A deathbed confession

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This 2021 painting by Bob Van Wert depicts Tom Randele, whose real name according to authorities is Ted Conrad. According to authorities, Conrad, a former Ohio bank teller-turned-thief, lived for decades under a different name in suburban Boston. Conrad died in May 2021.
A deathbed confession
A wave of feisty weather is headed to the southern United States. It's Wednesday's news.
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How could a friendly family man have kept a secret like this for more than 50 years? Thousands more flights were delayed or canceled. And more details are coming to light in the aftermath of a deadly shooting rampage in the Denver area.

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Man reveals 50-year-secret on deathbed

Thomas Randele didn't take his biggest secret to the grave with him. Not even his wife of 40 years or daughter knew until he told them in what authorities described as a deathbed confession. For the past 50 years, he was a fugitive wanted in one of the largest bank robberies in Cleveland's history, living in Boston under a new name he created six months after the heist in the summer of 1969. How Ted Conrad was able to leave behind one family and create a new life as Thomas Randele — while evading a father and son from the U.S. Marshals Service who never gave up their hunt — is just now being pieced together. Read the rest of the story here.

Was the Denver-area shooting rampage foreshadowed in a book series?

A series of books published by a company once owned by the gunman who targeted multiple people at tattoo parlors and elsewhere Monday across the Denver area eerily foreshadow the deadly shooting rampage – even naming two of the victims. Six people, including the shooter, died in the shootings. Two people were injured, including a police officer. Tattoo artists Alyssa Gunn, 35; Alicia Cardenas, 44; and Danny Schofield, 38; hotel clerk Sarah Steck, 28; and Michael Swinyard, 67, were killed by the shooter, according to family members and the county medical examiner. Authorities did not release the identities of the officer and another man who were injured. The gunman was killed in a gunfight with police. Go here for the latest on the shooting investigation.

Mourners gather outside the door of a tattoo parlor along South Broadway Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, in Denver, one of the scenes of a shooting spree that left multiple people dead, including the suspected shooter Monday evening, and a few more people wounded.
Mourners gather outside the door of a tattoo parlor along South Broadway on Tuesday in Denver, one of the scenes of a shooting spree that left multiple people dead, including the suspected shooter Monday evening, and a few more people wounded.
David Zalubowski, AP

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A small silver lining?

More kids are being hospitalized with the coronavirus, but some experts say the omicron variant does not appear to be more severe in kids than in previous strands.  Instead, they blame the explosion in all cases on the delay in vaccination for young people since vaccines for them were released well after adults began getting jabs. The Policylab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia reported last week that nationwide there were 1.1 overall hospitalizations per 100,000 children – low compared to a typical flu season that can reach 3 to 5 patients per 100,000 children. Only Ohio and Missouri had a pediatric census exceeding three patients per 100,000 children, the Policylab reported. 

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Children wait with their father as they wait in a line spanning several blocks in order to be tested for COVID-19, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, at a Curative testing kiosk outside an elementary school in northwest Washington. The Washington family said they were testing the children as a precaution due to cold symptoms.
Jacquelyn Martin, AP

Another day of cancellations and delays

More than 5,000 Wednesday flights across the nation were either canceled or delayed before the day barely got started. Thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled over the past several days as airlines grapple with wicked weather across parts of the West and staffing shortages because of the latest surge in coronavirus infections. On Tuesday alone, almost 1,300 flights were canceled and over 7,400 were delayed.

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A weather warning for the South

An outbreak of tornadoes is possible in portions of the South on Wednesday evening, federal forecasters warned. Northern portions of Alabama and Mississippi and parts of Tennessee will have an "enhanced risk" of damaging weather in Wednesday's storms,  forecasters said. The risk of severe weather on Wednesday also extends into parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia and the Carolinas, according to the Storm Prediction Center. A springlike weather pattern is to blame for the storm threat, meteorologists said. Unseasonably warm conditions, an abundance of moisture and a developing storm system will set the stage in the South for severe weather.

Hundreds of drivers get stuck in the snowy Sierra Nevada after trying to bypass closed highways.
In this aerial photo, responders work through rubble next to a heavily damaged fire and rescue vehicle in the aftermath of tornadoes that tore through the region, in Mayfield, Ky., Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) ORG XMIT: KYGH120
Responders work through rubble next to a heavily damaged fire and rescue vehicle in the aftermath of tornadoes that tore through the region, in Mayfield, Ky., on Dec. 12.
Gerald Herbert, AP

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