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Bernard LaClair had robbed at least nine banks in Indiana, Ohio, Connecticut and Massachusetts. He was captured while picking his kids up from school in Fort Wayne, but that's just the start of a tale that includes a teddy bear stuffed with cash, loot hidden under a hospital bed, multiple attempts to escape prison and time served at Alcatraz.
As fire tore through part of St. Vincent’s Villa on the evening of July 13, 1949, one nun breathed a sad sigh as the cross fell from the front spire
On June 14, 1954, a theoretical enemy attack “hit” 41 cities in the continental United States and six in Canada. Air raid warning signals went off just before 11 a.m.
We're dipping into The Journal Gazette archives to see what was in the news this week in 1949.
File photos People gather around the crash site where the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad No. 508 passenger train collided with an earth mover at a crossing on California Road, killing three and injuring more than a dozen, Oct. 7, 1947. The train collided with a 26-ton earth mover that was carrying 13 tons of dirt. The operator of the earth mover was not injured. Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a crash of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad No. 508 passenger train on Oct. 7, 1947. Previous Next Thursday, April 29, 2021 1:00 am Train crash k...