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The shooting happened about noon April 17, 2007, at Vason's home on John Morris Avenue in what is known as the Vineyard neighborhood off Norman Bridge Road. A witness to the shooting testified that she pulled into Vason's driveway at 139 John Morris saw Sankey stand Retired TT nil en. MCKuison found in the slaying of 18-year-old Louis Daniel Vason. But the trial ended without any understanding of why Sankey shot Vason. "It's just one of those senseless killings that unfortunately happen too many times around here," Deputy District Attorney John Kachelman said after the trial.

"There's no motive, no logical reason." tiMBWJ po Defense attorney Brett Harrison had advised his client to plead guilty and accept a plea deal, but Sankey refused, maintaining his innocence throughout the trial and offering no reason for the shooting. Sankey will be sentenced April 24. He faces 20 years to life imprisonment, said Kachelman, who added that he would y-' Photos by Mickey Welsh Advertiser r- no Teem By Jill Nolin jnolinegannettcom A 19-year-old college student who was accused of shooting another teen to death last year was found guilty Tuesday afternoon. It took a Montgomery County jury about two hours to bring back a guilty verdict against Stephan "Jay" Sankey Building Students at Maxwell Air Force Base Elementary School help build a water garden Tuesday at the base in Montgomery. The garden is being built through a partnership between The Ponds for Kids and Alabama Outdoor Classroom programs.

PHOTO GALLERY -iiJ aying ing at the doorway talking to Vason and heard Vason say "Do it" before the shooting happened, Kachelman said. The witness was able to identify Sankey from his clothing, specifically a distinctive red and black shirt with a skull on it. Sankey, who had moved from Chicago to Montgomery Teen Page 4A UX 1 cancer Advertiser Retired U.S. Rep. William "Bill" Dickinson, who died Monday in Montgomery, will be buried in Opelika.

PHOTO GALLERY IMlngMBeryoirwtissMBni ments at Maxwell during the 1970s and 1980s. Before he could do any of that, Dickinson first had to be elected to Congress and that happened in the fall of 1964 when he and four other Republicans stunned the Democratic Party. The last Republican to represent Alabama was George Spencer, a Yankee cavalry officer who served with Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman during his march to the sea and the burning of Atlanta. Spencer settled in Alabama after the Civil War and served in the U.S.

Senate during the late 1870s. Once Reconstruction ended, Democrats began to control politics in Alabama. Party nominations in the summer were tantamount to elections in the fall. That changed in 1964 when Dickinson, John Buchanan, Glenn Andrews, Jim Martin and Jack Edwards won con-Retired Page 4A agencies Share your events In our Web calendar Does your organization need a way to let the public know about local events via the Web? We've got a way to do that. The Montgomery Advertiser's site, has a new calendar tool that will allow you to enter local information on the site.

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The main reason was William "Bui" Dickinson, one of five Republicans who rode the coattails of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater into Congress. Dickinson, who died Monday after a long battle with colon cancer, was Alabama's leading proponent for maintaining Maxwell Air Force Base's national importance. Dickinson's defense appropriation bills helped pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the base. In turn, it benefited the River Region as well as the entire 2nd Congressional District. "Bill did Alabama and our community a great, great service," former Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar said Tuesday afternoon.

"His efforts have never been forgotten." Services for Dickinson, who died at the age of 82, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Montgomery's First United Methodist Church, with visitation beginning at 11 a.m. Burial will be at Rosemere in Opelika, where Dickinson was born and raised. As Dickinson climbed the seniority ladder in Washington, he became the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee and that helped him keep the money flowing into Maxwell and Montgomery. It didn't hurt a bit, either, to have the ears and signatures of two presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W.

Bush. "Maxwell and the Gunter Annex hadn't had any major improvements in years until Bill was elected and he went right to work to see that we got the money we needed to make them," said Folmar. Dickinson did it, Folmar said, by asking that "the generals" at the sprawling Air Force base come up with what amounted to a shopping list of needs. "He said 'get with them, develop some priorities and I'll get (the bills) through said Folmar, whose City Council and mayoral tenures coincided with improve- Set it straight The Montgomery Advertiser wants to correct any errors in fact or content in its news report. Call the Local desk at 261-1518 to point out errors.

Corrections will be published promptly. Credibility Hotline 240-0154 Please call 240-0154 and leave a message with your questions or comments about the Montgomery Advertiser, its stories, policies or practices. Your comments will be used to improve the news report. Place an ad Classified 264-3733 Display ad 261-1538 261-1553 956-0257 tinue lead to State afternoon not had not much could board. County drops tax lawsuit against 2 state By Jill Nolin jnolinegannett.com The Montgomery County Commission held a special meeting Tuesday to adopt a resolution to dismiss a case its attorney already had dismissed last week.

The commission adopted the resolution as a formality, approving the decision its legal counsel made Thursday to voluntarily dismiss a case the county had filed against two state agencies. The lawsuit, which the county filed in December, claimed that the Alabama Department of Finance and the Alabama Department of Transportation should be paying the county one-cent-per-gallon fuel tax for the gasoline dispensed by the State Motor PooL The state-sponsored fuel station is in downtown Montgomery. The county filed a motion Thursday asking that the case be dismissed, and Circuit Court Judge Tracy McCooey granted it late Thursday evening. The dismissal came the day before McCooey was scheduled to hear a motion to dis discussions with the state's attorneys in an effort to resolve the situation, which he hoped ultimately would the collection of the fuel tax. Department of Finance spokeswoman Kathy Johnson said Tuesday that Director Jim Main would comment on the issue because he yet seen the order of dismissal.

Strange said it is not known how tax revenue the commission collect from the state. The proceeds from the fuel tax go to the school miss that was filed by the state. The suit has been dismissed, but that doesn't mean that the county has dismissed its hope that the state will pay the fuel tax. County Attorney Tyrone Means told the commission Tuesday morning that the legal team now would "work through the legal issues addressed in the lawsuit." And County Commission Chairman Todd Strange said after the meeting that the county's attorneys would con CUSTOMER SERVICE To subscribe or to report a missing paper 1-877-424-0007 (toll free) wwMjnontoorneryd(Jvvf bserxorn Call the Montgomery Advertiser Customer Service Department between 5:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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