Phantom bomb extortion ends with missing ransom note
Beaumont police say a bank president was targeted by two gunmen who bound his wife and daughter and forced him to steal about 169 dollars from Lamar State Bank. A taped back vibrator posed as a bomb. the note guiding ransom delivery was never found.
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Beaumont
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Bruce Thomason
Lamar State Bank
Lonnie Weir
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Security driver Billy Perkins killed in Carrollton holdup
Billy Perkins 45 a Purolator Armored Inc. driver and father of six died outside a Carrollton supermarket after two armed robbers shot him during a holiday cash pickup. Police said the two suspects fled in a yellow four door sedan after firing three to five shots.
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Billy Perkins
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Purolator Armored Inc
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Landers under fire for handling murder threat letter
Wheeling West Virginia report says Ohio County Schools Superintendent Henry J Marockie criticizes columnist Ann Landers for not alerting police after she cited an anonymous letter threatening mass murder at an elementary school. The letter writer, claiming to be a teacher, vowed to kill the principal and teachers and as many students as possible.
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Ann Landers
Ohio County
Henry J Marockie
Marockie
Chicago
Field Newspaper Syndicate
Wheeling News-Register
Tom Sterling
Ohio County School Board
Albert Blatnik
News-Register
Landers
Harry Hamm
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Hamm
Edward Weith
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Miss Landers
Detroit bus strike leaves thousands without rides
Up to 20 000 students faced no bus transport as Detroit school bus drivers went on strike over pay. About 85 percent of the system’s 425 drivers voted in favor in a Teamsters Local 214 dispute. A board spokesman said schools would stay open, while drivers were the only district employees to miss a raise last year.
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Detroit
Detroit Board of Education
Walter Sacharczyk
Teamsters Local 214
Sacharczyk
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