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Captured fugitive awaits extradition

Woman charged for killing Eastern student in reckless homicide captured in Connecticut

The woman facing reckless homicide charges for a June 20, 2003 accident that killed an Eastern student was apprehended by federal marshals last Thursday in Connecticut. The April 9 edition of The Register Citizen, in Bantam, Conn., said Trisia A. Jones, 37,under the name Trisia Blair, was apprehended in the Torrington, Conn.

Amateur astronomer Robert Holmes Jr., of Charleston, recently discovered a new object in the heavens. In March, with his 16-inch computer-controlled telescope, Holmes discovered an asteroid approximately 30 miles in diameter, which is roughly the distance from Charleston to Effingham.

The Charleston Carnegie Public Library will hold a costumed reading of William Shakespeare's sonnets by the Charleston Alley Theatre at 7 p.m. Tuesday as part of the library's centennial celebration. Ruth Straith, a member of the theatre and circulation manager for the library, said that she, Duke Bagger and Linda Bagger will each perform four to five sonnets a piece in the 30 to 40 minute program.

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