Lost California girls found after mountain trek near Bear Lake
Twelve-year-old Mallory Smith and eight-year-old Rebecca Liberty were found safe after a night in rugged Sierra wilderness four miles from Bear Lake. They wore little and shared a sweatshirt, were tired and bitten by mosquitoes, and were guided to safety by Boy Scout Thomas Ferrey after asking for directions.
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Sierra Nevada
Mallory Smith
Rebecca Liberty
Mallory
Thomas Ferrey
Rebecca
Bear Lake
Amish Men Sentenced in Cocaine Conspiracy Case
Two Amish men Abner Stoltzfus and Abner King Stoltzfus received one year in prison plus five years probation and $1100 fines for conspiring to sell cocaine to fellow sect members. They allegedly bought cocaine from the Pagans motorcycle gang in the Philadelphia area. Seven gang-linked defendants were sentenced earlier amid Lancaster County’s Amish community, known for plain dress and horse-drawn buggies.
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Abner Stoltzfus
Abner King Stoltzfus
The
Pagans
Lancaster County
Kennedy Center and Library of Congress win Doris Duke grants
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awards 4 million dollars to the Kennedy Center for the Arts and the Library of Congress. Three million funds the Kennedy Center Millennium Endowment for international festivals, with the remainder supporting Library of Congress acquisitions including Martha Graham papers archive and career materials spanning over 65 years.
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Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Library of Congress
Doris Duke‘Charitable Foundation
New York
Kennedy Centers
Millennium
Eats
Martha Graham
Hfe
Nebraska inmate taken off death row under mental retardation ban
Clarence Victor, 66, was removed from Nebraska death row under a 1998 law banning execution for the mentally retarded after IQ tests placed him at 65. He was sentenced in 1988 for the 1987 beating death of Alyce Singleton in Omaha and had prior convictions. Nine inmates remain on death row as appeals proceed.
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Omana, Nes
Nebraska
Clarence Victor
Victor
Alyce Singleton
Omaha
Lincoln
Don Stenberg
Douglas County
J. Michael Coffey
Board of Pardons
Jerry Simpson
Simpson
LSD guru Timothy Leary cooperated with FBI in 1974
FBI records released this week show Timothy Leary, famed for the 1960s counterculture creed, quietly cooperated with authorities in 1974 to win freedom from prison. He identified Weather Underground members linked to his 1970 escape and later sought an easing of his legal situation.
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Washington
Timothy Leary
FBI
Leary
Drug Enforcement Administration
California
Smoking Gun
Bill Bastone
Weather Underground
LSD
Todd Gitlin
New York University
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Washington, D.C
Marine Corps
James Jones
Charles Krulak
Marine Barracks
Defense
William Cohen
Krulak
Chuck Krulak
America
Congress
Jones
Cohen
Clinton
Maine
Marine
Senate
Marines
Kansas City
France
Georgetown University
U.S. Marine Corps
Heintz Lighting Center
Iowa
Lawrence
Arensberg
Massachusetts
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