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13A NEWS FROM THE NORTH From News-Press wire services NEWS-PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1989 NORTHERN LITES A lighter side of news from the North. previous record. Homicide detective Sgt. Johnny Johnson said Thursday 14-month-old Irvin Peralta was strangled, as were his mother, 26-year-old Sylvia Abreu, and his 3-year-old brother, Elvis Peralta. Police have charged Walderman Lee Robles, 29, of Philadelphia, with three counts of murder, abuse of a corpse and possession of an instrument of crime in all three recent slayings.

Awakened by dog, owner flees fire FORT WAYNE A dog served as a canine fire alarm Thursday, awaking its owner with barks and licks as a fire raced through a home. "If it hadn't been for Mitsy I'm sure I'd be dead," said Betty Morrison of Fort Wayne. She said she escaped her burning second-storv apartment by cradling her 8-year-old Pomeranian in her arms and fleeing the house. "I was asleep when Mitsy came up to me and started licking face and barking like she wanted to go potty," said Morrison. "I scooped Mitsy into my arms and put my other hand over my face as I felt my way down the back stairs," she said.

MAINE: Giant lobster is saved "Lobzilla," a gigantic lobster spared a date with a boiling pot after a wave of public sympathy, was flown from North Carolina to Maine by an animal rights group Thursday to be returned to the ocean. But the group didn't get to make the release. State marine patrol agents confiscated the illegally oversized crustacean and then released it themselves. The 21-pound lobster almost got cooked and served Nov. 30 in Shucker's Oyster Bar in Charlotte, N.C But after some publicity from an animal rights group, manager Kurt Larkins decided to give Lobzilla to the group, gratis.

Larkins said the lobster measured more than 3 feet when stretched out. "Oh, he's so beautiful," said Cam MacQueen, of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who accompanied the lobster which traveled in an icebox labeled: "Eat beans, not beings." "He is truly majestic, incredible to look at," said MacQueen, who estimated his age at 150 years. Carol Burnett of the Washington-based animal rights group said the group picked Maine for Lobzilla's release because state law does not permit the taking of lobsters whose shells measure more than 5 inches, in order to preserve large ones for breeding. Because that law also prohibits possession of oversize lobsters, marine patrol agents confiscated Lobzilla on arrival, then went ahead and released it. Lucas firm making historical movie ST.

LOUIS A company headed by George Lucas the man behind "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" has been picked to make a movie on westward expansion for a new theater planned for beneath the Gateway Arch. Plans call for Lucasarts Entertainment Co. to be paid initially as much as $145,000 to develop the story line for the 23-to-25-minute movie, Arch superintendent Jerry Schober said Wednesday. The movie is expected to eventually cost $4 million to produce. Threats received in weapons case WATERBURY Supportive church workers and a Salvadoran attorney representing a Connecticut woman accused of hiding weapons for Salvadoran rebels say they have received death threats for supporting the woman, according to a report published Thursday.

Salvador Ibarra, who represented Jennifer J. Casolo at her arraignment, said Wednesday he received at least five threatening telephone calls Tuesday night, the Wa-terbury Republican reported in a copyright story. "But I don't feel afraid," Ibarra said. "One time I answered, 'If you want to do it, I'm ready to Inmate acquitted of murder attempt BELLEFONTE A Centre County jury Thursday acquitted an AIDS-infected Rockview state prison inmate of attempted murder, rejecting prosecutors' claims that the prisoner tried to kill a guard. But William Brown, 34, was found guilty of aggravated assault and other offenses by the jury of eight women and four men after 3'2 hours of deliberations.

Brown, originally from Philadelphia, was accused of throwing a cup of his feces in the guard's face last year in what prosecutors alleged was an attempt to infect the guard with the deadly virus. Brown, who has tested positive for the HIV-1 virus, faces a maximum of 15 to 30 years in prison for the aggravated assault, assault by prisoner, simple assault, recklessly endangering and harassment convictions. Murdered baby found in speaker PHILADELPHIA Police returning to a home where a mother and child were slain early this week found a baby's body squeezed inside a stereo speaker, pushing the city's murder rate 20 notches above the Activists seeking abortion haven ANN ARBOR Pro-choice activists are collecting signatures for; a city-charter change that would make Ann Arbor a "Zone of Reproductive Freedom." Under the proposed amendment, abortion would remain available Ann Arbor even if Michigan legislators were to restrict or ban the procedure. Women and their doctojrs would risk a $5 fine. The suggestion isn't without precedent.

The petition-drive proposal copies almost word for word a 19J4 Ann Arbor charter amendment tltat equates possessing small quantities of marijuana with a parking ticket! Petition organizer Sabra Briere said she believes the abortion zone would be the first of its kind in the United States. She must collect 3,800 signatures by Jan. 2 to get the measure on the April 2 city ballot. 51 are arrested on drug charges MARION Fifty-one people were arrested Thursday in eight Southern Illinois counties on charges of selling marijuana or cocaine, authorities said. Police, however, were still looking for 19 other people wanted on drug charges.

Those arrested were charged with either possession or delivery of marijuana or cocaine stemming from undercover purchases. Sex-case doctor is apparent suicide SOUTHAMPTON A Long Island physician who solicited college students to have sex with his wife in a purported research project was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide, police said. Wood was found in his second-floor bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head; a 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun was found near the body, police said. Wood and his wife, Nancy Stef fen Wood, 44, were arrested in September in Eugene, after allegedly offering to pay male students at the University of Oregon to have sex with her. Four students testified before a grand jury that they were asked to have sex with Mrs.

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