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Two years later Johnson would break out of Atlanta, spectacularly, return to Indianapolis, rob another bank, be arrested and sent back to Atlanta. He rode in the backseat of Frank Anderson's Buick, manacled but cheerful, recalled Anderson, then an entry-level cop who decades later would become the first African America...
"I could have done it, too," Johnson said recently, "but I liked Frank."
Anderson delivered Johnson to Atlanta, and Johnson broke out of Atlanta, for the second time, in 1975. He was captured eight months later in New Orleans. Five months later, in November, 1976, he escaped from a jail in Selma. During his periods of freedom, Johnson roamed the south robbing banks with another celebrity cr...
The best part of bank robbery, Johnson said in a recent prison interview, was the planning and execution. When the job was done, he said, there was always a letdown. "There was never as much money as I'd expected," he said.
Mostly his takes were in the $10,000 range, though in the mid-1970s Johnson had two $100,000-ballpark paydays after robbing banks in Louisville and Little Rock. Being on the run is expensive, he said, so it wasn't retirement money. But it did buy some high living, at least in the short term.
It all ended May 12, 1977 when Johnson was captured in a suburb of Minneapolis, with the exotic dancer. They'd had a lovely few months, traveling the country, thrilling to the sounds of the Commodore's new single, "Easy," with Johnson's favorite line: "Why in the world would anybody want to put chains on me?"
Upon their arrest, Johnson agreed to cooperate with authorities in solving numerous bank robberies "if leniency was shown to his companion," the Indianapolis News reported.
The bank robber and the dancer still talk occasionally on the phone but haven't seen each other since 2005, when Johnson returned to Indianapolis after being paroled. It was the first time he'd been free in 28 years.
He bought a Camaro, and a pair of Johnston & Murphy shoes and occasionally exercized by walking along the Monon Trail near Broad Ripple. He had a birthday party, attended by, among others, two of his three ex-wives (the third having died). But just eight months after his release, and one month after his party, Johnson ...
Today he's 76 and shuffles and has liver spots and eye-glasses with thick lenses. The pompadour is long gone. He has spent 47 of the last 50 years behind bars and says, "Hell no, it wasn't worth it — nothing is worth even one year in prison."
"But. A man takes his chances."
Johnson's scheduled release date is Nov. 22, 2018.
Johnson (taken alive, Minneapolis suburb, May 12, 1977): 28, plus three local police officers.
Dillinger: Betrayed and led to his death by female companion "Lady in Red"
Johnson: Thrice-married. When arrested in 1977 with his date, a former exotic dancer, gallantly agreed to cooperate with authorities in solving numerous bank robberies "if leniency was shown to his companion," the Indianapolis News reported.
* By law enforcement estimates.
A vehicle struck a bicyclist and fled south on Route 67 in Oxford Monday afternoon, state police said. Officers are looking for a light blue van or SUV.
The driver hit Nathaniel Alexander Grogan, 18, just after 4 p.m. in front of the entrance to Market 32 on Oxford Road. Grogan was taken to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in New Haven with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.
Police asked anyone with information about the vehicle to call 203-267-2240.
When recovering from pneumonia is laying in wet sheets and night gowns good or bad?
I don't think laying in wet bedding and night clothes is good for recovering from any illness. It can cause the body to feel chilled and uncomfortable.
'He raised his concerns but nothing changed' Jump to media player Dr Malcolm Anderson killed himself after complaining about mounting pressure at work.
'I wanted to crash my car to avoid teaching' Jump to media player One teacher tells her story of how classroom stress led her to have a mental breakdown.
More teachers seek help for stress, charity claims Jump to media player The figures come from The Education Support Partnership, which provides counselling to teachers over the telephone.
What is a mental health problem? Jump to media player If you break your arm or catch a cold, it is more obvious to see that you are poorly. If you have a mental health problem, it can be harder to spot.
'End pill-shaming in mental health' Jump to media player The Royal College of Psychiatrists says it's worried some people are not getting the help they need.
'Why teaching is making me ill' Jump to media player An "overwhelming" number of teachers have suffered either physically or mentally because of their jobs, a study suggests.
The widow of a lecturer who killed himself says he had repeatedly told Cardiff University he was struggling to cope with his workload.
Diane Anderson said her husband Dr Malcolm Anderson was under significant pressure and demanded action to save other families having their "dad taken away".
Father-of-three Dr Anderson, from Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, died in February 2018 when he fell from the university building in which he worked.
Cardiff University said it takes the welfare of staff extremely seriously and is reviewing its timetabling system.
Costly health coverage, a warming climate and growing economic inequality. The Democrats running for the 2020 presidential nomination largely agree that these are the major issues of the campaign. Where they differ, though, is on which issue to prioritize.
A Washington Post analysis of more than 5,600 social media posts from March found significant differences in the issues that each candidate emphasized. While most candidates discussed social justice and health care, only a few talked much about foreign policy or immigration. No candidate made gun control a first or sec...
While social media is just one piece of the larger campaign, the issues that candidates highlight there signal where they could spend their political capital if elected. Campaign messaging on these platforms also helps identify the coalition of primary voters that the candidates are hoping to target en route to the nom...
