Reclusive sisters die amid cash and neglect in Berkshire home
In Pittsfield Massachusetts two aging sisters 83 and older died from exposure pneumonia and malnutrition after refusing heating oil medical care and meals. A social worker found meals untouched as police investigated and autopsies ruled out foul play. Cash and gold valued between twenty and fifty thousand dollars were found in the shuttered home.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Berkshire County
Jeffrey Ross
Ross
Charlotte Robenstein
Marion Seelig
Three resign over water board dispute in Kansas
Three watershed district board members Clifford Pray Raymond MacKay and Cleo Ralston plus a district employee resigned ending civil and criminal actions. Judge Brazil signed a court order halting ouster and other charges with a gag order in place. The district spans about 182000 acres in Butler and Cowley counties with 3000 rural landowners taxed for water conservation and flood control.
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EL Dorado
Kan
Watershed District Board
Wichita Eagle-Beacon
Eagle-Beacon
J. Patrick Brazil
R.S. Delamater
Wichita
The
Eagle Beacon
Middle Walnut Valley Watershed District Board
Clifford Pray
Sedgwick County
Raymond MacKay
Douglass
Cleo Ralston
Augusta
Steve Crawford
Pray
MacKay
E.e.jabes
Pole Cat Creek
Jabes
Brazil
Delamater
Crawford
Ralston
Worth Showalter
W. Kent Wright
Wright
Showalter
Butler
Cowley
Sumner
Sedgwick
Reagan urges U S Brazil ties amid Latin tour and warnings
President Reagan, addressing Brazilian business leaders in Sao Paulo, touted closer economic cooperation with Brazil while denouncing Soviet and Cuban influence in Central America and criticizing trade restrictions. He announced a $1.2 billion loan to Brazil and sugar quota relief as part of broader East West concerns on a four nation Latin American trip.
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Brasilia
Brazil
Reagan
Central America
United States
U.S
Latin America
Sao Paulo
White House
Soviet Union
Cuba
Americas
Joao Baptista Figueiredo
Tylenol suspect to Chicago
A man linked to Tylenol poisonings spent a second night in a Los Angeles lockup after waiving extradition to Illinois. Kevin J. Masterson was expected to be flown to Chicago by midday to face questioning in Wheaton on an unrelated marijuana charge. Illinois officials say he is not a prime suspect but may have information about the cyanide killings.
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Los Angeles
Chicago
Illinois
Kevin J. Masterson
Wheaton
Tyrone Fahner
Masterson
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Berkshire Eagle
Berkshire Hills
Meals On Wheels’’ Agency
Russell
HNL
Pete and
Izetta Berkey
David Yates
Great Bend
State Fire Marshals Office
Cs Maronery
Aia
E. Fulton
Bolivia
South American
Bogota
Colombia
Ronald Reagan
Lady Manhattan Formfit Rogers
Scott City
Fahner
W. Hwy. 50
Yuletide
Irie Edg
Bairton
Reed & Barton
Resor 412
North Main
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