Motorist Kills Self After Striking 9-Year-Old in Land OWe
A 52 year old motorist William Dowling struck 9 year old Jennifer Carr as she crossed a busy intersection in Land O Lakes Florida. Dowling aided the injured girl before returning home and fatally shooting himself with a 9 mm pistol. Jennifer remained hospitalized with a fractured skull and multiple injuries while her condition was described as guarded but alert. Dowling license was suspended for five years after a DUI conviction.
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Pasco County
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Highway Patrol
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Lucci
Tampa General Hospital
Ely woman to be featured on TV show Monday
Frances Ma Miller, longtime host of Ma Miller Day reunions near Ely, will be videotaped for a Value Television program airing Monday at 12:30 am on KWWL Channel 7. The piece notes her Cedar Rapids past and her 25 fostered youths, with Richard Simmons joining to invite him to the next reunion. Miller recently returned from California where she spent winter with her daughter.
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Ma” Miller
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Gazette
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California
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Los Angeles
Four juveniles held in hood ornament theft ring
Davenport and Blue Grass police arrested four juveniles and recovered 24 fancy car hood ornaments in a crackdown on trendy thefts. Officers said teens used the ornaments as jewelry in the Quad Cities and surrounding areas including Cedar Rapids. A Blue Grass officer recovered 14 ornaments after watching suspects remove one, while Davenport officers seized 10 more. all youths were charged with criminal mischief and released to parents.
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Quad-Cities
Cedar Rapids
Terry Ferkle
Easter postcard travels 77 years to Savanna Ill
An Easter postcard sent in 1910 from Savanna Illinois finally reached Gerald Griswold in Savanna Illinois in 1987 after a 2000 mile detour via Oakland California. The message read Rah Rah From an old acquaintance in Savanna GMS and traced to Gertrude Mae Smith a former Savanna High School student.
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Gerald Griswold
Merle Griswold
Savanna
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Sandra Meewes
Gertrude Mae Smith
Savanna High School
Ssavanna
Ill
Mother of 14 defies DC mayor on birth control
Jacqueline Williams, a mother of 14 living in an emergency shelter, says she will continue having children despite Mayor Marion Barry’s call for her to stop. She is pregnant with her 15th, and she rejects birth control as she battles public aid debates and housing needs.
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Jacqueline Williams
Marion Barry
Washington Post
Barry
Capitol City
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Williams
Leroy Williams
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