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The suspect, David Martin, 35, was an escaped prisoner charged with the attempted murder of a police officer and described as armed and dangerous. Thus police moved in forcefully when they thought they spotted Martin in London's Kensington district, sitting in an automobile with a former girlfriend, a...
Finally someone hit back. When Mimi Sheraton, restaurant critic of the New York Times and the most influential commentator on dining out in America, was spotted at a table in a new Manhattan spot, the owner threw her out. Fumed Michael O'Keeffe, proprietor of the Water Club: "The...
William Green, 17, was killed by patrolman John Zeigler. Green was spotted driving a stolen car in North Philadelphia; Zeigler chased the car until it hit a tree, then pursued the fleeing Green on foot. After catching the teen, Zeigler cracked his skull twice with the barrel of his revolver...
So extensive was the take that Spanish police assumed that the operation had been carried out by a sizable and experienced gang. The burglars were so familiar with the bank, investigators theorized, that they must have rented a box at some point in order to case the place. One immediate...
On July 2, Larry Walters, 33, a TV production company driver, donned a parachute and strapped himself into an aluminum lawn chair to which he had attached 45 helium-filled weather balloons. From a San Pedro, Calif., backyard, he drifted three miles skyward, where he was spotted by two passenger...