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...prove his story, Henley led police to a boat shed in a secluded section of Houston where Corll had rented a vacant boat stall. It was there, Henley said, that many of the victims would be found. Trusties from a local jail began digging, and within hours they had exhumed eight corpses from a 6-ft.-deep mass grave. All were teen-age boys; some were wrapped in plastic bags, others covered with lime to disguise the stench of decay. The corpses were stacked one above the other, separated only by thin layers of dirt...
Special elections for the Massachusetts legislature have a way of falling in the middle of the summer--like today's election in Boston and Cambridge to fill a vacant State Senate seat. Most students and well-to-do liberals are away from town on vacation, leaving the election to be decided by a few professional politicians...
...council members, lower income and older people who live in the Charles View Housing Development, will seek donations from the Boston area to pay for the conversion of the vacant property into a park with both play areas and places for older people to lounge and talk...
While the announcer drones on about the minutes left to bet ("hurryhurryhurry" he says in a slurred voice), the hard-core lean over the fence, staring at the racing program. Every so often, they look up and stare blankly at the vacant track. As the race approaches, they wander off to the betting windows in search of the "big one for the night," the long-shot that will pay for the next week's betting...
Candidate William C. Battle into a run-off-the first ever for the Byrd machine -and so split the party that the general election was thrown to Republican Holton. When the Lieutenant Governor's office fell vacant in 1971, Howell ran as an Independent and defeated both major party candidates, polling 40% of the vote...