Amityville house haunt claim provokes debate
Dan Campitello, 19, living in the Amityville house at 112 Ocean Ave., dismisses supernatural claims. Newsday reporters Jim Scovel and Alex Drehsler find virtually nothing in The Amityville Horror book verifiable, while owners the Cromartys deny haunting and sue for damages.
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Amityville
N.Y
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DeFeo
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Barbara Cromarty
Cromartys
The
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B.S
Campitello
Newsday
Long Island
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Alex Drehsler
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Polish woman sails solo around world completes circumnavigation
Krys tyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz of Poland finishes a 28,696 mile solo circumnavigation in a 31 foot sloop. She started March 23 1976 from Las Palmas and ended Monday night in the eastern Atlantic aboard Mazurek built by her husband. She stopped at Bridgetown Balboa Nuku Hiva Papeete Suva Sydney Thursday Island Darwin Port Louis Durban Cape Town. The Guinness Book notes a 1764 circumnavigation by another woman pretending to be valet to M de Commerson aboard La Bordeuse.
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M. de Commerson
la Bordeuse
Iowa Supreme Court Affirms and Reverses Multiple Cases
Wed decisions cover bail forfeiture real estate sales damages retirement policy and more across counties O'Brien County Louisa Sac Story Polk Humboldt and others In several matters orders affirm reversed or remanded including alimony fees marriage dissolution and disciplinary rules in a broad wipe of state jurisprudence.
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Zylstra and Kuipers
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Muscatine-Louisa
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Fisher Aviation Inc
Story
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Short
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Locke
Polk — Schmitt
Department of Social Services
England and France Sign 1657 Treaty for Joint Attacks
On this date in 1657 England and France signed a Paris treaty agreeing on joint military actions against Spanish-held territories. The accord aligned two powers to coordinate campaigns and pressure Spain in the Caribbean and Americas.
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