Stanton man sentenced to life in prison
Juan Carlos Valles, 35, was sentenced to life after a Stanton jury convicted him of raping and sodomizing a 10 year old girl. Prosecutors described the act as calculated with Valles attempting to bribe the victim and using a police scanner to monitor authorities. He had prior prison time and other sexual assault accusations without convictions.
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Stanton
Juan Carlos Valles
Huntsville State Prison
Hardy Wilkerson
118Th Judicial District
Walles
Howard
Martin
Big Spring
Michael Adams
Valles
Adams
Wilkerson
Permian Basin Fair winds down with final cleanup and budget hopes
Fair officials wrap up the 2000 Permian Basin Fair and Exposition as Sunday cleanup removes cables and debris. President Chuck Leckbee says attendance may reach almost 70,000 despite triple digit heat, with a $7,000 profit planned and scholarships aim. Future plans include promotions and adjustments for next year.
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Permian Basin Fair and Exposition
Chuck
Leckbee
Fair Board
Drought and Heat Ravage Texas Crops and Water Supply
The drought and heat wave scorch crops causing about 595 million in losses led by cotton at 285 million with grasshoppers adding 192 million in damage. Since 1996 statewide losses top 5 billion, 178 counties declared agricultural disaster areas, 186 counties still under loan or burn effects as wildfire monitoring continues. Lake Throckmorton water level dropped, with a 21 mile pipeline project underway to a neighboring supply.
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Dallas
National Weather Service
Skip Ely
Ely
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Extension Service
Beverly Boyd
Agriculture Department
Texas Department of Agriculture
U.S. Agriculture
Dan Glickman
Texas Forest Service
Houston man 70 convicted of threatening Sen Gramm
George Patrick Calhoon, a 70-year-old Houston activist, was found guilty of threatening to assault Republican Sen. Phil Gramm in a message to Gramm’s Houston office. The case ties to disputes with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and other officials. sentencing set for December 4.
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Houston
Phil Gramm
Texas Gop US
Kay Bailey Hutchison
George Patrick Calhoon
Calhoon
Gramm
Hutchison
Dallas
Fred Thompson
R-Tenn
Tom DeLay
FBI
TEX-21 discussion on routes linking U S and Mexico in Presidio
TEX-21 conduct statewide tour in Odessa to outline 2001 legislative strategies and hear MOTRAN and La Entrada Al Pacifico supporters. The coalition of Texas cities pursues improved transport, with committees on intermodal NAFTA corridors transportation finance and air.
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TEX-21
Odessa
Motran
la Entrada al Pacifico
Transportation
Texas
Jerry McGuire
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Stanton Man
Stanton Police
Zane Pittman
Sealy
Ector County Fair
West Texas
Karen
Hirst
Times
Cindera Nealy
Throckmorton
Sen. Gramm
U.S
Mexico
Presidio
Armando Martinez
Sinola
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