Sitcom Decor Sparks Envy and Realistic Blues
In a Saturday column, Sonja McGillivray laments how TV sitcom rooms flaunt pricey furnishings on Frasier and Dharma & Greg, provoking fantasy envy while noting real budgets differ sharply. The piece then ponders whether violent acts by youths stem from TV depictions or real-life family shortcomings, referencing Home Improvement and The Nanny.
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Associated Press
Worth Magazine
Frasier
Dharma & Greg
Dharma
Worth
Greg
Sanford and Son
San Francisco
Home Improvement
Tim
Taylor
Tim Allen
Controversy over children's books shelves in Wichita Falls Public Library
Wichita Falls librarians shelve Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddys Roommate in the juvenile non fiction area to avoid adult text exposure. The advisory board backed moving the titles but librarian Linda Hughes retained final decision citing age appropriate access for third to seventh graders. Public reaction grew after church leaders criticized the books. by June 8 catalog searches surged with 187 title inquiries.
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Wichita Falls
First Baptist Church of
Heather
Linda Hughes
Ector County
Emil Ciallella
Robert Jeffress
First Baptist Church
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Hughes
Jeffress
Nancy Horvath
Wichita Falls Metropolitan
Susan Serrano
Associated Press
Break the Cycle of Abuse Motorcycle? No. Bicycles. 24-hour ride kicks off in Midland
Permian Basin cyclists plan a 24 hour bike ride to raise awareness of child abuse. The fourth annual Break the Cycle of Abuse event starts at noon at Sam’s Club Midland and ends noon Sunday. Proceeds aid the Centers for Children and Families with counseling and support services.
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Permian Basin
Sam’s Club
Midland
Veronica Saucedo
Centers For Children and Families
Women hockey players join Odessa's music city league
Odessa amateur players Debbie Winemiller Sissy DeMesa and Joy Olexin compete in the Music City Mall men's hockey league. They back Flyers and Stars, with Winemiller a goalie and DeMesa a left wing. Odessan Roland Rodriguez also plays on the Flyers squad.
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Joy Olexin
Debbie Winemiller
Sissy DeMesa
Music City Mall
Winemiller
Crane
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Stars
Miller
Flyers
Olexia
Odessa
DeMesa
Music City Mail
Jackalopes
MCM
Olexin
Zona
Sissy” DeMesa
Tce
DeMosa
Odessan
Roland Rodriguez
Narvaiz Executed for 1988 Knife Rampage in Texas
Leopoldo Narvaiz Jr a 30 year old San Antonio man was put to death by lethal injection for a frenzied April 1988 attack that killed Narvaiz ex girlfriend Shannon Mann 17 and her siblings ages 11 to 19 in their trailer. The killings were described as San Antonio s worst crime carnage. Narvaiz who had been high on cocaine and drunk on beer barged into the home and carried out the slayings seven minutes after the lethal dose was administered. He declined a final statement as the drugs took effect. This marked Texas 11th execution that year and the third in three weeks.
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Huntsville
San Antonio
Leopoldo Narvaiz Jr
Gov. W. Bush
Henry Lee Lucas
Narvaiz
Texas
Shannon Mann
Anonymous gift fuels Midland College medical building drive
Midland College received a $50,000 donation from an anonymous benefactor to aid the Dorothy and Todd Aaron Medical Science Building project. The gift comes after the Abell-Hanger Foundation and the Aarons each contributed $1 million toward the $3 million construction effort, with October set for completion and a Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center physician assistant program to be added. The college continues fundraising to cover the remaining $750,000 share.
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Midland
Midland College
Dorothy and
Todd Aaron
Abell-Hanger Foundation
Aarons
Aaron
Midland College Cam
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
MNC
Daniel
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Freedom.com
Ginger Pope
Gign
Darwin Weigel
Lee
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