Lead Stories
“I know I’m not perfect”: drunk driver Donald Branch, sentenced in June in Memphis to 49 years in prison for killing a pregnant woman and her daughter. “I’m not perfect”: Steven Carmichael, 39, in Portland, Maine, in July. He has been convicted of burglary, theft, drug trafficking, and two rapes. “I’m not perfect”: convicted murderer Raymond O. Nichols, in a singles ad he placed from his Massachusetts prison cell in May. “She’s not perfect”: a Salt Lake Tribune reporter in a sympathetic June article about a former drug-addicted mother asking for custody of the daughter she abandoned. “He’s not perfect”: Monica Turner, wife of Mike Tyson, in May.
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I love this game: Kenneth Demarrias, 19, was convicted in May in Kansas City, Missouri, of killing two people and wounding a third after an argument over a basketball game. And Yasser Ashburn, 15, confessed in January in Brooklyn that he stabbed a 14-year-old boy to death after a school basketball game in which the victim led his team to victory over Ashburn’s.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
