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ONLINE AT WWW.MYDJCONNECTION.COM DAILY JOURNAL PAGE 7 SPAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2000 Nation waifs for Florida recount Trying to get a handle Missouri-, Two dead, two wounded in related shooting COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) A man was charged with killing two people and wounding two others in related shootings about a block apart, police said. Deandra Mekel Buchanan, 27, of Columbia, was charged early Wednesday with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of William Jefferson, 73, and Juanita Hoffman, 51, Boone County prosecutor Kevin Crane said. Buchanan also was charged with two counts of first-degree assault for the shootings Tuesday night of Angela Brown, 21, and Jerry Key, 24, Crane said. Brown and Key were listed in serious condition Wednesday.

Buchanan was being held without bond. "We know there's a family relationship" between the suspect and some of the victims, Capt. Eric Meyer said. "We do not know his reasons for doing this." Meyer said Jefferson was the suspect's stepfather, Hoffman was the aunt who raised him, and Brown was his girlfriend, Meyer said. Police said they were at a home investigating the shootings of those three when they received reports of another shooting about a block away.

The victim of that shooting, Key, was wounded after he stopped to give Buchanan a ride, Meyer said. Key told With its 25 sectoral volet, Florida trie key lo a recount after both candidates finished with 49 percent of the vote. Getting tighter through the night two.000 2wnooo 3.000000 Democrtit Republican I.MO00O M0 (no 0 tMm Mlsm SOIut Leader Gore Bush Bush Bush Amount 4,056 138.593 136,325 56.466 ular vote but he and Bush both were achingly close to the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House. Florida's 25 electoral votes would put either candidate over the top. The initial Florida totals, including all absentee ballots received so far, showed Bush ahead with 2,909,135 votes and Gore with 2,907,351 votes a difference of 1,784.

A recount was mandatory because the margin was less than one-half of 1 percentage point. Partial but unofficial results from a recount Wednesday of 32 of Florida's 67 counties showed Gore cutting into Bush's lead by almost half. Gore sent Daley and former Secretary of State War on the Sunshine State the next presidency. The state's dramatic race the most 8:02 pm Precincts reporting: J8S V' out of 5,884 Gore 185.435 49 Bush 181.379 48 J1Ju fHSun Bush Bush 1,680 1.686 ren Christopher to Florida to oversee the recount. The vice president's aides were privately making the case that Gore's popular-vote lead gives him standing to contest the recount if state officials overlook voting irregularities.

As Democrats searched for potential ballot abuses and questioned the motives of Florida's GOP secretary of state, Gore's staff said a legal challenge was one option. Even before the recount, Gore's campaign was eyeing legal options for forcing a new vote in heavily Democratic Palm Beach County, where confusion over how to complete the ballots may have boosted Pat Buchanan's totals, a senior Gore adviser said, speaking on condition tims were found in barrels, but Lisa Stasi's body has never been found. The bodies of two of the women were discovered on land Robinson owned in Linn County, Kan. Those of the other three were in Cass County, in a storage locker Robinson had rented. Robinson is also charged with aggravated interference with parental custody for allegedly taking then 4-month-old Tiffany Stasi out of Kansas and concealing her whereabouts.

Prosecutors contend that closely watched election night, has triggered 5:82 am Precincts i. reporting: 5.884 out ot 5,684 Bush 2.909,199 49 Gore 2,907,544 49 of anonymity. Meanwhile, county officials said 19,120 ballots in the presidential race were thrown out before they were counted because voters picked more than one candidate. Only 3,783 voters made that mistake on the U.S. Senate portion of the ballot.

Gore said it was "crucial that the American people have full faith and confidence in the electoral process from which the president derives authority." Daley said his boss would win Florida. "We believe when those votes are counted and that process is complete, totally complete, Al Gore will have won the Electoral College and the popular vote and therefore will be the next president," Daley said. he forged papers and set up the bogus adoption of Tiffany by his brother and sister-in-law, an otherwise childless couple living in the Midwest. Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison has said he has no evidence to indicate the couple knew the illegal nature of the adoption. The couple have guarded their privacy since the Robinson case broke earlier this year, insisting through their lawyers that they thought the adoption to be legal and did not know about Lisa Stasi's disappearance.

