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Alcott school attendance drops
NORMAN (AP) — Students worried about unsubstantiated rumors of kids
bringing guns to school stayed away from classes at Alton Middle School in
Norman on Friday.
A total of 237 students out of the 686 enrolled at the middle school were
absent Connie Blaney. district spokeswoman, said the average absentee rate per
day at the school is 150. meaning 87 more students than normal were absent.
Blaney said the distnct had heightened security Fnday and officials and
teachers tried to reassure students and parents that everything was fine.
She said school distnct officials and campus police had been working since
Wednesday to try to address the reports and school officials answered questions
from parents about the rumors.
Blaney said after their thorough investigation, the distnct felt confident that
no students were bnnging guns to school and that the rumors were unfounded.
She said it was quiet at school Fnday with classes in session.
'Some kids believed that they had heard other studenLs had personal threaLs
against them,” said Chns Purcell, the mother of two Alcott students and the
school's PrA president "My eighth-grade son had heard it was an Apnl Fools
joke."
Former auto dealer pleads guilty
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former automobile dealer in Lawton and
Fredcnck pleaded guilty Fnday to federal bank fraud charges.
U.S. Attorney Dan Webber said the charges against Earl Hemng Sr. anise
from a check kiting scheme in 1005 Webber said Hemng agreed to make resti-
tution of $787,163 to AmQuest Bank in l^wton and First Southwest Bank in
Fredenck. The amount will be split evenly between the banks.
Hemng could face up to 30 years in pnson and a fine of up to $ I million He
will he sentenced later.
OERB plans to clean more oilfields
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board has
voted to add $12 million to its fiscal year budget with at least half that amount
going to environmental restoration projects.
The OERB has the additional money because of the higher energy prices. It
is funded through a voluntary one-tenth of I percent assessment on oil and nat-
ural gas producers and royalty owners.
The additional money may mean 120 more abandoned oilfeld sites will be
restored this year.
Executive Director Mike 'ferry said the agency could restore 500 to 600 sites
this year. It cleaned up almost 400 sites last year.
Man sentenced for hate attack
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man who randomly assaulted a woman on the street
was sentenced to six years in pnson in the first case of its kind to be prosecuted
as a hate crime in California.
A jury found that Billy McCall’s hatred of women motivated the Aug. I
attack. That added two years to McCall’s sentence, which was handed down
Thursday.
The case was the first time the state's hate crime law has been used to prose-
cute an offense motivated by the victim's gender. Hate enme laws usually are
applied in cases involving crimes motivated by race, ethnicity or sexual menta-
tion.
The victim had been tackled from behind and hit her head on the sidewalk.
McCall. 29. was convicted March 2.
McCall's attorney. Karolyn Kovtun. said an appeal has been filed challenging
the use of the hate enme law.
Karen McLaughlin, director of the National Center for Hate Crime Preven-
tion in Boston, said McCall's conviction was one of the first of its kind in the
nation.
Xerox to eliminate 5,200 jobs
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Business machines giant Xerox Corp.. strug-
gling to compete in both the large and small office markets, plans to slash 5.200
jobs, close manufacturing plants and take a $625 million charge against earnings
in the first quarter
The job cuts represent 5.5 percent of the company’s worldw ide work force of
94.600
‘ While those are difficult actions for our people. Xerox can no longer operate
business as usual and expect to win." said Rick Thoman. the Xerox president and
chief executive. "We're intensifying our drive to become a faster, leaner and
more flexible enterpnsc."
Thoman said the marketplace has changed from the days when the company
was a leader in photocopying technokigy. Xerox said the cutbacks will help the
company focus on its two core markets: business machines such as copiers for
home and medium-sized offices, and larger systems that enable big companies
to organize and share information in the form of digital documents
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Smooth as silk
Concrete workers Terry Pollet, left, and Steve Wilson with TNT Construction of Ponca City finish off a new sidewalk in
front of the Sapulpa Post Office with a seal coat. The sidewalk finishes up repairs to the postal building that have been ongo-
ing for several weeks
Dad guilty of injecting teens with methamphetamine
PAPILLION. Neb (AP) — A father
who prosecutors and defenders said just
wanted "to be cool" was found guilty
today of repeatedly injecting his daugh-
ter and two of her teen-age friends with
methamphetamine
Dennis Avery. 50. could get up to 95
years in prison for three counts of child
abuse, three counts of drug distribution
and one count of drug possession.
