Inmates threaten guard during transfer to courthouse
Richard Henkel, 45, a bank robber awaiting trial for the killing of Deborah Gentle, and Louis Coviello, 26, a life‑term killer, hostage guards Daniel Kohut and Kostas Mastros during a routine strip search before a pretrial hearing at Allegheny County Courthouse. The two planned an escape during transport or in the courtroom while negotiations continued behind a basement processing room.
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Richard Henkel
Louis Coviello
Daniel Kohut
Kostas
Gus” Mastros
Allegheny County
Henkel
Deborah Gentile
Robinson
Kohut
Coviello
Dunmore
Pittsburgh
Gladys Russell
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Russell
Mastros
Weather forecast extends through Saturday with mixed precipitation
Extended forecast notes chances of rain Friday and varied temperatures from the 30s to mids 80s. Record lows and highs are reported in multiple states including 2 degrees in Herman and 95 in Alice Texas, with winter storm warnings and travel advisories across the mid Atlantic and northeast regions.
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Beirut embassy blast wounds many as diplomat escapes
A car bomb hit the U S embassy in Beirut injuring several and destroying parts of the building. U S Ambassador Robert Dillon narrowly escaped the collapse while Getty reports say a Muslim Holy War group claimed responsibility and linked the attack to Iran's revolution. Rescue teams and international forces, including U S Marines and French troops, searched rubble as ambulances ferried victims to hospitals.
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U.S
Robert Dillon
Bob Pugh
Reagan
Dillon
Ington
United States
Lebanon
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Beirut
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Muslim Holy War
al Liwa
Iran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Chiropractors Profit Rule Defeated in Senate Vote
Senators rejected a proposal by Sen. Hurley Hall to bar chiropractors from profiting on nutritional advice. Lawmakers argued any profit ban, including House language, could be unconstitutional. The measure won final approval 26 to 18 in a party line vote led by Sen. Wally Horn.
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D-Marion
Hall
Wally Horn
Cedar Rapids
Senate
House GOP stage food fight over Reagan tax cut
On Capitol Hill Republicans paraded 37 shopping carts of groceries to argue that repealing the third Reagan tax cut would cost a family of four with 30 000 income about 3551 annually. Demonstrators from the Committee For Creative Non-Violence countered with carts of produce to protest budget cuts and tax policy.
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Republican House
Capitol Hill
Reagan
Committee For Creative Non-Violence
Ued
Guy Vander Jagt
R-Mich
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
GOP
van der Jagt
Mitch Snyder
The
Poor People’s Group
Colburn pleads guilty in Linn District Court
Robert E. Colburn age 20 of 512 26th St SE is sentenced in First Avenue division to three 120 day suspended jail terms on three counts of assault causing bodily injury with credit for one day served. He must pay restitution of 252.86 and 975.78 in court and attorney fees and undergo alcoholism treatment while on probation. Several other defendants receive suspended sentences or fines for assaults drunk driving and related charges in the same session.
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26Th St. SE
First Avenue
Linn District Court
Colburn
Department of Correctional Services
Gary N. McIntosh
Seventh St
Marion
McIntosh
Beverly Ann Parks
12Th Avenue
Hiawatha
Terry Toney
Luzerne
Toney
Marilyn Primley
16Th Ave
James D. Stewart
Rompot St. SE
Stewart
Timothy H. Snell
Walford
Snell
Schutzman
Michel W. Henderson
12Th St. SW
Kehl
Russell J. Brooks
Fourth Ave
Brooks
James R. Kauten
Richmond Road NE
Power Outage Hits Newhall Area
About 300 Iowa Electric customers in Newhall area lost power for up to almost three hours after a line broke likely due to wind. 250 customers in town and 50 rural homes were affected. Power returned to town by 8 45 p.m. and rural areas by 10 20 p.m.
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Iowa
Newhall
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