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Miss America visits kids at local hospital. localNews, B2 FBI offers reward for the 'Bandaged Bandit localNews, Bl WEDNESDAY APRIL 20, 2005 Your life. Your Times. RIDGE FINAL EDITION 50 cents times.com tts. I Ns uuUuvJ i ire mo a ferric- i 7 1 1 A 1 1 1 1 ti- Dems get new county leader HiK nna i-wiMik-mitm 3 i BY BRENDAN O'SHAUGHNESSY boshaughnessynwitimes.com 317.637.9078 INDIANAPOLIS It was hardly the selection of a new pope, but the Democratic State Central Committee may have ushered in a new era of Lake County politics Tues day night in its conclave to select a county chairman.

Lake County Commissioner Rudy Clay won 13-8 in a secret ballot vote at the law offices of Barnes 4 RUDY CLAY 4 i i i 4 Ifv 1 I If ff Thornburg. tje will replace Stephen "Bob" the county auditor, who has held the post since taking it over from former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick in 1997. In a drama fitting to county politics if not papal selection, Pastrick See CLAY, A9 A Kollintzas' wife files for divorce BY BILL DOLAN bdolannwitimes.com Z19.662.5328 EAST CHICAGO The wife of Frank Kollintzas, a fugitive and former city councilman, hopes a divorce decree will shelter her remaining assets from federal government seizure. IB Lake Superior Court Judge James Danikolas in Gary recently granted Joanna Kollintzas a temporary restraining order forbidding the U.S. attorney's office from further FRANK KOLLINTZAS moves to gamish thousands of dollars from Kollintzas' bank accounts, insurance policies anci retirement investment packages.

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