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...suspect was finally found in Arkansas, 1,204 miles away from the scene of the crime-and the story's end proved deadlier than its beginning. Jacob D. Robida, 18, had become a fugitive just 40 hours earlier in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he had entered the Puzzles Lounge and, after confirming that it was a gay bar, shot two men with a handgun and wounded a third with a hatchet. Authorities searched Robida's home and found neo-Nazi pamphlets and other hate literature aimed at racial and ethnic minorities. But the teenager was already speeding away...
...visited by federal agents after attempting to borrow Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book” through an interlibrary loan has admitted that his story was a fraud.The bogus tale, first reported by The Standard-Times, a local newspaper in New Bedford, formed the basis for a front-page article in The Crimson on Dec. 19. News that the story had been discredited came too late for the flurry of critics, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54, D-Mass., who had already seized on the story as evidence of the federal...
DIED. JOHN DIEBOLD, 79, technology prophet whose 1952 book, Automation, argued that programmable devices would become vital everyday tools for businesses; in Bedford Hills, N.Y. An adviser to AT&T and IBM, he came up with his then-radical idea while serving as a World War II merchant marine, by observing the primitive self-correcting technology of antiaircraft control systems on ships...
...bogus tale, first reported by The Standard-Times, a local newspaper in New Bedford, formed the basis for a front-page article in The Crimson...
...direct employee of the University. In 2004, the University centralized its security systems under Allied Security, a move McCombe criticized, saying it exposed the campus to danger by entrusting its security to less-experienced guards with few personal ties to the University. McCombe was born in New Bedford, Mass., in 1946, where he was one of three adopted children in a family of eight. A high school football player, he also served in Vietnam in the Navy from 1967-1970. He met and married his wife in the 1980s, and later adopted her son by a former husband. McCombe...