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Tiuiilay. April 13,2000 Thursday y News in Brief Lipscomb to be encedfor bribes DALLAS (AP) — Despite his se- • I rious illness, former Dallas City SDCOCS 10^Ccjuncilperson Al Lipscomb is ex- t pec ted to appear in federal court Wednesday afternoon to learn his sald Mlchael punishment for taking bribes, anatomy at the l' 11 ' 1 ®!* i_jp SCOm |3 initially was to be School ot Medicine. sentenced Monday, but his The study was initials lawyers told U.S. District Judge I loulahan.a Ph.Dcandidate! Joe Kendall that he was too sick “B> and large the tv, to|appear in court. The 74-year- x-en anecdotal. No one hade 0^ was hospitalized April 4 with italic ely tried to say is it pneumonia, rfobal decline,” HoulahJ> His attorneys plan to ask houttht the best way to dt Ke, ldal110 consider a “downward ,impl\ to pile the data upast ^ an ^ e : from federal sentenc- 1 ■ . ' , , 1 ; mg guidelines in handing down :angel.ta 1 ,d S eewta ll , l4» nishment because of their Houlahangleanedstudiei; client's age and failing health. Lip- curc scientific journals,!; scom k has said he’d hoped for univer.*, probation or home confinement, for the nan® Richards pleaded guilty in De- entist$sM»mber to one count of felony , . ff phibians. Rnspiracy and testified against fling. mailed:; Lipscomb. He also was to be if theykipntenced Wednesday, share. Heo ociety tael Lannoo a University of anatomy more through Ft Internet a of the I irst female sheniff tried in 66 years CANTON, Texas (AP) — Lead- |rs of a Northeast Texas county mphibian Population Tasim World Consenatior |f ave appointed a woman as sher- ’ iff for the first time in 66 years. Van Zandt County commis sioners voted 3-1 to appoint ifathy Jackson as sheriff. Jackson, who has worked in the sheriff’s office for 15 years, ijs the first woman to take the law enforcement position since 1934. That’s when Ethel Bur- rk 1960s leveled off later fpett was appointed to replace meric,i. the decline wassk her husband Ira, who was killed in a car accident. I Former Sheriff Bill Dean died f cancer last week and Jackson as his administrative assistant. “I felt like she was the right erson for it,” Commissioner .D. Hazel told the Tyler Morning elegraph after Friday’s vote. pecies Survival Commission Data on 936 population;® libiansand 157 speciescaiK j 7 countries and eight regiosj orld. “We could not havei ithout the Internet.” HoulaL Trends varied by timeantb estern Europe, a sharpdecl :ady. There was not enooel I ly analyze trends in Si rica and Australia. Houlahan acknowledged tlrj ibians traditionally have ough periodic booms too'; mlar population declines.Be ■ analyses found overall J 3ms are not overcoming thesf STATE THE BATTALION Page 9 Fists of Legend STUART VILLANUEVA/Tm Battalion Cindy Grant, second degree green belt, practices the Chon-Ji Kata with orange belt youngsters Holly Chenault (right) and Kovid Amin (left) during their Tae-Kwon-Do class at ABBA Martial Arts Wednesday. Voters decide legislative offices AUSTIN (AP) — State Rep. Leo Alvarado Jr., a four-term Democratic lawmaker from San Antonio, on Tuesday became the fourth incumbent state legislator to be shown the door by vot ers this year. Alvarado, 60, lost to Trey Martinez Fischer, a 29-year-old San Antonio lawyer. No Republican sought election in the 116th House District. San Antonio voters have been particularly tough on in cumbents in this year’s elections. Last month, they ousted two House members: Republican Bill Siebertand Democrat Juan Solis. Rep. Charles Jones, R-College Station, also lost in the March 14 primary. The Alvarado-Fischer runoff was one of several taking place Tuesday to finish Republican and Democratic nominations for state offices. In three races for the Court of Criminal Appeals, Repub licans favored Sharon Keller for presiding judge, Charles Holcomb for Place 1 and Barbara Parker Hervey for Place 2 on the state’s highest criminal bench. Keller, who currently sits on the court, defeated fellow Judge Tom Price. Holcomb, of Jacksonville, outpolled Guy Williams of Corpus Christi. In Austin, attorney Jill Warren defeated attorney Scott Loras for the Republican nomination to face Democrat Ann Kitchen in state House District 48. The winner in November replaces re tiring Democratic Rep. Sherri Greenberg. In Houston’s District 130, incumbent Republican Rep. John Culberson left to run for Congress. In the GOP runoff. Bill Cal- legari was leading Aubrey Thoede. The winner will face De mocrat Fred Lundgren in the general election. The San Antonio state House race was hotly contested. Fischer promised voters he would be more accessible in the district than Alvarado, who underwent surgery for cancer of the esophagus last September. “Before you can talk about education, crime or anything, there was a very resounding message the people did not have ac cess,” Fischer said. “We’re going to bring this office back to the people of this district.” I /J rts July 13 JPT"; ^ Texas A&M University Graduating in May with a BA or BS? Working on a graduate degree at Texas A&M? The George Bush School of Government & Public Services Announces a New CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The Bush School will offer a new 12 credit hour graduate program in international affairs. 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