In a tense courtroom packed with
about 40 people, inc luding the girls and
their parents. Sarpy County District
Judge William Zastera announced the
verdict and set sentencing for June 2.
Prosecutor Tricia Freeman said Av-
ery was try ing to get close to his daugh-
ter. now 16. and two friends aged 16
and 17. injecting them with the drug
from fall 1998 to last October.
“He just kind of w anted to be popu-
lar with the kids." she said in her clos-
ing argument. "He wanted to be cool.”
Defense attorneys argued there was
no proof Avery injected the girls with
the drug.
The girls could testify knowledge-
ably because they saw Avery use it, said
defense attorney Gregory Pivovar.
"Dennis Avery is a cool dad who
tried to be a cool guy," Pivovar said in
closing arguments Thursday. "He tried
to impress them w ith the fact 'hat he did
ineth. You see it once and you know
how it's done.”
Freeman said Avery injected two of
the girls 20 to 30 times, and one possi-
bly 75 times, w ith "crank." a slang term
for methamphetamine.
She said he took the girls to buy the
drug and bound their right arms with
thick rubber bands before injections,
showed them how to cook the drug.
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Prosecutors ask
court to deny
McVeigh’s appeal
DENVER (AP) — Convicted Okla-
homa City bomber Timothy McVeigh
has no legitimate cause for complaint,
federal prosecutors said Friday in
opposing McVeigh's death row app< il
and request for a new trial.
"Our legal system provided
McVeigh a multi-million dollar defense
team to advocate his interests before an
impartial judge and jury selected tar
from the site of his deadly crime." Sean
Connelly, special attorney to the U.S.
Attorney General wrote in a brief filed
in U.S. Distnct Court in Denver on Fri-
day.
In his second attempt to have his
conviction and death sentence over
turned. McVeigh claimed his lawyer.
Stephen Jones, failed to provide ade-
quate representation McVeigh claims
Jones leaked inflammatory stories
about him to the media, including a
purported confession, had a book deal
in the works and had a conflict of inter-
est by becoming friends with Susan
Ferrell’s parents.
Ferrell was one of 168 people kilk-d
in the Apnl 19. 1995. bombing of the
Alfred P Mu nail Federal Building
McVeigh also claimed some jurors
were not honest in their answers at jury
selection and said the government sup
pressed evidence.
Connelly dismissed those claims in
his argument.
“McVeigh sits on death row not
because our legal system failed him but
rather because his guilt was proven
fairly beyond any reasonable doubt and
his crime cned out for the ultimate pun-
ishment," he said.
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Anger remains
at Fort Gibson
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The
healing after December's schtxil shtxit-
ing at Fort Gibson Middle Schtxil is
going skiw.
‘T know people think we're over it,
but there's still some anger there and
we have to deal with it,” Superinten-
dent Sieve Wilmolh said Thursday as
he participated in a workshop on keep-
ing schools safe.
Four students were shot and wound-
ed by a fellow student on Dec. 6 as they
waited for schtxil to begin for the day.
A fifth student was injured by a rico-
chet bullet
Those kids probably got over it
quicker than the kids standing next to
them or the teachers because they’ve
had to deal with guilt." he said. “It’s
been amazing to watch."
School officials have deal with a lot
over the three months since the shill-
ing, including phone calls from people
offering free security equipment or
other services as long as the school
agreed to let them use the school shin-
ing to sell products.
"I’m trying to do schtxil manage-
ment and still three months later. I'm
dealing with letters and calls like this.
It's ridiculous," he said.
One thing schtxil officials didn’t
anticipate was that other students might
be consider a shooting.
But Wilmoth said that two weeks
ago he suspended two “very young"
elementary students who outlined a
detailed plan to kill classmates. He said
they had listed the names of classmates
they were going to kill.
"These kids can detail how they're
going to kill sometxxJy," he said.
That’s not normal "
Wilmoth said the district plans to
have security in place by fall that could
stop violence before it starts.
The district will install cameras in
all schools, keyless locks on interior
doors and lights in parking lots. TW
way radios have been putvhased and
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