April 13, 1927

Sixty-two are dead and more than 100 injured as tornadoes strike Texas and Oklahoma.

April 13, 1952

Wells College girls are importing some rather special weekend dates, their fathers; 170 men from 18 states will spend a weekend of dancing, golf and entertainment, all on the house.

April 13, 1997

Crosman's Jewelers, of Auburn, is trying to add some radiance to the gray days of spring. The downtown jeweler opens his first-ever colored diamond show. “In the middle of a rotten spring, here's something to put some sparkle in someone's life,” said store owner Syd Marsden. He created the event to showcase gems most people don't know about. “A lot of the jewelers out there don't even know about them,” he said. Marsden knows of no other upstate jeweler that sells the colored stones. He first became interested in colored diamonds about 35 years ago, when he was appraising estates for the jewelry store.

April 13, 2002

State Health Department officials in Albany are trying to find out the cause of death for more than a dozen seagulls found in the Auburn city landfill. City employees noticed an unusual number of dead seagulls scattered throughout the landfill and called the Cayuga County Health Department to investigate, said Frank DeOrio, the city's director of municipal utilities. County animal control officials sent a sampling of the deceased birds to the state Health Department's Wildlife Lab in Albany. With the outbreak of the West Nile Disease that killed mostly pigeons in recent summers, the state wants to conduct tests whenever a number of birds are found dead from mysterious causes, said Cayuga County Spokesman John Rowe.

- Linda Simmons