March 29, 1995

The search for 16-year-old Nicole Russo continues, but the hunt for the teen-ager charged with her murder has ended. At Los Angeles International Airport early yesterday, F.B.I. agents and the police arrested Louis P. Urcinoli, 19, of Seaside Park. He had been sought since March 17, four days after Ms. Russo, a Brick High School student, was reported missing. The police said that Mr. Urcinoli killed his girlfriend of a few weeks in a Seaside Park motel. Mr. Urcinoli has said that he dropped her off in Brooklyn. Her family is clinging to hope that she might still be alive.

Two politicians were found guilty yesterday of accepting bribes in the continuing investigation of city government by Federal authorities. After a five-week trial on the awarding of city towing contracts, a jury deliberated for eight hours before convicting Councilman Gary S. Harris and former Councilman Ralph T. Grant Jr. Page A1.

Jeffrey Wolf did not speak publicly for two weeks after his wife was shot and killed during a robbery in his Franklin Township jewelry store. Mr. Wolf had said that a robber shot his wife; the police said that Brenda Wolf was fatally wounded by her husband's .357-caliber Magnum.

"Bob Stoddard, who's retired 10 in a row, is in danger of having his streak broken. Ohh, a walk breaks the spell." "Thoutsis got it, and Eufemia has set down 13 in a row."

The Ingersoll-Rand Company went public with a $1.3 billion hostile bid for the Clark Equipment Company yesterday after Clark's board spurned its cash offer. Ingersoll took its bid to Clark's shareholders after it received a letter from Clark rejecting the offer of $75 to $77 a share, which is as much as 45 percent over Clark's closing stock price yesterday.