Girl who feigned deafness seeks love in Indiana
Debbie Lane 21 said she became deaf to feel loved and to be a child again. She admitted misrepresenting her age as 15 when placed under Welfare Department guardianship. She now hears and speaks, thankful to psychologist Mrs Shults and Indiana School for the Deaf officials.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Debbie Lane
State Welfare Department
Debbie Cummins
St. Louis
Vincennes
Ind
Indiana Welfare Department
Miss Lane
Welfare Department
Joe Otto
Mary
School For the Deaf
Susan Shults
Debbie
Indiana
Prosecutor doubts will County trial for Interstate 57 slayings
Will County State's Attorney Ed Petka said it is unlikely that Henry Brisbon and David Sanders will be tried in Will County for Betty Lou Harmon's murder amid ongoing Interstate 57 killings. Harmon's family asked him not to prosecute the suspects on the additional charge, preferring the Cook County convictions. Two accomplices who testified against Brisbon and Sanders received shorter terms earlier this week.
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Brisban
Sanders
Bill Would Put Personal Property Tax on Ballot
A Senate panel endorsed sending a constitutional change to voters to decide whether the tax on corporate personal property should be repealed. If approved, local governments could keep collecting the levy indefinitely until a replacement is set. The measure SJR29 by Sen. Samuel Maragos would require a replacement if abolished. Other constitutional change proposals were held in committee.
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Springfield
Ill
UPI
Senate
Senate Executive Committee
House
Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois
General Assembly
State workers find dead baby in Albion Illinois
State workers burning trash Wednesday found a dead baby boy wrapped in a pillowcase inside a cardboard box at an incineration site south of Albion. An autopsy showed a full term birth with no congenital defects or foul play. cause of death and exact place of death remained undetermined.
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Albion
Ill
UPI
Edwards County
Donovan Rodgers
Department of Transportatation
Here
Rodgers
Tory
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Mount Carmel
Illinois 130
Department of Law Enforcement
Division of Investigation
Three-year term for aiding man escape jail
Nancy Brown 23 of Winona was sentenced to three years for helping Donald Howard escape Winona County Jail last fall. She admitted abandoning her husband and 4-year-old daughter to aid Howard, who is serving life for murder tied to his wife Shirleen's Aug. 13 death after hiring Bruce J. Webber to kill her. The pair fled to Louisiana before being recaptured a week later.
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Winona, Minn
UPI
Nancy Brown
Donald Howard
Winona County
Mrs. Brown
Winona
Howard
Shirleen
Bruce J. Webber
Rockdale
Ill
Louisiana
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