Mourners bid farewell to James Byrd Jr in Jasper funeral
Civil rights leaders and activists gathered in Jasper to condemn racial violence as mourners attended the funeral of James Byrd Jr. Three white men are charged with Byrd’s dragging death. Authorities consider the death a racially motivated crime and weigh the death penalty. The service drew about 500 people amid high heat as leaders urged unity and redemption.
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Jasper
Mfume
America
Apple
Flag Day dawn patrols by Kiwanis amid patriotism
Dr Burwell Southern an Amarillo optometrist and Korean War veteran joins 23 Downtown Kiwanis volunteers to plant 1 660 American flags at homes for 25 a year service. The group plans a 6 30 am march and 5 pm flag collection, part of the 19th annual National Pause for the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Burwell Southern
Southern
United States
Amarillo
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
Boy Scout
Tascosa High School
Dylan Clark
S. Georgia
Clark
Texas
Rian Marlow
Globe-News
Mother and two children killed in Amarillo wreck
A woman and her two children, Elizabeth Wolfe 9 and Patrick Peterson 8 of Canyon, were killed Friday night when their 1981 Ford Bronco collided with a westbound 1998 Freightliner semitrailer at Loop 335 and Grand Street near Amarillo. Joseph Edwards of Eupora Miss. the truck driver, was uninjured. The wreck remains under investigation.
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Loop 335
Grand Street
Amarillo
Department of Public Safety
Karl Elizabeth Wolfe
Elizabeth Sharava Peterson
Patrick Larry Peterson
Canyon
Phil Woodall
Randall County
Joseph Edwards
Eupora
Miss
DPS
Wolfe
Ford
Integrated Health Services of
Janis Robinson
Elizabeth
Patrick
Northwest Elementary School
Hereford
Robinson
LUBBOCK POWER OUTAGE STRANDS CITY IN DARKNESS
An equipment failure left more than half of Lubbock without power for hours causing traffic lights to fail and water pressure drop. Officials warned residents to boil water tonight. The outage began after 3 p.m. and largely cleared by 7 p.m. with about 10 percent still dark at 10 p.m. LP&L blamed SPS for the problem while SPS cited LP&L overbuying power.
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Lubbock
Bob Cass
Lubbock Power & Light
Southwestern Public Service
Lp&l
SPS
Paul Thompson
Holocaust survivor recalls escape and fear under fascism
Holocaust survivor Tibor Stern recounts his years in Hungary and the early war period to Amarillo High School students. He describes brutal questioning by Gestapo, false confessions, and beatings as he avoided Zionist arrest, then endured slave labor in camps during 1944 as Allied bombs intensified.
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Tibor Stern
Hungary
Amarillo
Stern
Europe
Hitler
Third Reich
Palestine
Gestapo
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Jasper Man
Jesse Jackson
James Byrd Jr
Byrd
Lawrence Russell Brewer
Shawn Allen Berry
John William King
Greater
New Bethel Baptist Church
Houston
Kweisi Mfume
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Red Skelton
Don Goforth
U.S. Capitol Building
Lois Goforth
Richard Goforth
Morris News Service
Shanna Foust
Annette M. Crowlette
Andrew Owen Stern
Poland
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