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03 -ThuredayHttne 24, 1999 Metro State Austin American-Statesman Bail to Bell Court turns down pleas from death row inmates Valedictorians Jackee Renee Borcherding Anderson To reach education reporters and editors State Editor: Debra Davis, 445-3624, ddavisstatesman.com Community Information Coordinator: Josefina Villicana, 445-3637, jvillicanastatesman.com Metro Desk Education Reporters: Sharon Jayson, 445-3620, sjaysonstatesman.com Michele Kurtz, 445-3812, mkurtzstatesman.com Williamson County Education Reporters: David Hafetz, 246-0043, dhafetzstatesman.com Pam LeBlanc, 249-7053, pleblancstatesman.com State Desk Education Reporter: A. Phillips Brooks, 445-1705, abrooksstatesman.com 3 High School Parents: John and Connie Borcherding Activities: Trojan Belles, Texas Governor's 72, and her daughter, Sherry Jones, 49, after they complained about the noise of his party. He was not related to the women. Jones, then 17, beat and tortured both women, killing Sherry Jorfips and raping Edith Jones. He took money and set their house on fire.

Edith Jones escaped. John L. Wheat, a former Tarrant County church maintenance worker who was convicted of killing 20-month-old Lacey Anderson on July 30, 1995. Also killed were Lacey's 8-year-old brother Eddie Ochoa and 6-year-old sister Ashley Ochoa. The children's mother, Angela Ochoa, an apartment security officer, and a police officer were injured.

Emanuel Kemp Jr. of Tarrant County for the May 28, 1987, aggravated sexual assault, robbing and killing of Johnnie Gray. Kemp was scheduled to die on July 1, but a federal judge issued a reprieve. Death penalty is upheld for 4 convicts, including man who killed pregnant girl Associated Press The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected pleas from four death row inmates, including a Tarrant County man who killed three people, one a 10-year-old pregnant with his child. The Austin court on Wednesday upheld the death penalty for Edward Lewis Lagrone, 42, who was convicted of shotgunning three people: Shakiesha Lloyd, 10, and her great aunts, Caola Lloyd, 76, and Zenobia Anderson, 83.

According to court documents, Lagrone burst into the victims' home just before 5 a.m. on May 30, 1991, and went room to room firing a 12-gauge shotgun after Shak-iesha's mother confronted him about the child's pregnancy. In his appeal, Lagrone said that Shakiesha's mother, Pamela Lloyd, was on crack at the time of the murder and was incapable of identifying him. The justices, however, decided that Lloyd could identify Lagrone based on their six-month relationship, which had just ended. Also, Lloyd's son and uncle, present at the shootings, identified Lagrone.

Prosecutors presented records showing that Lagrone had been convicted of murder in 1977, serving seven years of a 20-year prison sentence before being released in 1984. The court also denied the appeals of: Anzel Keon Jones of Lamar County, who on May 2, 1995, entered the residence of Edith Jones, Program, Debate Team, All City Drill Team, Physics Club, Ready Writing Club, Anderson Chorale, National Honor Society Intended college: Rice University, Houston Aleksandra "Olenka" Hand St Michael's Academy Parents: Sean and Anna Hand Activities: Varsity soccer, National Honor Society, Schoen- more than 650 applicants across the nation. She will represent her school and community in Australia and New Zealand, earning high school and college academic credit while she travels. Staci Mijares, a student at Bowie High School, will attend high school in Germany next year as a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Student. The program is funded by the U.S.

Congress and the German Bundestag. Literary pieces by Georgetown High School students Houston Hughes, Josh Flanagan and Rick Maxwell have been selected from more than 30,000 manuscripts for publication in The High School Writer, a magazine featuring student-written pieces from across the country. Their teacher sponsor is Donna Hart. Maddie Gatling, an eighth-grade student at Redeemer Lutheran i Fewer artifacts than expected are discovered in old cemetery statt (religious retreat) participant, Latin Club, Art Club Intended college: University of Texas, Austin Lee Rivera Travis High School Parents: Mr. and Mrs.

Lee Rivera Activities: Unavailable Intended college: University of Texas, Austin Elisabeth Wolfe I The McNeil High School Speech Squad attended the national tournament of the National Forensic League, the oldest honor society in the United States. The students were Greg Bove, Ginette Doig, Bobby Greene, Trevor Hartman and Meghan Leary. The tournament, which began June 13, was held in Phoenix, Ariz. Opportunities Educational Merit Foundation, a nonprofit international student exchange organization, is looking for Central Texans to host 15- to 18-year-old high school students from other countries for the academic year beginning in August. Richard Manson, 442-0379 Friday is the last day to enroll in Red River Arts Academy classes to be held July 11' 17.

