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The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee • 9

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The Jackson Suni
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Jackson, Tennessee
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Wednesday, Aug. 20. 1997 NATION The Jackson SunPageiJA Gunman kills 4 people in spree To Our Dad "1 Danny Coffman Happy 51st Birthday Man, 67, shoots two CANADA Riisrwsrt killoH You have been through so much In one's lifetime, but still managed to raise us kids with love and understanding. And Dad.V-now that most of us am nrnwn and have I Judge, two officers, I and an editor shot children of our own, we would Eke to take this time to Thank You for listening, understanding, caring and most of all, loving us with aO your heart Dad You're The GREATEST! Happy Birthday We Love You Pam, Randy. Mark, Andrea Colt Sheriff's deputy shot MAINE VERMONT flrtr TUoftrtAM for home delivery call KifWVi 423-1010 or 800-372-3922 NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord 100 miles VMS UOIS VOIS OS Mm He then took a patrol car and drove to a building housing the offices of Bunnell, a part-time District Court judge, and the weekly News and Sentinel of Colebrook.

"Vickie screamed and ran through our offices: 'It's Drega. He's got a reporter Kenn Stransky said. "He shot her in the back. She died instantly." Stransky said the paper's editor, Dennis Joos, was shot to death when he struggled with the gunman. Everyone else in the building fled out the back.

Stransky said Bunnell had gotten a restraining order against Drega several years ago. "She said he was a time bomb," the reporter recalled. After killing Bunnell and Joos, the suspect jumped back into the stolen cruiser and raced across the Connecticut River into Bloomfield, where a witness saw him shoot at two sheriffs deputies, wounding one. "He stopped under the underpass, jumped out of the car and shot," said Doris Mills, who works in a store there. The injured deputy appar- ently slumped against the accelerator and his patrol car swerved into some trees.

"If he hadn't hit the trees, he would have gone into the river," Mills said. Meanwhile, a reporter flying into Colebrook saw a home identified as Drega's burned to the ground and still smoldering in Columbia, N.H. The house was surrounded by yellow crime-scene tape. Hordes of heavily armed law enforcement officers began searching for the suspect on a logging road around Maidstone Lake, Vt, south of Bloomfield. It was initially reported that he had ambushed two other law enforcement officials there, but police said later they could not confirm that Soon after, the man returned to New Hampshire and disappeared into the woods at Stratford, about 12 miles north of Guildhall.

Officers wearing flak jackets and carrying rifles gave chase. Just before 7 p.m. he died in a firefight with about 20 law enforcement officers on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River, authorities said. state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor before dying in with police. The Associated Press COLEBROOK, N.H.

A man who apparently held a longstanding grudge against a judge killed her, two state troopers and a newspaper editor Tuesday during a wild three-hour rampage through rural New Hampshire that ended when police shot him to death. Authorities said at least one other person and perhaps as many as five were wounded during the onslaught, which also crossed over into rural Vermont, where the gunman, identified as Carl Drega, was killed in a shootout with nearly two dozen officers. The slain judge, Vickie Bunnell, had once gotten a restraining order against Drega, whom she called a "time bomb" and with whom she had a dispute dating to at least 1991, friends and colleagues said. was when, as a select- 100 km J1 flr TS MASSACHUSETTS ia 1 1520 woman in the small town of Columbia, she had him removed in handcuffs from the town hall. Tuesday's rampage began about 2:45 p.m.

outside a grocery store in this tiny town just south of the Canadian border. Authorities said Drega, 67, created a disturbance outside a grocery store, then shot and killed two New Hampshire state troopers as they arrived. "if Saturday August 23rd 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM West Towne Commons frji Join us in our BIG ORANGE football celebration! Sports Talk with Zi 101.5 WlrVEZ of Trenton will be Rostenkowski freed from prison as well is a live 104 remote broadcast Mf Bob Bell and Bill King of WLAC Bobby Scoff of MVK in KNOXVILLE ELEMENTS OF AFFORDABLE QUALITY -The Associated Press tpHJLUP Fin Mr.i uiii rhai iniiinht nil thf ifatii'j, urn irp f. CHICAGO Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski was re- urn iiwu miiijiii uii ini iaii i (jj VDJ fo I.

i cam. ns ir inai weren i rfr live music door prizes food AND A tcp to the Arkansas came aval away by dom Center on Chicago's West Side. Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat first elected to Congress in 1958, had been the confidante of presidents and one of the most powerful men on Capitol Hill. But in 1994, in the wake of the U.S. House Post Office scandal, a federal grand jury indicted Rostenkowski on 17 felony counts, including embezzlement of public funds.

Rostenkowski long insisted he was innocent and would fight the charges, but he eventually pleaded guilty to two of the counts. He admitted sending House payroll checks through the mail to his district office to pay employees who, Rostenkowski acknowledged, performed "personal or political He also admitted sending a check to Lenox China to pay for gifts forpolitical cronies. Tyler Tours Rocky Topps! leased Tuesday from a federal prison in and entered a halfway house in Chi--cago. 7l Rostenkowski, Tonce chairman of the House if Mulligan's will grilling their fa cNlcKIAINMcNI imous hot dogs! If it rains, the party 5 The Ti Ways and Means Rostenkowski James will be at J. Mulligan's! If '9 Committee, pleaded guilty in April 1996 to two counts of mail fraud involving the operations his House office.

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