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Campus
Rape suspect’s
parents released
professor of pediatrics at A&M’s
Temple campus, and Dr. Thomas
Peterson, a professor of medical
physiology, were honored for their
teaching excellence.
Don Davis Sr. was released on
$20,000 bail Monday, the Univer
sity Police Department reported.
Davis Sr. and his wife Linda
were indicted Thursday on charges
of hindering the apprehension and
prosecution of their son, Don
Davis Jr., who is accused of two
rapes that occurred on the Texas
A&M campus in 1995.
Linda Davis was released from
jail Saturday.
Davis Jr. disappeared two days
before he was to appear in court
for charges of aggravated sexual
assault. The suspect’s car was
found in Little Rock, Ark., at a mo
tel near an airport. "
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation is currently investigating
Davis Jr.’s disappearance.
Davis Jr. could face 99 years or
life in prison, and his parents could
face two to 10 years in prison.
â–º State
Cadet joins fiancee
in jail, vows his love
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An
Air Force Academy cadet joined his
fiancee today in the same jail
where both await trial in the slay
ing of his alleged one-time fling.
David Graham was transferred to
the Tarrant County jail Monday on a
capital murder charge, continuing to
vow his devotion to Diane Zamora.
“I love you,” Graham, 18, said
when asked by reporters if he had
anything to say to Zamora, also
18, who is also being held in the
county jail.
The two are accused of killing 16-
year-old Adrianne Jones in December
because of a sexual encounter she
supposedly had with Graham.
The Texas Department of
Health said Monday all area
coastal waters were closed to har
vesting of clams, mussels and
oysters because their consump
tion by humans could cause neu
rotoxic shellfish poisoning.
Still air offshore created favor
able blooming conditions for red
tide, an algae that produces a red
tint in water, said Dean Stockwell, a
research associate at the Marine
Science Institute in Port Aransas.
Although the algae normally re
mains 20 to 30 miles offshore,
wind gusts have pushed it toward
land, claiming thousands of fish
and irritating sunbathers, Stock-
well said.
percent increase over the previ
ous 12 months.
Texas’ estimated profits totaled
$1.1 billion, a 10 percent increase.
Farm Aid to help
Texas ranchers
College students are depending
more on loans to finance
their education...
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Texas State Lottery
profits increase
College of Medicine
profs recognized
Two Texas A&M College of Med
icine faculty members were award
ed Distinguished Teaching Awards
by Texas A&M Association of For
mer Students.
Dr. Joseph Kraft, an assistant
Red tide prompts
Texas shellfish ban
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) —
Red tide has returned to the Texas
coast, prompting a shellfish ban
and killing thousands of other fish
along the Coastal Bend.
AUSTIN (AP) — It's a whole lot
of lotto.
The Texas Lottery says that
tickets sold, profits reaped and
prizes paid reached new highs in
the 1996 fiscal year — the fourth
straight year of records for the
state-run gambling.
“We’ve been setting and breaking
records since the very first day we
sold Texas Lottery tickets,” said
Nora Linares, the Lottery Commis
sion’s executive director.
Ticket sales for all lottery
games totaled $3.4 billion in the
fiscal year ending Aug. 31, a 13
AUSTIN (AP) — Farm Aid, the
Teamsters union and family farmers
will kick off a farmer-to-farmer
“haylift" this week to help Texas farm
ers and ranchers hurt by the drought.
A Teamster-donated truck filled
with hay was to leave South Carolina
on Tuesday and arrive in Austin on
Friday, said Brenda Foster, a Farm Aid
spokeswoman.
Farm Aid President Willie Nelson
and other volunteers plan to unload
the hay, which will be used to help
Texas farmers get their livestock
through the winter.
The haylift began at the home of
South Carolina farmer Tom Trantham,
who was among those receiving do
nated hay in a similar effort in 1993.
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SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) —
Space shuttle Atlantis chased after
the Russian space station Mir today
to pick up record-setting U.S. astro
naut Shannon Lucid, who has been
on the outpost for six months.
Atlantis’ six-man crew began
preparing packages of supplies for
transfer to the outpost, where they
are due to arrive Wednesday night.
NASA was expected to decide yes
terday whether to cut the amount of
time the shuttle and Mir are sup
posed to be connected — five days
— because of the puzzling failure of
one of three hydraulic power units
minutes after liftoff early Monday.
Mission managers could return
Atlantis to Earth early, but th&j
already agreed not to move,
docking because of the extra^
quired to arrive at the station a
of schedule.
Although the hydraulic u«|
not needed in orbit, they are e
tial during launch 'and landing!
trolling wing flaps and the mairj
ing gear.
â–º This day in history
â–º Weather
(AP) — Today is Wednesday, Sept. 18, the 262nd
day of 1996. There are 104 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1793, President Washington laid the corner
stone of the U.S. Capitol.
In 1851, the first edition of The New York Times
was published.
In 1927, the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting
System (later CBS) made its debut with a basic net
work of 16 radio stations.
In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at
age 27.
Ten years ago: In his first public comment on the
arrest of American journalist Nicholas Daniloff, Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev described the reporter
as a spy who was caught in the act, and he accused
Washington of exploiting the case to damage super
power relations.
Five years ago: Saying he was "pretty fed up,”
President Bush said he would send warplanes to es
cort U.N. helicopters searching for hidden Iraqi
weapons if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein contin
ued to impede weapons inspectors.
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Actor Jack Warden is 76. Actor Robert Blake is 63.
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, is 63. Actor Fred Willard
is 57. Singer Frankie Avalon is 56. Rock musician
Kerry Livgen (Kansas) is 47. Rock musician Dee Dee
Ramone is 44. Baseball player Ryne Sandberg is 37.
Singer Joanne Catherall (Human League) is 34. Ac
tress Holly Robinson Peete is 32. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Ricky Bill (Bell Biv Devoe and New Edition) is
29. Actors Taylor Porter and Brandon Porter (Party of
Five) are 3.
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