Inmate 105th birthday tale from South Carolina jail
Davis, 105, the state's oldest inmate at Watkins Center, lives freely inside prison. Serving a life term since 1922 for burglary, he escape twice in youth and now enjoys rides into town with correction officers. His classmates visit yearly on Sept. 11 with cake, while Davis refuses sweets for medical reasons.
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Columbia
UPI
South Carolina
John
Davis
MecCuen
Dillon County
Watkins
Waverly School of Beauty
Watkins Center
Kershaw County
Phony metals scam targets elderly in boiler room schemes
A con man testifies that “boiler room” operations push phony metal and oil schemes to seniors, netting large sums. He urges bonding of principals, truth in names, felony-conviction limits, and a short window for refunds while victims recount losses from $21,000 to $125,000. A separate note covers antinuclear protesters at Diablo Canyon with 400 to 800 demonstrators arriving for a planned blockade that faltered.
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Washington
UPD
Earl Witt
Egland Air Force Base
Florida
House Aging Select Committee
Avila Beach
Calif
UPI
Diablo Canyon
Abalone Alliance
Pacific Gas and Electric
Admiral salutes end of a bitter legal saga in crew deaths
Families of the Admiral crew pursued lawsuits against Cleveland Tankers Co. after the unseaworthy tug was found to have a rebuilt pilothouse that unbalanced its center of gravity. The company faced negligence findings and partial settlements after appeals. A memorial service followed with wreaths and readings, ending years of bitterness for relatives.
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Cleveland Tankers Co
Shannon
Krapene
Schaffer
Bill Tuck
Dick Stack
Coast Guard
Admiral
Rocky River
Frank Klamer
St Raphael's Church
Bay Village
Shannon Sisters
Mary Kilbane
Parma Heights
George
Neil
Kathleen Carey
Cardinal Innocent: Chicago Archdiocese Denies Cody Wrongdoing
The Archdiocese of Chicago refutes charges that Cardinal John P. Cody mishandled church funds as he faces a federal grand jury probe into alleged diversion of up to 1 million dollars to a childhood friend Helen Dolan Wilson. Cody appeared at a Chicago Heights church amid an ovation while declining comment.
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Chicago
UPI
Archdiocese of
John P. Cody
Cody
Helen Dolan Wilson
Chicago Heights
St. Mary’s Seminary
Mundelein
Church See
Bermuda calm as Gert nears, 85 mph hurricane
UPI reports Hurricane Gert with 85 mph winds moving toward Bermuda. Forecasters expect the center to pass north of the island by daybreak and minimal damage. residents told to secure boats and stay alert. A tropical low east of the Windward Islands could become a tropical storm, Floyd, while Emily weakens in the Atlantic.
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Miami
UPI
Gert
Bermuda
Joe Pellissier
National Hurricane Center
Pelissier
Windward Islands
Floyd
Azores
Emily
North Atlantic
Baby girl reunited with mother in Atlanta kidnapping case
Shanta Yvette Alexander, six weeks old, was returned to her mother after a DeKalb County woman faced charges of kidnapping and forgery. Police identified the infant from birth footprints, with a judge ordering blood tests for final verification.
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Atlanta
Shanta Yvette Alexander
DeKalb County
Nettirk Soit
Louise Lett
Decatur
Netkirk
Shanta Yvette
Superior Court
Isaac Jenrette
Alexanders
Letts
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