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Frank Joseph Battisti (October 4, 1922 – October 19, 1994) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Battisti's career featured groundbreaking—and sometimes controversial—rulings, notably his finding in 1976 that the Cleveland public school system was guilty of racial ...
The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area. The organization formed during the 1900s, and early leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and assassinations.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
John Nardi (January 21, 1916 − May 17, 1977) was an influential associate of the Cleveland crime family who was involved in labor racketeering in Cleveland, Ohio. At the end of his criminal career, Nardi turned against his crime family in a bloody gang war.
Dan Coughlin, 86, American sportscaster and journalist (Cleveland Plain Dealer). [154] Emo Danesi, 89, Italian politician, deputy (1976–1983). [155] Michael de Pencier, 89, Canadian magazine publisher (Toronto Life). [156] Laine Erik, 82, Estonian Olympic middle-distance runner . [157] Joseph Giarratano, 67, American pardoned death row inmate.
Joseph A. Bracken, 94, American philosopher and Catholic theologian. [340] Larry Brown, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles). [341] Joanna Dworakowska, 45, Polish chess player. [342] Richard Horowitz, 75, American film composer (Three Seasons, The Sheltering Sky, Any Given Sunday). [343]
Here's the latest projected March Madness bracket, including No. 1 seeds, the last four teams in and the first four out of the NCAA Tournament
Joseph Lance Risner, 20, was born on October 13, 1976, in Hazard, Kentucky. He never met his biological father, and adopted his stepfather's last name. His family lived in Columbia, Kentucky, but moved to Georgia where he started fourth grade. Risner was described as a satisfactory student with a good work ethic until the separation of his ...