Zippy Chippy Scratched From Race After Non Entry Losses
A lighthearted column notes Zippy Chippy, the horse with the most losses in U.S. racing, was scratched at Garden State Park after failing to leave the gate at Finger Lakes, tying his record with an 85th loss. The piece contrasts winning with broader societal values and cites famous figures to question what true success means. Sonja McGillivray's column appears weekly.
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Ither
Vince Lombardi
William Shakespeare
Francis Bacon
Associated Press
Zippy Chippy
U.S
Garden State Park
Cherry Hill
N.J
Finger Lakes Race Track
Farmington
N.Y
Zip
Finger Lakes
Zippy
Northampton
Mass
Silver
Lone Ranger
Trigger
Roy Rogers
Tornado
Zorro
Mr. Ed
Wilbur
O.J. Simpson
Adolf Hitler
KOSA TV to be bought by Odessa businessman in new mall move
FCC approves KOSA TV sale to Benedek Broadcasting John Bushman and ICA Broadcasting in Odessa. Bushman plans moving studios to Music City Mall, spending over 1.5 million on upgrades including a live news set for shoppers and expanded local news. Plans include Midland studio for Hamm and a mall location near Luby’s and KMCM FM with completion hoped by year end.
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Federal Communications Commission
Kosa-Tv
Channel 7
Odessa
CBS
Benedek Broadcasting
John Bushman
ICA Broadcasting
Bushman
Music City Mall
Permian Basin
Whitaker Avenue
KOSA
Tatum Hubbard
Lee
KMID
Pamela Hamm
Midland
Hamm
Luby’s
Kmcm-Fm Radio
McDonald’s
East 42Nd Street
Lowe's La Tienda to keep open despite beer ban ruling
Lowe's area manager Roy Pittman states La Tienda on West Clements Street will stay open and has no plans to close. He argues selling beer and wine is needed to stay competitive as 300 feet from Ector Junior High School blocks alcohol sales by ordinance. Council declined to approve a variance.
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Lowe’s
la Tienda
West Clements Street
Lowe's
Roger Lowe Jr
Roy Pittman
Odessa
Pittman
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
TABC
Terry Parsons
West Clements
Ector Junior High
Identity theft cases indict two Texas residents
On March 15 Carlos Torres Chavarria of Lufkin and Valerie Denise Tennon of Midland were indicted in separate identity theft schemes using others' Social Security numbers to obtain merchandise. Chavarria faces eight counts totaling about 160000 dollars, Tennon twelve counts totaling about 58848 dollars.
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Carlos Torres Chavarria
Lufkin
Valerie Denise Tennon
Midland
Chavarria
Tennon
Norwest Financial
Odessa
Federal Trade Con
Consumertheft.gov
Repair bill for Texas prisons tops billion dollars
Huntsville officials say more than two dozen aging Texas prisons need repair or replacement. Estimates range from 1 to 3 billion dollars over the next six years, with replacement pegged at about 2.4 billion. Maintenance runs about 32 million per two years as several facilities reach a century old.
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Texas
Huntsville
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Texas Board of Criminal Justice
John David Franz
Franz
Wayne Scott
Scott
Former Rwandan pastor sent to UN tribunal
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana a 75 year old former Seventh Day Adventist pastor charged with genocide and crimes against humanity has been deported from the United States to face the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha Tanzania. He was living in Laredo after arrest in 1996 and stopped in Houston en route to Africa.
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FBI
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
Webb County
Laredo
United Nations Tribunal
Houston
U.S
United Nations
Don DeGabrielle
International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda
Arusha
Tanzania
Ntakirutimana
Africa
DeGabrielle
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Sonja McGillivray
Link
Freedom.com
FCC
Roy Pittman Lowe
Lara Meckfessel
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