Navy works to free live torpedo from 688 class sub Memphis
Norfolk sources report a live Mark 48 torpedo jammed under the Memphis superstructure. Lt. McLoughlin says crews move slowly to avoid damage or injury while the Navy investigates a broken chain drive in the loading system and potential upgrades.
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Norfolk, Va
UPS
Memphis
William McLoughlin
Navy
McLoughlin
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Newport News Shipbuilding Co
Mcaughlin
Marietta City Hall gains odd ballast ornament
In Marietta Ohio Mayor Geoff Brunton installed a three to five ton street matching machine on the front lawn after the council refused permission to sell it for political reasons. The move drew criticism from several council members who called it idiotic and questioned the mayor’s action as juvenile.
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Marietta, Ohio
UPI
Marietta City Hall
Geoff Brunton
Congress votes 5.5 percent pay raise for officials then defeats bill
In Washington lawmakers approved a 5.5 percent pay hike for themselves and over 14,000 federal officials before defeating the appropriations bill containing the raise. The fight leaves unclear whether a cost of living increase will apply to congressmen judges and White House staff earning over 47,500 annually.
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Washington
UPI
House
White House
Weather and deaths roundup from Milan to Kalamazoo
Mostly sunny with highs 80s, clear nights, Friday sun and warm highs. Wednesday 74 to 52, no precipitation. Sunrise 5:53 a.m. Sunset 9:02 p.m. Death notices for Otto, Rupert, Bock, Ruggles, Roth, Cripps. age ranges 57 to 92. Last name Lucy in Peanuts is Van Pelt.
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Riday
William H. Otto
Milan
Effie S. Rupert
Norwalk
Irene I. Bock
Harry Ruggles
Monroeville
Lucy Roth
Margaret Cripps
Kalamazoo
Mich
Lucy
van Pelt
Schaffer testifies about jail cell assault by deputies
Raymond Schaffer, a Toledo man, testified before a nine member jury that four Huron County deputies beat and choked him in a Bellevue jail cell after an arrest on an alleged invalid warrant. He described the struggle over clothing, the belt buckle breaking, and injuries including bruised ribs and a knot on the temple, with hospital records noting bruises but no broken ribs.
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Toledo
Raymond Schaffer
Bellevue
Huron County
John J. Callahan
Schaffer
Canada
California
Huron County Common Pleas
Robert W. Smith
Peggy
Sheriff's Department
James Derby
Derby
Todd Temple
Robert Burr
Temple
Silcox
Doctored records charged in Schaffer assault case
Toledo defense attorney John J. Callahan accused Huron County court officials of fabricating and deleting docket entries in the Raymond Schaffer case. Witnesses testified to changes in bench warrants and jail timing records, with clerk Betty Sabo and sheriff aide Marian Arthur offering explanations of mistaken entries and corrections.
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Schaffer
Callahan
Sabo
Marian Arthur
Huron County
John Borgia
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