Three bodies found as two missing after blaze in Ashville
Ashville Pennsylvania investigators say firefighters left a rural Gallitzin Township house believing it vacant. Searchers recovered three bodies and fear two more remain inside the structure, with no survivors if anyone had stayed. In Worcester and Chicago reports, a polar bear cubs on the 400 pound mother raise survival concerns, a purse snatching suspect with a dog is sought, and Illinois Supreme Court upholds nonneutral juror exclusion in a Chicago armed violence case.
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Gallitzin
Worcester
Mass
James Loomis
Worcester Science Center Zoo
State revokes Ludowici radar license amid traffic probe
State officials canceled Ludowici radar license after a probe found traffic-bond revenues quadrupled and most arrests involved out of state motorists using unserviced devices. City may appeal within ten days as officials argued over the ruling.
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Atlanta
South Georgia
Ludowici
Savannah
State Department of Public Safety
Richard Phillips
Four wounded in drug raid shootout in Los Angeles
A pre-dawn narcotics raid at a suspected dealer’s home erupted into a gun battle. One officer was paralyzed and three others plus a bystander wounded as up to 20 rounds were fired. A neighbor helped pull the wounded to safety as the suspect fired from a window.
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Los Angeles
Man travels 12000 miles for Cabbage Patch doll
Shawnee Kansas mailman Edward Pennington flew to London to buy five Cabbage Patch dolls for his daughter Leana 5. One doll went to a television station for donation to Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City. Dolls sold in Harrods and Bristol at 125 pounds total. Pennington paid 200 for flight and 36.18 pounds per doll in London with exclusive interview by Daily Star reporters.
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London
Leana Pennington
Edward Pennington
Kansas City International Airport
Pennington
Shawnee
Kan
Britain
Daily Star
Heathrow Airport
Chase
Abe Asuop
Ladid
Gil Lad
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Harrod’s
The
Bristol
United States
Maggie
Leana
Dolls soothe kids with Patch dolls says Dr Joyce Brothers
Dr Joyce Brothers contends Cabbage Patch dolls provide a balance of reality and fantasy for children to express emotions. She notes the dolls satisfy parental longing for control and warns the rush could lead to child disappointment if parents overindulge, describing the dolls as offering an adopted like fantasy for orphans.
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Joyce Brothers
Dr. Brothers
Taw Anning
Cabbage Patch doll stolen from newspaper editor’s car
Idaho editor Rick Coffman found his Cabbage Patch doll named Jacob missing from a locked car trunk in the Nampa Telegram parking lot. A ransom note arrived the next morning promising Jacob’s safe return by Christmas if authorities were not alerted.
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Idaho Press-Tribune
Nampa
Idaho
Rick Coffman
Jacob
Coffman
Coleslaw
Editor Receives Ransom Tape Over Coleslaw Doll Plot
In a bizarre ransom tale a newspaper editor Coffman reports a deep Voice by a “December 25th Committee” told him to place a personals ad to aid the release of a doll named Jacob from a Coleco line. The doll’s kidnapping sparks a panicked scramble over holiday novelty items.
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Dollnappers
Jacob
Coffman
Coleco
Bedlum
Lin
Simon’s back pain grounds Playwright Neil Simon
Playwright Neil Simon age 56 is hospitalized in New York with a long standing back problem. Doctors use ropes and weights to stretch the back as part of treatment. Other works by Simon include The Goodbye Girl and Chapter Two.
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Neil Simon
Simon
New York
Albert da Silva
da Silva
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