Official casts doubt on new interstate extension plan
A Texas highway official said the proposed interstate from Lubbock through Odessa and Midland to I 10 is unlikely. West Texas officials remain hopeful as a 1.8 million feasibility study starts this month funded by state and federal governments, but the official warned against overly high expectations. Alan King, TXDOT public information officer in Austin, emphasized potential highway improvements rather than a full interstate.
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West Texas
Alan King
Texas Department of Transportation
Austin
Texas
Public TV in Permian Basin Would Stay Open
KOCVTV in the Permian Basin would likely remain on air even if Congress cuts federal funding. General manager John McCarroll says the station would be very different but not closed, noting 51 percent of its budget comes from federal grants. The station’s total annual budget is about 1.2 million dollars with Odessa College providing space and utilities.
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Permian Basin
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Public Broadcasting
Washington
Newt Gingrich
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Kocv-Tv
McCarroll
Odessa College
KOCV
U S Soldier Killed in Haiti Shooting at Checkpoint
At a Bigot village checkpoint near Gonaives Haiti a former Haitian army officer killed one U S soldier and wounded another. A third American killed the gunman. The driver fled but was captured and questioned. The incident is being treated as criminal activity not directed at the United States.
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Haiti
U.S
Stan Schrager
Bigot
Gonaives
Or Shrager
Appene
Schrager
Gerarde Elysse
Interior Ministry
Elysse
Associated Press
Aurel Frederic
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jules Cesar
Duvalier
Roger LaFontant
Daughter of Malcolm X charged in murder plot
Qubilah Shabazz, 34, daughter of Malcolm X, was charged in Minneapolis with trying to hire a hit man to kill Louis Farrakhan. She allegedly used telephone calls and crossed state lines in a plot that never progressed past planning. Farrakhan was not in immediate danger. If convicted she faces up to 90 years in prison and fines.
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District of Minnesota
David L. Lillehaug
Qubilah Shabazz
Nation of Islam
Louis Farrakhan
Malcolm X
Minneapolis
Malcolm
Farrakhan
Chicago
Miracle nine year old survivor of Colombian jet crash
A nine year old girl Erika Delgado survived a DC-9 crash near Cartagena, with only a broken shoulder and bruises while 50 others died. Doctors guard her from reporters as investigators review cockpit and flight data recorders. Her parents and brother were among the dead.
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Colombia
Gena
Erika
Survivor
Carmelo Duenas
University Hospital
Angelo Alamos
Jose Luis Sarmiento
Aerocoral
Retters
Alamos
Carlos Garcia
Bogota
Racial Gap Persists in Maternal Deaths, CDC Reports
Government findings show black women remain about three times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women. The CDC notes prenatal care disparities and access to affordable health care as key factors, despite overall declines in maternal deaths since 1940.
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U.S
Nancy
CDC
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