Million-dollar NY lottery winner jokes about taxes
Michael Seman of Central Valley won the Instant Winnings top prize of 1 000 a week for life with a 1 million guarantee after actress Lucie Arnaz drew his name at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. Seman, an Orange County accountant, quipped that with the money comes a lot of taxes and he plans to pay them. He is married with no children and offered few plans beyond the joke.
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New York
Orange County
Michael Seman
Central Valley
Lucie Arnaz
Seman
AP Lasernhato
Marion
Prison drug and gambling ring busted at Framingham prison
About 200 state police and 60 corrections staff raided the Framingham facility in a multi jurisdiction sweep dubbed Operation Upper Crust. They seized heroin, weapons, and gambling equipment used in a computer based betting ring run by inmates with alleged links to antiwar activist Susan Saxe.
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Framingham, Mass
Framingham State Prison
Susan Saxe
Syracuse University
Gertner
Saxe
Middlesex
Suffolk
Decatur
Commonwealth
Middlesex County
John J. Droney- Droney
Cambridge
Droney
Massachusetts Correctional Institute
Paul Beloff
Beloff
Miss Saxe
Boston
Philadelphia
Project Upper Crust
Massachusetts
New York City
Extension cord fire kills five in Rockefeller Park Towers
A faulty extension cord triggered a blaze in a six story Cleveland building. Five women died and 20 were injured, with about 180 residents displaced. The fire began in Emma Virden’s third floor apartment and spread smoke and heat through floors three to six. The Red Cross set up a relief center. Four firefighters were among the injured.
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Cleveland
Rockefeller Park Towers
The
Red Cross
Emma Virden
Julius Gresham
Republican chiefs ax gubernatorial vote in New York
State Comptroller Edward Regan faced a setback as George Clark canceled a county chairmen vote for the GOP gubernatorial endorsement. Clark said the meeting would discuss plans, not choose a candidate, prompting reactions from Regan backers and rivals who framed the move as a party unity effort and a Clark defeat.
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Albany
Edward Regan
New York
GOP
George Clark
Regal
Clark
Regan
Edward Lurie
George
Lurie
Assembly
James Emery
R Livingston
Emery
Republican Party
Richard Rosenbaum
Organizer of car rally accused of bank fraud
Joseph Douglas Shepard, organizer of the Future Fuels Challenge Rally, is charged by federal authorities with defrauding a Rochester bank of nearly 300000 in a mail order record album scam. He allegedly inflated charges from $5 and $20 offers to as much as 250 per order, depositing receipts and writing checks from a Central Trust Co. account.
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Rochester
Joseph Douglas Shepard
Justice
Shepard
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Perinton
Central Trust Co
Ronald Snyder
Western New York
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Howard Whitehead
Whitehead
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Ms. Virden
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Nancy Leirer
University College
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Syracuse
Usair
Chicago
USA
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