Leno and Yeager stories headline varied celebrity notes
Jay Leno recalls his mother Catherine as a source of humor who died in June after emigrating from Scotland at 15 and shaping his approach to comedy. Chuck Yeager recalls his first flights and air sickness on the eve of plans to break the sound barrier again in 1997. Madonna and Vanilla Ice relation rumors heat up amid Ice’s shift to Mind Blowin’ while Grace Slick faces jail or rehab for a shotgun incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yeager
Australia
Army Air Corps
Jerry Seinfeld
Johnny Carson
David Letterman
Jay Leno
Gracie Allen
Leno
Family Circle
Catherine
Scotland
Jay
Tom
Roseanne Arnold
Ice
Madonna
Iceman
Evel Knievel
Rollins Given Six-Month Jail Term In Conyers Case
Howard Rollins was sentenced to six months in a Conyers jail for driving under the influence of cocaine and driving with a suspended license. He was also ordered to stay away from eastern Georgia communities where In the Heat of the Night is filmed for two years. The judge cited a need for a change of scenery. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Rollins
Conyers
Georgia
William Todd
Rollins
OSHA fines for unsafe conditions at Kansas City Federal Building
In September OSHA in Washington DC issued 60 citations and 90000 dollars in fines for unsafe conditions at the Federal Building in Kansas City Missouri. Mireya Funair thirty was hospitalized in February in Austin Texas after being trapped for forty minutes in her car buried up to her neck in concrete when a cement truck tipped and its funnel punctured the top of her car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Washington, D.C
Federal Building
Kansas City
OSHA
Funair
Austin
Texas
Mutiny on the Bounty referenced in early history
The history note recalls 1789 mutiny on the Bounty as Captain William Bligh and 16 sailors were set adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. It also mentions a 1931 motorcade leaving Yuma en route to California with a singer performing along the road to San Diego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bounty Aete
Bish
William Bligh
South Pacific
Astrona
Yuma
San Diego
Prison inmate in California accused of mail fraud and molestation plots
San Francisco prosecutors say Herbert Lemont from Pelican Bay State Prison used the U S mail to target a former girlfriend in a 10 year vendetta. He allegedly changed his name to hers husband and redirected mail and tax forms, falsified W-2s, and attempted to intercept 19 letters as part of the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California
U.S
San Erie
Pelican Bay State
Herbert Lemont
U.S. District Court
Lemont
Internal Revenue Service
Borovkoff
Pride
Oregon
Nebula 2
IRS
Roddenberry ashes make final trek to space
Gene Roddenberry's ashes were secretly taken into space after his 1991 death. Major Barrett Roddenberry announced at the 31st Space Congress in Cape Canaveral that the ashes were aboard a space shuttle and returned with the flight. NASA officials said they did not know the mission, calling it a space program first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Canaveral
Fia
Gene Roddenberry
Gene
Earth
Barrett Roddenberry
Roddenberry
Kennedy Space Center
Also Mentioned on This Page
Roseanne
Tom Arnold
Planet the
Mall of America
Bloomington
Minn
Chuck Yeager
Grace Slick
Jefferson Airplane
Tiburon
Calif
Slick
Superior Court
William Stephens
Vanilla
The
Associated Press
Mireya
Chuck Shepherd
P.O
St. Petersburg
Arizona
Michael A. Lausa
Sanford Schwartz
Edward Burns
Jeffrey C. Bruce
Jim Ripley
Scott B. Porter
H. Robert Hirsch
Jody Taylor
Patrick Knickrehm
G.M
TOD
Home Delivery
Mesa Newsroom
First Ave
Mesa AZ
Scottedale
Earls Drive
Scottsdale
3Rd St
Suite
Tempe
Crewe Wewowem
Ariz. P
Chandler
N. Gilbert Rd
Gilbert
Advent Sina
Tribune New
Azone Publications, Inc
W. Ist Ave
Mesa
Ronraldtth
San Francisco Examiner
Roddenberry Ashes
Florida
Spring Savings
Apache Blvd
Mon
Tues
Thur
Sun
Youngtown
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!