Leonard retires again after comeback win in Worcester
Sugar Ray Leonard, returning from a 27 month layoff, stopped Kevin Howard in the ninth round of a scheduled 10 round bout in Worcester and announced he is retiring again. He said the moment he was knocked down in the fourth convinced him he could no longer risk his health. Leonard, a former undisputed welterweight champion and Olympic gold medalist, had retired in 1982 after eye surgery and had returned last December hoping for a Hagler fight.
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Worcester
Mass
Sugar Ray Leonard
Kevin Howard
Leonard
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Rebels Free 73 Hostages After Grocery Store Siege
In El Salvador a band of rebels freed 73 hostages after a 10 hour takeover of a Venezuela Discount Center grocery store. They exited via a Red Cross van and were escorted to the Mexican Embassy for safe conduct before planned flight out of the country.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Red Cross
Lopez Nuila
Judge rules probable cause to try Debra Szakal as adult
Lorain County Juvenile Court judge finds probable cause to transfer 17 year old Debra Szakal to adult court for complicity to murder in the April 11 stabbing death of David Campbell. Prosecution seeks adult trial while a second hearing will assess rehabilitation prospects in juvenile facilities.
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Debra Szakal
Elyria
Lorain County
David Campbell
Campbell
Elyria counselor indicted in drug trafficking case
Elyria school officers review the indictment of Pamela Ford a district home counselor charged with drug trafficking complicity. Ford 24 of Lorain and Thomas Dais 43 were secretly indicted May 1 after an undercover probe. Ford is back at work while superintendent Calvin Leader seeks legal guidance.
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Elyria
Pamela Ford
Ford
Washington Ave
Lorain
Thomas Dais
Meister Road
Paul Ford
Dats
Lorain County
Calvin Leader
Lottery sales top $500 million in seven weeks left
Omo Lottery ticket sales exceed 500 million with seven weeks remaining in the fiscal year. Executive director Thomas Chema says totals for the year ending June 30 are about 160 million ahead of last year and likely to hit 575 million. Chema also notes players won 2014 million through March, up 59.7 million from the prior year.
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Cleveland
Omo Lottery
Thomas Chema
Chema
Weekend Weather Outlook With Sunny Sunday Breaks
Outside is mostly clear tonight with lows 40 to 45. Sunday starts sunny and becomes partly cloudy in the afternoon with highs near 70. Rain chances are near zero tonight and about 20 percent Sunday. Details on Page A-3.
Six Flags fire kills eight in New Jersey park tragedy
At Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township investigators searched for more victims after a fire swept through the Haunted Castle, turning it into a furnace and killing eight people, likely teens, as 20 000 visitors watched. Police say arson is not ruled out and the blaze was contained hours later with many employees evacuated and seven people hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
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Richard Borys
Samuel DePasquale
Andrea Smeal
Park
Trenton
New York
Borys
Ocean County
Pra Borys
Freehold Area Hospital
New Jersey
Soviet admits Demjanjuk ID was altered
An official of the Russian embassy in Washington testified that an identification card linking autoworker John Demjanjuk to a Nazi guard training camp in Poland was altered. The card was a key piece of evidence in his 1981 naturalization case and in deportation proceedings.
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Cleveland
Washington
John Demjanjuk
Poland
Demjanjuk
Valeriy G. Kubanov
Mark J O'Connor
Trawniki
KGB
Frank J Battist
Treblinka
O'Connor
Kubanov
Ussr
Soviet
FBI
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Miss Szakal
Henry T. Webber
Webber
Thomas Janas
John
Fullerton Road
Oliver Ortega
Oberlin Ave
Bedford Drive
Common Pleas Court
John Szakal
Ortega
Edward Johns
Ad Sports
Six Flags
N.J
United States Court
O Connor
Demyanjuk 63
Seven Hills
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