Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday and local government offices were closed, the rangers took Yates to the county seat, an hour away. To do so, they had to go through the formality of arresting him on a civil charge--failure to register for the climb, which entails a $25-to-$30 fine. Bail was set. However, Yates didn't have the money to both pay the bondsman and buy a bus ticket back to Cambridge. Plus, there was the lure of spending a night--on civil disobedience charges--in jail. So jail...
...accused Buckley of misusing his position as chairman of the publicly owned Starr Broadcasting Group, Inc., a Westport, Conn., firm owning radio and TV stations throughout the U.S. The charge was that he arranged to have the company bail him and three partners out of a bad investment in some Texas movie theaters by having Starr buy the theaters. Rather than fight the charge, Buckley signed a tough consent decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed...
DIED. John Simon Ritchie, 21, English punk-rock musician better known as Sid Vicious of the notorious, now disbanded Sex Pistols group; of a heroin overdose, one day after being released on bail from prison, where he was awaiting trial for the October murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, 20; in Manhattan...
Johnson's bail was first set at more than $1 million. Judge Jacob S. Levin, who will preside at the trial, later reduced it to $100,000, and Terrance went free pending trial...
Held on $500,000 bail, Bario was sitting in his cell on Dec. 16 when the prisoners were served peanut butter sandwiches. Bario took one bite of his and threw the rest in the toilet. Moments later he was found in convulsions. He has been in a coma ever since. Initial tests revealed strychnine in his blood; subsequent ones did not. There was no poison found in his sandwich or in a white powder on the cell floor. His wife Joanne doubts the thoroughness of these tests, however. She was not told of the incident until two days later, when...