False Hearst surrender hoax triggers dramatic police standoff
A blonde impostor called police to claim Patricia Hearst would surrender, prompting a tense North Hollywood siege where officers surrounded an apartment. Investigators found only a cat, and the incident was ruled a hoax amid a wave of false alarms tied to Hearst’s ongoing fugitive saga.
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Toby Zwikel
Los Angeles
UPI
Hearst
Patricia Hearst
Dan Cooke
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
SLA
North Hollywood
George
George Hearst Jr
The
Los Angeles Examiner
FBI
Edward Cuenca
Karen
Cuenca
Emily
William Harris
NBC Names Hartz Walters Today Coanchor
NBC announces Jim Hartz will join Barbara Walters as cohost of Today replacing the departed host. Hartz, a Tulsa native, beat Tom Brokaw for the position and will start Monday on WNBC in New York.
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New York
UPI
Jim Hartz
NBC
New York City
WNBC
Barbara Walters
Tulsa
Okla
Tom Brokaw
White House
Kerner resigns from federal judgeship amid impeachment moves
U.S. Appeals Court Judge Otto Kerner resigns five days before surrendering to federal authorities to begin a three year prison term for fraud tax evasion and conspiracy. The resignation ends congressional attempts to impeach the first sitting federal judge convicted and sentenced for a crime. In Alabama, Thomas Adams a chronic alcoholic arrested over 75 times for public drunkenness sues to strike drunk laws as unconstitutional arguing alcoholism is a disease and arrests violate cruel and unusual punishment.
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Chicago
UPI
Otto Kerner
Illinois
Montgomery
Ala
Thomas Adams
Brooks urges Nixon resignation for country’s sake
Sen Edward W Brooks repeated a call for President Nixon to resign citing Watergate and impeachment as distractions from domestic problems. He urged leadership free of Watergate to avoid ongoing political torture and harm to the nation. In a separate report, Fred Gomez Carrasco, a narcotics smuggler tied to about 50 murders, held 10 hostages at a Texas state prison demanding freedom.
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Washington
UPI
Edward W. Brooks
R-Mass
Nixon
Brooke
Huntsville
Tex
Fred Gomez Carrasco
United States
Mexico
Weather and notices from Fan The Record July 25 1974
Partly sunny today with a chance of showers and thundershowers in the evening. Highs in the low to mid 80s, lows in the 60s. Chance of precipitation 30 to 50 percent. Winds southwest tonight, southeast today. Marriage license filed J W Kelley and Cheri L Nosack. Births Roy Bryant? James Bryant Berlin Heights. Deaths Roy Wood 83 Berlin Heights Julia Trimmer 81 Willard.
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Roy Wood
Berlin Heights
Julia M. Trimmer
Willard
Rescue drill tests disaster response in Sycamore Hills
Neighbors watch as police, deputies and hospital staff stage a mock tornado that kills three and injures 26. Student nurses and radiology students portray victims, with scenes of triage, X rays and maternity care.
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Kevin Tanzillo
Sycamore Hills
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
Sandusky School of Nursing
Ohio State
Ralph Braker
Norwalk
Braker
Nixon Backers Try To Soften Charges
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee press a bid to impeach President Nixon for conduct said to threaten constitutional government. Republican defections from Illinois loom as debate continues with supporters rallying outside the Rayburn Building and a possible impeachment vote slated for Friday night.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Nixon
Constantine Karamanlis
U.S
Greece
Karamanlis
White House
Cyprus
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Illinois
Robert McClory
Tom Railsback
Rayburn
Digester Hearing May Be Set Sooner
Ohio EPA may combine two hearings on Leon Riley's industrial waste digester delaying the November 27 adjudication to September. Huron County officials and Riley's representatives pressed for an earlier unified hearing, pending EPA examiner ruling and potential appeals.
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Leon Riley
Columbus
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Riley
Thomas Heydinger
Huron County
Joseph Epps
Norwalk
Heydinger
Ira Whitman
Ohio Epa
George Linn
Linn
Peter Precario
Epps
Precario
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Sandusky
Charles Sweet
Helen Thomas
Supreme Court
High Court
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Leon Jaworski
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