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A marks man killed 1 loward, a criminal defense lawyer, after a brief standoff. “We probably will never know," Bed ford Deputy Police Chief Mike Mason said Sunday. “We plan on interviewing some witnesses. We have reports that he was screaming incoherently.” Bedford Municipal Judge Tim Mur phy defeated I loward in a 1995 election but considered him a friendly colleague. “1 le did not appear to me to be a per son that had any problems,” Murphy is quoted as say ing in Sunday editions of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "The tips he had forwarded on Am ber Hagerman were duly investigated until it was found they were without merit." he “1 would just see him from time to time at the courthou said. “I hadn’t seen him in the courthouse in awhile.” Police knew a different Howard, who apparently gave up his law practice about a year ago. Howard's contact with Arlington police inv estigators occurred from mid-1996 to early 1998, when he said he knew who killed Amber, said Arlington police Sgt. Mark Simpson, who headed a task force investigating Amber’s death. The unsolved slaying of the 9-year-old led to creation of the “Amber Plan” — through which North Texas radio and televi sion stations broadcast disappearances. Task force members investigated the man whom Howard named, but he had an alibi, Simpson said. “The tips he had forwarded on Amber Hagerman\ investigated until it was found they were without i said. "There was never any indication of violence ort violence in the letters he wrote us. 1 le never got < \ idual, but he ne\ er had any information ty ing him toito his own leap of faith from sorael correspondence he had with him.*] I loward continued sending If Arlington investigators about! "that upon examination uereaHl irrelevant to anything." Simp$a| I loward also began sending inf® toother law -enforcementagenci rant County and other a "1 le would write long,rai tors and had packets ofpaperwj went nowhere and was absolute] sessed with tins thing,” Simp "But it passed over time." When 1 loward beganpn on the issue, inv estigatorstu eus toward I loward, Simpson sail was cleared. “He didn't kill Amber.''Stmpffl Judy Gill, who bought I loward’s Bedford house 1 in! an apartment®! the rigors ot homeownet-ship, which since a divorcehads kC * ■ Sgt. Mark Simpson Arlington police back seat to his exhaustiv e w ork as a lawy er. Howard told Gill he vv as w orking on theAmbercase.fi “He w as working long hours and it burned him ouC® “He was going to go from being a criminal attorney i®: puter programming. I le didn't have time to do yard wortaii type of thing.” The officer who fired the shot that killed Howard administrative leave w ith pay. Officials said it appeal tective Bill Pond, an 11-year veteran, acted justifiably Wanted: People with an interest in kids and skills in archery dance music arts drama nature/outdoor baseball equestrian education basketball activities riflery boating fishing tennis camping football soccer, canoeing hiking swimming crafts lifeguarding theater Bush’s shows bipartisanship AUSTIN (AP) It’s one thing to talk the talk, says George W. Bush, point ing to his record as Texas governor as ev idence that he’s the only Republican presidential hopeful who has walked the chief executive’s walk. “What Republicans need to do is elect some body who has gotten results, tan gible results that people can see, that people can put their arms around and say, part,” said Bruce Buchanan, a Universi ty of Texas political scientist and veter an Bush watcher. It’s a pragmatic view in a state where the GOP didn’t take control of a legisla tive chamber until three years ago, where Republicans Mail the on the rix inD-FW DALLAS (AP) —Mail the the rise in the Dal I as-Fort WortM where authorities mc trine to st3lM&M freshn "I am a princi pled person. I stand on my ground. I don't try to do all things for all people." BUSH hold only a one-vote Senate ma jority and Democrats have ruled the House for 120 years. “If he had come in with a hard-right program, he would have ‘This man’s a leader’,” Bush said during one New Hampshire debate. After live years in office and signing 4,095 bills into law — everything from lowering property taxes to limiting law suit damages — Bush’s guiding philos ophy might best be described as the pol itics of the possible. His two-pronged mantra: Govern ment should do a few things and do them well, and an officeholder shouldn’t squander his political capital. As only the second Republican gov ernor of Texas since Reconstruction, Bush picked his targets carefully and worked closely with Democrats. “I’m a conservative. I am not stri dent,” Bush said in an interview. “I am a principled person. 1 stand on my ground. I know how to set an agenda. I don’t try to do all things for all people.” And that may be the best way to sum up his gubernatorial record, analysts say. “He’s been described as almost risk- averse. He’s not ideological. He’s chosen a small number of issues that are clear cut and not terribly controversial. 1 le’s shied away from controversy for the most been demolished his first six months in office by the Fegislature. We don’t have a hard-right Legislature, and he wouldn't be running for president now,” George Christian, who was President Lyndon Johnson’s press secretary, said. “A lot of what he has done as gov ernor is avoid the bad things,” Christ ian said. “He hasn’t been confronta tional. He hasn’t been dogmatic, lie hasn’t demagogued. I le realized he had to be bipartisan or he might as well not be serving.” From abortion to weli'are. Bush has compiled a track record dotted with ac complishments— and some failures — while sometimes refusing to be drawn into controversial topics. His signal accomplishment, which he touts again and again on the campaign trail, was his push to lower property taxes. Bush called on lawmakers in 1997 to cut school property taxes by $3 billion. To reach that goal, he proposed a series of steps that included spending $ 1 billion of budget surplus; raising the sales and motor vehicle sales taxes; and imposing a business activity tax. out thieves who swipe( uments and u rite ihouxmisoiAoWfl worth of fraudulent check. Kenny D. Smith, U.S. Postal ! spection Service spokesman, said] problem of mail theft in the Metre has more than doubled since this t » last year. Apartment complexes ■The Autries other areas w ith large conccntrati the University < mail are particularly vulnerable,hesBered Saturda "The thieves are looking foripTaloes. thing with your financial infom»0f course on it," Smith is quoted as sas Briard King c Sunday editions ofT/teDa/Wiftiding the ing Xews. “Before you can do nan's 34 point thing, they've already hityourchfWri a reperu ing account." Inpers, timely Since the beginning of the : *asingly reliat year in October, postal inspt |g. the Texas / have made 41 arrests for mail theifell team sqm. the area. Smith said. Nineteen, iftory over the are now under federal indictmeBi«9 Reed Are said. The penalties for stealingn|asA&M’s firs can range up to $250,000 in linesiflorado. five years in prison. jh j ust wanl In a case reported to Dallas) mid. “I’d been s last month, a woman received a Aw how lomi from a sales clerk at a Lewisvilleilck on track ” niture store after someone nwiKKiim, who h $2,200 purchase with one ofherst ttalftime scor checks. The next day, the thie'pl 34 p 0 j n t s made a $ 1,700 purchase at a mall* purchases of $2,800 and $2,200 atf other stores. “These people have my tele] number and my address,” the wo who requested anonymity because! fears the thieves, said. “I justd« ^ . know what else they could beupi and I worry about that.” . /y y CfiRRY ON CD kELEhSE "POUR With Special Guest Houston Marchman COMING MARCH 1ST Adynamic, humorous and candid video serieso« LOVE, SEX, MARRIAGE AND ROMANCE. featuring: Tommy Nelson Single, dating, engaged, or married, Tommy will cover God's design for romantic relationships Mondays, February 7 - March 20: 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.; 2/7,2/14,2/21:229 MSC 2/28:707 Rudder 3/6:292A MCA 3/20:402 R# sponsored by F.O.C.U.S. - First Baptist, C.S. SOphotTK tthe Varsity'