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		<title>Mafia Slaying Site to Become Museum?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2010/06/04/mafia-slaying-site-to-become-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On first glance, the house at 719 South Decator Street, in the Elwyn Heights section of the city, doesn&#8217;t seem to be all that remarkable. It&#8217;s just another in a string of large brick twin houses that populate the neighborhood. However, the mere mention of the address is apt to flip a switch in those with a longish memory of the seedier aspects of the City&#8217;s history. In 1979, organized crime boss Lorento &#8220;Lorry Boy&#8221; Scafia was slain on its marble steps while enjoying a glass of lemonade on a hot August evening. The ensuing mob war raged into the next decade, resulting in several more slayings and a couple of car bombings, finally calming down in late 1980. After the August 28 murder of &#8220;Lorry Boy,&#8221; Mrs. Scafia and their three children moved out of the house and the city, finally settling in Orlando, Florida. They retained ownership of the house, which was unoccupied for thirty years, except for a distant cousin who lived there briefly while attending Watson University in the mid-90s. When Mrs. Scafia passed away last June, the children decided it was finally time to sell the house. All in all, the slaying and its aftermath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysterious Giant-Food Thefts Continue</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/03/02/mysterious-giant-food-thefts-continue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An eight-foot-tall fiberglass doughnut was stolen from a billboard in the 2200 block of Baleson Avenue sometime Thursday night, the fifth such large representation of a foodstuff stolen over the past month. The doughnut, decorated with foot-long multi-colored fiberglass sprinkles, was part of an advertisement for Do-Or-Do-Nut, a Star Wars-themed drive-through doughnut stand. Lt. Arnold Corrigan, a police department press officer, told reporters that police had not yet determined a motive. &#8220;Whoever these people are, they&#8217;re good,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m talking flatbed trucks, portable cranes, bolt cutters, arc welders. Carting away a giant doughnut? I couldn&#8217;t do it.&#8221; (&#8220;Sure he could!&#8221; joked local morning drive time radio host Charlie Wipple in response. &#8220;Eight feet across? Foot-long sprinkles? That doughnut could feed the whole department for a month!&#8221;) A spokeswoman for Urban Amalgamated Outdoor Advertising, Inc., had no comment. Until this theft, the lingering question was whether four earlier food thefts were related. Three weeks ago, a 14-foot-tall coffee cup was stolen from the facade of the abandoned Il Sigorio Roasters plant near the Industrial District, a crime that police initially attributed to decay or simple vandalism. The theft of three giant tacos, each mounted atop a Mama Nacho taco truck, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Residents Going Out of Town For Guns</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/11/17/city-residents-going-out-of-town-for-guns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This recession has meant hard times and few customers for most local businesses, but 23 miles south of the city, in nearby Lakeview Falls, at least one retailer is doing well. Slaven&#8217;s Outdoor World has been filled to capacity with city residents looking to purchase firearms. In fact, according to owner Lou Slaven, sales are nearly triple what they were at this time last year. We conducted an anonymous and informal survey of nearly 200 city-dwelling Big Lou’s customers over the weekend of November 7, to try and discover what is behind the sudden gun-buying frenzy. Question 1: Why are you buying a firearm today? 37.6% &#8211; Afraid Washington Democrats will soon make buying guns illegal 32.2% &#8211; Home/self defense 18.0% &#8211; Forthcoming hunting season 10.2% &#8211; Expanding collection 1.2% &#8211; Going to shoot self/spouse/major political figure (probably joking) 0.6% &#8211; Going to shoot self/spouse/minor local TV personality (probably not joking) 0.2% &#8211; “Bitter, and need something to cling to” (sarcastically) Question 2: What sort of firearm did you purchase today? 40.0% &#8211; Semi-automatic handgun, expanded magazine 27.2% &#8211; Fully automatic firearm, expanded magazine 17.8% &#8211; Standard semi-automatic handgun 12.2% &#8211; Standard rifle/shotgun 2.4% &#8211; None, failed background check 0.4% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case of Mistaken (New) Identity Leads to Mob Hit?