Berkowitz sentencing and parole push to life imprisonment
Berkowitz faced 315 years consecutive plus over a century in concurrent sentences. New York law allows parole after 30 years regardless of total. District attorneys urged changing the law and keeping Berkowitz locked up for life through relentless prosecution.
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Berkowitz
New York
Daniel Carrique
Moskowitz
Neysa Moskowitz
Brooklyn Superior Court
Sam
David Berkowitz
Stacy
Yonkers
City negotiates water line release and revenue sharing funds
City funds debated as officials discuss reimbursing a company about 49000 for water and sewer costs and hydrant rental in exchange for cleaning sex. A special hearing reviewed revenue sharing expenditures while a new treatment plant and grant applications were reviewed for a 6.2 million project. June 26 council actions include appropriations and wage proposals for fire and police departments.
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Chase
Essex
David Cooper
Elwood Publibrarian
Jerry Kaiser
Park Board
Planning session set for auction of livestock
A planning session for the 1978 Madison County 4 H livestock auction is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. next Monday at the 4 H Club Building in Alexandria. Co chairmen last year were Skip Waymire and Phil Thurston. Last year’s sale featured 104 steers 2 barrows 38 wethers and 12 lambs totaling 81309 dollars. The 1978 sale is set for Thursday July 27 at 5 p.m. The committee meeting is open to parents and 411 members involved in the sale and past organizers.
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Madison County
Alexandria
Skip Waymire
Phil Thurston
City sewer projects due for alterations
Mayor Rock urged changes to three Anderson storm sewer projects to address west downtown overflow and West 10th Morton Street low areas. The plan includes SD One for the south side at 2.67 million, SD Two to alleviate North Anderson drainage, and SD Three downtown work delayed since 1974 with debates over westward extension and future hearings.
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Southdale
Lloyd Line
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Indiana Avenue
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Killbuck Creek
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Stary District
Broadway Street
Meridian Street
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16Th Street
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Carmichael
Joe Wiley
Have & Mrs. Carr
Morton Streets
Anderson
West Side
John Street
Rock
Near Westside
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City Gineer's
Robbery abduction case yields few clues, Anderson police say
Investigators report little progress in the robbery and abduction case, with two men sought after a woman was kidnapped Thursday near St John’s Hospital. The victim described an older blue Chevrolet, was coerced into a car, held in a residence, given unknown pills, and escaped by crawling from a side window with about $105 missing from her bra.
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22Nd
Brown Streets
Police blotter notes theft. crash leaves two youths injured
APD said probes continue into the alleged theft incident. A single vehicle crash west of Anderson Saturday sent two area youths to hospital. 14 year old Mike Beechboard and 15 year old Terry Smith listed as patients, with Beechboard driving a 1976 Trans Am at high speed. Windell Beechboard, 28, was arrested for public intoxication DUI and weapon possession as brass knuckles were found. The crash occurred around 4 20 p m on County Road 2008 near 600 W. vehicle struck a utility pole and then a tree. Myers and Randy White, both 18, were treated and released. Myers transferred to Indianapolis hospital in critical condition.
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Windell Beechboard
Blackfoot Drive
Indiana Meadows
Beechboard
Madison County
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S. 10Th St
S. Myers
St John’s Hospital
Myers
Indianapolis
Terry E. Smith
Lafayette St
Randy White
St. John’s
Motorcycle deaths rise in Anderson as helmet law blamed
Indiana traffic reports show a sharp rise in deaths from crashes while overall injuries decline. A new helmet optional law is cited by officers as a factor, with Anderson reporting its first motorcycle fatality this year and several riders still hospitalized. Countywide fatalities reach 417 for the year, compared with 424 the previous year.
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APD
Anderson
Indiana
Madison County
Elwood
Quake in Niigata Sends Sendai Traffic Into Turmoil
A 7.0 tremor on the Richter scale rocked Niigata and Sendai on Japan's northwest coast. Power failures knocked out street signals, snarling traffic while at least two house fires, later controlled, were reported in Sendai, a city of about 554,000. The earthquake is described as major, with the scale indicating each increase by a tenfold rise in ground motion.
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Niigata
Sendai
Tornado confirmed in Jennings County Indiana
A tornado touched down near the Jefferson Proving Ground in Jennings County around noon, with no major damage reported. State police and other agencies reported power outages, downed trees, and a large weather system moving through southern Indiana from Bloomington to Cincinnati.
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Versailles
Jefferson Proving Ground
Jennings County
Bloomington
Seymour
Jasper
Cincinnati
Charlestown
Robert Tyle
New Albany
Floyd County
Leon Witt
Clarence Stellar
Overcrowded jails called critical ailment in state
Norman A Carlson, director of the US Bureau of Prisons, warns overcrowded county jails and prisons nationwide are a crisis. He advocates modern facilities and penal reform, noting his Indiana visit to address a state correctional convention and tours of the Indiana Women's Prison and the Indiana Boys' School. He cites the Atlantic City riot as a catalyst for reforms and criticizes lawmakers for neglecting prison policy. Now open Gene's Small Stop Junction 38 & 109.
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Norman A. Carlson
US Bureau of Prisons
Carlson
Indiana Women's Prison
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U.S
Knocking on Wood Across Cultures Through Time
A concise look at how knocks on wood trace from Druids to modern superstition. It notes origins in ancient England and Ireland, where spirits and leprechauns were invoked for luck and favors, and describes the practice spreading with religions as a substitute for prayer and oath-taking in some societies.
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England
Latter Day
Ireland
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