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DUBLIN, Calif. - A woman who once tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford says she regrets the murder attempt and joins Americans in mourning his recent death. Sara Jane Moore was only 40 feet away from Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco when she fired a single shot at him on Sept. 22, 1975. As she raised her .38 caliber revolver, Oliver Sipple, a disabled former U.S. Marine who was standing next to her, pushed up her arm as the gun discharged. The bullet flew over Ford's head by several feet, ricocheted off the side of the...

WILKES-BARRE (PA) – A city woman has been charged with taking jabs at her neighbors’ Polish and Slovakian heritage by writing derogatory messages on her shed and on a television set in her yard, police say. Sandra Sipple, 38, of Kado Street in the Parsons section of Wilkes-Barre, has been charged with ethnic intimidation, a misdemeanor, and summary counts of harassment, disorderly conduct, and scattering rubbish. With maroon spray-paint, Sipple wrote the phrase “Proud to be Irish and not Polish and Slovak,” police said. A television set, propped up against a fence and facing Sipple’s neighbor’s home, said, “Trash made...