Word: williamsons
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Though the shootings took place four years ago, they still stir passionate argument at the University of North Carolina and in Chapel Hill, in part because it seems the case won't go away. Just last week a judge upheld the $500,000 jury award to the killer, Wendell Williamson, now 30. But that decision will be appealed, and other lawsuits are pending. And this week the case will be examined in Santa Rosa, Calif., at a conference of psychiatrists alarmed at the prospect of being held liable for crimes their patients commit...
Most folks in and around Chapel Hill are outraged that Williamson may collect a quarter of a million dollars for each person he killed. "Is there any crime you can commit these days and manage to be blamed for?" Wanda Jackson wrote in a scathing letter to the Raleigh News & Observer. But several jurors in the civil trial have become ardent advocates for better treatment of the mentally ill and visit Williamson at the mental hospital where he is confined. And other townspeople sympathize with Williamson as a promising young man who somehow spiraled into madness...
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...project, called "Runway 14/32," would lead to "a tripling of planes in this direction," said James M. Williamson, a Cambridge resident and a member of the runway opposition group Communities Against Runway Expansion (CARE...
...There will always be the danger of people finding loopholes," said James M. Williamson, a member of the coalition who fears the congregation is still in jeopardy of losing its home...