Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Buffalo Grove ambush was an ambush that occurred on May 19, 1832 as part of the Black Hawk War. A six-man detail carrying dispatches from United States Colonel James M. Strode at Galena, Illinois to General Henry Atkinson at Dixon's Ferry was ambushed by Native Americans during the attack. William Durley was killed and buried near the site ...
At Buffalo Grove they discovered the body of William Durley, who had been killed in the Buffalo Grove massacre. The men immediately returned to Dixon's Ferry to report their find and remained in the town overnight. [2] The following day General Atkinson returned to Dixon's Ferry on with dispatches destined for Fort Armstrong.
The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four African American teens, Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd, and Walter Irvin. In July 1949, the four were accused of raping a white woman and severely beating her husband in Lake County, Florida. The oldest, Thomas, tried to elude capture and was killed that month.
A 14-year-old boy, Glenn Dunn, was the first victim, shot outside a supermarket in Buffalo on September 22. Harold Green, 32, was shot the next day while dining at a fast food restaurant in Cheektowaga. That same evening in Buffalo, 30 year old Emmanuel Thomas was shot while crossing the street to his home, only 7 blocks away from Glenn Dunn's ...
Joseph E. Todaro (September 18, 1923 – December 26, 2012), sometimes known by the nicknames "Leadpipe Joe" or "Papa Joe" was a prominent Buffalo, New York businessman, and the Mafia boss of the Buffalo crime family. [1] He was usually referred to as Joseph Todaro Sr. to distinguish him from his son Joseph Todaro Jr. [2]
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — An elderly man was struck and killed Monday morning in Buffalo Grove. Authorities were dispatched at around 8 a.m. to the intersection of Buffalo Grove Road and Larraway ...
The boy was initially defiant, but Huntington threatened that if the boy did not surrender their one gun, he would kill him. The boy retrieved the gun from his kinsmen and surrendered it. Shortly thereafter, the three remaining Timpanogo men fled. [5]: 66 However, the militia pursued and killed all of the men.
In 1979, teenagers in Morton Grove often hung out by a river in a patch of woods. They would smoke pot there or just goof around, generally away from authority figures. But on Sept. 5 that year ...