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/09/15/case-of-mistaken-new-identity-leads-to-mob-hit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Green, head of the regional division of the FBI&#8217;s Witness Protection Program, held a press conference yesterday to publicly apologize to the friends and family of Anthony &#8220;Tony&#8221; Battaglia, who was found murdered in his Roxboro home late last week, in the city&#8217;s first major &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221; gangland slaying in nine years. Battaglia, formerly of New Jersey, was moved to our city for safety after testifying against a captain of the notorious Fortinero crime family. Agent Green and his colleagues placed Battaglia into an apartment on Klein Street, and provided him a new identity. Unfortunately for Battaglia, the identity given to him was that of another marked man. Police responded to a 911 call last Thursday and arrived at Battaglia&#8217;s domicile to find a gruesome tableau. Battaglia&#8217;s corpse lay spread-eagle upon a billiard table, with gold coins on his eyes, a deceased canary on his chest, his pinkies removed and shoved into his mouth and his feet spray-painted purple. In The Evening Press, accounts of the number of gunshot wounds Battaglia sustained ranged from &#8220;approximately twenty-four&#8221; to &#8220;too numerous to count.&#8221; A rookie cop who was a first responder at the scene spoke with The City Desk on condition of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Who Will Protect Gotham Now?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/08/21/the-blotter-who-will-protect-gotham-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. (Note: More violent, standard items do not frequently show up here, as they are covered in the local papers with regularity.) 7:29 AM 700 block of Westmont Street: 26-year old man found sleeping in backyard hot tub of ex-girlfriend. 10:41 AM 1300 block of Farmer Avenue: Vandals have swapped prices on lot models at Uvalde’s Used Autos. Police are unable to locate perpetrators, but successfully quell a public disturbance when a number of customers all insist on purchasing a 2005 Lexus sedan that has been marked at a price of $29.99. 10:58 AM 1600 block of Villers Street: Assault and battery reported at Lula’s Hair-Did beauty salon. A 28-year-old female is taken into custody and charged with attacking another customer with her artificial fingernails. 11:14 AM 1400 block of Eudora Way: Police, acting on tips from an informant who has been working with them for over eight months, break up a gambling ring operating out of the basement of a residential home. Eleven people are charged with illegal betting, RICO violations, and animal cruelty for operating the city’s largest kitten racing racket to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Potato Guns Are Surprisingly Illegal</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/07/31/the-blotter-potato-guns-are-surprisingly-illegal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. (Note: More violent, standard items do not frequently show up here, as they are covered in the local papers with regularity.) 7:23 am 3700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue: A group of students are arrested after carrying Davidson High School principal Stephanie Allen&#8217;s 2007 Mini Cooper into the school&#8217;s second-floor cafeteria. The students, who are all underage, are charged with grand theft auto, operating a motor vehicle without a license, disorderly conduct, local and state hazardous-materials infractions, vandalism, property destruction and a parking violation. 9:02 am 1700 block of Marway Lane: Tandem bicycle reported stolen. 9:27 pm 2000 block of Dunn Avenue: Gupta’s Stop ‘n’ Pop calls in a shoplifting incident. When police arrive, suspect claims that Gupta offers free in-store refills on fountain drinks. Mr. Gupta explains that the policy was never meant to be offered in perpetuity, and the suspect, who has been continually refilling his 44-oz. Mountain Dew since 1:30 PM the previous day, is violating the spirit of the contract. No charges are filed, but suspect is politely asked to leave. 12:52 pm 2100 block of Villers Street: A 22-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times That the Sword of General Gainsborough has Gone Missing</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/07/28/times-that-the-sword-of-general-gainsborough-has-gone-missing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the famous statue of General Archibald Gainsborough in Ataraxia Park is made of bronze, sculptor Jeffery Couveign chose to create the general’s sword as a separate piece, made of stainless steel, hoping the weapon would “shine in the sun, as a symbol of the illuminating potential of violence.” Here is a listing- in chronological order- of occurrences in which the sword has been broken off, removed or stolen from the statue: 1922 &#8211; Local youths broke the sword off the statue for the first time after an older boy stole the stick they were using for a bat in a game of stick ball. They only attempted to use it for two at-bats before group leader Butchie Flatts remarked, &#8220;Aw, saucepans! This pig-sticker’s too heavy to heave!