Pipe-bomb killer Richardson executed in Alabama
Herbert Lee Richardson, 43, married in prison last week, was executed by electric chair at Holman Prison for the 1977 pipe bomb death of 11-year-old Rena Mae Callins in Dothan. The U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay after lower courts refused, Gov. Hunt denied clemency, and Richardson received 1,800 volts. He maintained no ill will in a final statement.
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Ala
Alabama
Herbert Lee Richardson
State Department of Corrections
Debbie Herbert
Rena Mae Callins
Dothan
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Atlanta
U.S. District
Robert Warner
Montgomery
Richardson
Guy Hunt
Holman
Charlie Jones
Morris Thigpen
Thigpen
Asteroid 1989 PB to Make Close Earth Approach
An estimated mile wide asteroid, 1989 PB, will pass about 2.5 million miles from Earth next week. Although near by astronomical standards, experts say the flyby poses no danger. Discovered Aug 9 by Eleanor Helin of NASA JPL, the object is among the closest large near misses this century.
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Earth
Brian Marsden
Central Bureau For Astronomical Telegrams
Cambridge
Mass
Eleanor Helin
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Helin
Astronomers Track Near Earth Asteroids And Their Risks
Astronomers Helin and Marsden discuss asteroids orbiting the sun and the chance of Earth impact. They note seven asteroids passing Earth in the past year, with Marsden calling it a statistical fluke while stressing ongoing vigilance and the possible use of spacecraft modifications to alter trajectories.
Man kills wife and himself after 64 hour Stockton hostage siege
In Stockton California a 35 year old man Dang Cha Xiong held his wife and eight children hostage for 64 hours before fatally shooting his wife and himself. Police say the nine hostages included seven children under 13 and a 12 year old boy who escaped and alerted authorities. The gunman who had a prior child abuse conviction died at a local hospital.
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Stockton
Calif
Dang Cha Xiong
Lucian Neely
Dang
Dennis Sanford
Andy Jackson
Neely
Rostenkowski booed by seniors after health plan talk
In Chicago a crowd of dozens of senior citizens chased House Ways and Means chair Dan Rostenkowski from a Northwest Side community center. Shouts of Liar, Impeach, and Recall followed him as opponents of federal health insurance voiced their anger after the meeting.
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Chicago
Dan Rostenkowski
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Associated Press
Rep Smith mourned at funeral mass in Biloxi Mississippi
Sheila Smith described Rep Lar kin Smith as a good family man and loyal public servant at the funeral mass in Biloxi for the 45 year old Republican freshman congressman killed in a Sunday night crash while returning to Gulfport from Hattiesburg.
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Miss
Larkin Smith
El'ag
Larkin
Sheila Smith
Mississippi
Plave
Gulfport
Hattiesburg
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