European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 25, 1990 the stars and stripes pages Kentucky Man gets 16 years for killing 27 in bus Accident Carrollton. By. A a Man convicted of killing 27 people in the nation s worst Drunken driving Accident was sentenced Friday to 16 years in Pris on. He could be eligible Lor parole in eight years Carroll county c circuit judge Charles Sallr while denied a defense motion to place Larry Mahoney on probation and instead imposed the sentence recommended he the jury that convicted a Honey on dec. 21. Mahoney. A .16-year-old chemical Plant worker was driving the wrong direction on interstate 71 on May 14. 1988. When he crashed into the front of a school bus packed with teen agers on a Church Outing. Twenty four teen agers and three adults died. He was convicted of 27 counts each of second degree manslaughter and first de Gree Wanton Condan garment. 12 counts of first degree assault. 14 of second degree Wanton and one of Drunken driving. The recommended sentence totalled 611 years but the jury said the terms should run concurrently effectively giving Mahoney 16 years. He is classified As a violent offender under Kentucky Law and must serve at least half his sentence before being considered for parole. Defense attorney William Summers urged Satterwhite to make something positive out of the bus crash tragedy. The defense recommended a probation plan under which Mahoney would have lec tured to schoolchildren about the Dan Gers of Drunken driving served Volunteer Lime in Hospital emergency wards and spent one year in a work release pro Gram. Prosecutor Paul Richwalsky or. Of the state attorney general s office vehemently opposed probation. He alone is responsible. He alone brought us to this place today Rich Walsky said. Regardless of statements the defense would make it s time for Russell Baldani one of Mahony s three lawyers had said earlier that the sentence would be appealed. During testimony jurors Learned a Honey had spent most of the Day of the crash visiting friends and drinking Beer at several taverns. He testified that he had no recollection of getting into his pickup and driving the wrong Way on the interstate. The collision punctured the Gas tank of the bus. Sending a Stream of flaming gasoline into the passenger compartment. The 27 deaths were attributed to smoke inhalation and Mahony s attorneys contended that toxic smoke emitted from the plastic seats had poisoned the passengers. When Mahoney took the stand he publicly apologized for the tragedy. One survivor of the crash. 18-year-old Tammy Darnell said Mahoney should have been sent to prison for life. Sixteen years docs not take the place of the friends i lost she said before breaking Down in tears. Larry Mahoney tapes statements in Central Park rape allowed new York a incriminating videotaped and written statements from five teens accused in the gang rape and near fatal beating of a Jogger in Central Park Are admissible As evidence at their trial a judge ruled Friday. Siv teens arc accused of being pan of a band of roving youths who attacked an investment banker As she jogged through the Park the night of april 19. Admission of the statements was critical to the prosecution s Case because the victim has no memory of the attack and cannot testify against her alleged assail ants and because there is no physical evidence that conclusively links the suspects to the attack. The woman now 29. Was raped beaten and left for dead hut has since made a recovery doctors Call remarkable and returned to work. Of six teen agers charged with attacking the woman. Five gave statements to the police that were video taped. One of them Antron Mccray. 16, said. We look turns getting on top of he said he punched and kicked the Jogger and another defendant. Yusef Salaam 15. Hit her with a pipe. Mccray. According to a third defendant Kevin Richardson 15, had sex with the six Are charged with with rape sodomy assault and attempted murder. Four other youths arc charged in attacks on male joggers that night. Attorney Jesse Berman. Who is defending one of the youths complained after the ruling that judge Thomas Galligan suppressed next to the Only exception to the ruling was a comment made by one of the teens to a police officer at a precinct station House. After the officer told the teen agers. You should be out with your girlfriends instead of being out beating the youth replied i got mine the police Man has testified Calligan gave no reason for the exception. Another defense attorney referring to the judge s ruling to suppress suspects statements in another Mur Der Case in which the victim was Black and his alleged attacker