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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), Firearms, Newspaper and Magazine, Theft
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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: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, 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: Prosecution, FBI, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Entertainment, WTTW, Indiana, History (tv network), Television
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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: United States Naval Academy, The New York Times, Human Interest, New Hampshire
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Bolt on the Hawks? Bad move
For RedEyeYou've been here before, Blackhawks fans. Wasn't even all that long ago! You watched your Hawks split a pair at home before a sometimes-ugly two-goal road loss in Game 3. Heck, that Detroit series got even worse before it got better. And yet your...Tags: Chicago Blackhawks, Ice Hockey, TD Garden, Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings
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Irwin Held, former owner of Barney's Beanery, dies at 87
Irwin Held, who owned and operated the West Hollywood watering hole Barney’s Beanery for decades, has died. He was 87. Held, who took over the bar and restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard in 1970, died Monday at his home in the Hollywood Hills...
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Michael Hastings dies at 33; his article led general to resign
Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his...Tags: Stanley A. McChrystal, New York University, Wars and Interventions, WikiLeaks, James L. Jones
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Obituary: Ruby Ellis
Ruby Ellis 1924-2013 Ruby Lee Bolin Ellis, 88, passed away Saturday, June 15, 2013. Born on July 5, 1924, in Casey County, she was a daughter of the late Ernest and Nannie Jones Bolin. Mrs. Ellis was a teacher, retired from the Casey County school...
Tags: American Cancer Society
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Sam Most dies at 82; pioneering jazz flutist
Sam Most, a pioneering jazz flutist who performed with a stylistically diverse range of artists, including Tommy Dorsey, Donald Byrd, Herbie Mann and Charles Mingus, died Thursday at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills. He was 82....
Tags: Entertainment, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Charlie Parker, New York City
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PASSINGS: Iain Banks, David Jin, Dwight Opperman
Iain Banks Edgy Scottish novelist Iain Banks, 59, a Scottish writer who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, died Sunday. His publisher, Little Brown, announced his death but did not provide other details....
Tags: Thomson Corporation, Tour Operations Industry, Literature, Fiction, Arts and Culture
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