Lead Stories
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
Clifford Olson, serving a life sentence in Saskatchewan, announced through his lawyer in March that he had registered with Canada’s copyright office to protect his proposed video series offering psychological insights. Olson, who sexually assaulted and murdered eight girls and three boys in 1981, plans to call the video Motivational Sexual Homicide Patterns of Serial Child Killer Clifford Robert Olson.
Dysfunctional Families
In March the Postal Rate Commission decided to make an exception and consider an appeal about a post office closing in Sedan, Minnesota, after the November 22 deadline. The appeal arrived November 29, but was postmarked November 20. The commission called the nine-day journey “inexplicable.” And pink slips laying off about 100 county employees were given to the Pittsburgh post office to be special delivered during the week after Christmas, but through a post office error they were delivered on Christmas Eve.
Appliance repairman Glenn Thomas Stooksbury was charged with fraud in January in Knoxville, Tennessee. Police said he billed Maytag for repairing defects that were not covered under warranty.
North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency reported that concentric rainbows appeared around the sun on February 16 in honor of Kim Jong Il’s 54th birthday as if they were “defending and upholding” him. The agency also reported that for the 54th straight year it was “bright and temperate” on Mount Paekdu, where Kim was born, after averaging 40 degrees below zero for the 100 years prior.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
