Yarbrough faces impeachment bid amid perjury forgery claims
A Texas House address resolution accuses Yarbrough of perjury forgery and solicitation of capital murder. He denounces the allegations as historically used in impeachments and seeks due process protections. A Travis County grand jury indicted him on perjury and forgery, while a Harris County bar suit seeks disbarment for alleged improper acts.
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HOUSE
Concurrent Resolution of Address
Yarbrough
Travis County
Harris County Bar Association
Senate weighs neutron bomb funding amid warhead debate
The Senate faces a floor vote on continuing funding for neutron weapons, intended to kill troops with limited blast damage. President Carter urged approval while opponents led by Sen. Mark Hatfield seek to strip funds from a public works bill. Carter cited security interests and two Aug. 15 Pentagon and ACDA studies as factors in a final decision.
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Washington
Senate
Carter
Europe
Mark Hatfield
R-Cve
NATO
Pentagon
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Prsident
Radical OPEC states resist attempts to freeze oil prices
In Stockholm OPEC radical states vowed to oppose a price freeze led by Saudi Arabia and Iran at 1978 levels. Libya and Algeria urged corrections to the $12.70 per barrel price with Venezuela partly opposing. Yamani linked price moderation to Arab-Israeli peace, while an interim committee was formed to study price differentials.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Libya
Ezzedin Mabrouk
Venezuela
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Middle East
Carter
Mideast
Congress
Yamani
Longview Man Charged with Murder in Infant Death
A 25 year old Longview man Terry Reed was jailed on first degree murder charges in the beating death of his nine month old stepdaughter Rachel Goldstein. Bond set at 100000 after police arrested him Tuesday. Doctors reported bruises on face head arms and cuts on legs.
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Longview
Tex
Charles Cashwell
Terry Reed
Reed
Rachel Goldstein
Good Shepherd
Weather watch: hot temps with storms through Sunday
Forecast calls for scattered mostly late day and night thunderstorms through Sunday. Expect clear to partly cloudy skies elsewhere with very warm temperatures. Highs mostly in the 90s, near 105 in the Big Bend area, and lows from the 60s to 70s, with 50s in the mountains.
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Big Bend
Two Filipina nurses found guilty in 1975 poisonings
In Detroit a federal jury convicted Narciso and Perez of poisoning three patients at a Veterans Administration hospital in Ann Arbor in 1975, with one count of murder acquitted for Narciso. Both face life terms on poisoning convictions while conspiracy charges were upheld.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Veterans Administration Hospital
Ann Arbor
Filipina
Narciso
Ypsilanti
Leonora Perez
Miss Narciso
Perez
Odessa lawyer challenges Texas 55 mph limit as unconstitutional
A Odessa lawyer argues before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that the states 55 mph speed limit law is unconstitutional claiming the 1973 statute delegates legislative power to the Texas Highway Commission. He appealing his speeding conviction for driving 65 and a $105 fine, asserting Congress tied highway aid to the limit and that lawmakers cannot delegate criminal penalties to an administrative board.
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Austin Tex
Congress
Kenworthy
Nursing home abuses in Texas labeled critical by federal probe
A House aging committee report cites Texas nursing homes as far more violative than the national average. It cites unsanitary conditions and neglect, urges unified state agency oversight, stricter enforcement, and underlines an ongoing need for congressional action after Lufkin News stories on local facilities.
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Lufkin
Tex
Texas
U.S
Charles Wilson
David Holton
House Select Committee On Aging
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Wilson
Lufkin News
Texas Nursing Home
Department of Health Resources
Department
Attorney General’s Office
Ten bicycles await owners at police headquarters
The police department reports about 10 bicycles that need to be claimed. Chief Charles Smith states any person who has lost a bicycle can visit police headquarters at Sixth and Oak and claim if it is there.
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Charles Smith
Sixth and
Oak
Brother and sister duo accused in Texas bank robbery
In Austin, police arrested Barry Lane Bennett and Bonnie Bennett Hudgins, a Zachary, Louisiana pair, within thirty minutes of the Travis Bank & Trust Co robbery. A man waved a .32 caliber revolver at teller Melissa Casbeer and demanded only $50 and $100 bills, fleeing with under $5,000. Bennetts were held on aggravated robbery charges. money was recovered at their north Austin apartment where they had lived for about two weeks. A third person was briefly detained but not charged.
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Austin
Tex
Travis Bank & Trust Co
Barry Lane Bennett
Bonnie Bennett Hudgins
Zachary
Melissa Casbeer
Bennett
North
FBI
Small hitch halts Texas House vote on school finance bill
A procedural snag tied to the Texas Constitution blocked a House vote on a public school finance bill. The 943.5 million Senate measure was read but required separate readings and a four fifths vote to advance. Speaker Bill Clayton aims for Thursday final passage with a four fifths vote, while some liberals suggest Senate Bill 1 could gain enough votes.
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Texas Constitution
House
Bill Clayton
Senate
Clayton
John Bryant
Dallas
Dickens
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