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Page 6B Campus THE BATTALION NEWS IN BRIEF East Texas woman pleads guilty, gets life prison term TYLER, Texas (AP) — An East Texas woman who pleaded guilty in the stabbing death of an appeals court judge’s disabled father dur ing a botched robbery has been sentenced to life imprisonment for capital murder. Prosecutors had originally planned to seek the death penalty for Monica Wilson, who is described as having a history of drug abuse. Wilson, 30, entered the plea Tuesday. The sentencing decision, which resulted from the plea bargain, was supported by the victim’s son, 12th Court of Appeals Court Judge Sam Griffith, said Smith County District Attorney Jack Skeen Jr. Prosecutors accused Wilson of stabbing a wheelchair-bound Jack Lee Griffith last July after he refused to give her money, then rob bing a Tyler convenience store clerk several months later in an apparent attempt to extort money to es cape prosecution for cap ital murder. 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Its operations center was activated Sunday after United States launched an aerial strike against military andtei awofficers are ist threats inside Afghanistan “It is at its highest level of security and its highest level of ops ations and it will be that way for some time in the future,"Go Rick Perry said this week. Texas measures 26S.(K)() square miles, with 254 counties a more than 1,400 jurisdictions. Plus, it has the world’s largestpea chemical industry and shares a 1,200-mile border with Mexico! other words, Texas faces “the full spectrum of risk,” Colleysaii The 22,(KK) square-foot center, housed three stories belowi Department of Public Safety headquarters, is self-sufficient.m its own water and sewage system and generators providing bad| material inside being kept in a le apparent thi kials of A k. says the ex ten between : luesday. It's 1 to if the app toonst-related, Ihe shaped cl tome in differed have a outer covering e power. Employees representing various state agencies — including DPS, Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Naa Resource Conservation Commission — along with the Anterio Red Cross and Salvation Army sit in a main control room.woita on laptops and analyzing preparedness manuals. The representatives can view two large televisions, w week were set to news stations providing updates on the terror; attacks and the U.S. response. The workers acknowledge they spend a lot of time watching the news. They also use the time to update their p; paredness plans and keep in touch with local officials. Mitch Cooper, a program director for community emerges plans with the Texas Department of Health, monitors e-mails, esJ^ Thursday. cially pertaining to recent anthrax cases in Florida, and reads handbook on chemical and biological attacks. His binder of ei gency contacts sits near the telephone.“I do spend a lot watching the news,” Cooper said. “I learn a lot of things I canigi in a book.” A few weeks ago, Billy Parker was among the 72 members Texas Task Force I who went to New York to assist in the sad and rescue. “It was taxing just because words and picturesi'a describe the devastation that was there,” he said. Today, he’s at the operations center, ensuring that e'/e involved in the Texas Task Force 1 is prepared for an attack. The task force was created in 1997 to respond to disasters® urban areas, with an emphasis on locating and extricating ti victims. “With the potential for retaliation, the better prepared we®, the fastest we can respond,” Parker said. ixplosiv^ " seismic eported i HOUSTON (fi iimdred poum sives used in s missing fron Harris Count Harris County. Marine kil at nav weapons i (ORKTOWN, \ Marine was kill| fell from a third-i itthe bachelor ^ iers at York! Weapons Static r Lance MSC ©0 HIM CpI. S22. 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