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Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Thursday, Oct. 2, 1997 NATION 3 A Woman who killed alleged molester of son released Young: School's skeleton goes to work with coroner 'A iA A could see where it would be useful when you're working with small bones from, say, a hand or a foot. Unless you're a physical anthropologist and know these things, to have an intact skeleton to use for comparative purposes is Brad Randall coroner W- i ft-' A I feel sorry for what I've done, she said, surrounded by her son, daughter and other family mem-, bers. "It's been hard. It's been hard for all of us." Ellie Nesler Nesler has terminal breast cancer and has said she hoped to be released to spend time with her two children before she dies.

Her 16-year-old son, Willie, said he last saw his mother on Mother's Day. "I've grown up a lot the last couple of years," he said. "I miss my Mom a lot. Now I want to make the best of it." Becky, Nesler's 12-year-old daughter, said: "I just can't wait 'til we go home so she can hold me." -tt -Hit Associated Press By MATTHEW Yl Associated Press SONORA, Calif. The woman who shot and killed her son's alleged molester in a courtroom, sparking a nationwide debate on vigilante justice, pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter and was immediately freed on parole.

Ellie Nesler, 45, had served nearly four years of a 10-year sentence for manslaughter, but the state Supreme Court in August granted a retrial of the sanity phase of the trial because of juror misconduct. Under the plea bargain agreement Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Eric DuTemple sentenced her to seven years in prison, making her immediately eligible for parole under California law because she had served more than half the sentence. After Nesler was released Wednesday afternoon, she apologized at a news conference outside the courthouse. "From the bottom of my heart, Psychic-in-training Newsday DENVER Lawyers for Terry Nichols won a concession from the judge on the jury-selection process Wednesday as the second Oklahoma City bombing trial moved through a third slow-paced day. The afternoon was enlivened by prospective juror No.

753, a self-described psychic-in-training who offered to share with the court her readings of the energy levels and Popcorn lover's dream Eight-year-old Gavin Goulet of St. Paul, pushes a sticky piece of popcorn Wednesday onto the "World's Largest Popcorn Ball" in Bloomington, Minn. The ball, which weighed more than 6,000 pounds when it arrived in Bloomington, is being sent across the country as a fund-raiser for the Boy Scouts of America. The previous record for a giant popcorn ball was 2,377 pounds, set by the Boy Scouts in La Crosse, Wis. Continued from 1A real skeleton in the first place.

That is a story all by itself. Turns out a student who attended the school about 15 years ago brought it to class one day. He thought it would be neat to share with the other kids, Broveleit said. "As I understand it, it came out of the old Odd Fellows Building there where the Home Federal Bank parking lot is" at 11th Street and Dakota Avenue, she said. "The boy's father apparently was in charge of destroying the building.

He was an excavator. That's how they found it." Rumor has it that the Odd Fellows used the skeleton for initiation rites, Broveleit said. Before that, it probably belonged to a medical student or school. The pins and brass work that hold the bones together suggest as much, she said. "This is not something that was just dug up," Broveleit said.

"It obviously had been used in classrooms before, or for some kind of medical purpose." For 15 years, the junior high used it for biology classes. And it served that purpose well, though its skull was missing, thus inspiring students to make a paper-mache replacement. But now, with the junior highs moving into the Catholic diocese's administrative offices out by O'Gorman High School, the skeleton was becoming surplus. Broveleit's first thought was that maybe a museum would want it. So she called the folks over at the Old Courthouse Museum.

They graciously declined but suggested she contact Dr. Brad Randall, Minnehaha County's coroner, to see if he had any ideas. Randall did. He offered to take the skeleton to use in his own practice for comparative anatomy purposes when he is working with human bones. "I could see where it would be useful when you're working with small bones from, say, a hand or a foot," Randall said.

"Unless you're a physical anthropologist and know these things, to have an intact skeleton to use for compara- offers to give aura, energy readings Doppler: KELO's new radar draws praise, jokes tive purposes is invaluable." He said he has no plans to try to determine the race of the skeleton. With no skull, that would be difficult anyway. But Randall guesses from the age and brittleness of the bones that they could have come from someone who died near the turn of the century. "With the type of brass work holding the bones together, it appears to be an old training skeleton that medical schools would have had," he said. "And traditionally, most of these older skeletons were East Indian in origin.

By that I mean from India." For now, the bones are in a box in his office, waiting for a time when he is able to suspend them from a rack or something similar. Whatever he does with them is fine with Broveleit. For at least the skeleton has found a proper new home. "I tell you, I just wanted to make sure I went through the right channels," she said. "It wasn't plastic; it was real.

To me that meant I needed to be careful with it. That's why I was thrilled that I connected with Dr. Randall." Argus Leader columnist Steve Young writes about interesting people and events shaping ourf community. Ideas are welcome. Phone 331-2306 or write: Box 5034, Sioux Falls, SD, 57117-5034.

Sioux Falls employees affected by the cost-saving move, as well as those not directly affected, are not saying much. "We were told in training that if anything ever happened at Gateway, not to say anything," one employee said. An employee who lost work earlier this week said that in order to collect severance pay, terminated workers had to sign agreements to not disparage the com; pany. Dan Scott, president of the Sioux Falls Development Foundation, was surprised by the local terminations. "I think this is another one of those situations where they're laying off a few now and a year from now could be hiring people like mad.

