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Sources: Conyers tied to Detroit scandal
DETROIT, July 5 (UPI) -- Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers has been tied by federal investigators to a growing corruption scandal in the city, two sources say.
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DETROIT, July 5 (UPI) -- Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers has been tied by federal investigators to a growing corruption scandal in the city, two sources say.
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News: FBI Has Evidence Against Conyers
Our reporting partners at the Detroit News are reporting that the FBI has electronic surveillance that links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers to the Synagro scandal.
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Our reporting partners at the Detroit News are reporting that the FBI has electronic surveillance that links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers to the Synagro scandal.
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Bribe probe ensnarls Conyers
Federal investigators have electronic surveillance evidence that allegedly links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers with receiving a payment or payments in connection with a city-approved sludge contract.
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Federal investigators have electronic surveillance evidence that allegedly links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers with receiving a payment or payments in connection with a city-approved sludge contract.
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Most People Comply With New Rules At Montana VistaEl Paso County sheriff's deputies are manning barricades to keep people from taking their fireworks and parties into residential neighborhoods in Montana Vista, a rule implemented just this week. Monica Balderrama Reports: Expect Delays Near Monatana Vista Street Closures
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Comic book artist Michael Turner dies at 37
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Michael Turner, a comic book artist who drew covers for major titles such as "Superman/Batman," "The Flash" and "Civil War,'" has died. He was 37....
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Michael Turner, a comic book artist who drew covers for major titles such as "Superman/Batman," "The Flash" and "Civil War,'" has died. He was 37....
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Michael Turner, comic book artist, dies at 37
Associated Press - July 4, 2008 6:34 PM ET SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Comic book artist Michael Turner has died in Santa Monica. Turner drew covers for major titles such as "Superman/Batman,"...
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Associated Press - July 4, 2008 6:34 PM ET SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Comic book artist Michael Turner has died in Santa Monica. Turner drew covers for major titles such as "Superman/Batman,"...
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Parents of Conway murder victim talks to News13
Ervin and Martha Burroughs talked to News13 on Friday about their daughter who was gunned down in her Conway driveway last month. The Burroughs buried their 29 year old daughter, Monica last weekend.
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Ervin and Martha Burroughs talked to News13 on Friday about their daughter who was gunned down in her Conway driveway last month. The Burroughs buried their 29 year old daughter, Monica last weekend.
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Celebrated comic book artist Michael Turner dies of cancer at 37
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Michael Turner, a comic book artist who drew covers for major titles such as "Superman/Batman," "The Flash" and "Civil War,"' has died. He was 37.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Michael Turner, a comic book artist who drew covers for major titles such as "Superman/Batman," "The Flash" and "Civil War,"' has died. He was 37.
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Jesse Helms Timeline
