Farmer sentenced for poisoning 27000 migratory birds in Illinois
Harvey Culli, 80, received three years probation and a $5,000 fine after pleading guilty to illegally taking migratory birds. He dispersed four gallons of pesticide-laced wheat seed on a Mascoutah field to kill birds damaging crops. About 20,094 red winged blackbirds and other protected species died. The state seeks $1 million to restore habitat.
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Fairview Heights
Ill
Harvey Culli
Culli
Mascoutah
Man seeks return of money paid to undercover officer
Boston based defense attorney Frederick Ford seeks $11,000 paid to a U S Department of Labor agent in a failed murder for hire plot. Ford, 48, is serving eight years for planning to kill two former clients. A federal judge will hear the request Thursday. prosecutors say the money was not refundable due to timing.
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Boston
Frederick Ford
Ford
Dennis Kurdek
Labor Department
Kurdek
Suspects in botched bank robbery at large
In La Junta Colorado two masked men broke into the home of Gregg Mullins 63 president of Colorado East Bank and Trust Co. They forced him to the bank and one robber held Mullins wife Mary hostage while a firebombing of a school nearby was used as a diversion. Police reported no arrests by Wednesday.
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LA Junta
Colo
Gregg Mullins
Colorado East Bank and Trust Co
Mullins
Mary
Chuck Widup
Burglary Hit DNC Regional Finance Office New York
Police said three laptop computers and a handheld electronic organizer were stolen from the Democratic National Committee regional finance office in New York. The burglary is thought to have occurred early Wednesday amid other recent thefts in the same complex. DNC spokesman Rick Yess recalled the 1972 Watergate burglary with a quip.
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New York
Democratic National Committee
DNC
Rick Yess
Watergate Complex
Washington
Nixon
Three expelled students charged with robbery in Decatur case
Roosevelt Fuller 19 Errol Bond 17 and Bruce Manns 17 were charged with robbery after a teen said they and a fourth teen beat him and stole 120 dollars. Darrien Spates 17 was also arrested on robbery and felony mob action charges as protests over the expulsions continued.
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Decatur, Ill
Jesse Jackson
Roosevelt Fuller
Errol Bond
Bruce Manns
Darrien Spates
James Chervinko
Fuller
Spates
Bond
Manns
Myers
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Compaq Net Internet Access
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