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Delaware County killer's sentence reduced by 50 years © Photo provided Matt Stidham MUNCIE, Ind. — Delaware County court officials made it official Monday; a 138-year sentence a local killer received nearly three decades ago was reduced by 50 years. The Indiana Supreme Court last November had ordered the sentence reduction for Matthew Stidham, who was 17 when he participated in the February 1991 slaying and robbery of Daniel Barker, a 31-year-old Eaton man. Stidham, then also of Eaton, was twice convicted of murder, robbery and criminal confinement in the case, first at the conclusion ...

>> and it colors the war on -- >> oh, yeah. >> but transportation part of what he's talking about. >> one thing we have to remember about lbj right now because this month, in 1965, my father joined a meeting at the white house that the president called to discuss how to take civil rights to the next level. right? and one of the things that happened in that meeting is that -- and my father had just been to south carolina on voting rights looking at how still 50% of blacks were still disenfranchised in south carolina, complaining to katz and beck that we weren't doing a sufficient amount when fo...

0 power was the beginning of something big because as president, lyndon johnson would go on to implement a policy agenda of social reform that he called the great society. and it would become the most sweeping transformation of american domestic policy since president franklin roosevelt's new deal. johnson laid out his vision of a great society in a 1964 commencement speech at the university of michigan. >> the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice to which we are totally committed in our time. >> during his time in office, pres...

giffords who also was there in april. this launch was scrubbed then. she's now returned there, arriving yesterday, watching her husband launch up toward the international space station. also, because this is, in fact, the last flight of 25 for the space shuttle "endeavour," nbc's veteran correspondent jay barbary is there watching from the kennedy space center. jay, good to see you this morning. looks like a clean launch. >> it sure does, willie. it's going into orbit as it should be. everything is clean. and you are talking about this is the 165th flight. it's the 134th flight of th...

California, are upset over a police department advertising campaign that mentions gangs. the police officers' association has posted these billboards emblazoned with messages like, quote, gangs are hire, why aren't we? and, quote, many criminals, too few talks. oprah winfrey has a street of her own in chicago. mayor richard dailey has renamed a street oprah winfrey way. and police in california are looking for a burglar who stole several atms and buried them in the floor below a business. they were taken from a convenience store, a country club and a family entertainment center. it's been ...