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State News Briefs
((dnesday, Sept<
—
Thi
Soldier receives
life in prison
FORT BLTSS(AP) - A soldier convict
ed of stabbing his girlfriend to death, pos
sibly with a bayonet, has been sentenced
to life in prison.
Sgt 1st Class Donald Ray Fletcher was
found guilty of premeditated murder in
the stabbing death of Josephine Kennon,
post spokeswoman Jean Offutt said.
Fletcher was sentenced last week and
is in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in
Kansas pending an automatic appeal, Of
futt said.
Kennon's body was found Aug. 17,
1989, near El Paso with 17 stab wounds
on her back and chest.
Fletcher was arrested and charged
with murder two days later after he
called sheriff's authorities in Dona Ana
County, N.M., to say he knew the
woman.
it will," said Insurance Board Chair
woman Oaire Korioth.
Insurance company spokesmen, how
ever, blasted the proposal, and indicated
they would challenge the measure in
court.
Mark Toohey, a spokesman for Farm
ers Insurance Group, said the rule was
unnecessary because there are already
laws prohibiting discrimination.
da McClung.
Fourteen of the layoffs took effect
Monday and included Dave Bleakney,
chief executive officer of Santa Rosa
downtown; and Dennis Millirons, who
headed Santa Rosa Northwest as well as
Villa Rosa and Santa Rosa Rehabilitation
hospitals.
Judge to get
judicial review
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S.A. corporation
to cut 200 jobs
Govt, officials to
talk to citizens
Insurance board
OKs price rule
AUSTIN (AP) — On its last day to
pass rules, the State Board of Insurance
Tuesday adopted a measure prohibiting
insurers from discriminating in the price
or availability of insurance.
"It should be able to work. Hopefully
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than
200 full-time jobs, including several high-
ranking management positions, are being
eliminated at Santa Rosa Health Care
Corp., officials have announced.
And more layoffs are to be announced
in the next few weeks, Robert J. Nolan,
the corporation's president and chief ex
ecutive officer said at a news conference
Monday.
The 215 job cuts are expected to save
the company about $6 million annually.
Nolan said he regrets that the layoffs
"will have an adverse impact on some
quality people at every level."
Thirty-five percent of senior-level
management positions are to be eliminat
ed. In all, the layoffs represent about 7
percent of the work force at Santa Rosa,
which has about 2,900 full-time employ
ees, said corporation spokeswoman Lin-
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Ann Richards,
joined by most other Democratic
statewide officers, will take the state gov
ernment show on the road Thursday and
make the East Texas town of Carthage
"capital for a day,"
The daylong trip is the first of what
aides say could become monthly stops
around the state that Richards hopes will
allow citizens to tell their public officials
just what’s wrong.
"For all the experts, all the policy-mak
ers and bureaucrats who supply me with
information and advice in Austin, I learn
more when I'm out on the road looking in
the faces of real Texans," Richards said of
the trip.
"When I talk to people in Muleshoe,
Sulphur Springs, Brownsville or
Pineland, I know that T am getting the
straight story on how government works,
or doesn't work," she wrote in a letter to
the Houston Chronicle explaining her
plan bo "take Austin out of Austin."
GALVESTON(AP) - A judicial con
duct commission will review a court's de
termination that a Galveston County
judge conspired to extort money from a
defendant and improperly reduced sen
tences in several other cases.
Retired state District Judge Oliver Kitz-
man of Brookshire said in a report to the
Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct
that County Court-at-Law Judge John
Thoma, 48, conspired to extort money
from Hollis Mathews of Houston.
Mathews told state officials at a June
hearing that he paid one of the judge's as
sociates $1,000 in return for favorable
treatment in criminal cases.
Thoma also held illegal conversations
with defendants in other cases when pros
ecutors were not present and improperly
reduced sentences without notifying pros- | j $
ecu tors, Kitzman said.
Fie heard four days of testimony dur
ing the June hearing in Galveston and
filed his findings in Austin last week.
Thoma was on vacation this week and
could not be reached for comment Tues
day by The Associated Press. His attor-
ney, Bruce Fort of Texas City, did not im-
mediately return a telephone message
Tuesday.
Thoma has until Sept. 9 to respond to
the findings, said Robert Flowers, the
commission's executive director recom
mend his removal from the bench.
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Meza arrested after family dispute
The Associated Press
UVALDE, Texas (AP) - The
Uvalde County Sheriff's Depart
ment took child killer Raul Meza
into custody on Tuesday, officers
said.
"They're taking statements and
doing the investigation," a Uvalde
County jailer who declined to
identify himself told the San An
tonio Express-News.
Meza was taken into custody
for pushing his grandmother dur
ing a family disturbance. Deputy
Bob Price told KTSA in San Anto-
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Officials with the Sheriff's De
partment told The Associated
Press they could not comment.
They referred comment to Chief
Deputy Arnulfo Alonzo, who
could not be reached Tuesday
night.
Sheriff Beaumont Watkins was
returning from Virginia and also
could not be reached for com
ment.
Uvalde County Judge William
Mitchell said deputies picked up
Meza at his grandparents' home
because of a possible violation of
the Texas Family Violence Code.
Mitchell said he did not expect
Meza to be charged with any
crime before early Wednesday.
The county can hold a prisoner for
24 hours without pressing
charges, he said.
The judge said the latest inci
dent confirmed the fears of county
residents.
"If what has been alleged to
have happened did happen, our
fears have come true that people
in Uvalde County were not safe
with Mr. Meza living in the area,"
Mitchell said.
Meza, 32, pleaded guilty in
1982 to the rape-slaying of an 8-
year-old Austin girl. The killing
occurred while Meza was on pa
role for a robbery in which a con
venience store clerk was shot.
Meza was denied parole seven
times, but was released June 21
because his time served plus
"good time" equaled nis sentence.
He is now on mandatory su
pervision, and must wear an elec
tronic monitoring bracelet which
prison officials say will notify
them if he goes outside a 150-foot
radius of a phone in a relative's
house in Uvalde County.
His release from prison has
sparked outrage in the six places
he has tried to live in Texas.
Judge asks Tilton to retrieve files again
The Associated Press
DALLAS — District Judge Eric Moye once again Monday com
manded televangelist Robert Tilton's attorneys to produce ministry
records by 9 a.m. Friday.
Moye then set for two hours later a contempt hearing in which
Tilton could face both jail and fines if he does not comply.
The minister of the Dallas-area Word of Faith World Outreach
Center Church already had been ordered to either reveal the identi
ties of the people who say they've experienced miracles or face pos
sible jail time.
Tilton tried to get Moye removed from hearing the $50 million
lawsuit against him, saying the judge was biased.
A visiting judge ruled last week that Moye had not compro
mised him objectivity and may remain on the case.
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