Of the more than 100 potential jurors slated to pack a cavernous federal courtroom in Houston today, attorneys must ferret out a dozen who aren’t already convinced that Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling are crooks and liars. “If we get 12 people who haven’t made up their minds, we like our chances,” Skilling’s lead trial lawyer, said last week after a flurry of last-minute efforts to move the trial to escape a potentially hostile jury pool failed. Lay’s lead lawyer, was less optimistic, calling Houston a “bad venue to try to pick a jury.”
Arizona: Gunmen cull coyotes
Federal authorities have killed 200 coyotes in southeast Arizona in the past three weeks after ranchers complained that they were eating calves. The hunt, which ended Friday, was conducted from aircraft as part of a program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The shootings took place on private and public land used by 10 to 15 ranchers, the Arizona Daily Star reported Sunday. No documentation was available last week on how many calves had been killed.
West Virginia: Coal miner buried
Two coal trucks covered in black ribbons and wreaths led the funeral procession on Sunday for Don Bragg, one of two coal miners killed after a fire deep underground earlier this month. The service was held at the Man High School field house because no other building in Man could hold the several hundred mourners. Dozens of supporters held signs with messages such as “West Virginia loves our coal miners.” Bragg, 33, and Ellery Hatfield, 47, died after a belt line fire in Massey Energy’s Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine on Jan. 19.
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