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History
7:35 am
Tue June 12, 2012

50 Years Later, Mystery Of Alcatraz Escape Endures

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Alcatraz on the 50th anniversary of the escape of inmates Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin.
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Dave Widner holds up an article about his uncles, inmates John Anglin and Clarence Anglin.
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Visitors to Alcatraz look down the hall that the inmates used to escape from their cells.
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U.S. Marshal Michael Dyke, the official investigator assigned to the case of the escaped inmates.
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Anglin family members wore this shirt on the anniversary of the Anglin brothers' escape.
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The choppy waters around Alcatraz island.
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Alcatraz on the 50th anniversary of the escape of inmates Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin.
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Marie Anglin Widner returned to the island where her brothers escaped.
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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 1:37 pm

Fifty years ago three men set out into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S. history from what was billed as the nation's only "escape-proof prison" — Alcatraz.

Most people assume the men have been at the bottom of the bay or were swept out to sea since the night they broke free, tunneling out of their cells in part with spoons from the kitchen and climbing the prisons' plumbing to the roof.

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Strange News
6:38 am
Tue June 12, 2012

Stealthy Cow May Stand In For Psychic Octopus

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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 8:18 am

Yvonne the Cow became famous for her escape from a German farm, and certain slaughter. For months, she eluded her owner and a bull sent to lure her out. Now Yvonne may replace the late Paul the Octopus, who predicted the winner for all of Germany's 2010 World Cup soccer matches.

Strange News
6:30 am
Tue June 12, 2012

Massachusetts Town OKs Fines For Profanity

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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 8:18 am

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Business
5:35 am
Tue June 12, 2012

Starbucks Order Gives Ohio Mug Maker A Jolt

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Bob Davis hand-dips mugs before they go into the kiln at American Mug and Stein in East Liverpool, Ohio. Most overseas companies have machines that can do this much faster.
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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 1:03 pm

For decades, when you slid into a booth at a diner or a local coffee shop, the waitress probably arrived with a standard-issue, off-white mug. More than likely that mug came from the Ohio River town of East Liverpool, which calls itself "The Pottery Capital of the Nation."

A lot of that city's pottery business is long gone. Now, one of the few remaining pottery factories in the battered town is pinning its survival on a major corporation.

To step inside American Mug and Stein in East Liverpool is to step into another era.

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Asia
5:35 am
Tue June 12, 2012

Hijacking Reveals Strains In China-North Korea Ties

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A Chinese paramilitary guard gestures outside the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on May 17. Tensions between the two countries are rising after unidentified North Koreans hijacked three Chinese fishing boats and demanded ransom, before releasing the vessels and their crew.
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Chinese fishermen — detained for 13 days by North Korea — return to Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning province, May 21.
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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 10:00 am

New strains are emerging between China and its old ally, North Korea, six months after the death of reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The recent North Korean hijacking of Chinese fishing boats has shaken those ties considerably, leading to public pressure on China to stand up to North Korea.

Fishing boats returning to their home port in China don't normally make the news. But they did last month, because three boats — and 28 fishermen — had been detained for almost two weeks in North Korea.

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