Ten months before the first votes are cast, most of the candidates are still introducing themselves to voters.
“If a voter doesn’t know you, one way to get them to know you is by touting an issue or policy that’s near and dear to that person’s heart,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist.
This analysis is based on posts from each campaign’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts, with the words in each post classified by policy area. Posts that did not discuss policy, such as invitations to and photos from events, most fundraising appeals or general statements about the goals of the campaign (“Let’s d...
Every Democrat posted about addressing climate change in March, though some discussed it considerably more than others.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called climate change “the greatest threat to our existence” when he announced his candidacy on March 1. He dedicated nearly all of his social media posts to climate change and has called for the issue to be “at the top of the national agenda.” No other candidate in the analysis was as focuse...
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper dedicated nearly one-third of his policy-discussion time to climate issues, though he also posted less than all other candidates.
The candidates differed in how they approached climate change. Some backed the Green New Deal proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), which would pivot the U.S. economy toward renewable energy and energy efficiency. Others carefully backed “a Green New Deal” — rather than...
Among the diverse field, many candidates have spent a substantial share of their time discussing issues of social justice: calling out racial disparities, backing equal rights for LGBTQ individuals and discussing issues of gender and sexual assault. Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) focused on ...
Some events during the month caused a slew of tweets from the candidates: LGBTQ rights were touted following the re-introduction of the Equality Act in mid-March, some candidates shared thoughts on racial justice in dispatches from Selma, Ala., on the 53rd anniversary of Bloody Sunday and many denounced hate following ...
Democrats have proposed several ideas to address growing economic inequality, with candidates including Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) making it a key part of their messaging.
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang is running on the idea of a universal basic income. His “Freedom Dividend” plan would give $1,000 per month to every American, to protect those affected by the rapid changes to the workforce brought about by technology and to boost the economy. More than half of Yang’s policy discussion on soci...
Other ideas include raising the minimum wage (a favorite of Sanders and Warren), the earned income tax credit (shared by Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) and former congressman John Delaney) and other poverty-fighting measures.
The issue that battleground voters said they cared about most in the 2018 midterms was health care, so it’s no surprise that every 2020 candidate has spent at least some time on the issue.
An important early decision for the candidates was whether to back Sanders’ Medicare-for-all proposal, which would nationalize the health insurance industry and enroll every American on a government plan. Sanders and several other candidates used their social media platforms to back Medicare-for-all. Other discussion f...
Sanders, whose 2016 presidential run brought the Medicare-for-all debate into the mainstream, spent nearly a quarter of his policy discussion on health care — more than any other candidate. Health care also ranked as the top priority in Delaney’s feeds, though he mostly spent time explaining why he prefers other soluti...
Some Democratic candidates are proposing policies to limit market dominance by major corporations and "even the playing field." A series of March campaign events at the South by Southwest conference in Austin gave candidates an easy target: technology giants.
Warren spent a significant portion of March posting about her plan to break up Amazon, Google and Facebook, which she argues are unfairly eliminating competition by buying out competitors and building marketplaces that promote their own products over others. To audiences in Iowa, Warren argued against similar corporate...
Foreign policy got short shrift from most Democratic candidates in March, but when it was mentioned, Democrats promoted a diminished role for the United States amid engagements in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.
The only two veterans in the race, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) and Buttigieg, spent significant time discussing foreign policy, as did spiritual author Marianne Williamson. All three called for ending war engagements and redirecting that funding toward domestic programs.
Discussions about voting rights centered on the March 7 anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., and the passage of a Democratic bill in the House that included several measures to make it easier to vote. Candidates also staked out positions on some structural changes to U.S. democracy, such as eliminatin...
“Our nation succeeds when more Americans can participate in democracy,” former Obama Cabinet official and San Antonio mayor Julián Castro tweeted, with a list of proposals. He dedicated more of his policy talk to voting rights than any other issue. The same was true for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), who late in the month...
President Trump signed the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice bill, in December, but Democrats have called for additional steps to address disparities in who is imprisoned and to decrease the U.S. prison population.
The candidate who devoted the largest share of policy discussion to criminal justice reform was Booker, a co-sponsor of the legislation that passed last year. On March 7, Booker introduced the Next Step Act, which proposed additional criminal justice and sentencing changes. He also touted a marijuana legalization bill ...
Harris prioritized education on social media more than any other candidate, releasing and promoting a plan for teacher pay increases.
Immigration received surprisingly little emphasis from Democratic candidates in March, even as debate over the southern border raged. Democrats called out the Trump administration for its handling of a surge of asylum seekers, and congressional votes to nullify the president’s national emergency declaration for border ...
The two candidates from Texas — Castro and former congressman Beto O’Rourke — were among the most active on immigration issues in March.
The impact of Trump’s proposed budget on social safety net programs and the Republican tax law were common themes in March.
Candidates also addressed a range of other domestic policy issues, including assistance to Puerto Rico and proposals to help veterans and rural Americans.
Based on their March social media activity, gun control was not the first or second priority for any of the candidates. There were no major mass shootings in the United States during the month, although candidates did react to the March 15 attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Williamson dedicated the largest share of her policy talk to family issues. She has pitched a “Department of Childhood and Youth” to provide mental health and developmental services to children.
