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Accused man quits city board
Beyond The Caprock Black smoke means no pope picked yet
lubbock/Officials were unaware appointee faces felony charge related to alleged posting of video without woman’s consent BY ADAM D. YOUNG aVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Members of Lubbock’s City Council and Appointments Advisory Board said they didn’t know a man recently appointed to a city board faces a felony charge stemming from his former job as a Child Protective Services caseworker. He’d already resigned by the time they knew. Kellen Coleman-Davis, who was indicted by a grand jury last fall, resigned from his position on the city’s Community Development & Services Board on Monday afternoon following an Avalanche-Journal request through the City Secretary’s Office about noon Monday for public information about Coleman-Davis, City Secretary Becky Garza said. Coleman-Davis Garza was quick to note Coleman-Davis has not been convicted on the November charge of improper photographing or video in connection with allegedly making a video with a prostitute and posting it on the Internet without the woman’s consent. Garza said the city does not conduct criminal background checks on prospective appointees or require candidates to disclose criminal convictions or charges on their applications. “That’s probably a discussion we should have,” she said. The 31-year-old Coleman-Davis quit the board two weeks after the City Council appointed him and a host of other Lubbockites to volunteer positions on a number of boards and commissions Feb. 28, said Bill Howerton, director of the city’s Community Development Department. Appointments Advisory Board member Roy Grimes said he didn’t know Coleman-Davis and couldn’t recall at which meeting the board recommended him to the council. He said he and others on the 15-member advisory board would not have recommended Coleman-Davis for the position had they known about the charges. “That is a taint on the name and it’s best not to appoint an individual who comes into that category,” Grimes said.
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A civil securities fraud lawsuit against former Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville, now at the University of Cincinnati, will go on as scheduled Aug. 5, a judge ruled.
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A civil securities fraud suit against former Texas Tech head football coach Tommy Tuberville will start in early August as planned, a federal judge in Alabama has ruled. U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson turned aside a request March 6 to delay the trial, scheduled for Aug. 5, until sometime in December after the college football season ends. A group of investors sued Tuberville and business partner John David Stroud to recover $1.7 million they say
ments say, traveling to another state for a weeklong trial would be “an extreme and undue hardship.” In an affidavit accompanying the motion, Tuberville said: “My duties and obligations to the team, my assistant coaches and the university during this first season are non-delegable.” The affidavit continues: “My SEE SUIT, page A8
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6-year-old’s long hair stirs flap at Frenship by Laurel L. Scott Avalanche-Journal
When school resumes Monday after spring break, 6-year-old JoJo Johnson will be away from his classmates at a desk in a Frenship Independent School District office His mother, Melissa Johnson, said Frenship administrators and Oak Ridge Elementary School told her JoJo will serve in-school suspension until she agrees to cut his long blond hair. But Johnson, whose grandmother was half Cherokee, said she and her
fiancé follow Native American spirituality practices that include males not cutting their hair. “I teach him what I believe and he has said his spirit is in his hair, it gives him strength. He said no one can tell him how to be; those are his words,” Johnson said. “He has beautiful hair, blond, blond, blond. The white in our blood shines through.” Michelle McCord, FISD’s assistant superintendent for administrative services, said it would be inappropriate for the district SEE HAIR, page A7
Man dies after fall at city rock concert Avalanche-Journal
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Six-year-old JoJo Johnson is facing in-school suspension at Oak Ridge Elementary over his long hair. His mother refuses to cut it because she says it’s part of their practice of Native American spirituality.
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they lost in the collapse of TS Capital Partners and TS Capital Management, the Tuberville-Stroud partnerships that operated commodities hedge funds. Attorneys for Tuberville sought the delay in large part because Tuberville left Tech in December for the head football coach’s job at the University of Cincinnati. For a coach building a new staff at a new school, court docu-
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My not being present for my first season when players arrive and start preparing for the season would be an extreme hardship on them, me and the university.
BY WALT NETT
VATICAN CITY — This time there was no doubt. There was no new pope yet, and the mystery of who — and when — was as thick as the unmistakable heavy black smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel chimney. As thousands waited in a cold night rain in St. Peter’s Square, the cardinals signaled Tuesday they had failed on their first attempt to find a leader for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. “It’s black, it’s black, it’s waaay black!” screamed Eliza Nagle, a 21-year-old Notre Dame theology major on an exchange program in Rome, as the smoke poured from the copper chimney at 7:41 p.m. With no cardinal winning the required 77 votes on the first ballot, the cardinals returned to the Vatican hotel for dinner before another vote today.
Lubbock police said a man died after a fatal fall at a concert Monday night. The man, who had not been identified Tuesday, got into an argument with a staff member while waiting to see Danish rock band Volbeat at Lone Star Amphitheater, police said. The man ran away from security staff at the venue, located in the 600 block of East 19th Street, after the argument, prompting a short pursuit, said the LPD front desk. The man jumped off the venue balcony toward a fence and missed. Police said the man hit his head after a 25foot drop. The call initially came in as a homicide because of the pursuit, the LPD front desk said. Police said the man was sent to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The case is still under investigation.
Words Of Inspiration You are my light, dear Lord, when I lose my way. You are the ears, heart and soul when I pray. Thank you for all I have — my family, friends — for giving me another day. Bless all who are in need. You are my God, My Lord, indeed. Joan Shoultz, Lubbock
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