Long Beach couple linked to string of bank robberies
Police say Richard Kenneth Wilkerson and Cheri Ann Luce were arrested at their Long Beach apartment after a tow truck driver spotted a matching car and bank cameras linked them to as many as a dozen robberies in Los Angeles and Orange counties. The Bank of America heist net about $1,509. Two earlier attempts at Coast Bank and American City Bank failed. the trio culminated with a successful 11:35 a.m. Bank of America robbery. No weapons found. over $2,000 recovered.
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Cheri Ann Luce
Rudy Press
Long Beach
Richard Wilkerson
Roger Coar
Moyday
Richard Kenneth Wilkerson
Pacific Coast Highway
Tony Beach
David Speer
Bank of America
Bellfower
Y.D. Carter
Ken Schack
Carter
Los Angeles
Orange
Speer
Seventh Street
Bellflower Boulevard
Spears
T. Second St
Wilkerson
Miss Love
Described female bandit robs Wise Shop in Carson
Raul J. Ornelas described a 16 to 18 year old black woman about five feet tall and 120 pounds in an orange two piece suit who robbed the Wise Shop at 28307 Avalon Blvd. Carson around 10 p.m. Monday, taking $160 and leaving barefoot after backing out with a pistol. Deputies chased a witness tip about a distressed young woman seeking a ride from a nearby drug store.
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Raul J. Ornelas
Wise
Avalon Blvd
Carson
Long Beach Coed Kidnapped By Teen Escapee
Terri Lynn Elliott of Long Beach reports she was abducted at knifepoint by a 15 year old escapee from Guadalupe Home for Boys in Yucaipa. She fled via freeway speeds and stopped at a Redlands gas station where the youth was overpowered by Monty Quinn and his son Howard after he followed her into the restroom. Elliott said she handed over twenty dollars at gunpoint before authorities arrested the suspect for kidnapping robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
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Long Beach City College
Bellflower
Terri Lynn Elliott
Vuelta Grande Ave
Redlands
Miss Elliott
Monty Quinn
Howard
Quinns
Lakewood Boulevard
Yucaipa
Guadalupe
Nevada A test jars Cal and rattles three states
An underground nuclear test near Beatty Nevada named Kasseri shook Las Vegas and Pecos County California as well as parts of northwest Arizona. The 6.5 magnitude blast at 4 40 a m caused tremors felt by observers in Ridgecrest California and across the Pacific coast. Officials noted the yield between 200 kilotons and one megaton and reported no leakage or damage.
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Preson
Calif
Arizona
University of California Seismographic Station
Berkeley
Ridgecrest
Los Angeles
University of California
California
Kasseri
Jackson
Paiute Mesa
California Institute of Technology
Seismology
Pasadena
National Earthquake Information Service
Golden
Cala
Dave Miller
ERD
Exchange Club
Beatty
PSA Stewardesses Move to San Diego Base
Pacific Southwest Airlines shifts 2000 stewardesses to San Diego from Los Angeles Burbank and Long Beach by December 10. The airline bases most flights in San Diego and assigns crews including pilots copilots and engineers there. A countywide million dollar fight over a dreaded fruit fly is reported on page A3.
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San Diego
Los Angeles
Burbank
Long Beach
the Airlines
Beirut battles rage as gunmen clash near parliament
In Beirut, Madden and Christian gunmen fought around Lebanon's Parliament and major hotels as Christians tried to dislodge Moslem snipers. The Holiday Inn burned, the U S Embassy was hit, deputies evacuated by armored cars, and many Americans fled the city. Prime Minister Karami sought a nine member ceasefire group.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Madden
Udey
Pierre Gemayel
Christian Phalange Party
Rashid Karami
Weather Snapshot For Regions Tonight
Local forecast shows areas in TONIGHT AND F LB with morning clouds and temperatures from 55 to 75. Mountain region expected fair with 45 to 66. Desert area also fair with 45 to 84.
Innocent plea entered for attacker of Ford
Federal judge in San Francisco entered an innocent plea for Sara Jane Moore at arraignment on a grand jury indictment accusing her of trying to bail President Ford. Judge Conti set December 16 for trial despite defense objections over pending mental competency tests.
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San Francisco
Sara Jane Moore
Ford
U.S. District Court
Samuel Conti
Accomance
Newitt
Congress
Gas Price Increases Reported Across Regions Since July
Aspin cites unreleased Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing premium gasoline up 7.3 percent nationwide since July and fuel oil up 3.6 percent. Regular gasoline rose 9.9 percent in the western north central states and 9.4 percent in Wisconsin Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio, with 9.2 percent climbs in western mountain states.
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Aspin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor Department
Department
Wisconsin
Wisconsin-Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Coleman says forced busing failed to desegregate cities
Senatorial questioning drew from James S. Coleman of the University of Chicago who advocated busing in 1986. He told the Senate Judiciary Committee that court ordered busing has driven white families to suburbs and that he no longer supports compulsory busing or new constitutional bans.
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Washington
Congress
James S. Coleman
University of Chicago
Senate Judiciary Committee
Coleman
U.S. Office of Education
Ford sets speech on N Y crisis
President Ford will outline an important speech on New York City's financial crisis at the National Press Club before a two day California fundraising trip. He says he has no legal authority to bail out the city and would not veto congressional aid. The Senate Banking Committee sets a noon Thursday deadline to decide on legislation with Stevenson proposing 12.5 billion in loan guarantees over four years.
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Ford
New York City
Ron Nessen
Toflay
Nessen
National Press Club
California
Milwaukee
New York
Financial House
Congress
Senate
Banking Committee
Sen
Adlai Stevenson
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