Lucas saga to end only with lethal injection in Texas
Henry Lee Lucas, returned to Georgetown, is expected to be moved to a Texas prison within a month and placed on death row. Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell says the Lucas story won’t end until he is executed. Lucas had confessed to hundreds of murders but has since recanted many claims, suggesting Ranger task force details influenced him.
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Waco
Texas
Henry Lee Lucas
Georgetown
Williamson County
Jim Boutwell
Texas Department of Corrections
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Boutwell
McLennan County
Texas Rangers
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W.va
TDC
Waco Tribune-Herald
Rangers
Tribune-Herald
Grand
McLennan
Guy Cox
Reed Lockhoof
George Allen
Two-Vehicle Crash Near Princeton. No Injuries Reported
A Saturday accident on County route 383 near Princeton involved a 1984 Ford truck driven by Bill Sprinkles and a 1976 Ford truck driven by Orville Shorter. Both drivers, residents of Princeton, escaped injuries. damage totaled about 600 dollars. State troopers investigated. In a separate local contest, Veena Gupta of Bluefield High won first in the Mountain State Bar Association essay contest for a piece urging stronger First Amendment protections to preserve church-state separation and free expression.
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Princeton
Here
Bill Sprinkles
Orville Shorter
Cpl
Randall Earnest
Randy Hill
Mercer County Sheriff's Department
Bluefield High
Veena Gupta
Mountain State Bar Association
J. Franklin Long
Sandra Marie Griffith
David Null
Saeger High School
Gupta
She
Spy suspect's wife Rachel Walker endures ordeal
NORFOLK VA AP While her sailor husband sits in jail on spy charges Rachel Walker 22 has faced harsh life for the first time and shows low spirits and an edginess with no appetite as she contends with his arrest.
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Norfolk, Va
Rachel Walker
Board narrows candidates for WV superintendent post by July 19
West Virginia state Board of Education trimmed the field for outgoing superintendent Roy Truby and aims to hire by the week of July 15 19. The board will further pare the list June 29 with interviews not until mid July. Truby left Feb resignation and will start a Greenville County South Carolina post July 15. He earned 70000 annually in WV and the SC job pays about 80000.
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Charleston
W.va
State Board of Education
Roy Truby
Richard Schnacke
Elnora Pepper
Pepper
Schnacke
Truby
Greenville County
S.C
South Carolina
West Virginia
Tom McNeel
Ohio County
Henry Marockie
Marockie
Kanawha
Ritchie
McDowell
Mill employment near low mood of recent years
Washington AP AISI data show April mill employment at about 216000 with a small rise in production workers but ongoing white collar losses. January mills hit 210800, lowest since mid 1933, while imports keep utilization under 70 percent. shipments 6.42 million tons in April.
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Washington
American Iron and Steel Institute
AISI
U.S
Tobacco bill delay could flood markets with leaf
Charlotte AP reports delays in tobacco price-support legislation may disrupt this year's markets and push surpluses over one billion pounds. Carlton Blalock of the North Carolina Tobacco Growers Association warns 150 to 200 million pounds may pile into the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corp, with current stocks at 803.6 million pounds. Fred Bond of the cooperative fears the situation may worsen and compromise seems unlikely.
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Charlotte
Carlton Blalock
North Carolina Tobacco Growers Association
Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corp
Fred Bond
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