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Page 2 • Wednesday, September 1, 1999 News architecture Continued from Page 1 facility management,” he said. The CRS Center, endowed in 1991 by the University and the firm CRSS, Inc., continues to carry out the mis sion of CRSS Inc., by improving the “quality of business practice and management in the planning, design and construction industry. ” To receive the graduate certifi cate, students must complete at least 15 credit hours of facility manage ment course work, three hours of Course work from outside the stu dent’s major field of study and com plete a capstone course, a prepara tory course taken after all other courses in the major field of study have been completed. By the book COLOR Continued from Page 1 “The gallery is a beautiful gem that is not being taken advantage Of year round because townspeo ple and visitors can’t get there,” Perry said. This year. Perry is entering four pieces, including a painting of “a wild and splashy blue and gold p’arrot” and a detailed pastel of mixed garden lilies. Sherry Killingsworth, president of the Brazos Valley Art League, said she entered one of her works for the first time this year. . f- “I [painted] a pastel water gar den for the show,” she said. “[The Benz Gallery] gets a lot of expo sure, and it’s always nice to have people see your stuff.” , Killingsworth said one artist en tered some mixed paintings and drawings to this year’s exhibit in which she used pen and ink, wa- tercolor and glitter-paint. ROBBIE GEHBAUER/Tm Batiai ion Cindy Brooks, a marketer for the People Book, points people to wards the People Book table in the MSC. Brooks said the book has been a staple in College Station for 21 years. Jury deliberates in Brownsville NEWS IN BRIEF "he Bath 161 report to coi for jury select! murder trial Victim alleges baby was stolen from womb BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jurors deliberated five hours Tuesday but reached no verdict in the murder-for-hire trial of two former police officers accused of killing a woman who had grabbed headlines with her story of a baby stolen from her womb. Roberto Briseno and Randall Ledbetter, former Brownsville po lice officers, were accused of cap ital murder in the 1994 slaying of Laura Lugo. The pair face up to life in prison if convicted. The women, sisters Ro Paulyna Botelio, disputed t ry and claimed the chil Paulyna Botello’s. But Lug the aid of DNA tests, wo tody of the boy in 1994. Eleven weeks later, Lu; appeared in a crime that out to be unrelated to tl napping. Her bullet-riddh burned remains were fou months later. Prosecutors said Ledb< U.S. Border Patrol agent One hundred and sixty or* 00 Brazos County resiaer loned for jury selection w ent at the Brazos Count) ouse yesterday, the first election for the murder awrence Russell Brewer. Of the jurors who were: esterday. 20 were excu: ealth or legal reasons. Fw 9 African American jure' ates were excused after Tu roceedings. The 300 jurors called or y will not be needed toda. : tight be later. Brewer, 32. is accusec aggmg death of Ja in Jasper. Int Mobil honors pr with endowmer Houston rocked by storms Bridge (Continued from Page 1 the study has shown that the United States’ amount of scour is relatively low. -» Mike L. Downey, science writer for Texas Engineering Experiment Station, said the study is benefi cial even though the gains are not immediate. Downey said that most people think of bridges as permanent structures and do not realize bridges can collapse. HOUSTON (AP) — A series of powerful thunderstorms packing winds of up to 60 mph slammed Houston late Tuesday afternoon, knocking down power lines, shat tering windows and destroying a three-story motel that was under construction. The wooden frame of the Hawthorne Suites motel pancaked when heavy winds struck it around 4:30 p.m., possibly trapping a con struction worker, Houston Fire De partment spokesperson Rick Flana gan said. Emergency workers searched the motel wreckage with a thermal imaging camera, which can detect body heat, but found nothing, Flanagan said. Rescue dogs searched the debris early Tuesday night, and heavy equipment was being brought in to pick through the rubble, he said. The worker was trapped when he and three others ran down from the roof as the winds picked up and then left through the interior of the building, Flanagan said. Three of the roofers apparently ran out of the front of the building before it collapsed, but the other apparently did not make it, Flana gan said. The name of the missing roofer was unavailable, he said. The storms struck quickly, dumping 2-4 inches of rain in some areas and causing street flooding. Prosecutor Jeff Strange asked time of his arrest. participated in Richar d E Ewing direr • jurors in closing arguments to put a murder plot th% it included his Institute for Scientific Core , an end to the lengthy case that mistress, Janet Ra mire/. (ISC) and dean of the Cote. combines greed, vengeance and a Ramirez, who pied guilty to Fit 1 exas A&M Unite - twisted baby-snatching. Jurors murder and was s etttenced to 20 named hi older of the Mobti’i. will resume deliberations years in prison, tes .tified last week ogy Con ipany Endowed C'i. Wednesday morning. that she saw Luge ) as a romantic Computa tionai Science. “Laura Lugo has been dead for rival for Ledbetter There' will be a receptor :.- five years now and there’s never Ramirez also admitted she Ewmg Thi jrsday In the MSG been justice," Strange said. “Let made threatening phone calls to Galleries from 3 p.m. to 4 jr her rest in peace.” Ledbetter’s wife, r naking Led bet- Mobil Technology Cor::! The bizarre tale began in Sep- ter think Lugo w as making the Dai as has given S350.K 4 tember 1992, when Lugo claimed calls. That, pro secutors said. tabiish the Endowed Cba;' , her nearly full-term baby had made Ledbetter w. ant to kill Lugo. putational Science. Thecte ~ been cut from her womb after Ledbetter gave Briseno bullets funded in part through a "it, two women lured her to a Mexi- and a partial payi Tient of $1,000 program funded by H.R. f can clinic and drugged her. to kill Lugo, Rami rez testified. Bright of Dallas. 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