&#8221; and discarded it. 1926 – Director Mack Sennett chose to shoot a Keystone Cops short here, taking advantage of the city&#8217;s cheap labor market and loose safety regulations. One gag chase was plotted to end with the Cops’ paddy wagon colliding with the statue of Gainsborough. During rehearsal, the sword broke off and impaled one of the actors, killing him. 1940 – For reasons unknown, the sword simply fell off one August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Monster party, pets in trouble, misc.</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/27/the-blotter-monster-party-pets-in-trouble-misc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. 9:17 pm 200 block of Euclid Avenue: A 7-year-old girl reports to 911 that &#8220;monsters are knocking at my door.&#8221; Dispatch sends a cruiser to reassure the girl, only to find people dressed as Frankenstein and the Werewolf knocking on her door. Police interviews reveal a wrong address on a &#8220;Halloween-In-Summer party&#8221; Evite is to blame. The partiers leave and police calm the girl down. 9:26 pm 200 block of Euclid Avenue: The girl calls back, reporting more monsters. Police are sent back out to the house, and direct Freddie Kruger, 24, and Jason Voorhies, 25, to the right address, and again calm the girl. 9:45 pm 300 block of Pacific Lane: Baby with gun. 9:37 pm 200 block of Euclid Avenue: The girl calls again. A City Desk review of the 911 tape reveals the girl is hyperventilating while describing &#8220;a man with fangs and a black cape&#8221; at her front door. Police return, direct Dracula to the right address, post an officer in front of the house for the rest of the night, and take the girl into protective custody. According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amandour Prison&#8217;s Final Inmate</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/26/amandour-prisons-final-inmate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980 the only remaining state correctional facility within the city limits &#8211; Amandour Prison &#8211; closed its heavy iron door for last time. The order to shut down the facility, once home to as many as 494 inmates, actually occurred in 1951. While it is not surprising for the wheels of justice – or the wheels of bureaucracy – to grind slowly, in this case neither the State Department of Corrections nor any combination of city government officials was responsible the long delay. If any person held the key (so to speak) to the 37-year gap between decision and action, it is former Judge Marvin Kristolich. But the ultimate determining factor in the long, slow decline, and eventual demise of Amandour Prison was the remarkable constitution of its final inmate, John Stuart Powell. Powell was the principal suspect in the sensational murder of Charles Kerry O’Keefe, Commissioner of Police, in August 1949. In the summer of 1950, with the still-unsolved case becoming an ongoing embarrassment for the police department, interim Police Chief Donald Connolly announced the apprehension of a suspect connected to the homicide by a barely credible trail of conjecture and circumstantial evidence. That suspect turned out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: That Which Rests On One&#8217;s Shoulders</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/01/friday-facts-that-which-rests-on-ones-shoulders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of police districts which accounted for 65% of the city&#8217;s violent crimes in 2007, according to a report released this week: 7 :: Total number of police districts in the city: 21 :: Channel 8 weather report reader Destiny Edwards returns on Monday morning&#8217;s program, which will also feature the winner of the &#8220;Guess the Weight of Destiny&#8221; contest. Viewers were invited to take a stab at guessing how much more svelte she would be after her 4-week stay at a &#8220;nutrition camp.&#8221; :: Fire engine numbers which have been &#8220;retired&#8221; over the years: 23, 8, 39, 2, 10 :: Number of these which were retired due to their association with a horrible tragedy: 1 (No. 23) :: Popular rock act R.E.M. has not visited this city in its last 11 tours. :: Number of Hindu temples offering a car blessing service: 2 :: From 1889 to 1973 tobacconists were prohibited from also selling men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s fragrances. - RJ White]]></description>
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