Vigil pleads for hostage release during Christmas season
In Washington and Lebanon, friends and families mark a church vigil asking Americans to pray for hostages held in Lebanon. Thomas Cicippio of Norristown cites his brother Joseph abducted Jan 24 1987 while Terry Anderson, AP correspondent, faces his sixth Christmas in captivity. Walter Mears urges freeing all Western captives. Peggy Say of Cadiz reads a sister’s appeal for peace in the Middle East.
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Lebanon
Thomas Cicippio
Norristown
Joseph Cicippio
Anderson
Middle East
Associated Press
Lorain
Terry
Walter Mears
Peggy Say
Cadiz
Crestwood Sixth Grader Heather Dreams of Medicine
Heather Neupopm cneteon is an 11 year old sixth grade student at Crestwood in Elyria. She enjoys reading skating and swimming and participates in the sixth grade choir. Heather plans to become a doctor in the future.
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Heather
Crestwood
Elyria
Gas tax schemes widen as nickel hike spurs fraud concerns
The Justice Department probes 100 gasoline tax evasion schemes with potential losses of at least $1 billion after a five cent federal gas tax increase. Officials say legitimate firms are increasingly involved and note 25 convictions since 1987 including Getty Terminals Corp. and its executives. Byron De La Beckwith, linked to Medgar Evers's 1963 murder, is arrested anew in Tennessee on a Mississippi fugitive warrant.
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Justice Department
Shirley D. Peterson
Peterson
Getty Terminals Corp
Getty
Byron de la Beckwith
Signal Mountain
Tenn
Mississippi
Jackson
Salcido Given Gas Chamber Sentence in Wine Country Slayings
Ramon Salcido, 29, was sentenced to the gas chamber after pleading for swift justice from his father-in-law. He had been convicted of killing six relatives and a co worker in a ram page in California's wine country last year. One daughter, now 4, survived after he slit her sisters' throats at a dump.
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Calif
Ramon Salcido
Salcido
California
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