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Potosi Correctional Center
Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, near Mineral Point. The facility houses 897 inmates as of the 2020 U.S. census. It is a Level 5 maximum security prison for male inmates. The facility, which opened in 1989, is a maximum security prison. In 1989 it had about 200 prisoners.Lombardi, George, Richard D. Sluder, and Donald Wallace.The Management of Death-Sentenced Inmates: Issues, Realities, and Innovative Strategies." Missouri Department of Corrections. 8-9. Retrieved on September 18, 2010. Shortly after the prison's opening, the majority of the non-death row prisoners at Potosi were serving long sentences, such as life imprisonment without parole, or sentences with a 50-year minimum before parole eligibility. A small number had shorter sentences.Lombardi, George, Richard D. Sluder, and Donald Wallace.The Management of Death-Sentenced Inmates: Issues, Realities, and Innovative Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mineral Point, Missouri
Mineral Point is a village in Washington County, Missouri, United States. The population was 351 at the 2010 census. History Mineral Point had its start in the 1850s as a lead-mining settlement. The community owes its name to the wealth of minerals found in the vicinity. Mineral Point was situated along the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. A post office has been in operation at Mineral Point since 1858. Geography Mineral Point is located at (37.945181, -90.724493). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 351 people, 124 households, and 85 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 131 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 92.0% White, 4.6% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 2.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader Mohammad Najibullah says that Afghanistan's 1978 Communist revolution is "not reversible," and that any opposition parties will have to align with Communist goals. * January 4 – ** 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. ** Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home." * January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives. * January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Anthony LaRette
Anthony Joe LaRette Jr. (October 1, 1951 – November 29, 1995) was an American serial killer and rapist. Convicted of one murder in St. Charles, Missouri in 1980, he later confessed to thirty-one murders in eleven states dating back to the late 1960s, fifteen of which were closed based on information provided by him. Sentenced to death for his sole conviction, LaRette was executed in 1995. Murders In August 1976, LaRette, posing as "Mike Watson," registered in two separate motels while staying in Marathon, Florida. On August 20, he broke into the home of 26-year-old Jeanette "Mickey" Wade, who had just returned from work. After realizing she had come back, he confronted the woman in the kitchen and stabbed her multiple times before finally cutting her throat. LaRette then left the scene and hitchhiked out of the city, and despite a witness providing a description, he was not caught. Three days later, now in St. Petersburg, he noticed 52-year-old Betty H. Brunton, an employee at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daily Journal (Missouri)
The ''Daily Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Park Hills, Missouri, United States.It covers local news in the counties of St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Reynolds, Jefferson, Madison, Iron and Washington. History ''The Leadwood Press'' was founded on January 10, 1930, by Rev. S.M. Brumfield. In 1935, the paper was moved to Flat River. In 1940, it was published three times a week under the name the ''St Francois County Journal''. On September 3, 1946, the St Francois County ''Daily Journal'' was published for the first time. Noah A. Grieg was a big part of the paper becoming a daily publication. Madison County's newspaper, the ''Democrat News'', also ran in the area as well. Later on, the ''Democrat News'' was bought by Lee Enterprises and started running with the ''Daily Journal'' in the Fredericktown area. In June 2023, Lee Enterprises Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 72 daily newspapers in 25 states, and more than 350 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Larry Griffin
Larry Griffin (September 23, 1954 – June 21, 1995) was sentenced to death for the murder of 19-year-old Quintin Moss in St. Louis, Missouri on the afternoon of June 26, 1980. Moss was killed in a drive-by shooting while allegedly dealing drugs on a street corner. Death Appeals courts upheld his conviction and death sentence. Griffin was executed by lethal injection on June 21, 1995. Griffin maintained his innocence right up to his execution. Re-opened investigation After Griffin's execution, a 2005 post-execution investigation was sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This NAACP investigation raised doubts about the conviction (specifically as to the shooter's identity), and subsequently caused an investigation by the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney's Office. The St. Louis City investigation ended in a finding that "the right person was convicted". See also * Capital punishment in Missouri * Capital punishment in the United States * List of people executed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. The paper is the major newspaper of the Kansas City metropolitan area and has widespread circulation in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. History Nelson family ownership (1880–1926) The paper, originally called ''The Kansas City Evening Star'', was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the ''Fort Wayne News Sentinel'' (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful presidential run of Samuel Tilden. Morss quit the newspaper business within a year and a half because of ill health. At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Walter Blair Jr
Walter Blair Jr. (September 29, 1960 – July 21, 1993), also known as Walter Junior Blair, was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Missouri for the August 1979 murder of 21-year-old Katherine Jo Allen in Kansas City, Missouri. Blair was hired to murder Allen by Larry Jackson, who was accused of raping her, and wanted her dead to prevent her testimony. Blair was also accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Sandy Shannon, however, the charges were ultimately dropped when witnesses refused to testify. Blair was executed in 1993 at the Potosi Correctional Center via lethal injection. At the time of his execution, he was Missouri's longest-serving death row inmate. Walter Blair was the older brother of Terry Blair, a convicted serial killer who murdered at least seven women across Kansas City, Missouri. Early life Walter Blair Jr. was born on September 29, 1960, and came from a violent family. He was one of ten siblings and grew up in poverty. His mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1980 Pope's Cafeteria Shooting
The 1980 Pope's Cafeteria shooting happened in Des Peres, St. Louis County, Missouri, on October 23, 1980, when 25-year-old Maurice Oscar Byrd (December 7, 1954 – August 23, 1991) entered the Pope's Cafeteria at the West County Center and opened fire on four employees. Three victims died at the scene, while the fourth, who was shot in the eyes, succumbed to her injuries a week later. Several months after the shooting, Byrd was arrested in Savannah, Georgia for the unrelated murder of a liquor store worker, and he was sent back to Missouri to stand trial for the mass shooting. Byrd was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection on August 23, 1991, after he was found guilty of four counts of capital murder in his 1982 murder trial. The shooting incident was known to be one of the deadliest homicides to happen in St. Louis County. The murders On October 23, 1980, in Des Peres, Missouri, a mass shooting broke out at a local cafeteria, which ended with four deaths in tota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches. History Formally named United Press Associations for incorporation and legal purposes but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP, the news agency was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps. It was headed by Hugh Baillie (1890–1966) from 1935 to 1955. At the time of his retirement, UP had 2,900 clients in the United States, and 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Winford Stokes
Winford LaVern Stokes Jr. (March 21, 1951 – May 11, 1990) was an American serial killer and serial rapist. He murdered three people, for which he was sentenced to death and subsequently executed in 1990. Stokes also admitted to raping six women. Early life Stokes was one of 10 children. He dropped out of school in 8th grade. Crimes Murder of Ignatius DiManuele Stokes' first recorded crime occurred on April 30, 1969. Together with David H. Richards and Allen E. Smith (17 and 18, respectively), they entered a tavern on 3044 Easton Avenue in St. Louis, posing as customers before drawing their pistols and announcing it was a robbery. The customers and the owner, Ignatius DiManuele, were forced to lay down on the ground as the three men emptied the cash register. While doing this, one of the robbers pointed their gun at DiManuele and proceeded to shoot him. When questioned about his reasons, the killer simply replied that he "wanted to get a whitey." After that, Stokes and his tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
