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...LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA: After less than a day of deliberations, a jury convicted Daniel Green of the 1993 killing of James Jordan, the father of Chicago Bulls basketball star Michael Jordan. Green's defense was based on the testimony of four witnesses who said he was watching television when Jordan was killed. But District Attorney Johnson Britt pointed out that all four were family friends and came forward only after the trial began. For jurors, the decision may have been aided by a video Green made of himself wearing Jordan's watch and jewelry. Both Green and his accomplice, Larry...
Just days after discovering that James Jordan, the father of Michael Jordan, had been murdered, police in Lumberton, North Carolina, arrested two youths in connection with the killing. Larry Martin Demery and Daniel Andre Green, both 18, are charged with robbing and murdering Jordan. Police found the pair by tracing calls they had made on the cellular phone while joyriding in Jordan's Lexus...
...grievance? Want to win national media attention? Take hostages. That seemed to be the guiding maxim last week in two Southern communities. In the first incident, shotgun-toting Indian Activist Eddie Hatcher, 30, and Timothy Jacobs, 19, a fellow Tuscarora Indian, stormed the offices of North Carolina's Lumberton Robesonian and held 17 of the newspaper's employees for ten hours. The duo demanded that Governor James Martin investigate the alleged mistreatment of blacks and Native Americans by local Sheriff Hubert Stone, who has long been a figure of controversy. They surrendered after Martin's office promised a probe...
...film opens stunningly. A blue velvet curtain furls like a stage partition, and in the foreground credits emerge and fade. Bobbie Vinton's "Blue Velvet" wells up, and Lynch gives us a picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with...
Switch to the hero, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who has just found a human ear in a field. He takes it to the Lumberton police and carries out a personal investigation that leads him to Sandy Williams, the chief's daughter (Laura Dern), Dorothy Vallens, a masochistic torch singer (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank Booth, a perverted drug dealer (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey discovers that Vallens' son and husband have been kidnapped by Booth, and his effort to intervene opens realms of violence and sexuality he never knew possible...