Housing widow fights shutoff over massive utility bill
In Pittsburgh Theo Rosenberg argues she should keep gas service for her 23 room home while paying off a debt of 6864.47 in $150 installments, claiming her ex-husband failed to pay $50000 alimony. PUC judge Conly recommends continued service as she begins repayment. full panel to decide.
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PUC
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People’s
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David Rosenberg
Full Pac
Former lawmaker Max Homer paroled from Allenwood prison
Max H. Homer, 43, ex state legislator for McKees Rocks Stowe Township, was paroled after 17 months of a four year sentence for extortion and perjury. He was freed from Allenwood Federal Prison on December 16 after pleading guilty to extorting $9,150 from two McKees Rocks firms in exchange for political favors.
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UPI
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Allenwood
Homer
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Stowe Township
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Bellomini seeks term cut in federal extortion case
Former Erie state representative Robert Bellomini asked UPI reports in federal court to reduce his three year sentence for two counts of attempted extortion tied to a state liquor warehouse contract. He began serving Sept 12 at Allenwood. A ruling by Judge William Knox was not announced.
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Erie
UPI
Robert Bellomini
Allenwood
Bellomini
William Knox
Hershey to acquire Friendly in $23 per share deal
Hershey Foods Corp plans to buy Friendly Ice Cream Corp for $23 a share, acquiring all outstanding stock. The deal could close next month pending SEC approval. Friendly, a 170 million dollar yearly business, employs about 17,000 in 17 states.
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UPI
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Friendly
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Hershey
Eric Anderson
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Blake
Curtis
Friendly Family
Pine Point
Springfield
Pa. 18
Neshannock Township
Six Die in Mobile Home Fire Near Elizabethville
Six persons including four children died when a mobile home fire swept through Jackson Township near Elizabethville Dauphin County. The blaze began at 3 a.m. as residents slept and was under control by 4:30 a.m. Police said victims’ names were withheld and not all belonged to the same family. The fire marshal opened an investigation into the cause.
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UPI
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Montgomery County
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Dauphin County
Lykens
Banks sit tight as Cleveland crisis hits sink or swim
In Cleveland, six banks holding 15.5 million in defaulted notes indicate they will wait for a February 27 referendum on a city income tax hike before pursuing repayment. Mayor Kucinich and City Council, facing a looming 2,000 layoffs, seek a financial breakthrough while unions vow court action to halt job cuts.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Richard Caliguiri
Caliguiri
Council
NEW Castle News
Cleveland
Dennis Kucinich
Kucinich
John Lynch
Lynch
Frederick Cox
Cleveland Trust
Ruling awaited in steel haulers contempt case
State police reported two related gunfire incidents on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Somerset County during a strike by independent steel haulers. No injuries occurred and damage was minimal. U.S. District Judge Louis Rosenberg was drafting a ruling on the contempt suit by seven major steel firms led by U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel against the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Pennsylvania
Somerset County
Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers
U.S
Louis Rosenberg
Fash
Bodies found under Gacy home in Chicago case
Police recovered five bodies from a crawl space and exhumed four more near John Wayne Gacy's suburban Chicago residence. Investigators say as many as 32 teenage boys and young men may have been killed, with sources detailing rapes and strangulations by the contractor.
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UPI
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Gacy
Norridge Township
Edmund Dobbs
Cook County Sheriff's Police
Cook County
Robert Stein
Joseph Kocenczak
Des Plaines
Ill
Frank W
Wayne”’ Landingin
Edward Grexa
John
Grexa
Tens of thousands protest at slain Iranian funeral
Tens of thousands of mourners including students professors and clergymen packed a Tehran funeral for a 27 year old civil engineering professor killed Tuesday. Troops opened fire near Tehran University wounding and killing several as oil production plunged to a 27 year low and rationing was announced.
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Iran
UPI
Iran Radio
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Imperial
Ramsey Clark
U.S
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
China May Need U S Wheat Imports After Shortfall
A New China News Agency report shows 1978 ended with China’s industry posting best results in a dozen years, including steel up to 31 million tons and coal over 600 million tons, while agriculture suffered a drought constraining grain output and prompting expectations of large wheat purchases from the United States and other producers.
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UPI
China
United States
New China News Agency
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