White suggested that racism tainted Galligan s decision. There is a double said attorney Colin Moore. We came in expecting nothing and that s what we came away the teen agers charged in the Case arc Black. Haze Wood denies drinking liquor before soiling Anchorage. Alaska a shortly after the Exxon Valdez ran aground the Captain. Joseph Hazelwood. Insisted to investigators that he drank nothing stronger than a Beer during a Day ashore preceding the Accident. Jurors heard a tape Friday of Hazel Wood s account told to a coast guard investigator. He gave a scenario of his Shore visit which was nearly identical to that depicted by witnesses at his criminal trial except for one crucial detail the drinking. Witnesses have said that Hazelwood spent at least part of the afternoon of March 23 at the pipeline club in Valdez drinking Vodka. Hazelwood said it was t so. The muffled tape played for the jury showed that the skipper was being questioned about alcohol use 13 hours after the 987-foot Tanker ran aground on Bligh reef unleashing the nation s worst Oil spill. There have been some suggestions and statements concerning the fact that you had some alcohol or an odor of Alco hol on you. Did you asked coast guard investigator Mark Delozior. Delo Eicr has testified he smelted alcohol on Hazelwood s breath. Pm lays off 4,200 workers while Chrysler delays cuts Well. 1 had one of those phony Beers mousse and i d been Hazel Wood responded. I had lunch and drank iced Tea he said he finished lunch with some fellow officers in Valdez at about 2 . I did a Little shopping got some Post cards and sent some Flowers to my wife for easter and picked up some pizza to bring Back to the ship with us he said. Did you Stop at any other establish ments in town liquor places or bars asked Delozior. Well we went by the pipeline club to Sec if anybody off the ship was in there if we knew anybody. Nobody was there so we Sands of time left and picked up the he said. He denied drinking anything at the Valdez bar where witnesses said they saw him ordering Vodka. Hazelwood 43, of Huntington n.y., is charged with second degree criminal mischief a felony and three mis Demea nors reckless endanger mint operating a vessel while intoxicated and negligent discharge of Oil. The Exxon Valdez with a crewman at the Helm and Hazelwood off the Bridge struck a reef in Prince William sound and leaked nearly 11 million Gallons of Alaska crude Oil. Testimony is to resume on monday. Detroit a general motors corp. Will shut Down parts of three As Sembly plants monday laying off 4.200 people As part of the wave of cutbacks by major automakers attempting to weather a season of slow sale1, pm. Ford Mol Orco. And Chrysler corp. Said North american sales of cars and Light trucks during the feb. 11-20 period ran 15.8 percent behind last year s Pace. Pm will eliminate one of two shifts at each of its car Assembly plants in Dora Ville. A. And Linden. . Resulting in 1.900 and 1.600 layoffs respectively and will reduce production effective monday at its Assembly Plant in Fairfax. Kan., causing about 700 layoffs. Despite the impending layoffs there was some hopeful news for the company s employees in an Atlanta Assembly Plant and for Chrysler corp. Workers in two Assembly plants. Pm spokeswoman Sharon hints said the planned mid March shutdown of the company s Lakewood Assembly Plant there was being pushed Back to Between april i and july i sales of Buick estate station wagons and 1990 Chevrolet Ca Price cars picked up. Meanwhile Chrysler spokesman Doug Nicoll said the company had put off in definitely the planned layoffs of 750 employees at an Assembly Plant in Bolvi Derc iii., and 780 layoffs at its Newark del., factory. The layoffs originally were scheduled to take effect March 19. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 25, 1950 Britain s labor government headed by prime minister Clement r. Att acc was re elected in a dramatic neck in neck race against the conservatives. 30 years ago today. Feb. 25. 1960 president Eisenhower greeted by a cheering crowd of 3 million in Rio de Janeiro Brazil said that he hoped his visit would emphasize the desire of the american people and government to strengthen the Bonds of Friendship be tween the two nations. 20 years ago today. Feb. 25. 1970 Hall of Fame Pitcher dizzy Dean was named As a co conspirator and 10 others were charged with gambling conspiracy in a Federal grand jury indict ment in Detroit. 10 years ago today. Feb. 25. 1980 the . Hockey team won an olympic Gold medal with a stunning 4-2 Victory Over Finland with three third period goals. The american team members in Lake Placid n.y., were dubbed the Golden boys of
