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American Village News
By The Associated Press
May 24 trial date set for suspect in 2 slayings
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The only man indicted in the December 2007 slaying of
two LSU graduate students from India is scheduled to stand trial May 24.
State District Judge Chip Moore set that date Thursday at the request of
prosecutor Steven Danielson and over the objection of Devin Parker's attorney, Jim Holt.
Parker, 20, and two other men, all of Baton Rouge, were booked in May 2008 on
two counts of first-degree murder in the Dec. 13, 2007, shooting deaths of Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma
and Kiran Kumar Allam, but only Parker was indicted in September 2008 on two counts of second-degree
murder.
The East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury neither indicted nor cleared Casey
Gathers, 21, and Michael Lewis, 20.
District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Thursday his office still hopes to
develop enough evidence to indict others in the killings.
Prosecutors have two years from the Sept. 17, 2008, indictment to try the
20-year-old Parker.
"We are at least a year into our two-year clock," Danielson told Moore.
Holt objected to setting a trial date because the state has yet to turn over to
him any DNA evidence in the case.
"I haven't seen anything that connects Parker to the scene," he said after
court.
Moore assured Holt that if the defense ultimately finds it needs more time to
prepare for trial, he will be "reasonable."
Komma, 31, and Allam, 33, were found shot to death at the Edward Gay Apartments
on the LSU campus.
Parker identified Gathers as the triggerman and also told police he and Lewis
were involved in the crime, an arrest warrant says.
The document also says Parker told investigators details of what occurred
inside the apartment that had not been publicized.
Gathers and Lewis were released from jail on Sept. 22, 2008. Parker is still in
jail.
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Information from: The Advocate, http://www.2theadvocate.com
Japanese Americans, Texans they rescued meet again
HOUSTON (AP) -- World War II veterans of a Texas infantry regiment will reunite
this weekend with a Japanese-American combat outfit that rescued them from German forces surrounding
them.
On Oct. 30, 1944, the all-Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team broke
through the German lines in the Vosges Mountains of northern France and relieved 1st Battalion,
141st Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.
At the time of their isolation, the 1st Battalion became known as "The Lost
Battalion."
Together, the veterans will mark the 65th anniversary of the rescue at a Sunday
fundraising gala hosted by the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation at Houston's Hyatt
Regency Hotel.
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team became famous for enlisting in the U.S. Army
to fight for the country that had placed thousands of their relatives in internment camps.
Coco Ho of surf royalty family claims victory
BELGAS, Portugal (AP) -- Hawaii surfer Coco Ho has claimed her first victory on
the ASP Women's World Tour.
She beat out former ASP Women's world champion Chelsea Hedges of Australia on
Thursday to take the Rip Curl Women's Pro Search in Portugal.
Ho got to the finals by beating Silvana Lima of Brazil in the semifinals.
10 writers each win $50,000 prize
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ten emerging writers, their home countries ranging from
Vietnam to the United States, each have received a $50,000 prize.
The Whiting Writers' Awards, given annually for "exceptional talent and promise
in early career," were announced Wednesday. The recipients included fiction writer Vu Tran, born in
Vietnam and now living in Las Vegas, and poet Jay Hopler, a native of Puerto Rico who lives in
Tampa, Fla.
The other winners were poets Jericho Brown and Joan Kane, playwright Rajiv
Joseph, nonfiction authors Michael Meyer and Hugh Raffles, and fiction writers Adam Johnson, Nami
Mun and Salvatore Scibona, whose novel "The End" was a National Book Award finalist in 2008.
The awards, presented by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, were founded in
1985. Previous winners include such Pulitzer Prize winners as Jeffrey Eugenides, Michael Cunningham
and Jorie Graham.
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