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DEATH NOTICES
Tisha Marie Atkinson
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LUCASVILLE -- Marvallous Keene was known for orchestrating three days of hellish violence nearly 17 years ago. His death by lethal injection on Tuesday, July 21, was so subdued as to seem an almost anticlimactic end.
Keene had no final statement of contrition or defiance. His arms fixed with intravenous tubes, he lay motionless on the execution table, closed his eyes and let the lethal drugs do their work.
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LUCASVILLE -- A black hearse was parked in a courtyard just outside the death house Tuesday morning, Oct. 14. A silver-haired driver was at the wheel, waiting for the healthy man inside the house to be put to death and brought out on a gurney.
This macabre scenario has become almost routine at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
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LONG BEACH -- A man was shot by unknown assailants at approximately 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, and was pronounced dead at a local hospital, officials said.
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MORAINE -- Two former Moraine acting mayors are asking voters on Tuesday to reseat them as leader of the city.
Acting Mayor and longtime Councilwoman Elaine Allison, 48, and former city Councilwoman Jean Matheny, 59, are vying for the position left open with the death of Bob Rosencrans. Rosencrans was killed in an vehicle crash on Oct. 15.
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By Luther Turmelle North Bureau Chief
WALLINGFORD -- Police arrested a 45-year-old Bronx, N.Y., man Tuesday in connection with the 1986 death of Barbara Pelkey in Wallingford -- a slaying for which a wrongly convicted man served 21 years in prison.
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ZANESVILLE, Ohio - Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals - including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions - in a big-game hunt Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what might have been a last act of spite against his neighbors and police.
As homeowners nervously hid indoors, officers armed with high- powered rifles and shoot-to-kill orders fanned out through fields and woods to hunt down 56 animals that had been turned loose from the Muskingum County Animal Farm by owner Terry Thompson before he shot himself to death Tuesday.
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The drowning of a Baldwin man in the Saco River underscores the treacherous conditions in Maine's rivers heading into the busy July 4 weekend, say state officials.
Stephen Hawkes, 33, was swimming with his wife, Luz, and a friend about 75 yards below the Hiram Falls Dam when the group decided to head for an island near the far shore around 4 p.m. Tuesday. The current in the river - swollen by recent thunderstorms upriver - was too powerful.
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A life marked by neglect and abuse began when Kalab Lay was still in his mother's womb.
Amanda Brooks Lay admitted to Illinois Department of Child and Family Services and medical professionals that she used methamphetamine during the first half of her pregnancy with Kalab and his twin sister. The twins were born almost a month early, on May 10, 2004. Kalab had a bowel obstruction requiring transfer to a hospital in St. Louis, where he underwent surgery.
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A day after a 40-year-old man miraculously survived a suicide attempt over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, a second person Tuesday plunged to his apparent death, this time over the American Falls.
The suicide Tuesday morning appears to have been a copycat and the latest in a recent uptick in suicides at the mighty cataracts, authorities said.