Convicted killer Dalton Prejean gets death stay
A federal judge blocked the planned execution of Dalton Prejean, who murdered a state trooper as a juvenile. The stay followed similar delays for five other condemned inmates after Louisiana courts denied stays, with Prejean kept at Angola while lawyers prepare new arguments. The judge gave 30 days for additional briefs. no hearing date set. The defense argued juror racial disparity and cited an Oklahoma appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on juvenile defendants.
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Angola
Dalton Prejean
Prejean
Louisiana
Scott
Thomas Guilbeau
Angola State Prison
Frank Blackburn
U.S
Nauman Scott
Alexandria
Louisiana Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Guilbeau
Oklahoma
U.S. Supreme Court
State District Court
Lava dome growth at Mount St Helens observed by scientists
A dozen scientists visited the Mount St Helens crater for the first time since a weather delay, measuring growth in the lava dome formed after last Friday’s eruption. The dome’s north south elongation extended about 240 feet with possible height gain unclear, while a north south fracture showed steaming activity.
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Vancouver
Wash
Mount St. Helens
U.S. Geological Survey
Susan Russell- Robinson
Madness of two drives couple to run again
Cambridge Ill. police describe Roger and Sharon Ihrig as a gifted pair whose slide into drug use and failed marriages culminated in disappearances after daybreak. He, a Kansas University medical graduate and Air Force flight surgeon, and she, a former Sunday school teacher, spiraled into a folie a deux amid arrests for shoplifting and injections of Benadryl.
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Associated Press
Cambridge, Ill
Air Force
Roger
Sharon Mhrng
Rip O'Keefe
Galva
Sharon
Roger Ihrig
Dale Haake
Rock Island
Thing
Goodland
Kan
Kansas University
Doctors Find Diabetic Key to Insulin Defect
University of Colorado researchers propose a new explanation for insulin unresponsiveness in Type II diabetics and very overweight individuals. They identify a blockage of the glucose transport receptor as a key defect, beyond insulin receptor loss, suggesting new therapy approaches though no treatment yet.
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AP Science
Atlanta
University of Coloradoe
Ple
Jerrold Olefsky
Colorado
Olefsky
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
Orville Kolterman
John Scarlett
Theodore Ciaraldi
School of Medicine
Denver
Career corner offers path to sewing machine repair work
A reader asks how to start a home sewing machine repair business. Experts say many learn the trade, with potential earnings from $8 to $25 an hour, depending on city and role. Advice covers training sources from manufacturers schools to state programs, and notes a possible labor shortage of qualified instructors.
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Joyce
J.A.Y
Ohio
Union Special Technical Training Center
Fourth St
Huntley
Ill
P.O. Box
Hilliard
University of Ohio
Dealers’ Association
Columbia
S.C
Bobbin Magazine
Miami
Union
Judge refuses move for Lane riot trial in Miami
Circuit Judge Mario Goderich rejected defense requests to relocate Nathaniel Lane’s murder trial from Miami stating no other venue is suitable and ordered jury selection to proceed. The defense argued bias from a Miami Herald error misidentifying Lane as convicted in May riots and cited a Liberty City reportage.
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Miami
Nathaniel Lane
Mario Goderich
Lane
Joseph Kershaw Jr
Miami Herald
Herald
Heath Meriwether
Kershaw
Mayor Akerland’s suicide attempt tied to city budget crisis
Police say acting Mayor Gustav J. Akerland, 60, shot himself with a .22 rifle over fiscal woes. He was in critical condition with brain damage after the weekend incident. Notes found in his office cited inability to finish the budget by the April 30 deadline.
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Annapolis
Gustav J. Akerland
Akerland
Anne Arundel General Hospital
John C. Schmitt
Ackerland
Schmitt
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Robert Owens
Owens
Charles Barreca
Leonard
Lawrence Capers
Samuel Lightsey Jr
Goderich
Robert Kaye
Doris Jones
Arthur McDuffie
Metro Justice
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