The OJ Simpson chase as seen through press eyes
A column reflecting on the OJ Simpson white Bronco pursuit, noting dramatic live coverage, crowd reactions, helicopter traffic, and the media’s role. It raises questions about motive, mental state, and whether the press overplayed the tale while recalling the Baghdad siege.
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Baghdad
CNN
O.J. Simpson
Los Angeles
Simpson
Hollywood
Camprellers
O.J
California
U.S
Rudd to keynote groundbreaking for a new treatment facility
Retiring Texas State Representative Jim Rudd will headline the groundbreaking for the Jim Rudd Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on the Lamesa Highway south of Brownfield. The 90,000 square foot campus will include housing units, support buildings, and a 12 acre site to be completed in early spring 1995, administered by TCADA with security by TDCJ.
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Texas
Jim Rudd
Brownfield
Lamesa Highway
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Graham Swain
Kenneth Flowers
Dick Fletcher
I.S.F
I.S.F. Sverdrup Corporation of Dallas
Texas Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse
TCADA
Brownfield Industrial Development Corporation
Country Caravan to Perform Saturday at Brownfield Park
Country Caravan will bring family style country music to Terry County Coleman Park in Brownfield at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Sponsored by the Brownfield Chamber of Commerce, barbecue suppers will be sold from 7 to 8 p.m. for 3 dollars per person as part of the 1994 edition themed Time Out for Country Music featuring 30 favorites.
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Country Caravan
South Plains College
Terry County-Coleman
Brownfield
Four cases disposed in 121st District Court this week
Judge Ray Anderson oversaw four cases including Jeremy Jon Foster who pleaded true and was adjudicated guilty with a four year sentence to TDC and four years probation. He pays attorney fees, serves two days in jail, and enters a six month to one year treatment program. Jaime Amador Martinez received 45 year sentences for injury to an elderly person and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, to run concurrently. David Castillo received deferred adjudication on burglary with probation and restitution. Johnnie Lee Fitzgerald had probation revoked and faces up to 24 months in a corrections facility. The report includes unrelated entertainment listings for a Country Caravan show and cast details.
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Ray Anderson
Jeremy Jon Foster
Foster
TDC
Terry County
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
David Castillo
Castillo
Johnnie Lee Fitzgerald
Lubbock County
Brownfield trustees back alternative school plan and tech upgrades
Brownfield ISD members approve Tri County Alternative School for at risk students with classes in Denver City, funded by WADA and with bus transportation only. They also authorize computer lab purchases, a desktop publishing course, staff resignations and new hires, and inter district student placements with Plains Wellman Dawson and Sundown.
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Raymond Holguin
Brownfield School Board of Trustees
BISD
John Dosher
Tri County
Brownfield
Seminole
Denver City
Wellman
Dosher
Bisd Technology Committee
Colonial Heights
Oak Grove
Mike Sides
Angela Steagall
Tina Williamson
Clinton Smith
Pam Burgess
Julie Gruben
Kristy Hock
Celeste Fikes
Louis Garza
Ross Lassiter
Shirley Beal
Deborah Haley
Edee Newcomb
Plains
Dawson
Sundown
Brownfield Isd
Plains Isd
City Council Sets 7 30 AM Meeting Agenda
Brownfield city council will hold a regular board meeting at 7 30 am Thursday to discuss late charges on commercial accounts the final plat and dedication deed for Prairie Estates and a memorial proposed by the fire department. Also on the agenda is a status report from Municipal Court Judge O Dell Sears and Walter D Burnett regarding the Rialto Community Theater.
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Brownfield
Prairie Estates
Fire Department
O'Dell Sears
Walter D. Burnett
Rialto
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Texas Commission of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
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American Honktonk Bar Association
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Ohio
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Houston
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Velma
Okla
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San Angelo
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