Word: michigan
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Roaring through the upper Midwest, the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley, from the Appalachians to the Canadian border, a blizzard blasted 31 in. of snow across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. With winds clocked at up to 100 m.p.h. (hurricane force is 75 m.p.h.), the wind-chill factor hitting -50° and record-low barometric readings, the National Weather Service classified the big blow as an "extratropical cyclone." That scarcely did justice to this great white whale of a storm. An NWS spokesman in Detroit called the blizzard "one of the worst, if not the worst...
...Michigan, Governor William Milliken had to call out the National Guard -first to get him to his office in the capitol. Once there, he, too, declared a state of emergency. Earlier in the week, he had proclaimed Snowmobile Week in the state, but the races at Traverse City had to be canceled: 20-ft. drifts covered the track. Other forms of transportation in the region did no better. Dozens of airports were closed, including those in Indianapolis, Columbus and Detroit. Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the world's busiest, shut down for only the fourth time...
...days are gone when posses hanged such varmints from the nearest tree, but horse thievery is all too alive in the U.S. In Michigan, the Macomb County sheriffs office is looking into the disappearance of seven horses. Early this month, thieves cut the fence of the 79-acre farm owned by Leonard and Ruth Genge in Washington township and made off with three mares and Leonard's quarter-horse, Sam. While some horses no doubt end up as dog food, the detective on the case suspects that the best of the rustled nags are sold for as much...
Even more slippery than Michigan's horse thieves, surely, are the Los Angeles truck drivers who swipe 55-gal. drums of used grease-about $25,000 worth each week-from local restaurants and drive-ins. The goo, worth $40 per bbl., is valuable because it is reprocessed into a food additive that causes cattle and poultry to gain weight. The thieves have oozed up across the nation, but most actively in Southern California, the fastness of fast food. Sometimes posing as legitimate grease collectors, they have cut chains placed on the outdoor grease barrels, smashed through protective iron gates...
Carr was arrested in Boston on charges that he had failed to obey an order by a Michigan federal court to cease violating securities laws. After Carr was released on $100,000 bail, authorities believe, he fled to Bermuda or the Cayman islands. An FBI fingerprint check revealed that "James Carr" was really one Alan Abrahams, an escaped convict with a 22-year criminal record, who in 1974 had fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much...