Skinner launches trial in Illinois extortion case against three lawmakers
UPI Chicago Based on a Supreme Court ruling, U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner says the government is ready to try Democratic legislators Rep. Thomas Hanahan Danville and former Reps. Robert Craig Mount Sterling Louis Markert Mount Sterling on charges of extorting 1500 from the Illinois Car and Truck Renting and Leasing Association to kill a disliked bill. The ruling allows use of legislative speeches and debates as evidence. Markert argued speeches are privileged under the Illinois Constitution but the federal appeals court held no privilege under federal rules. The Supreme Court let that decision stand establishing a broader precedent for using speech and debate material in federal cases.
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Delayed Sentencing For Bank Robbery Murder Convicts
Three men convicted last month of robbing Elkville State Bank and killing Colleen Battaglia in 1973 had sentencing postponed. James Earl Fleming Jr Henry Lee Fleming and Tommy Earl Millender face new-trial motions and a December 14 court date in Benton.
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Don Miller Keeps Santa Farm At North Pole Alaska
For 27 years Don Miller has played Santa to hundreds of thousands of children from Santa Land in North Pole Alaska. He receives about a half of one percent of all letters sent to Santa, works the Santa Claus House, and plans to pass the tradition to his son Michael as Terry Miller pursues Harvard studies.
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Illinois man killed in Mexican drug gun battle near Boquillas
Charles Plenger 22 an undercover U S customs agent from Lena Illinois was killed in a shootout between Mexican marijuana smugglers and U S officers along the Rio Grande west of Boquillas in Big Bend country. A Mexican was believed killed and almost 3000 pounds of marijuana valued about 800000 were seized.
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Samaritan shot on I-85 in Greenville
Security guard Bob Mooneyham was shot in the stomach while helping two men with a flat tire on Interstate 85. He remains hospitalized with the bullet wedged near a main leg artery. Police search for the two men, a state university graduate student abducted later in Carbondale.
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