Truck Driver Charged With Killing His Kids
A Wilmington truck driver, Robert Atlas Johnson, 47, is charged with four counts of murder and one of assault with intent to kill after police say he killed four of his five children and injured another. He allegedly bludgeoned them with a tire tool, led officers to a wooded scene, and asked a TV station to broadcast the deaths to inform his wife.
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Wilmington
N.C
Brunswick County
Harold Willetts
Robert Atlas Johnson
Johnson
Wilington
H. E. Williamson
Wect-Tv
Bonnie Louise
Ken Murphy
Murphy
Falling Wheel Kills Troy Youth
A 9 year old boy, Robert Stapleton of near Troy, died in Piqua area when a tractor wheel fell in a barn where he was playing during a farm holiday outing. The accident occurred Monday on a farm near Piqua.
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Piqua
Ohio
Robert Stapleton
Troy
Honey Festival Opens Tomorrow At Noon
Officials expect strong attendance if weather cooperates as the Ohio Honey Festival opens at noon tomorrow and runs through Saturday night. Lt. Gov. John W. Brown Mayor Lou Romohr and Festival Chairman Jerry Crisp will cut the ribbon. Becky Ledbetter, national honey queen, will attend. the Ohio Festival queen is to be crowned at 8 p.m. tomorrow after a parade. A Saturday antique car parade is slated for 1:30 p.m. and a festival close-time parade at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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Lebanin
Ohio
John W. Brown
Lou Romohr
Jerry Crisp
James Obrig
Becky Ledbetter
Shelbyville
Festival Mall
Broadway
Mulberry Street
Arwood To Stand Trial In Ohio
Samuel Orville Arwood of Dayton faces trial in Ohio for the August kidnapping of Vernon L. Cox of Middletown. Arwood, held on a $25,000 bond in Knoxville, was ordered moved to Ohio by U.S. magistrate Harve Duggins. Cox, 30, was abducted after stopping to help accident victims, forced at gunpoint to a Kentucky destination, and later escaped from a car trunk in Florence.
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Samuel Orville Arwood
Dayton
Middletown
Warren County
U.S
Arwood
Ohio
U. S
Harve Duggins
FBI
Knoxville
Tenn
Blout County
Blast Damages Concrete Plant In Early Morning Incident
An explosion at Brickling Collinswood Concrete Co on Stone's Levy Road damaged the plant shortly before 4 am. The arson squad investigates a possible bombing as a strong odor of burnt powder filled the air. no injuries reported and damage listed at $1,000.
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Brickling- Collinswood Concrete Co
Stone’s
Levy Road
Violence looms as talks stall in Northern Ireland
In Belfast Irish Catholic opposition leaders rejected a British peace feeler and a Protestant politician warned of potential civil war as IRA gunmen threaten renewed attacks. Three bombs exploded injuring five. a British soldier was shot in Newry. Amid summit talks between Heath and Lynch, Maudling proposed a roundtable that would grant the Catholic minority a guaranteed role, a plan rejected by key parties. General Carver arrived to assess security along the border and discuss troop safety.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Britain
Bel
Newry
London
Edward Heath
Jack Lynch
Ireland
Reginald Maudling
Heath
Lynch
Brian Faulkner
Maudling
Social Democratic and Labor Party
Civil Rights Association
Bernadette Devlin
Miss Devlin
Basil Glass
Progovernment Alliance Party
Glass
Michael Caver
Ihhief
Ulster
Briish
Carver
Irish Republic
No Combat Deaths In Vietnam Casualty List
Washington AP reports the Defense Department issued no Vietnam casualty list for the first time in six years due to low combat activity and possible delays in notifying relatives over Labor Day weekend. The daily list reflects names released after next of kin notification, and has run daily except weekends and holidays since Sept. 2, 1965. Since early July U.S. casualties averaged 13 weekly. total Americans killed in battle reach 45,471 with 9,742 noncombat deaths.
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Washington
Defense Department
Vietnam
U.S
County's 23rd Fatality in Hamilton Butler County
The county recorded its 23rd traffic fatality of the year when 70 year old Amanda Oatis of 1158 Central Ave. died at Mercy Hospital after being struck by a car driven by Hamilton attorney John D. Andrews of 1191 Dale Road yesterday afternoon on Pershing Avenue near Front Street. Andrews said he swerved to avoid her but she stepped into his path. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Jordan Funeral Home.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Mercy Hospital
Amanda Oatis
Central Ave
John D. Andrews
Dale Road
Pershing Avenue
Jordan Funeral Home
Second Body Recovered In Oregon Outward Bound Case
In Central Oregon three Outer Bound expedition participants faced a deadly storm. The second body, Lorene LaRhette, 17, of Sudbury mass, was found near where Glen Howden, 21, of Fall Creek, Ore., died. Pam Sullivan, 18, of Seattle, survived. Coroner cites exposure. autopsy suggests hypothermia for Sullivan. Outward Bound officials set up a review board. national program president Jack Miner arrives in Eugene to oversee inquiry.
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Eugene
Ore
Three Sisters
Oregon
Lorene LaRhette
Sudbury
Mass
Glen Howden
Fall Creek
Pam Sullivan
Seattle
Miss Sullivan
Miss LaRhette
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