Philippines election violence hits last campaign days
Three killed and 56 wounded in two explosions on the final campaigning day for the Philippine national election. Voters will choose a successor to President Corazon Aquino with seven presidential candidates. Police said deaths occurred in General Santos City and Cotabato, while a bombing in Quezon City caused no casualties.
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Imelda Marcos
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Aquino
Congress
Fidel Ramos
Commission On Elections
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Ramos Party
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Quezon City
Marcos
Ramos
Ramon Mitra
Miriam Defensor Santiago
Eduardo
Police Overstate City Gang Problems Say Officials
Police are accused of overstating gang activity in the city as officials review crime data and community concerns, arguing that resources may be misallocated while residents call for clearer evidence and safer neighborhoods.
Odessa Disputes AG Report On Local Gang Activity
Odessa police challenge a Texas attorney general study that lists 18 Odessa gangs with about 175 members, arguing many are juveniles who merely hang out rather than felons. The AG’s office counted urban gang members across 12 Texas cities, noting variability in membership trends.
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Texas Attorney General’s Office
Abilene
Austin
Corpus Christi
Dallas
el Paso
Fort Worth
Galveston
Harlingen
Houston
San Antonio
Tyler
Texas
Eee
A Morales
Jim Jenkins
Attorney General
Texas Attorney General's Office
Odessa counselor warns gangs persist in community
Odessa drug and alcohol counselor James Barnes says the city faces a hard core gang problem that won’t disappear with quick fixes. He warns against ignoring the issue and notes 7 to 8 gangs involve over 200 youths. Barnes and his wife Marcy have spent years engaging families, youth, and jail inmates to curb gang influence. COUNSELOR/6A
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Life Challenge United Pentecostal Church
13Th St
Barnes
California
Los Angeles
Marcy
Ector County
Barneses
Odessa Burdened by Remarks in Prison Site Vote
Odessa officials say they lost a 1,000-bed state prison project by one vote to Fort Stockton after Texas Board chair Selden Hale criticized Odessa’s bid on an audiotape from the April 10 meeting. Fort Stockton won the facility that would have created about 317 jobs and $4.7 million in annual sales, with Odessa arguing its location served Midland and Odessa better and offered superior medical facilities.
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Texas Board
West Texas
Fort Stockton
Texas de Ent of Criminal Justice
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Stephens
Ector County
Midland
Fear grips King jurors after acquittal verdicts
After two months on the Rodney King trial jury not sharing last names jurors face fear and anger across the nation. They report hate mail threats and sleepless nights as disruptions and safety concerns rise following the controversial acquittal of four white Los Angeles policemen.
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Los Angeles
Rodney King
America
White House
State probes care of medically disabled children in Texas
An investigation into Heritage Manor Care Center in Hondo reveals 12 suspicious child deaths in 1991 linked to staffing and training shortcomings. The probe, sparked by a complaint about bed confinement, targets Sentennce Health Villas of Dallas and Health Department officials.
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Honda
Texas Department of Health
Austin
Heritage Manor
Hondo
Andrea Jones
Heriocosm
Sentennce Health Villas
Dallas
Health Department
Healt
Regiona
Henry Mortiz
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