NAME - Jesse Alexander Helms.AGE - Born Oct.18, 1921 in Monroe, N.C.EDUCATION - Monroe public schools; Wingate Junior College and Wake Forest College.FAMILY - Wife, Dorothy Coble Helms; children Jane Knox, Nancy Grigg and Charles Helms; seven grandchildren.CAREER - Navy, 1942-1945; city editor at The Raleigh Times; administrative assistant to Democratic Sens. Willis Smith (1951-53) and Alton Lennon (1953); executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association from 1953-1960; executive vice president of Capitol Broadcasting Co., 1960-1972.POLITICAL CAREER - Elected Republican senator from North Carolina in 1972; re-elected to Senate four times; in 1984, defeated then-Gov. Jim Hunt in what was then the costliest Senate race on record; served as chairman of Senate Foreign Relations and Agriculture Committees; earned nickname "Senator No" for no-compromise political style; forced roll-call votes requiring Democrats to take politically difficult votes on art he deemed pornographic, school busing, flag burning, other issues.Oct. 18, 1921: Jesse Helms born in Monroe, one of three children of Jesse Sr. and Ethel Mae Helms.1930: Although Jesse Sr. is police chief in Monroe, the family encounters financial problems during the Great Depression. Jesse Jr. gets a job sweeping floors at a Monroe newspaper office. He later says this job sparked his interest in the media.1938: Helms graduates from Walter Bickett High School in Monroe. He decides to attend Wingate Junior College after the school's president comes to the family home and assures him that the college will find a way for Helms to pay the cost. That begins a lifelong attachment between Helms and Wingate. 1939: Helms enrolls at Wake Forest College. He gets a job in the sports department at the Raleigh News & Observer, then leaves Wake Forest in 1940 for a full-time journalism career.1942: Helms enlists in the Navy, although ear damage from a childhood illness prevents him from seeing battle duty. He is sent to North Carolina as a recruiter. While on leave in 1942, he marries Dorothy "Dot" Coble.1945: With the war over, Helms becomes city editor at the Raleigh Times. Shortly afterward, he leaves newspapers to become news director at a Roanoke Rapids radio station.1948: He moves back to Raleigh, as news director at WRAL-AM Radio.1950: Helms helps Willis Smith win a racially divisive U.S. Senate campaign; a year later, Smith hires him as an aide in Washington.1953: Smith dies in office; Helms returns to Raleigh as director of the state banking association. He is elected to the City Council in Raleigh in 1957 and serves until 1961.1960: He becomes executive director of WRAL-TV and the Tobacco Radio Network.1962: Jesse and Dot Helms adopt 9-year-old Charles, an orphan, after reading a story in which the boy's wish for Christmas was to have a mother and father. He is the couple's third child, following daughters born in 1945 and 1949.1970: Upset with the Democratic Party for its policy on the Vietnam War, Helms switches from Democrat to Republican.1972: He is elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Nick Galifianakis, a congressman and lawyer. Helms becomes the first Republican senator from North Carolina since Reconstruction.1975: Helms publicly supports Ronald Reagan for president, becoming the first major political figure to do so. He launches the National Congressional Club to pay off his campaign debt; by 1981 it is the nation's largest political action committee.1976: Helms is nominated to be Gerald Ford's vice presidential running mate at the GOP convention in Kansas City; he receives 99 votes despite asking to have his name removed.1978: With the Senate prepared to debate the Panama Canal treaties, Helms says he has evidence Panamanian ruler Omar Torrijos and associates covered up drug trafficking. A Senate Intelligence Committee report says Helms' information was "largely second-hand and of varying reliability." The Senate later approves the treaties over Helms' vigorous objections.Helms wins a second Senate term, defeating John Ingram.1981: Helms becomes chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee; defending tobacco and fighting expansion of the food stamp program emerge as his major crusades.He stalls Senate confirmation of dozens of Reagan appointees, including Caspar Weinberger for defense secretary. Helms says Weinberger won't be tough enough with the Soviets, but eventually relents when conservatives are appointed to several government jobs.1982: Helms tries to permanently ban federal funding for abortion and bar federal courts from hearing challenges to organized school prayer. Both proposals are defeated. He delays Senate adjournment by filibustering for several days to protest an increase in the gasoline tax. Senators trying to get home for Christmas fume; Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming calls Helms "obnoxious" and refuses to shake his hand.1983: Helms unsuccessfully filibusters against a proposal to make the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday. Helms accuses the slain civil rights leader of "action-oriented Marxism."1984: Helms wins a third Senate term, defeating Jim Hunt in a fierce, expensive campaign that attracted national attention.1986: Congress approves a permanent tobacco price-support program pushed by Helms. Helms holds hearings on Mexican drug trafficking, saying he has secret evidence that the Mexican government had stolen elections and condoned drug trafficking. Attorney General Edwin Meese calls the charges reckless.1988: Helms opens hearings on a nuclear missile treaty by handing out a 180-page catalog of complaints about the treaty, which he