SPARC faces scrutiny over checks after aid agency shift
Clients at the West Texas Aids Consortium questioned SPARC's handling of funds after the state ended its contract with Permian Basin AIDS Coalition. The Odessa American cited blank checks, unpaid withholding taxes, and $200 000 in questioned expenditures from PBAC's 1994 records. Chris Lumpkin and Walter Coppinger raised concerns about rent money from a SPARC group home.
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Internal Revenue Service
The
West
Texas Aids Consortium
SPARC
Chris Lumpkin
Walter Coppinger
Vaden House
Texas Tomorrow Fund to prepay college tuition
The Legislature approved the Texas Tomorrow Fund to let parents buy prepaid tuition contracts based on current rates. The plan, administered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, requires at least four years of payments and uses earnings to cover college costs. private Texas schools and out of state arrangements are handled differently.
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Texas Tomorrow
Sue Blair
Odessa College
John Sharp
Texas Performance Review
Texas
Blair
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
IRS
John Doe 2 Cleared In Oklahoma City Bombing Case
After a nationwide manhunt federal officials say John Doe No 2 was not involved in the bombing. The FBI continues to probe whether a second man helped rent the truck used in the attack. Army Pvt. Todd Bunting of Fort Riley, Kansas, has been identified as a man who resembles the sketches but was deemed not connected to the bombing.
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Washington
Oklahoma City
Justice Department
FBI
Army Pvt
Todd Bunting
Fort Riley
Kan
John Doe
Elliott
Junction City
Murrah
Department
Florence, D.C
Morning News
Bunting
Denise
Florence
Ryder Rental Office
McVeigh
Stephen Jones
Timothy McVeigh
Doe No. 2
John Doe No. 2
John Doe No. 1
Jones
Muralist Debbie Blakley Paints East Eighth Street Commission
Debbie Blakley a professional muralist commissioned by Taco Villa works on a large mural behind Taco Villa on East Eighth Street. She has been painting since April 16 and hopes to finish in about two weeks. Blakley earns her living painting murals in local houses and businesses and is booked through February.
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Debbie Blakley
Taco Villa
East Eighth Street
Blakley
Father Fights Punishment Over Out of School Tutoring
In Pittsburgh, Charles Hayden faces charges for tutoring his 13-year-old son out of study hall after school, claiming 110 hours of home guidance raised his son Chris to an 85.8 percent average. School officials say tutoring during school hours violated policy. Hayden argues no parent should be jailed for helping a child. If convicted June 28, he could pay about 22 dollars in fines plus costs.
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Pittsburgh
Charles Hayden
Chris
Hayden
Hempfield
C. Richard Nichols
Harrold Middle School
Mall guards tied to beating of four boys in Dallas
Four young suspects who confessed to stealing cash and a register were forced to strip and run a gauntlet of about 50 Nation of Islam members who beat them with canes and belts. Police say four mall security guards, all members of the group, were later arrested on kidnapping charges after the four hour ordeal. The youths, aged 16, 13, 12 and 13, were treated on scene for bruises and welts and released to their parents without charges.
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Dallas
Nation of Islam
Gantler
Derick Hopkins
Estrogen therapy linked to higher breast cancer risk
Boston AP reports that women using estrogen for several years after menopause face nearly a fifty percent rise in breast cancer risk. The study updates earlier findings and notes doctors increasingly prescribe long term or lifelong hormones for heart and fracture protection, despite safety concerns.
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Boston
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South Plains
PBAC
Odessa American
By Sarah Westbrook
John Doe No
Darwin Weigel
Lee
Chris Hayden
Hemphield Township
O.A
Ken Brodnax
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