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...prison, respectively, for their 2004 convictions for bank fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy; in New York City. In looting Adelphia of $100 million and hiding its $2.3 billion debt from investors, the Rigases pushed the firm into bankruptcy, gutting the savings of many small shareholders in its former hometown of rural Coudersport...
...convicted by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, but last week he was found dead in his room at a prison hospital. An autopsy concluded that he had committed suicide by hanging himself, but after demonstrations broke out on university campuses and in the victim's hometown, a court ordered a further investigation...
Atlanta, King's hometown, was the scene of a ten-day celebration. Tourists flocked to view King's boyhood home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he served as pastor with his father, and the crypt that holds his body. The list of prominent visitors was to include South Africa's Bishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Edward Kennedy and Vice President George Bush. "I wish Dr. King were here," gushed nine-year-old Akelia Cobb, excited by all the commotion. "Boy, I'd get his autograph twice...
Furious that its blueprint for peace had been scuttled, Syria allowed its Lebanese supporters to shell Gemayel's hometown of Bikfaya, in the mountains east of Beirut. Tank and artillery clashes between Druze militiamen and Christian forces shook Suq al Jharb, a hill town overlooking the Presidential Palace. In Beirut, meanwhile, there were exchanges of artillery and rocket fire across the line that divides the capital between Muslim and Christian sectors...
...Cyra was born in 1937, her parents had been knocking about the rodeo trail for six years. Her father was handsome (he later doubled for Robert Taylor in horse-riding scenes for the movie Billy the Kid). Her mother Pat was beautiful, a Southern belle who had left her hometown in Arkansas because she had "tired of grits" and had gone on to succeed as a chorus girl in St. Louis...