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Thanks to Tucker's barking in rural Pennsylvania, Ron and Cindy Ecklund were able to help authorities capture Michael Burham, the Jamestown homicide suspect who spent more than a week on the run after breaking out of the Warren County Jail.

Ron and Cindy Ecklund were enjoying a Saturday afternoon in their backyard when their dog, a chocolate Labrador mix named Tucker, began barking. “Usually if I call him he comes right back to the house,” Ron Ecklund described to ABC News. Instead, the couple came face-to-face with Michael Burham, who had escaped from a local prison over a week ago.

Thanks to Tucker's barking, his owners helped authorities capture a homicide suspect who spent more than a week on the run after a jail break.

Thanks to Tucker's barking in rural Pennsylvania, Ron and Cindy Ecklund were able to help authorities capture Michael Burham, the Jamestown homicide suspect who spent more than a week on the run after breaking out of the Warren County Jail.

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When the COVID-19 pandemic along with the age of congregation members conspired to shutter the food pantry at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Springfield, a challenge was thrown down for someone to build a micropantry in its stead. Don Ecklund, who had built the first Little Free Library at his home in Leland Grove and is the churchs Habitat For Humanity representative, stepped up. A couple of weeks ago as Ecklund was installing the micropantry — designed to give people access to cann...