16, 2021, ATF Agent James O'Connor and DEA Task Force Officer Johnny Sowell were conducting surveillance in an area along Woodson Lateral Road and attempted to turn the black SUV they were in around after turning down a narrow, dead-end dirt road. Jackie Davidson, 51, of Woodson, is facing counts of use of a deadly weapon to assault a federal law enforcement officer, attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and two counts of using, brandishing and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and could face 40 years or more in prison if convicted on all charges.Īccording to court documents, just before 4:30 p.m. Testimony began Wednesday in the federal assault and attempted murder trial of a Pulaski County man accused of attempting to kill two undercover federal agents as they drove past him on a rural one-lane road 18 months ago.
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New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces listeners to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame. State lawmakers have been considering several bills that would have axed library funding. Missouri latest to take aim at library funding Missouri is one of a growing number of places where government funding is being deployed as the newest weapon in the fight over books. "When I feel happy, I say, 'Quack! Quack!' " The kids cackle and quack back.īut the happy face Bowman puts on for the kids belies a deep anxiety.Īs president of the Missouri Library Association, she's currently in a bit of a panic over strict new rules that go into effect May 30 and could deny state funding to libraries over books deemed inappropriate for young readers. As usual, it gets the kids' attention and the gaggle settles down so Bowman can begin story hour. 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This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īurleson, Donald R. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The film does manage some creepy atmospherics, but these do not entirely carry the day. Scriptwriters for one thing insisted on a romantic interest, a plot addendum with which Lovecraft would doubtless have been disappointed, if not appalled. While the interest of filmmakers is no guarantor of literary excellence, it is not altogether without significance that American International Pictures found the story sufficiently enamoring to make a motion picture of it in 1970, a film effort sporting a fairly impressive cast (Dean Stockwell, Sandra Dee, Ed Begley, Sam Jaffe, Lloyd Bochner) but falling short, as such projects so often tend to do, of translating the prose qualities of Lovecraftian fiction into the medium of the silver screen. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror” (written 1928), long one of his best-known tales, has evoked a broad spectrum of response. |