Gillibrand and Warren both touted family-related proposals in March. Gillibrand introduced a bill that includes a national paid family leave policy. Warren announced a child-care plan in February and promoted the policy in March, sharing stories of her experience as a working mother in her social media feeds.
Klobuchar was the only candidate who dedicated more than 5 percent of her policy talk to infrastructure. She rolled out a plan for revamping roads, bridges and water infrastructure and improving rural broadband access.
John Muyskens and Reuben Fischer-Baum contributed to this report.
This analysis is based on a review of more than 5,600 Twitter, Facebook and Instagram posts by Democratic presidential candidates in March 2019. We extracted more than 200,000 words relating to policy from those posts.
The social media posts were manually categorized by Kevin Schaul, Kevin Uhrmacher and Reuben Fischer-Baum. Each person was randomly assigned posts to categorize, varying by candidate and social media platform.
Our analysis includes only posts that were about policy. Posts that did not discuss policy, such as event reminders, most fundraising appeals or non-policy-specific statements about the goal of the campaign or about President Trump, were not included. We also included any text from attached images and created transcrip...
For each post, we identified which portion of the text discussed policy issues. We included personal experiences and other stories if they were used to illustrate a point about an issue. Posts about a single issue were assigned to a single category, and those words were added to that candidate’s total word count on tha...
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The push to reform U.S. democracy comes amid frustration among liberals over losing multiple presidential elections in which Democrats won the popular vote.
Dozens of potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have already hit the road to workshop their vision, experiment with catchphrases and test policy ideas.
People with THESE names are thought of as more successful in life – did YOURS make the list?
WANT your child to be destined for success? The answer might be in their name.
And 21 per cent would change theirs because it’s “too common”.
Meanwhile 20 per cent said they wanted to pick a new name due to people never know how to pronounce theirs.
Dave Keene, president of The American Conservative Union, has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. The endorsement is a pivotal moment in the 2008 campaign.
A bulwark of the conservative movement, Keene has headed the ACU, the country’s oldest and largest conservative grass-roots lobbying group, since 1984. With 1 million members, the ACU runs the Conservative Political Action Committee’s (CPAC) annual conference in Washington and publishes an annual Rating of Congress — t...
Among conservatives, no one is more highly respected than Keene. As second vice president of the National Rifle Association, he will automatically become president of the organization in three and a half years.
Keene’s endorsement is likely to galvanize fellow conservatives in Romney’s direction.
For some time, Keene had been discussing issues with Romney, but he had not issued an endorsement because he is friends with some of the other Republican candidates. Romney clinched the deal with him when they met in St. Petersburg for two hours the day before the Republican debate, Keene said.
“Romney spent most of Tuesday preparing for the debate; then at the end of the day, we spent a couple hours together; and then afterward I had dinner with his campaign manager Beth Meyers and Peter Flaherty who was his deputy chief of staff as governor, and Al Cardenas, who is one of my very closest friends,” Keene sai...
Jeb Bush’s former finance chairman, Cardenas is on Keene’s board and chairs Romney’s National Hispanic Steering Committee.
Despite being friends with many of the candidates, Romney and Fred Thompson were the only two that he really considered supporting.
“As time went on, it began to appear, fairly clearly to me at least, that the Thompson campaign missed its window, wasn’t going to take off, and that left Mitt Romney,” Keene said.
Keene said he speaks for himself and not The American Conservative Union, which does not endorse candidates.
In an Oct. 29 story, Newsmax reported that Keene believed Romney was in the best position to win the Republican nomination. While Rudy Giuliani leads in the polls, Keene said then that most people have not begun to focus on the election.
Once they do, they will recognize how liberal Giuliani is on some social issues like abortion and gay rights, and Republicans overall will tilt against him. Then Romney’s strategy of focusing on key states like Iowa and New Hampshire could propel him to the nomination, Keene observed.
On the major issues, Romney is “right on,” Keene said. “The most important thing with these candidates is, when they give you their word in a campaign, that word is credible.
What is important, Keene said, is not so much whether a candidate has changed his views.
“It’s a question of whether that change has been thought out, on the one hand, and is deeply felt on the other, and doesn’t go against his most basic values,” Keene said.
Giuliani said “I may be against you on guns and abortion and all these things, but the fact of the matter is I’ll appoint conservative judges,” Keene said. “Now if you in fact believe that, then he may have solved that problem in your mind if you’re a voter.
In contrast, Keene said he believes Romney’s promises.
“That is both because of the basic values that I know he has, and because I think that he’s a guy who, if he gives you his word and he said that he’s going to do something, you can pretty well count on it,” Keene said.
Keene does not think Romney’s Mormon religion will be as big a factor in the race as the press coverage would suggest.
“My feeling is that he’ll lose some votes some places because he’s Mormon,” Keene said. But Keene said he believes most voters will not vote based reservations about religion.
LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Britain’s competition regulator said it would investigate concerns by customers of mobile, broadband, home insurance, mortgages and savings providers that they are being “ripped off” after charity Citizens Advice made a super complaint.

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