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Over 30 response vehicles arrived at the scene throughout the evening, and the police cordoned off a three block area. As Com Electric began to restore power, police--fearing another explosion--pushed observers back an additional block...
...Salt Lake City, Utah, on a block known informally as Welfare Square, stands a 15-barreled silo filled with wheat: 19 million lbs., enough to feed a small city for six months. At the foot of the silo stands a man--a bishop with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--trying to explain why the wheat must not be moved, sold or given away...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.: Police are questioning the veracity of the Miami woman who says she saw Fernando Carreira carrying food into the houseboat where two days later he reported spotting Andrew Cunanan. The garbage doesn't match up. Lola Dudley, 57, says she was switching buses down the block on July 21 when she saw Carreira enter the houseboat carrying food. If true, the account would contradict Carreira's claim he had not been there for five days, and would indicate a possible connection with Cunanan. But police say that the only food-related garbage they found on the boat...
...BEACH, Fla.: A Miami woman says she saw Fernando Carreira, the caretaker who alerted authorities to the whereabouts of Andrew Cunanan on July 23, carry a lunch box and a gallon of milk into the houseboat two days earlier. Lola Dudley, 57, says she was switching buses down the block on July 21 when she saw Carreira enter the houseboat carrying food. If true, the account would contradict Carreira's claim he had not been at the houseboat for five days, and would indicate a possible connection with Cunanan. Police are treating Dudley's story with care, noting that...
...Normandy Plaza Hotel, just a block down the road, where Cunanan apparently checked in on May 12 and holed up for two months before the murder. According to the hotel's owner, James Falin, investigators later seized a pair of electric clippers and some fashion magazines from Cunanan's $39-a-night efficiency. Though law-enforcement officials won't confirm that Cunanan stayed there, Falin is convinced Cunanan is the man who checked into Room 205 two months ago, changed rooms three times and left a day or two before the Versace murder, still owing a night's rent...