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In 2005, Terry Jon Martin wanted what was described as one last score when he stole a pair of thefamous ruby slippersfeatured in the film The Wizard of Oz 鈥?valued today at about $3.5 million 鈥?from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.On Monday, the 76-year-old, now housebound in hospice care and requiring constant oxygen therapy, was sentenced to time served and
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SARASOTA, Fla. -- For the first time in history, the summer Olympics have been postponed, bu
vaso stanley t one local athlete remains hopeful.Jessica Hyne-Dolan uprooted her life moving to Sarasota to follow her dream of being an Olympic rower. I really wanted to make the nati
termo stanley onal team and I said if I want to take this seriously and actually do it, we have to move across the country, said Hyne-Dolan. Hyne-Dolan says she made the U.S. team for the Pan Am Games qualifier in 2019 but got sick and couldnt participate. Since then, shes been training at Nathan Benderson Park where the U.S. Olympic and Para-Olympic trials for rowing are held. This was the first time it was actually maybe going to be a possibility, said Hyne-Dolan.But just two days before the U.S. Olympic trials were scheduled, the coronavirus pandemic caused qualifying trials around the country to be postponed, including at Nathan Benderson Park. Initially, I started crying,
stanley cup it was pretty heartbreaking. All the hard work that goes in. You think youre almost there, said Hyne-Dolan. But Hyne-Dolan says she understands and is grateful after the International Olympic Committee decided to postpone the Tokyo games until the summer of 2021. Now Hyne-Dolan hopes she ll have a second chance all over again. I think coming from a bad spot, now Im in a really good place, said Hyne-Dolan.
