Albert DeSalvo

Letters: Kids and animal torture

2013-02-19 00:00:00

Re "School murder plot allegation stuns a small town," Feb. 15 Almost as disturbing as the murder plot allegation against two Washington fifth-graders is the level of ignorance revealed by prosecuting attorney Timothy Rasmussen's comments about children...

Hotel makeovers from around the world

2012-12-23 00:00:00

As we approach the end of the year, we tend to think about making changes. Think you can't change? These hotels did. Many of them started as one thing and wound up another. They may inspire you to the point of prayer, drink (water or something harder),...

Tony Curtis dies at 85; actor was star of 'Some Like It Hot' and 'Sweet Smell of Success'

2010-10-01 00:00:00

Tony Curtis was a strikingly handsome 23-year-old native New Yorker playing the lead in an off-Broadway production of "Golden Boy" in 1948 when he was spotted by a Universal Pictures talent scout. Sent west for a screen test, he signed a seven-year...

A beastly kind of cruelty

2007-08-17 00:00:00

The buzzards led Nick Bursio to his prized calf. He found the body just over a rise in the field, with a bullet hole in its left shoulder, near the heart. Bursio had heard of animals killed by rustlers for their meat. But not until that May morning had...

TODAYINHISTORY

2011-01-18 01:30:28

1949: Charles Ponzi, engineer of one of the most spectacular swindles in history, died destitute at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at age 66. 1967: Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the ''Boston Strangler,'' was convicted in Cambridge, Mass.,...

It can be a dog's life

2011-02-03 12:54:00

Kentucky recently received a dubious honor. In December, the Animal Legal Defense Fund based in San Francisco announced that Kentucky has the weakest laws against animal abuse in the nation. The fund said Illinois, with its strong animal abuse laws, was...

Tony Curtis , as suspected serial killer Albert DeSalvo , is apprehended in the 1968 movie "The Boston Strangler." See full story

2007-01-22 14:52:26