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The article focuses on the decision to part ways with Brian Ferentz, the offensive coordinator for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team, due to frustrations among fans and a disappointing offensive performance.

Reports that a 75-foot-high stone retaining wall built in 1908 collapsed in an avalanche onto the Henry Hudson Parkway in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Observation that there were no apparent casualties, although parked cars were buried in the landslide; Details of the wall's collapse; Uncertainty over how long it will take to clear the debris and reopen the parkway and access roads; Accounts of witnesses; History of the wall. INSET: Traffic Advosory.

The article reports that five family members of two popular high school coaches in Colorado have died in a rock slide at the Agnes Vaille Falls trail on September 30, 2013 including Dwayne Johnson, Baigen Walker, and Paris Walkup.

An unstable cliff prompted officials to permanently close some cabins in a popular Yosemite National Park lodge complex that has a long history of rockslides. National Park Service officials said 233 cabins in Curry Village would close. That is about one-third of the units available in the complex. About half of the 618 cabins at the village have been off limits since rocks fell on Oct. 8. Federal geologists have warned for at least a decade that the granite face of Glacier Point above the village was dangerous. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on hitting of Colorado by a blizzard. The blizzard has formed a layer of 25 inches of snow and set off rockslides, avalanches and closing of schools and roads. The storm extended across the state with varying intensity, hitting hardest in the southern part of the state. The speed of wind in Colorado Spring were as high as 47 miles per hour.

The article reports on the closure of Pacific Coast Highway because of rock slides in March 2006 at Devil's Slide in San Francisco, California.

The article reports on social and political developments in the U.S. A series of rock slides has forced residents in Montpelier, Vermont to evacuate. Reynaldo E. Rapalo, a serial rape suspect who escaped from jail in Miami, Florida, was recaptured. An Alaska Airlines MD-80 jet has made an emergency landing in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after it lost cabin pressure due to a hole in the plane's fuselage. David P. Hammer, an inmate convicted of strangling his cellmate, has been sentenced with death. A 50-year-old driver was beaten by at least 15 young people after he honked his horn.

Reports that the Chapman's Peak Drive route in Cape Town, South Africa will be closed until May 2000 because of falling rocks. Popularity of the route; Number of deaths recorded on Chapman's Peak Drive; Effects of the closure on the events scheduled at Cape Town.

Presents information on a rock slide which occurred in Asheville, North Carolina on July 1, 1997. Details on the rock slide; Effects of the rock slide.

Reports about the injury caused to several people by the crashing down of a boulder at Multnomah Falls State Park, Oregon, on September 4, 1995.

Informs about a rock slide which buried the southbound lane of Highway 97A, which runs north-south of Columbia River between Wenatchee and Chelan in the central part of the state.

Reports that a rock slide which occurred on June 23, 1996 in Glacier National Park has killed Japanese tourist Tsuyoshi Kamochi and injuring his sister Yoko.

Reports that rescuers have recovered all 20 bodies of victims crushed by a rock fall in a Japanese road tunnel in February 1996.