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19 of town's 23 police officers accused of misconduct

CNHI News Service

HAMILTON, Mass. -- Every town experiences a bad cop now and then, but this Boston suburb is the focus of a corruption scandal so broad and brazen that it involves 19 of 23 police officers.

Police Chief Walter Cullen and the president of the police union, Sgt. Donald Dupray, are the principal characters in the misconduct investigation. Both have been placed on paid, indefinite leave.

But 17 other officers have also been implicated for falsifying training records in order to receive an extra $60 per week in pay for serving as emergency medical technicians or EMTs.

Students learn about Holocaust from death camp survivor

By J. J. Huggins
CNHI News Service

METHUEN, Mass. — The sick Jewish prisoners were shot, one by one, as they left the quarantine room at the death camp in Treblinka, Poland, on that wretched night more than 60 years ago.

Except for typhoid-stricken Israel Arbeiter, who slipped out a window and fled to a nearby barracks, where his friends hid him.

Economy claims community landmark in Kentucky

CNHI News Service

CORBIN, Ky. -- The Dixie Cafe, a landmark in this southeast Kentucky city made famous by Colonel Harland Sanders, has closed down, a victim of the recession.

The restaurant, in downtown Corbin, was known for its Dixie dogs and fries. In earlier days, it was the place people gathered to talk about politics.

The late Colonel Sanders, founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, perfected his secret blend of herbs and spices at his service station in Corbin around the time the Dixie opened in the 1950s.

Nation's first working mom gets top journalism award

By CNHI News Service

Arguably the nation's first working single mother has received New England journalism's highest individual honor 245 years after her death.

The Academy of New England Journalists posthumously bestowed its coveted Yankee Quill Award on Ann Smith Franklin at a ceremony in Boston last week.

Hers is an inspiring story of a colonial Rhode Island woman left to fare for herself and her four young children upon the untimely death of her printer husband, James Franklin, in 1735 on their 12th wedding anniversary.

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