Alabama court declines to hear Jones’ appealBy Jeff Lehrjlehr@joplinglobe.comConvicted killer Jeremy Jones is slowly running out of options.Alabama’s appeals courts have upheld Jones’ conviction and death sentence for the 2004 murder of Lisa Marie Nichols, 45, of rural Turn-erville, Ala.See Jones, Page 8AArea caseJeremy Jones’ purported confession to the unsolved murders in 1999 of Kathy and Danny Freeman, of Welch, Okla., and their daughter, Ashley, and her friend Lauiia Bible, both 16, occasioned a massive search for the missing girls' remains at some mining pit sites near Galena, Kan. The search came up empty.