calls an "invitation to cheat." Treaty supporters launch a "Helms Watch" to answer his daily objections. The treaty passes, with Helms casting one of five "no" votes in the Senate.1989: Helms launches national debate over federal funding for the arts by attacking an NEA grant to Andres Serrano, who photographed a crucifix in a jar of urine.James Meredith, who became famous for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962 and whom Helms once dismissed as a grandstanding publicity hound, goes to work for Helms, saying he's attracted by Helms' stand on family issues.1990: Helms wins a fourth Senate term, defeating former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt.Helms enrages gays by opposing a $600 million AIDS relief bill, calling it an effort by homosexuals to whip up hysteria.1991: Gay activists put a 15-foot nylon condom on the roof of Helms' house, with a sign saying "Helms is deadlier than a virus."1993: Helms gets into the Senate elevator with black colleague (and rival) Carol Moseley-Braun and begins singing "Dixie," telling another senator, "I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries." Moseley-Braun's response: "Senator Helms, your singing would make me cry if you sang 'Rock of Ages.' "1994: The Jesse Helms Center at Union County's Wingate College opens to the public. The center houses Helms' papers, hosts guest speakers, and is funded by donors that range from the Kuwaiti government to Philip Morris Tobacco.Helms ignites a national furor when he tells a reporter President Clinton "better have a bodyguard" if he visits military bases in North Carolina.1995: After Republicans take control of the Senate in 1994 elections, Helms becomes chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, elevating him from foreign-policy maverick to international leader. His diplomatic style prompts some to call him "a kinder, gentler Jesse," but he maintains his anti-communist record by calling for tougher sanctions against Cuba.1996: Helms wins a fifth Senate term, defeating Gantt, who outspends him.Helms-Burton Act strengthens sanctions against Cuba after Fidel Castro's air force downs two Brothers to the Rescue planes.1997: Blocks the nomination of William Weld as ambassador to Mexico until Weld withdraws. Helms insisted that Weld, a moderate Republican, was unqualified to be ambassador because he favored allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Said Helms: "I'm not calling Weld a skunk, but if you get into a certain kind of contest you get your shoes wet."1998: Helms has both knees surgically replaced in July; eight weeks later he's back at the Senate in a wheelchair.1999: In October, Helms wins a victory when Senate refuses to ratify an international ban on nuclear weapons, then shocks colleagues with a floor speech featuring an imaginary conversation between President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which Blair tells Clinton, "My regards to Monica."In November, Helms teams with freshman Sen. John Edwards to get $131 million in additional aid for Hurricane Floyd victims in Eastern North Carolina.2000: Helms becomes the first lawmaker of any nation to address the United Nations; he tells the United Nations to reform its bureaucracy or face losing the United States.January 2001: Helms scoffs at President George W. Bush's pledge of bipartisan harmony, criticizing Republicans who cozy up to Democrats as "nervous Nellies." The longtime U.N. critic then makes international news by acknowledging "significant progress" and voting for the United States to catch up on its dues.February: Amid speculation that his health problems will keep him from running again, Helms sends a fund-raising letter citing "growing feeling" that "I ought to be ready for one more campaign."April: Helms visits Mexico, reverses opposition to liberalizing immigration laws by calling for policies to help more Mexicans enter the United States legally.June: Helms loses chairmanship of Foreign Relations Committee when Vermont's Sen. James Jeffords becomes an independent, giving Democrats a majority in the Senate.The 79-year-old senator also attends his first rock concert, taking his grandkids to see U2. Helms and lead singer Bono had become friends when Bono lobbied the senator for Third World debt relief.Jan. 2003: Helms leaves the Senate.November 2005: Helms' memoir published, "Here's Where I Stand'
