KOSA crash pilot suffered heart attack in 1989
Keith Elkin, 29, the pilot of the King Air crash near Midland Regional Airport on November 26, died along with eight others. An unreleased autopsy report cited hyper acute contraction band necrosis as the cause of death. The NTSB probe and civil suit follow, naming Texas Western Aviation, Beech Aircraft Corp, and Elkin’s estate.
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Gail Burke
Midland
Midland Regional
David Shneidman
Texas Western Aviation
Keith Elkin
Elkin
Bob Stephens
Ed Monette
Odessa
Bruce Dyer
Brent Roach
Hopper
Jay Alvin Price
Annette Stephens
KOSA
Stephens
142Nd Judicial District Court
Texas Western Aviation Inc
Richard Gaddy
Beech Aircraft Corp
End to Mobil suit near as Texas Manges settle MobilOil case
A Dallas Morning News report says a settlement in the 1.7 billion Texas and Clinton Manges suit against Mobil Oil Co. may be signed soon. Estimates put the state at about 100 million and Manges at about 300 million. Negotiations have been ongoing for two months with officials remaining silent about terms.
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Dallas Morning News
Austin
State of Texas
Clinton Manges
Mobil Oil Co
Manges
Garry Mauro
Texas
Mauro
Mobil Oil
Texas and New Mexico
Mobil
New York
Duval County
Mark White
Executed man Williams asks for deterrence after death
Robert Wayne Williams, 31, executed in Louisiana at Angola for the 1979 A&P guard shooting, voiced a final plea that capital punishment be a deterrent and told supporters to keep fighting the death penalty. He died after five electric shocks at 1:15 a.m. He admitted the killing but claimed the shotgun misfired. Funeral set for Baton Rouge.
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Angola
Robert Wayne Williams
Louisiana Electric Chair
Williams
Willie Kelly
A&p
Angola State
U.S. Supreme Court
Georgia
Alpha Otis Stephens
John Eldon Smith
Smith
State Prison
Louisiana
Faith Chapel
Baton Rouge
DPS chief says Texas losing drug trafficking battle
Corpus Christi AP report notes Texas lacks manpower and funds to curb rising drug traffic from Mexico and Latin America. Col. Jim Adams testifies before a House committee that large shipments, including cocaine, overwhelm state authorities as seizures remain a fraction of drugs entering the country.
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Texas
Corpus Christi
Mexico
Texas Department of Public Safety
Jim Adams
Congressional
Adams
Florida
U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee On
U.S
Texas- Mexico
Odessa sees December sales rise signals recovery
Odessa fiscal services director calls a 1.16 percent rise in December sales tax rebates a sign of recovery, noting the 504000.95 rebate for the 1-cent levy. Yet first three months of 1983 84 show 6.2 percent lag versus last year as officials track a 44.8 million budget and note October's rebound.
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Robert Halpern
Odessa
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Comptroller’s Office
Frank Muser
Muser
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Kosatv
Fort Worth
Wichita Falls
Gary Hopper
Jeff Shull
Warren V. Wandel
National Transportation Safety Board
Phoenix
Ariz
Lucky Finch
NTSB
Wandel
Travis County
Atty
Jim Mattox
Mattox
Atlanta
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