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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, Newspaper and Magazine, Firearms, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), 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: Theft, Throat Cancer, 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: Judges, Methamphetamine (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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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: Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Prosecution
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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, Human Interest, The New York Times, United States Naval Academy
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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), Human Interest, WTTW, Television, Cinema Industry
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Area concert by favorite Southern rock band postponed by former member's death
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGAn area concert by a 1970s favorite Southern rock band has been postponed by the death of one of its former members. The show by Marshall Tucker Band scheduled Saturday at Kempton Music Fair has been postponed by the death...... -
PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Republic of Ireland, Journalism, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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FAU editorial was good obituary
Regarding the May 16 editorial, "What's next for FAU:" I filed this editorial under: "How to write a kind obituary for a victim." It was sappy and supercilious, but the tone was just right; ironically, so was its vague conclusion. The blindingly glaring...Tags: Delray Beach
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85
Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...
Tags: Long Island, Philosophy, New York City, Psychology, Religion and Belief
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Former RB Muncie dies at 60
ReutersThe Sports Xchange Former RB Muncie dies at 60 Former running back Chuck Muncie, a three-time All-Pro has died at the age of 60. ESPN reported the cause of death as a heart attack. A star at the University of California, Muncie finished second in the...Tags: Heisman Trophy, San Diego Chargers, Minnesota Vikings, Football, ESPN (tv network)
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