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HARVEY, Ill. (WLS) -- Harvey city officials said they have been talking with property managers about unfit living conditions and ongoing crime on South Halsted Street since October, but told ABC7 it was the owners who took it upon themselves, on Friday night, to board up the apartments there. Some residents said they were still inside their homes. Rudolph Williams spoke from inside. "I opened the door, and here's this big piece of plywood right there," Williams said. Williams is now able to walk through his opened front door after, he claims, crews boarded it shut with plywood while he...

Oil tanker boarded by pirates off Basra By Oliver Poole in Baghdad (Filed: 17/06/2005) Pirates clutching knives and AK47s boarded a supertanker moored off Basra in the latest of a series of seaborne robberies in the Persian Gulf. In recent weeks there have been a number of audacious attacks on ships waiting to load at the city's overstretched terminals, raising concerns about the safety of oil exports and adding piracy to the area's list of security threats. In the most recent incident, three men boarded the tanker in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The alert was sounded after watchmen...

Yesterday on Fox News, my father claims he caught a headline on the scroll that said a boat had been boarded off Panama under suspicion of carrying WMDs.