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NAME - Jesse Alexander Helms.AGE - Born Oct.18, 1921 in Monroe, N.C.EDUCATION - Monroe public schools; Wingate Junior College and Wake Forest College.FAMILY - Wife, Dorothy Coble Helms; children Jane Knox, Nancy Grigg and Charles Helms; seven grandchildren.CAREER - Navy, 1942-1945; city editor at The Raleigh Times; administrative assistant to Democratic Sens. Willis Smith (1951-53) and Alton Lennon (1953); executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association from 1953-1960; executive vice president of Capitol Broadcasting Co., 1960-1972.POLITICAL CAREER - Elected Republican senator from North Carolina in 1972; re-elected to Senate four times; in 1984, defeated then-Gov. Jim Hunt in what was then the costliest Senate race on record; served as chairman of Senate Foreign Relations and Agriculture Committees; earned nickname "Senator No" for no-compromise political style; forced roll-call votes requiring Democrats to take politically difficult votes on art he deemed pornographic, school busing, flag burning, other issues.Oct. 18, 1921: Jesse Helms born in Monroe, one of three children of Jesse Sr. and Ethel Mae Helms.1930: Although Jesse Sr. is police chief in Monroe, the family encounters financial problems during the Great Depression. Jesse Jr. gets a job sweeping floors at a Monroe newspaper office. He later says this job sparked his interest in the media.1938: Helms graduates from Walter Bickett High School in Monroe. He decides to attend Wingate Junior College after the school's president comes to the family home and assures him that the college will find a way for Helms to pay the cost. That begins a lifelong attachment between Helms and Wingate. 1939: Helms enrolls at Wake Forest College. He gets a job in the sports department at the Raleigh News & Observer, then leaves Wake Forest in 1940 for a full-time journalism career.1942: Helms enlists in the Navy, although ear damage from a childhood illness prevents him from seeing battle duty. He is sent to North Carolina as a recruiter. While on leave in 1942, he marries Dorothy "Dot" Coble.1945: With the war over, Helms becomes city editor at the Raleigh Times. Shortly afterward, he leaves newspapers to become news director at a Roanoke Rapids radio station.1948: He moves back to Raleigh, as news director at WRAL-AM Radio.1950: Helms helps Willis Smith win a racially divisive U.S. Senate campaign; a year later, Smith hires him as an aide in Washington.1953: Smith dies in office; Helms returns to Raleigh as director of the state banking association. He is elected to the City Council in Raleigh in 1957 and serves until 1961.1960: He becomes executive director of WRAL-TV and the Tobacco Radio Network.1962: Jesse and Dot Helms adopt 9-year-old Charles, an orphan, after reading a story in which the boy's wish for Christmas was to have a mother and father. He is the couple's third child, following daughters born in 1945 and 1949.1970: Upset with the Democratic Party for its policy on the Vietnam War, Helms switches from Democrat to Republican.1972: He is elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Nick Galifianakis, a congressman and lawyer. Helms becomes the first Republican senator from North Carolina since Reconstruction.1975: Helms publicly supports Ronald Reagan for president, becoming the first major political figure to do so. He launches the National Congressional Club to pay off his campaign debt; by 1981 it is the nation's largest political action committee.1976: Helms is nominated to be Gerald Ford's vice presidential running mate at the GOP convention in Kansas City; he receives 99 votes despite asking to have his name removed.1978: With the Senate prepared to debate the Panama Canal treaties, Helms says he has evidence Panamanian ruler Omar Torrijos and associates covered up drug trafficking. A Senate Intelligence Committee report says Helms' information was "largely second-hand and of varying reliability." The Senate later approves the treaties over Helms' vigorous objections.Helms wins a second Senate term, defeating John Ingram.1981: Helms becomes chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee; defending tobacco and fighting expansion of the food stamp program emerge as his major crusades.He stalls Senate confirmation of dozens of Reagan appointees, including Caspar Weinberger for defense secretary. Helms says Weinberger won't be tough enough with the Soviets, but eventually relents when conservatives are appointed to several government jobs.1982: Helms tries to permanently ban federal funding for abortion and bar federal courts from hearing challenges to organized school prayer. Both proposals are defeated. He delays Senate adjournment by filibustering for several days to protest an increase in the gasoline tax. Senators trying to get home for Christmas fume; Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming calls Helms "obnoxious" and refuses to shake his hand.1983: Helms unsuccessfully filibusters against a proposal to make the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday. Helms accuses the slain civil rights leader of "action-oriented Marxism."1984: Helms wins a third Senate term, defeating Jim Hunt in a fierce, expensive campaign that attracted national attention.1986: Congress approves a permanent tobacco price-support program pushed by Helms. Helms holds hearings on Mexican drug trafficking, saying he has secret evidence that the Mexican government had stolen