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...case of Lloyd Schlup, 32, a man who has been in prison for nearly half his life and who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Friday unless Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan commutes his sentence. Schlup, who was originally imprisoned for stealing a pickup truck in 1978, was convicted for assisting two other men to stab a fellow inmate to death in 1984. Since taking on the case in 1992, O'Brien, a former public defender who now runs the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, has collected piles of documents, affidavits that appear to prove...
Maybe I don't remember it correctly. My father might have picked the planks up at the Somerville Lumber outlet and lugged the wood home in his pickup. He could have been sanding them down in the garage for all I know. It took him forever to refurbish and nail the planks into the walls of our cold spare room. But after a year and a half, for my 12th Christmas, my parents gave me a new bedroom, a brand-new, wood-paneled room with a skylight and electric heating and wall-to-wall carpeting...
...Malibu fire's third day, Ablott and his crew, analyzing burn and wind patterns, had located the fire's ground zero within 4 ft. and ascertained that its author had not used an accelerant, like gasoline. But their best lead -- several witnesses had seen two men in a blue pickup truck racing away from ground zero -- turned out to be a bust. By Thursday Ablott's team had interviewed the men, who could prove they not only had alerted neighbors to the fire's existence but had tried to extinguish...
Thirty years later, the now much older Arlis Sweeney still hears the crying of that baby in his nightmares. Arlis deals novelty vending machines in Texas, travelling from site to site in his pickup and sleeping in road-side motels. Fate brings him together wit a runaway housewife, Kay Davies (Meg Ryan), with whom he eventually falls in love and takes on as a travelling-companion and lover. It is only when he discovers that Kay is that baby whose family his father slaughtered so long ago that the entire gravitas of the situation propels the story crazily forward...
...Kans., had a .308 career batting average over 19 seasons, batted a whopping .390 in 1980 (where were you, Cal Ripken?), led the Royals to a World Series Championship in 1985, finished fifth in the state in the 1980 Presidential General Election, was said to have had the best pickup lines in the city before getting married a year ago, and will go down in history as probably the best baseball player who ever lived...