I honestly don't Scott said. Continued from 1A several hundred thousand dollars in the technology. So expensive was the dual-radar system there's one radar in Huron, another in Beresford to cover KELO's tri-state reach that Young had to enlist corporate cooperation to pay for it. Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System in Sioux Falls and Northwestern Public Service in Huron each anted up money to help pay thebillvM" The benefit of the investment, Antonitis said, is public trust. While other TV stations in Sioux Falls rely on satellite images that are anywhere from six to 20 minutes old, KELO's radar provides an instant reading.

In TV talk, they call that "real time." "When a tornado is heading your Gateway: Firm maintains hush over move to trim work force in Nichols trial Matsch asked, to scattered laughter in the courtroom. The prospective juror said he did not, but that she would try to read the energy levels and auras of witnesses, adding: "If I got some really clear messages, you'd want that relayed to you, wouldn't you?" "And to the lawyers, too," Matsch said, although "I don't know what we would do with it." utilize it along with all the other complements I have," he said. "I'm not going to drop anything I'm currently using. I'm going to add it to my arsenal, so to speak." KELO plans many more changes in conjunction with Live Doppler 2000. On Dec.

1, the station will unveil a new on-camera weather center, a sleek-looking set to match the recently revamped anchor desk. It will replace the current weather center, which has a "temporary" sign tacked to the wall above hardly befitting the state-of-the-art image of sophistication that KELO is trying to promote. Within a month, KELO will go on line, as well. It will offer on its Web site Doppler images to Internet users free of charge for 90 days. After that, there will be a fee.

in Streyle case The informant gave authorities a map he said was drawn by Anderson showing where the evidence was hidden and another map with directions to Walker's home to assist a "hit man" in killing Walker. Today and Friday, prosecutors will present their evidence in the case against Anderson. Judge Anderson will determine if there is enough evidence to go to trial. Anderson, who is already serving a life sentence for the kidnapping of Streyle, has been charged with two counts of murder, one count of rape and one count of kidnapping in the two cases. Vuai.

piou questioned during the first three days of Nichols' trial. The Boulder woman said several members of her family were psychics and that "I do energy work" while seeking to develop her psychic powers. She said she believes a person's "energy can't lie" and that it is "possible to see their auras." "Well, take me, right now. Do I have an aura around me?" good tool for the viewing public. They'll see the weather as its happening," said Montie Horn, Minnehaha County's Emergency Management director.

"But for emergency managers, the weather service is still going to do the forecasting and still going to do the warning. They are the primary weather forecasters throughout the United States. That's not going to change." Beadle County Emergency Management Director Mel Youn-german agrees. "It's fine and I'm glad to see it. I'm sure it will be a nice unit and all that, but the only value or addition to my warning will be what people see on TV," he said.

Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Chad Skiles is glad for the addition. "The way I look at it, I'm going to took a tent bag from Streyle's home because he shot a hole in it during her abduction. Anderson told Brunner that authorities were looking in the wrong spot for Streyle because he dumped her body in the Big Sioux River. Anderson asked Brunner to assist him in a plan to frame Glenn Walker for the women's murders. The informant said Anderson was upset that Walker had gone to authorities with the location of Dumansky's grave.

Anderson asked Brunner to contact friends to steal evidence from his mother's home and plant it on Walker. ime nuur Anderson: Former cellmate to testify about gun Continued from 1A Charles Wolf, an equity analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston, a bank in New York City, follows the personal-computer industry. Laying off 300 people, in the context of the industry, is not a significantly high number, he said. Gateway's sales appear to be doing all right, but company costs have been running high, Wolf said. "Their operating expenses had been growing very rapidly.

One way to rein them in is to hold your head-count steady," Wolf said. Ted Waitt, Gateway's founder and chief executive officer, previously indicated the company intends to keep expenses under control, Wolf said. "They've got all these things going on. It's easy to say they've got a full plate. That would be an understatement," Wolf said.

auras of witnesses. Before questioning the Boulder woman who said her jury summons stemmed from a past-life experience, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch was gently criticized by lead defense lawyer Michael Tigar for his grumpy demeanor in dealing with some prospective jurors, and he seemed to take the criticism to heart. Sixteen potential jurors were way, six minutes is too long to wait," Antonitis said. Tom Claycomb, news director at KSFY-TV, KELO-TV's largest competitor, faults the way KELO has used its new radar system.

"On the day they rolled out their new system, there were tornado warnings in central South Dakota, but they were ignored for more than 20 minutes by KELO while KSFY was putting warnings on the air," Claycomb said. "They have yet to show it's more than anything but a promotional tool," he added. Around the region, emergency management and Civil Defense directors are watching the radar saga at arm's length. They agree that Live Doppler 2000 is a benefit to viewers, but it won't change the way they do their jobs. "I got to say, it's going to be a with Barnett and an investigator.

Barnett told Brunner that he would agree "to pursue all avenues available to assist him in obtaining an early release from the state penitentiary if Brunner was able to produce accurate information and evidence" in the two cases, according to the motion. In earlier statements, Barnett said the informant told authorities that: A 9 mm pistol, ammunition, jewelry belonging to Dumansky and Streyle, and handcuffs were hidden in Anderson's mother's home in a basement ceiling near a bedroom. Anderson told Brunner that he Carl Kline $65.00 All workshops Continued from 1A about the two missing women. He refused to share the information with anyone but Attorney General Mark Barnett. To prove that his information was reliable, Brunner told law enforcement officials that Anderson had confided that he had fired a 9 mm handgun inside Streyle's trailer home during her abduction and that officers would find a hole in the floor underneath the carpet in a bedroom.

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