elections and condoned drug trafficking. Attorney General Edwin Meese calls the charges reckless.1988: Helms opens hearings on a nuclear missile treaty by handing out a 180-page catalog of complaints about the treaty, which he calls an "invitation to cheat." Treaty supporters launch a "Helms Watch" to answer his daily objections. The treaty passes, with Helms casting one of five "no" votes in the Senate.1989: Helms launches national debate over federal funding for the arts by attacking an NEA grant to Andres Serrano, who photographed a crucifix in a jar of urine.James Meredith, who became famous for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962 and whom Helms once dismissed as a grandstanding publicity hound, goes to work for Helms, saying he's attracted by Helms' stand on family issues.1990: Helms wins a fourth Senate term, defeating former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt.Helms enrages gays by opposing a $600 million AIDS relief bill, calling it an effort by homosexuals to whip up hysteria.1991: Gay activists put a 15-foot nylon condom on the roof of Helms' house, with a sign saying "Helms is deadlier than a virus."1993: Helms gets into the Senate elevator with black colleague (and rival) Carol Moseley-Braun and begins singing "Dixie," telling another senator, "I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries." Moseley-Braun's response: "Senator Helms, your singing would make me cry if you sang 'Rock of Ages.' "1994: The Jesse Helms Center at Union County's Wingate College opens to the public. The center houses Helms' papers, hosts guest speakers, and is funded by donors that range from the Kuwaiti government to Philip Morris Tobacco.Helms ignites a national furor when he tells a reporter President Clinton "better have a bodyguard" if he visits military bases in North Carolina.1995: After Republicans take control of the Senate in 1994 elections, Helms becomes chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, elevating him from foreign-policy maverick to international leader. His diplomatic style prompts some to call him "a kinder, gentler Jesse," but he maintains his anti-communist record by calling for tougher sanctions against Cuba.1996: Helms wins a fifth Senate term, defeating Gantt, who outspends him.Helms-Burton Act strengthens sanctions against Cuba after Fidel Castro's air force downs two Brothers to the Rescue planes.1997: Blocks the nomination of William Weld as ambassador to Mexico until Weld withdraws. Helms insisted that Weld, a moderate Republican, was unqualified to be ambassador because he favored allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Said Helms: "I'm not calling Weld a skunk, but if you get into a certain kind of contest you get your shoes wet."1998: Helms has both knees surgically replaced in July; eight weeks later he's back at the Senate in a wheelchair.1999: In October, Helms wins a victory when Senate refuses to ratify an international ban on nuclear weapons, then shocks colleagues with a floor speech featuring an imaginary conversation between President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which Blair tells Clinton, "My regards to Monica."In November, Helms teams with freshman Sen. John Edwards to get $131 million in additional aid for Hurricane Floyd victims in Eastern North Carolina.2000: Helms becomes the first lawmaker of any nation to address the United Nations; he tells the United Nations to reform its bureaucracy or face losing the United States.January 2001: Helms scoffs at President George W. Bush's pledge of bipartisan harmony, criticizing Republicans who cozy up to Democrats as "nervous Nellies." The longtime U.N. critic then makes international news by acknowledging "significant progress" and voting for the United States to catch up on its dues.February: Amid speculation that his health problems will keep him from running again, Helms sends a fund-raising letter citing "growing feeling" that "I ought to be ready for one more campaign."April: Helms visits Mexico, reverses opposition to liberalizing immigration laws by calling for policies to help more Mexicans enter the United States legally.June: Helms loses chairmanship of Foreign Relations Committee when Vermont's Sen. James Jeffords becomes an independent, giving Democrats a majority in the Senate.The 79-year-old senator also attends his first rock concert, taking his grandkids to see U2. Helms and lead singer Bono had become friends when Bono lobbied the senator for Third World debt relief.Jan. 2003: Helms leaves the Senate.November 2005: Helms' memoir published, "Here's Where I Stand'
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Comic-book artist Turner dead at 37LOS ANGELES, July 4 (UPI) -- Comic-book artist Michael Turner has died at the age of 37 in a Santa Monica, Calif., hospital of complications related to cancer, his publishing company said.
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