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Officials in Moundsville, West Virginia, ordered a $13,000 feasibility study in November to determine whether the 124-year-old state penitentiary (due to close next year) could be turned into an outlet mall.
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Evidence produced at the Camden, New Jersey, kidnapping trial of James A. Howard, 39, in November revealed that he had done substantial library research on the crime, calculating the average prison sentence to be seven years and fixing at $500,000 the amount that would justify his risk in taking the teenage son of an Atlantic City businessman.
During the ground war, captured Iraqi soldiers said any of them caught by superiors wearing a white T-shirt would be executed because the shirts could so easily be used as surrender flags. Some Iraqi soldiers carried bleach with them to make their dark shirts white.
