Two kidnapped Calif. girls rescued

Friday, August 2, 2002

LANCASTER, Calif. -- Two teen-age girls abducted at gunpoint early Thursday from a lovers' lane were rescued 100 miles away after their kidnapper crashed his getaway car and was shot to death by sheriff's deputies, authorities said.

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