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Man awarded $50,000 for finding Oscars

LOS ANGELES -- Willie Fulgear is oh-so-familiar with the Oscars. The salvage man didn't get to keep any of the 52 stolen Academy Awards he rescued from...

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Man who found stolen Oscars robbed of $40,000

...into his apartment while he was on vacation. ''I didn't get a chance to even enjoy my money,'' a dejected Willie Fulgear said Friday. He said he returned home Thursday to discover burglars had made off with a 500-pound safe containing...

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Brother of man rewarded for finding stolen Oscars arrested

...of receiving stolen property and being an accessory to grand theft. Bail was set at $20,000. Harris lives near Willie Fulgear, 61, a salvage man who received a $50,000 reward and two tickets to the Academy Awards ceremony after finding...

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Stolen Oscars found next to trash bin

LOS ANGELES -- Katharine Hepburn has four. Tom Hanks has two. But, for a while at least, salvage man Willie Fulgear had more Academy Awards than Kate, Tom, Woody, Meryl and Barbra put together. The 61-year-old man discovered...

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