Sleepy drivers blamed for crashes across nation
AP reports sleepiness causes up to 3 percent of highway crashes. The AMA Journal note says only sleep can reverse sleep debt. NHTSA estimates 100,000 police crashes yearly plus 4 percent of fatalities from fatigue. Youthful and shift workers at risk. 25 percent of long distance truckers slept at least once in the prior year.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
ECISD approves teacher pay raise as TAAS results show gains
The Ector County Independent School District board approved a 3.11 percent average pay raise for teachers and librarians next year, with about 865000 of the funds targeting those qualifying for a state-mandated increase. First-year teachers will earn 25500, up 1500 from 24000. A preliminary TAAS report to the board notes continued gains in reading, writing, and math and a shrinking gap between white and minority or economically disadvantaged students.
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Ector County Independent
Sue Ferguson
Citizen Kane Named Best American Film of All Time
The American Film Institute panel named Citizen Kane 1941 the top American film. Casablanca, The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, and Lawrence of Arabia followed in the top five. The Wizard of Oz and nine others filled positions six through ten amid a CBS special reveal.
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Orson Welles
American Film Institute
CBS
Monkey seen at Pecos zoo baby surprises staff
Odessa American reports Pecos-Maxey Park Zookeeper Jimmy Ortega found a 6 week old Capuchin baby in the monkey exhibit on May 1. The infant, about 13 inches, rode on mother Andy as father Mikey watched, contradicting an earlier vet note that the monkey was male.
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Oil prices flirt with $12 mark on Middle East cuts
Crude futures rose to as high as 12.35 dollars a barrel on reports Kuwait Oman and the UAE agreed to cut output by 170 000 barrels a day but later fell back below 12 as Saudi Arabia did not join the cuts. Prices have tumbled about 45 percent since November. Analyst James Wicklund of Dain Rauscher notes the drop is worse than expected.
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Oman
United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
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Riyadh
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Dain Rauscher
Wrongful conviction quest fuels push for Fort Stockton woman
Sonia Cacy, serving 99 years for the 1991 murder of her uncle in Fort Stockton, draws renewed parole support as experts dispute the forensic tests used in her 1993 conviction. Her attorney seeks a new trial while the Texas parole board may receive a flood of letters ahead of a November eligibility date.
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Fort Stockton
Sonia Cacy
Bill Richardson
United States
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Cacy
Gerald Hurst
Parole Board
Pecos County
Albert Valadez
Wall Street Journal
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ABC World News Tonight
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