Designed for students age 14-18, the academy is open to all interested. $120 includes housing at Southern Oklahoma State University; $200 covers housing and meals. Michael Miles, (580) 924-0121, ext. 2274. Round Rock High School hosts volleyball camp July 27-30 for incoming eighth- and ninth-grade girls across Central Texas.

The skills camp is designed to teach and review basic skills of volleyball and teach new features of the game. Round Rock Community School, 255-3450. Anderson High School Trojan Belle officers will host a dance clinic at the Anderson High School Gym on July 12-15. $65. Applications due by July 2.

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School, has been selected to study musical theater and flute at the Inter-lochen Arts Camp in Michigan this summer. Gatling is the daughter of Tennessee. The bodies will then be reburied, most likely in the Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church Cemetery. The church was built on the ruins of the Refugio mission. Eleven new burial pits were discovered recently, meaning the digcouldgo into August, Bousman said.

That means the completion of the $6.2 million highway widening project will probably be pushed back to December 2000 instead of the anticipated April or May 2000 finish date, said Becky Kureska, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Transportation. Weather has been another factor in the delays, Kureska said. "We've had an unusual amoujit of rain," she said. "But we've had a lot of 'unusual on this beneath the highway in March. Bousman anticipates it will take six to eight more weeks to finish excavation on the west side of U.S.

77. Some remains extend under the east side of the highway, meaning an excavation will also take place on that side. "It depends on how many burials we find," Bousman said. "On the west half of the highway we've found up to 34 (bodies) and counting." The cemetery was initially thought to have about 60 sets of human remains, all buried between 1800 and 1830. "We'll probably go over that 60 number," Bousman said.

Archaeologists will send the remains to San Antonio for study by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution and University of Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI Few artifacts have been found on an old Refugio mission burial site found under U.S. 77. The artifacts include a religious medallion at least 170 years old, a rosary and coffin nails, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported Wednesday. "These people were not being buried with many grave goods," said Britt Bousman, associate director for the University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Archaeological Research. Little else has been found among the human remains of the 200-year-old Our Lady of Refuge mission, or Nuestra Senora del Refugio.

Road construction crews found the graves about two feet Uano High School Parents: William D. and Claudia T. Wolfe Activities: Band; Choir; UIL Science; National Maddie Gatling Honor Society; Intended college: Baylor University, Waco Recognition Family sues over son's embalming Sara Parker, a junior at Westwood High School, was named a Robbin and Melodye Gatling. Stephanie Joiner, a freshman at Lake Travis High School, has been selected to study musical theater and ballet at the In-teriochen Arts Camp in Michigan this summer. Joiner is the daughter of Steve and Diane Joiner.

Calvin Richelle, a Crockett High School senior, has been selected to participate in the 1999 Youth Leadership Alumni Conference June 20-25 at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa. The camp is sponsored by the university's John Ben Shepperd Public Leadership Institute as a resource for developing leadership skills. Although the body began improperly seeping fluids before the July funeral in Wichita Falls, SCI entombed the body anyway, according to the lawsuit. The seepage caused the wooden casket to break open, with a liquid pooling on the mausoleum floor. negligence, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The lawsuit contends that SCI, which owns Hampton-Vaughan Funeral Home in Wichita Falls, improperly performed Hood's embalming at another SCI funeral home, Sparkman-Crane in Dallas. 1999 Qantas Airways Student Ambassador Scholarship winner. Parker was one of eleven student ambassadors selected from Associated Press WICHITA FALLS The family of a newscaster who died last year is suing funeral home giant Service Corp. International over what they say was a botched embalming of the man's corpse. The lawsuit by Gayle Johnson and Frank Hood the parents of Frank "Tres" Hood HI, accuses SCI of deceptive trade practices, Sara Parker Lubbock flood damage to hit millions; few insured ONE DAY SALE Saturday, June 26th ftftt Kids' Clothes $199t Ladies'Men's Clothes A $199- Ladies'Men's Suits White and Yellow Tags Only JUST BETWEEN US CiddM KMf 1t UU tfltift 13233 Pond Springs Rd.

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Around town Wednesday, most roadways that were closed Tuesday had reopened, but many houses in flooded areas still had standing water. Several cars remained underwater, and insurance agents were walking through neighborhoods and assessing damage. Jamie Parks, who lived near a small lake in southwest Lubbock, said he probably wouldn't return to his home until next week. "Well, my home is completely unlivable right now," Parks said, as he collected items there Wednesday. "The water was at about 17 inches last night.

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