Asylum liquidation sale draws curious collectors in Traverse City
Hundreds queued before dawn for a liquidation sale at the former Northern Michigan Asylum. Items included a fever chamber, electroshock therapy device and restraints. Proceeds aid a non profit group repurposing the buildings while attendees share mixed fascination and revulsion.
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Traverse City
Mich
Barbara Schmuckal
Northern Michigan
Sonja Olshove
Olshove
Kidnap insurance grows as protection for the wealthy
In Boston AP reports overseas travelers increasingly rely on kidnapping and ransom policies to guard assets from extortion and hijacking. Mexico emerges as a fast growing market with policies offering up to 1 million dollars for about 500 to 1000 a year. Coverage includes risk management, negotiators, and a 30 day paid vacation for families after an incident.
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Boston
Mexico
Bill Harrison
American International Underwriters
AIG
Witness tampering charged in Flynt case
In Cincinnati AP report Howard Beatty, 44, is charged with offering 50 000 to a boy who would testify in the obscenity case against Hustlermagazine publisher Larry Flynt and his brother Jimmy Flynt. Prosecutor Joseph Deters says the Flynts may have supplied the witness name. Beatty could face up to five years in prison. The Flynts deny involvement.
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Cincinnati
Larry Flynt
Flynts
Firefighter convicted of murder arson in Los Angeles
John Orr, 49, a former Los Angeles firefighter, was found guilty of four murder counts for the Ole's Home Center blaze in South Pasadena that killed a woman, her grandson, and two employees. He faces potential death penalty after convictions for related arsons in 1990 1991 including a brush fire that destroyed 67 hillside homes. jurors to decide sentence.
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Los Angeles
John Orr
Orr
Ole
South
Pasadena
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Michael VonSteeg
Farmington Hills
Ed Terebus
Ron Grigaras
Detroit
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Flynt
Flynt Brothers
H. Louis Sirkin
Space Mission Bible Camp
6Th and Jackson Church of Christ
Sun
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G.R. Albertson
D.O
D.W. Davison
D. G. Lang
M.D
American Society of Bariatric Physicians
Cordova
Lahaina
Verona
Ordova
Elieem
H USA Delors Promo
tCare
Midland
Billingsley Blvd
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Kinko's
Broyhill
Windsor
Broyhill’s
Millwood Creek
Night Stand
Andrews Hwy
Odessa
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