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Pawn detective: Case of shotgun stolen in 1973
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — In 1973, Joe Lyon was a 5-year-old kid oblivious to his future calling as a police officer. The same year, a woman named Genevieve Miller filed a theft report with the Fort Wayne Police Department after someone stole her...Tags: Pawnbrokers, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Newspaper and Magazine, Theft, Firearms
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Utah man uses obituary to confess indiscretions
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 59-year-old Utah man who wrote his own obituary before he died last week used the opportunity to come clean. Friends and family of Val Patterson learned Sunday that the man they thought held a doctorate from the University...Tags: Throat Cancer, Theft, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Kendallville lawyer submits obit to fake his death, faces drug charges too
KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A judge has set a $75,000 bond for a Kendallville attorney facing drug charges after he admitted submitting his obituary to a newspaper to fake his own death. The News-Sun reports (http://bit.ly/Qn6ebc ) 43-year-old Jon...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Funeral held for NJ tot found in car seat in creek
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — A 2-year-old girl whose smile was so widely known among congregants that they dubbed her "the church baby" was laid to rest Monday, a week after she was tossed into a creek, still strapped into her car seat. A nationwide...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Religion and Belief, Prosecution
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Native American actor, Rochester icon, dies
Basil "Chief White Eagle" Heath, a veteran of Hollywood and a Chicago television pioneer who retired to northern Indiana, died Monday.
In the 1930s, Heath — born in 1917 on the Iroquois Indian River Reservation in Ontario — walked among...Tags: History (tv network), WTTW, Entertainment, Native Americans, Cinema Industry
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NH man surprised paper corrects 112-year-old obit
WALPOLE, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who sent a letter to The New York Times pointing out errors in his great-uncle's obituary is surprised to see the newspaper corrected the record — 112 years later. Daniel Schwenk, a retired dentist...Tags: New Hampshire, The New York Times, United States Naval Academy, Human Interest
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