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Iowa man saves couple from oncoming train
AMES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man is being hailed as a hero for pushing an elderly couple’s stalled car from a railroad crossing with a freight train bearing down on them. Chris Ihle, 38, said he was returning from lunch Wednesday and had just parked his motorcycle at the Wells Fargo Bank in Ames where he works when he noticed that a Pontiac Bonneville was sitting frozen in the nearby rail crossing with a train approaching. Ihle ran over and screamed at the couple inside, 84-year-old Marion Papich and his 78-year-old wife, Jean, to move, but they didn’t. “They just sat there and the train was coming,” the father of three told The Des Moines Register. Ihle tried pushing the car forward, but it wouldn’t budge. So he moved to the car’s front and told Marion Papich to make sure it was in neutral. He then dug in his cowboy boots and heaved as the train bore down on them with its horn blaring and brakes screeching. “You could hear it. I even think I could smell it,” Ihle said. Ihle managed to push see TRAIN page 5
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‘Whitey’ Bulger won’t testify, labels his trial a sham BOSTON (AP) — James “Whitey” Bulger called his racketeering trial a “sham” Friday as he revealed he would not testify in his own defense, a decision that prompted a cry of “coward!” from the widow of a man he is accused of killing. The highly anticipated decision came after Bulger met with his lawyers behind closed doors for about 20 minutes. After attorney J.W. Carney Jr. announced the decision, Judge Denise Casper asked
Bulger if he had consulted with his lawyers and if he was making the decision voluntarily. With the jury out of the room, Bulger told the judge his decision was made “involuntarily.” “I feel that I’ve been choked off from having an opportunity to give an adequate defense,” he said. “My thing is, as far as I’m concerned, I didn’t get a fair trial, and this is a sham, and do what youse want with
me. That’s it. That’s my final word.” Bulger railed against the judge’s decision prohibiting his lawyers from using an immunity defense. Bulger has claimed he received immunity from a now-deceased federal prosecutor, Jeremiah O’Sullivan. “For my protection of his life, in return, he promised to give me immunity,” Bulger told the judge. Casper ruled before trial that the supsee BULGER page 8
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Cyanide-laced iced coffee led to the death of a man who’d just found out he wouldn’t get to testify against reputed Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, authorities said Friday, but linked the man’s death to a business associate who owed him money, not to Bulger. The body of 59-year-old Stephen Rakes of Quincy was found in the woods July 17, just a day after he learned he wouldn’t take the witness stand against Bulger — a man he’d openly despised and blamed
for seizing control of his business to use as headquarters for Boston’s Irish mob decades ago. Bulger ran the city’s feared Winter Hill Gang before fleeing in 1994 after a corrupt FBI agent tipped him off he was about to be arrested. He was captured in California two years ago and is on trial, accused of participating in 19 murders. But authorities believe the suspect in Rakes’ death, 69-year-old William Camuti, acted alone on the afternoon of July 16
when he lured Rakes to his death by arranging a meeting at a McDonald’s in Waltham to pitch him a fake real estate deal, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said. Camuti, of Sudbury, pleaded not guilty Friday after his arrest on charges including attempted murder. Authorities said the medical examiner still is awaiting toxicology test results to determine Rakes’ exact cause of death, and prosecutors could file a see CYANIDE page 8
Police say Stephen Rakes was murdered all right, but not by ‘Whitey’
American economy adds only a modest 162,000 jobs in July WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is steadily adding jobs — just not at a consistently strong pace. July’s modest gain of 162,000 jobs was the smallest since March. And most of the job growth came in lower-paying industries or part-time work.
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The unemployment rate fell from 7.6 percent to a 4½-year low of 7.4 percent, still well above the 5 percent to 6 percent typical of a healthy economy. The rate fell because more Americans said they were working, though some people stopped looking for a job and were no longer counted as
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unemployed. All told, Friday’s report from the Labor Department pointed to a less-than-robust job market. It suggested that the economy’s subpar growth and modest consumer spending are making many businesses see JOBS page 9
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