Bearded Boston gas dealer faces price gouging charge
Glenn Martin Heller, 30, owner of a Beacon Hill Gulf station, appeared in federal court charged with unlawfully selling gasoline above the federal price limit. He faces up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted, and was released on $10,000 bail for a June 29 hearing.
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Boston
Glenn Martin Heller
Heller
U.S
Gulf Station
Beacon Hill
Margaret Sullivan
Beacon Hill Gulf
Department of Energy
Gulf Oil Corp
James Walker
Michael Belenky
Sniper attack disrupts highway shipments nationwide
A trucker's wife, Linda Pruett, 20, was critically wounded when a sniper bullet struck her husband Fred Pruett's semi on U.S. 82 near Northport Alabama as independ ent truckers protest diesel costs and load limits. The violence spread to at least six states with trucks shot across Colorado, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Wisconsin, prompting arrests and traffic jams as protests grew.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Kennesburg
Colo
Linda Pruett
Warner Robins
U.S. 82
Northport
Fred
Druid City Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Union Gap
Wash
Inmate Wife Seeks Court Challenge to Artificial Insemination Ban
Mary and Ralph McDonald, a life inmate and his wife, plan legal action after Tennessee officials refused artificial insemination for conception. Governor correction officials cited public policy and no conjugal program. The couple, both fundamentalist Christians, argue a right to a child as central to marriage.
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Nashville
Tenn
Mary McDonald
Ralph
Fort Pillow
McDonald
West
Tennessee
Harold Bradley
General Assembly
Murphysboro woman may sell home for group home plan
Murphysboro Alderman Harry Browdy announced a local woman may sell her Murphysboro house to house a group home for the mentally handicapped. The Egyptian Association for the Mentally Handicapped had sought a 435 S. 15th Street property, but the council vetoed that site last month. The owner and location Browdy disclosed are 211 S. 11th St and the owner’s name was not released.
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Brad Betker
Southern Illinoisan
Jackson County Community Workshop
Murphysboro
Harry Browdy
Browdy
Egyptian Association For the Mentally Handicapped
S. 15Th St
Murphysboro Ministerial Association
S. 11Th St
Peyton Kunce
Fifth District
Kance
S. 15Th Street
Floyd Hart
Weather outlook and local notices prompt calm evenings
The National Weather Service forecasts fair and warmer conditions tonight with a low near 70. Thursday will be mostly sunny and hot with highs in the 90s, while Friday and Sunday stay warm with a chance of thunderstorms on Friday. A former guard accused of soliciting a prisoner to kill Warden Greer may avoid charges, per Randolph County state attorney. A hot air balloon bound for the East Coast from Edwardsville crashed near Fairfield after a six hour flight.
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National Weather Service
James Greer
Randolph County
Edwardsville
Fairfield
Construction Crew Attacked at Water Tower Site Injures Four
Johnson County Sheriff Elly Faulkner reports a 7:45 am assault at the New Burnside Water Tower construction site injuring four Brown Steel Co. workers from Newman Georgia. 50 to 100 attackers damaged machinery but left before officers arrived. three were jailed? No. All victims were treated and released. investigation continues.
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Burnside
Johnson County
Elly Faulkner
Marion Memorial Hospital
Doctors Hospital
Harrisburg
Brown Steel
Newman, Ga
Faulkner
Public vote on part time legislature proposal proposed
Illinois lawmakers push a constitutional amendment to cut floor sessions to 60 days a year and extend terms to four to six years, with a cap of 12 years on consecutive service and a return to biennial agency appropriations. Sponsors Peters Totten Vinson argue the plan would reshape the General Assembly and seek voter ratification at the 1980 election.
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Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
General Assembly
Senate
Peter Peters
Chicago
Rep
Sam Vinson
Clinton
Peters
Don Totten
Hoffman Estates
Vinson
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Illinois Gulf Central Railroad
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Ralph Johnson
Hart
15Th Street
Brawdy
Michael Bowers
Council
Williams Street
Larry Sanders
Bowers
Illinois 13
Walnut
Pine Streets
Kroger
Green
IGA
Dex Ann Landers
Illinois General Assembly
House
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