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Man gets life without parole in shooting
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A jury deliberated about 9 hours before sentenc-
ing a man to life in prison without parole for gunning down a Tulsa
woman outside a health clinic two years ago.
The jury returned its verdict Thursday night in the case of Steven
Antonio White, 19. White had been found guilty Tuesday of first-
degree murder.
Michelle Hendrix, 30. died after being shot in the chest and arm
outside the John Tomblin Memorial Health Center Feb. 29.1996.
She was holding her 5-month-old daughter in a carrier and the hand
of her 2-year-old daughter when she was confronted by a purse snatcher
and then shot, testimony indicated.
Reward offered for article linked to race riot
TULSA. Okla. (AP) - Historians don’t know exactly what The Tulsa
Tribune reported the night of the May 31. 1921, and they’re willing to
pay cash to find out.
A commission studying the city’s 1921 race riot is offering a reward
for articles that vanished decades ago from archived copies of the
newspaper.
“We want to weigh the role of those articles. and right now, no one
has a copy," said Bob Blackburn, chairman of the Oklahoma Commis-
sion to Study the Tulsa Race Riot.
The articles long have been suspected of triggering violence that
broke out that night when white mobs threatened to lynch a black man
accused of attacking a white elevator operator.
Witnesses say the Tribune’s headlines read. “Nab Negro for Attack-
ing Girl in Elevator' ’ and “To Lynch Negro Tonight.’ ’
The rioting destroyed 35 blocks of the black business district. and
accounts of the dead varied from dozens to several hundred, mostly
blacks.
Before the May 31 issue was microfilmed for the Tribune archives,
someone carefully cut out the front-page article and a back-page
editorial.
Authorities reopen toddler death case
TULSA. Okla. (AP) - Tulsa police are taking a second look at the
1991 death of a toddler following the arrest of a man charged with
beating a 14-month-old boy to death.
Carious Lougene Jackson. 40. was charged Wednesday with first-
degree murder in the death of Kevin Jerrodrick Moore, who was found
dead at his mother's home early Saturday.
In 1991, Jackson also was the common-law husband of Pam Hatcher,
whose son, 14-month-old LaRon D. Hill. died two days after being
found not breathing in the home she and Jackson shared.
“Any time I see two dead kids around the same person. I start to ask
myself, ‘Coincidence, or is there more to it?’ " Tulsa County Assistant
District Attorney Tim Harris said Thursday.
A medical examiner’s report says the child died of hypoxic encephal-
opathy, which is brain death due to low oxygenation and cardiopulmo-
nary arrest. The manner of death was listed as unknown.
Harris said investigators are looking at medical and Department of
Human Services records in the case.
Man chosen to oversee dosing of Rogers
CLAREMORE. Okla. (AP) - A Rogers University administrator has
been selected to oversee the closing of the university and the establish-
nent of a new four-year school in Claremore.
James D. Hess, vice president of administrative services, was chosen
Thursday as the transition's chief executive officer. He will serve until
Jan. 1.
The action by Rogers University regents follows legislation signed
into law by Gov. Frank Keating that transforms Rogers University in
Tulsa into a branch campus of Oklahoma State University. The law sets
out a division and transfer of assets, liabilities and the educational
mission of Rogers University.
OSU-Tulsa and Rogers State University in Claremore begin opera-
tionsJan. 1.
Rogers State University will be under the direction of the Board of
Regents of Oklahoma Colleges.
Hess has worked for 15 of his 17 years in higher education at the
Claremore school, which was known as Rogers State College before its
merger with the University Center at Tulsa in 1996.
The merger created Rogers University, with campuses in Tulsa and
Claremore.
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and property markets collapsed
starting in 1990. Some economists
say Japan has gone into recession
twice since then - in 1992 and in
1994-1995. Others say the second
downturn technically may ikm uaw
been a recession.
Under intense pressure at home
and abroad to revive growth to help
the rest of Asia, Hashimoto earlier
this year reversed his policy of fis-
cal tightening and announced the
stimulus package.
The biggest danger from today’s
figures may be psychological.
The announcement is only the lat-
est in a constant banage of bad eco-
nomic news that Japanese corporate
managers and consumers have
heard for almost a year.
Economists say the danger is that
all this gloom and doom may be-
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Friends and foes are operating on 1
the premise that Republican Wes
Watkins will officially drop his re- ।
tirement plans and announce 1
Saturday that he will run again for
his 3rd Congressional District post. '
"I think that’s a very strong prob-
ability,” veteran Republican politi- ■
cal consultant Tom Cole said 1
Thursday.
Cole, secretary of state in the
administration of GOP Gov. Frank
Keating, saftHte will do everything
he can to help Watkins in a re-elec-
tion bid.
Watkins’ office said the con-
gressman would announce his plans
at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at his head-
quarters in Stillwater.
After undergoing a serious back
operation in April, Watkins said last
month that he would not seek re-
election. On Thursday, he tbid The
Associated Press his recovery "has
been more rapid than even my neu-
rosurgeon thought possible."
Cole said Watkins’ reconsidering
the race was tied solely to his health
improvement.
"He’s going to have a second op-
eration, but hes going to be OK -
that’s not something we could say
with any certainty 60 days ago,”
Cole said.
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follows a drop of 0.4 percent - re- recovery since the region’s eco-
vised downward today from an ear- nomic crisis began last summer.