girl in barrel bodies case found detectives he happened to pick up the suspect, not realizing he was armed. Key was taken to the hospital around 10:15 p.m. Neighbors said they heard gunshots around 9 p.m. but could not tell what was going on. Talent concedes governor's race to Holden KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(AP) Democrat Bob Holden won the third-closest Missouri governor's race in a century, as Republican Jim Talent conceded the cliffhanger contest on Wednesday. Holden, 51, the two-term state treasurer, made no public appearances the day after capping his political rise from a boyhood in rural Birch Tree to the top job in the Missouri Statehouse. But minutes after The Associated Press declared him the next governor at 2:35 a.m., Holden told cheering supporters in St. Louis: "I look forward to having'a very successful four years as governor of the state of Missouri." Later Wednesday, Holden got a haircut in St. Louis and spent quiet time with his wife, Lori, and two young sons.

He received congratulatory calls from several governors and returned Talent's call of concession. Then 1 lolden was driven to his Jefferson City home by the governor-elect's new constant companions, a security detail from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Writh complete but unofficial returns, Holden had 49 percent of the vote to Talent's 48 percent, besting the Republican by a margin of 21,248 votes out of 2,345,936 ballots cast. Third-party candidates for governor together collected almost 63,000 votes. Talent told reporters he wouldn't challenge the outcome, despite GOP grumbling about some St.

Louis polling places being kept open briefly past the usual closing time under a last-minute court order. "Bob Holden has taken over a very difficult job with a heavy responsibility for the people of Missouri," Talent told reporters in St. Louis. Post-Dispatch publishes extra edition ST. LOUIS (AP) The St.

Ixiuis Post-Dispatch published a rare extra edition Wednesday aimed at updating readers on one of the closest presidential elections in history. The 14-page edition carried the headline, "The Nation Waits." It was a cautious approach after the close race and heavy voter turnout sent many newspapers into a tail-spin early Wednesday morning. The Post-Dispatch pushed back deadlines and went to press about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday with the headline, "It's Down to the Wire." A short time later, networks called the race for Texas Gov. George Bush, and Vice President Al Gore phoned him to concede defeat.

The newspaper, like many, ing at a battered women's shelter when, by several accounts, John Robinson approached the young mother. Robinson, say Carl's relatives and investigators who looked into the case at the time, offered her free lodging and job training. Lisa and Tiffany were last seen, with Robinson, by friends and relatives on Jan. 9, 1985. Last summer Robinson was charged with murdering six women, including Lisa Stasi, over several years.

The bodies of the other five vic WASHINGTON 'AP) In agonizing doubt, Americans waited for a crucial Florida recount to settle the election between George W. Bush and Al Gore amid rival claims of victory and the possibility it will be days or weeks before the nation knows its next president. Gore said the election mystery must be resolved "deliberately and without any rush to judgment." Bush urged a speedy resolution and said, "When that happens I'll be the presidentelect." Bush's brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, said the recount of nearly 6 million state ballots would be completed by Thursday evening. However, he said the final outcome might have to await a count of overseas ballots that could take 10 days. Democrats said it might take even longer to clear up alleged election irregularities in Florida.

"I can't say with certainty when this will be over," said Gore campaign chairman William Daley. He added that, "This is the beginning of the process, not the end of the process." Near deadlock, Tuesday's election was one of the closest in history. Gore held a tiny lead in the national pop- Father of KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) DNA tests have confirmed that Carl Stasi fathered the child born to a woman who disappeared 15 years ago and is one of the six people John E. Robinson Sr.

is accused of killing. Stasi complains about being denied access to the girl, born Tiffany Stasi but raised as Heather Robinson by the brother and sister-in-law of the man accused of killing her mother. "The only thing I can assume is that they are trying to stall and delay all they can," said Seth Shumaker, Carl Stasi's attorney from Kirksville, Mo. Robinson's brother and sister-in-law have declined to be interviewed and did not return repeated calls from The Kansas City Star. Carl Stasi and Lisa F.lledge were dating, although not exclusively, in late 1983 and early 1984.

They married in August 1984 when he was 24 and she was 19 and eight months pregnant. On Sept. 3, 1984, Lisa Stasi gave birth to Tiffany, with Carl listed as the father on her birth certificate. By the end of that year the marriage was dissolving, and Carl left the Kansas City area to re-enlist in the Navy. Lisa and her daughter were stay- S2 50 Ail ShowsAll Seats .7 i7 Showlimes For Today Only Charlie Angels moovfUi Thursday: 4 00.

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