Fort Worth Mayor Attends Chicago Funeral For Drowning Victims
Fort Worth Texas mayor Mike Moncrief spoke through tears at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago for the funeral of Myron Dukes and his children Christopher 18 and Lauren 8 who perished in a downtown fountain during a National Baptist Sunday School congress. Juaniince Deadman 11 also died in the incident. Moncrief pledged Fort Worth will do the right thing for the families and noted police and fire crews did all they could to save the victims. The four were among 120 church members in town for the congress.
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National Baptist Sunday School
Baptist Training Union Congress
Woman freed after 13 years in Illinois murder case
Elizabeth Ehlert, 45, was released from Lincoln Correctional Center after 13 years behind bars when her 1990 murder conviction for her newborn daughter's death was overturned by a split Illinois Supreme Court. Diagnosed with lung cancer, she plans chemotherapy and to reconnect with her two sons as she faces an uncertain future.
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Supreme Court limits cross examination of rape accusers in Illinois
The Illinois Supreme Court on a 6-1 vote barred a rape defendant from cross examining an accuser about her sexual past when the acts were not linked to the case. The decision upholds the 1978 rape shield law restricting testimony on past sexual conduct unless it involves the defendant or a constitutionally required exception. The Santos case affirmed that DNA evidence showing non-consent factors can shape, but not authorize, such lines of questioning. Santos remains entitled to a new trial, with jurors to hear that the accuser was under 17 at the time.
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Air Force drops court-martial for Illinois pilot in 2002 bombing
Maj. Harry Schmidt will face nonjudicial punishment for dropping a 500 pound laser guided bomb near Kandahar in 2002 that killed four Canadians and wounded eight. Charges of manslaughter and aggravated assault will be dismissed. he may receive up to 30 days confinement or one month’s pay. Schmidt will remain with the Illinois Air National Guard but not as a pilot. Ontario soldiers killed, Canadian families affected. Governor Blagojevich releases statement seeking closure.
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Man charged with drug conspiracy in multi state case
East St Louis AP reports Collinsville man Edward J. Trober 55 indicted for conspiring to traffic more than a ton of marijuana from 1994 to last year and for money laundering sending drug proceeds to Panama and Switzerland. Michael R. Peyla 56 of Maryville also arrested on similar conspiracy charges.
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Michael R. Peyla
Maryville
Man gets 60 years for killing wife
In Belleville AP report, 46 year old Robert Kovacic was sentenced by St. Clair County Judge Milton Wharton to 60 years for first degree murder of his wife Ginger Kovacic. Prosecutors said he stabbed her in the back during an April 29, 1999 argument, two days before their second wedding anniversary, and hid the decomposing body.
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