Watkins said the operation will be majority in Congress.
in August. He said he would need all the help
Former Democratic state Rep. he can if he runs because he will be
Walt Roberts, convinced that unable to campaign 16 to 18 hours a
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Japan in severe recession, Asia’s
economic crisis growing bleaker
to pressure from national
Republican leaders in an effort to
keep the balance of power in
Congress for the GOP.
"The selling of the Third District
will not help us of rural America,”
said Roberts, who is seeking the
Democratic nomination in the dis-
trict.
Another Democratic candidate,
state Sen. Darryl Roberts, D-
Ardmore, declined to predict what
Watkins will do.
"I really dont know,” he said. "I
dont know when to believe him. It
wont affect my campaign plans one
bit. I am focused presently on win-
ning the Democratic nomination."
Darryl Roberts was the
Democratic nominee two years ago,
losing to Watkins in the general
election.
Watkins represented the district
for 14 years as a Democrat before
leaving Congress. He ran unsuc-
cessfully for governor two times,
once as a Democrat and once as an
independent. He then switched to
Republican to run for his old con-
gressional post.
Watkins and Cole said it would
only be fitting for the national GOP
leadership to help Watkins finan-
cially, since the seat is considered
critical to Republicans holding their
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - A he was always taking her here and
retired policeman who lovingly there,.... I can! imagine (him) doing
tended to his wife as her health de- this."
teriorated is accused of killing her Police and prosecutors did not
and the couples daughter before speculate on a motive.
forcing police into a four-hour The siege began after a 42-year-
standoff old man, bleeding heavily from a
Anthony Ambrosovitch, 65, was gunshot wound, waved down a car,
charged with two counts of second- shouting that he and two women
degree murder Thursday after toss- had been shot. A police arrived
: ing two handguns aside and surren- minutes later, gunfire pinned them
: dering as SWAT teams stormed his down until an armored vehicle
: house in this suburb north of New could rescue them.
: York City. The injured man, described by
’ Inside, not far from the front door, neighbor as. the daughterb boy-
; police found the bodies of Gloria friend, was hospitalized in stable
: Ambrosovitch, 70, and the couples condition.
: 40-year-old daughter, Melinda
• Podesta, both dead from gunshots.
"He took good care of his wife,1*.
: said Eileen Pilla, mayor of
: Tarrytown and a friend of the cou-
2 ple. "She was in a wheelchair and
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the January-March
. come a self-fulfilling prophecy:
He said the fact the House leader- worried factory managers.couldcut
ship wants him to run will be of back on production and hiring.and
"great benefit to the Third District,” nervous consumers could cut hack
ership didn want you there? You could make the economy 8° from
wouldn't be worth much,’" he said. a ° worse.
MARTINFACKLER Her estimate of 0.2 percent - in the Now pessimism about Japan’s Economists agree most of Japanb
ASSOCIATED PRESS previous quarter. economy has driven the yen to an problems are its own doing. Unwise
TOKYO (AP) - Japan announced Two back-to-back quarters of eight-year low against the U.S. lending by Japanese banks a decade
its first year of economic contrac- economic contraction is the gener- dollar. That has put renewed selling ago has lefti them burdened with an
tion in two decades today confirm- ally accepted definition of a reces- pressure on currencies of other estimated 5531 billion m raiieo
in"hagogniscnraarevna rescwsin swhile Sapanese officials avoided off those bad loans has
will worsen Asia’s economic crisis. the word "recession,” they admitted remain competitive in key markets absorbed most of the excess cash in
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financial despair. Japan has found The data illustrated the severity Thai baht in July 1997 that triggered loans iobusinessm worse Prime
itself unable to pull out of a stub- of the economy, said Shimpei Asia’s regional crisis. T0 mak6 m u "oS6,. Z
born eight-year downturn that twice Nukaya, the top-ranking bureaucrat J tock mrkets ended the Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto em-
before drove its economy into re- at the Economic Planning Agency. wAk . d . b the key in- barked on a program to raise taxes
cession Prospects aren bright for the cur- "lf "s mL’edg lercnt. and balance Japan’s federal budget
The country’s Economic Planning rent year, although the EPA is ds b. ever bnddy PaI _ on justas its economy was showingit
Agency said Japan’s gross domestic standing by its 1.9 percent growth fears at the falling Japanese yen first sign of recovery sinee •
product f r the fiscal year ending forecast. While economists say an could wreck the Sofh Korean 1 he tax increase squelched con-
March 1998 shrank by 0.7 percent, upcoming $116 billion stimulus economy. sumer spending.
the first full year of economic con- package will help, Japan has shown -i . Japans economy has been in a
traction since 1974. no signs of taking the painful steps In announcing the GDP figures, stubborn slump ever since its stock
Quarterly figures showed what needed to cure its economic woes. an official tor the Economic
many economists had already "The package won! be enough to Planning Agency said falling de-
feared: Japan is in a full-blown re- turn things around," said Chris mand for Japanese exports in Asia,
cession. H Calderwood, chief economist at the Japans largest market was one of
The agency said gross domestic Tokyo branch of Jardine Fleming the biggest factors behind the poor
product, the sum of all goods and Securities. "This year will be a showing,
services produced in Japan, fell by a growth crater."
steeper-than-expected 1.3 percent in Asia’s battered financial markets
the January-March quarter. That had been showing their first signs of
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