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the bleeding man, police and neighbors said.
• Donald Wilkes, 61, said the blast early Saturday morning rattled his house and woke up everyone inside. When he ran outside, he found the street filled with smoke and a Jeep stopped just against his 6-foot-tall cedar fence.
• "I looked around for something that got hit, but there was nothing," Wilkes said. "My son reached in to pull the keys out of the ignition and make sure he didn't go anywhere, and that's when we saw his hand was missing. It blew it right off at his wrist -- they found part of it half a block away."
• Witnesses saw a flash of light from inside the vehicle, a red Jeep with a gray top, as it drove down a residential street, police said. There was initial concern over the driver's intent.
• Wilkes' son, 30-year-old Nicholas, and another neighbor applied a tourniquet to the man's left arm. The man was stocky, estimated at about 28 to 30 years old, and coherent. But he wouldn't answer questions about what he had been doing, Wilkes said.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Sunday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2014. There are 339 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 26, 1784, in a letter to his daughter Sarah (also called "Sally"), Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the choice of the bald eagle as the symbol of America, and stated his own preference: the turkey, calling it "a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America."
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• On this date:
• In 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney.
• In 1837, Michigan became the 26th state.
• In 1870, Virginia rejoined the Union.
• In 1934, the 125th Street Apollo Theater opened in New York City's Harlem district.
• In 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, rebel forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco (Continued on page 31)
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