Parole raises doubts as Higgins released then arrested
Benjamin Higgins, jailed 10 years for armed robbery and brutal beating, was paroled after 2.5 years and soon after arrested for a grocery store shooting. Louisville DA Armstrong calls parole a sham and urges determinate sentencing to curb career criminals amid prison overcrowding and reform proposals nationwide.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Benjamin Higgins
David Armstrong
Higgins
Kentucky
Armstrong
Debate over gun control stirs national response and lobby power
Amid high profile shootings including John Lennon and Ronald Reagan, national gun politics heat up. The NRA grows from 250,000 to 1.8 million members with a $30 million budget as calls for a 21 day waiting period and FBI checks gain traction, while opponents warn of black markets and constitutional loss. Jerry Tinker backs Kennedy bill, arguing it curbs violence without banning firearms. The Odessa gun trade cites ongoing demand for concealed, small caliber pistols.
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Reagan
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Coalition To Ban
Washington Post
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Harvey's Loans and Jewelry
Odessa
FBI
Jerry Tinker
U.S
Edward Kennedy
Tinker
Kennedy
Budget battles shape Texas Senate debate on holidays and funds
The Texas Senate debated the proposed budget with amendments on state holidays and lobby funding. Sen Leedom sought fewer holidays, arguing fewer days could match other workers, but his plan failed 25-3. Mengden's move to bar lobby groups from state funding also failed 27-2. The budget envisages a 20.3 percent increase, boosting salaries for state workers, teachers, and college faculty, while cutting driver education funding. It also allocates 177.7 million for more prison cells and 6.4 million for unanticipated prison-related needs after a court order ruling rights violations.
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Parker
Meier
John Leedom
Dallas
Senate
Lennon killer Chapman gets June trial date
National briefs report that John Lennon slayer Mark David Chapman, 26, pleads not guilty and remains under 24 hour death by own action watch in a prison hospital on Rikers Island. He faces a June trial for the shooting of Lennon's 40 year old self and Yoko Ono outside the luxury Central Park area residence.
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New York
Mark David Chapman
John Lennon
Chapman
Rikers Island
Lennon
Yoko Ono
Sentral Park
Weather service ends frost forecasting in three states
Robert Cole of the National Weather Service says the federal weather forecast program and its 15 forecasters will be cut by Sept 30 to save costs, forcing farmers in Florida, Southern California and Texas to hire private weather consultants next winter to predict damaging frosts.
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Miami
Florida
California
Texas
Robert Cole
National Weather Service
Fort Worth
Del Mar deploys sand-filled tube to shield shoreline homes
In Del Mar California a 600 foot sand filled polyethylene tube buried under the beach stands as the town s latest wave shield. Installed in January the tubed barrier remains untested after only one major winter storm.
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del Mar
Calif
Reagan plan eyed to cut Social Security benefits and alter early retirement
The proposal aims to reduce benefits for retirees under 62 and shift earnings tests. It forecasts a 34 percent monthly cut for a 62 year old next year, rising to about 40 percent by 1987, while removing the current earnings test.
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Reagan
Retirement Plans Spark Debate Over Social Security Changes
Virginia Matthews of Madison Connecticut voices concern over Reagan era changes to Social Security retirement. She and others fear cuts from 80 percent at 62 to 55 percent would force longer work lives, threaten health sick and those ready to retire, and undermine faith in government and planning for the young.
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United Auto Workers
United Steelworkers
Weathers
Rural Electric Cooperative
Virginia Matthews
Madison, Conn
Matthews
White House
Reagan
Retirement Dreams Dashed by Social Security Changes
Agnes Murdaugh of Whittier Calif a 60 year old medical secretary counts on retiring at 62 in September 1982. Her 65 year old husband retired after a heart attack just before 62. A western Massachusetts businessman and his wife who planned retirement fear their plans will be ruined if the reform goes through.
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Agnes Murdaugh
Whittier
Calif
Weather outlook cool tonight then warming with midweek rise
Forecasters at Midland Regional Airport expect a cool night with upper 50s temps and SW winds 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow will warm to mid 80s with winds rising to 15 to 20 mph. A tornado in Emberson, Northeast Texas, injured 28 and demolished 21 structures including a church. Six injuries required hospitalization. eyewitnesses described a wall of debris.
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Emberson
Texas
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Doug Winn
Paris
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