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Virginia Oliver, Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ and Folk Hero, Dies at 105

She fished off the New England coast for more than 80 years, and intended to continue until she died. “It’s not hard work for me,” she said at 101.

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Ms. Oliver in 2021, when she was 101. “She represented that no-nonsense Mainer who just got up every day and did what they had to do,” said Barbara Walsh, the author of a children’s book about Mrs. Oliver.
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Court Orders New Trial for Former U.C.L.A. Gynecologist James Heaps

James M. Heaps was sentenced to 11 years in prison in April 2023. A note from the jury to the judge during deliberations was never disclosed, and an appeals court said the case must be retried.

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James Heaps, center, with his wife Deborah, left, and his lawyer Tracy Green, leaving court, in Los Angeles in 2019.
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