years as a prisoner of war in Germany, Ewell Ross McCright secretly recorded and saved a precious piece of history — information that would help expose Nazi atrocities and connect veterans and their families with the past.

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