Police Arrest Fugitive After Ad Find in Tacoma
Tacoma police Lt. Erling Marvik answered a newspaper ad for a used car and ended up arresting fugitive Robert Hohenberger, wanted on murder and kidnapping charges in Louisiana and California. Hohenberger died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the arrest, near Morgan City and Indianapolis roots, with warrants spanning multiple states.
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Tacoma
Wash
Erling Marvik
Robert Carl Hohenberger
Louisiana
California
Hohenberger
Earl Averill
St. Joseph Hospital
Marvik
Frank Henry Green
Morgan City
Henberger
FBI
Ray Mathis
Seattle
Indiana
Car Skidded Before Plunge at Charleston Ferry
A car fell from the South Island Ferry into the Intracoastal Waterway after a 14 foot skid on deck. Four people, including a couple and their two children, drowned in 12 feet of water as investigators study the accident for prevention.
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Charleston
South Island
U.S. Coast Guard
Simon B. Forbes
South Carolina Highway Department
Coast Guard
Junior Lee Woodbery
Gail Lee Woodbery
Forbes
Cpl
B. Seabrook Platt
State Wildlife and Marine Resources Department
Vincent Mitchell
Coast Guard Marine Safety Office
Explosion damages MSC lab refrigerator. bomb experts aid investigation
Charleston AP The Medical University of South Carolina called Air Force bomb experts to determine the cause after a Tuesday night blast in the immunopathology lab. The fire burned about 10 minutes, with $21,500 in damage to equipment walls and ceiling. officials say the refrigerator had no contents and no forced entry was found.
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Charleston
Medical University of South Carolina
Air Force
Basic Sciences
Kraft withdraws 50000 jars of possibly contaminated mayo
Kraft Inc announces voluntary recall of about 50 thousand jars of mayonnaise after quality tests found defects in roughly two percent of jars from a three day production run. Jars largely shipped to Alabama Florida Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Kentucky Maryland Mississippi and Virginia.
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Decatur, Ga
Kraft, Inc
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Maryland
Mississippi
Virginia
Reserve fund push shapes state budget proposal
The Senate Finance Committee backs a $55 million reserve cushion in the House budget bill as surplus revisions raise revenue estimates by $54 million. Debate on the measure begins after a two week recess with further changes including delaying May adjournment, and tightening teacher certification and school bus eligibility rules.
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Columbia
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Finance Committee
Board of Economic Advisers
Bob Jones University awards 850 degrees in 1978
At Bob Jones University in Greenville the 1978 commencement awarded about 850 degrees to undergraduates and graduates, the largest class yet. Honorary doctor of divinity degrees went to ministers Allen P. Dickerson Ronald Hill and Charles L. Britt. Honorary doctor laws degrees were given to H. Roy Thompson and Robert E. Jeffcott.
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Greenville
Bob Jones University
Fundamentalist Baptist School
Allen P. Dickerson
Maranatha Baptist Church
Elkton
Ronald D. Hill
Lake Country
Memphis
Tenn
H. Roy Thompson
Cleveland Baptist Church
Cleveland
Ohio
Robert E. Jeffcott
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Glidden
ACE
Pine Log
Wrought Iron Yard
Lamp Shell
Gregorie’s Farm & Garden Center
Whiskey Road
BJU
United Missionary Fellowship of
Sacramento
Calif
South
Timmerman Toyota
Toyota
Toyota Service
Alabor
uDeEp
Toyota Fit
Ummerman
Richland Ave
Certified Auto Service
Newport
JPON
KCK OF
S.A
Consis
Lorillard Cigarettes
Elm City
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