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throws out deal
inmate's convii
SAN ANTONIO (AP)
judge has thrown out ads
inmate’s conviction, ml
West Texas authorities®
evidence and needlessly
him during his trial.
U.S. District J
Furgeson ruled July21fe
is “strong reason" to
Ernest Ray Willis, 58,isii
of setting a house firefe
two women. He was cm
in 1987.
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Killer whale
up SeaWorld
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VICTOR CALZADA • THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Roberto Fraustro of the Texas Department of Transportation adjusts El Paso city limits Tuesday morning State, county and city street crews
a water pump that was clearing water from Highway 62/180, east of worked to remove the water left by overnight rains.
SAN ANTONIO (AP)-SptJ
at a SeaWorld killer wfeil
got more than they werej
ing recently when the:]
repeatedly slammed I
underwater.
The trainer, Steve Ail
injured in the Friday ii
videotape of which has
over the country this
The whale, Ky, began
Aibel during the show,
trainers rushed to th
the tank. Aibel. who has
Ky for 10 years, said
surprised and is unsure
prompted the behavior.
But he said Ky is near
age and may have just
ing his adolescent hoi
Moore invites Bush to view 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
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CRAWFORD - Filmmaker Michael
Moore is bringing his blockbuster docu
mentary to President Bush’s adopted home
town and wants the film’s star to attend.
Moore promised the Crawford Peace
House a copy of his film “Fahrenheit 9/11”
when it appeared that no movie theater in the
president’s home county would show the anti-
Bush documentary. The Hollywood Jewel
in Waco picked up the movie last week, but
Moore later offered to come to Crawford to
introduce his movie and discuss it afterward.
Organizers expect about 1,000 people to
attend the show at 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Paul McDaniel, a spokesman for Waco
Friends of Peace, a partner in the Peace
House, said the Crawford group’s tele
phone was jammed with calls from journal
ists, including representatives of the White
House press corps now covering the presi
dent’s vacation at his ranch.
“They’re bored, having to be here in the
middle of Texas in July with nothing to do,”
McDaniel told the Waco Tribune-Herald in
Tuesday’s editions. “They’re saying, 'Let’s
go over and see the movie.’ “
Moore, on his Web site, invited Bush to
attend, saying he wanted a chance to thank
him personally for starring in the film. “And
let’s face it, you've got some of the funniest
lines in the film!” he wrote.
A White House representative did not
return a call early Tuesday fro
Associated Press.
The Peace House received a
Monday from the city of Crawford to ski
the movie at a football stadium parkingIj
near Tonkawa Falls Park.
Moore’s condemnation of. M
actions regarding the Sept. 11, M,®
rorist attacks recently became the fir
documentary to top the $100 nit
mark domestically. The filmmaker is pi
viding the projector and the movie,st
McDaniel. A large screen has been don
ed by owners of the Alamo Draft Houf
an Austin business that is creating an
cinema in Waco.
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Engineers: suction strong—
when tourists drowned Nj
By Angela K. Brown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH - On the day
that four Chicago tourists drowned
at the Fort Worth Water Gardens,
the water was deeper and the suc
tion stronger than it should have
been, according to an engineering
firm report released Tuesday.
The pumps for the Active Pool,
which is not meant for swim
ming, had been struggling recent
ly because the grate over the pool
drain was 50 percent blocked
by leaves and other debris, said
officials at the engineering firm
Freese and Nichols.
A city employ
ee, who had lim
ited training and
worked at the
Water Gardens
since January,
had raised the
water level to 8.5
feet, more than 3
feet higher than
the usual level _
which helped the
pumps work better
but created more
downward veloc
ity in the water,
engineers said.
“When you
can’t swim faster
than that current,
then it’s going to
take you to the bottom of the
the 5.4-acre Fort
Gardens, which feature
and concrete structures
circulating water to ci
artistic effects.
But one of the girls s
in the pool, and the othersl
jumped in to help. Ki
Myron Dukes, 39; his
Lauren, 8; his son Christo;
13; and Juanitrice Deadntoii
a family friend.
In the Active Pool,
down several long steps, ere!
waterfalls that empty intotlt
of water that is recirculated
a drain at the bottom. Smalls
steps over the waterfalls lead
to the edge of the pool.
The dr
When you
can't swim faster
than the current,
then it's going to
take you to the
bottom of the
tank.
— Kendall King
Freese and Nichols
project manager
ings were
first at the '’ u
Gardens sii
downtown
opened in H
when the At
Pool was 3.5
deep. It never'
an operating
ual, but sec
skilled empj
ees _ in#
master pi
worked
park and $
new workers!
1996, accort
to the report.
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artmen
e come
tank,” said Kendall King, project
manager at Freese and Nichols.
The firm made several rec
ommendations, including devel
oping training materials, install
ing equipment to maintain a cer
tain water level and installing an
emergency pump shut-off valve
near the entrance.
Late in the hot and muggy
afternoon of June 16, four
members of Chicago’s Antioch
Missionary Baptist Church in
town for a convention went to
ago, a staffing reduction lf‘i p, ^
loss of institutional knowledg4 a J 11 e
e City
workers were not trained
erly, according to the report,
started filling the pool toal
feet _ possibly to make
pumps perform better _ and
shut down the system fordo
debris twice a year, engineer 1
The latest employee in d
of the Water Gardens, whose
was not released, told engine®
had limited training for theA>
Pool. City officials would not
if he still works for the city. "
ross Str
ense are
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