Kimberly McCarthy drew her last breaths Wednesday evening in Huntsville, Texas and was pronounced dead at 6:37 pm. She died 20 minutes after she was administered a single lethal dose of pentobarbitol. She became the 500th person executed in Texas since the re-start of the state's death penalty in 1982.
It was reported by trooper dispatch today that a Fairbanks resident had drowned while wading in the small lake at the gravel pit on Sunday afternoon.
Alaska State Troopers responded to a report of a burglary at the Big Lake Motel early Tuesday morning at 6:55 am. While there, troopers contacted 25-year-old Anchorage resident Karen R. Douglas.
As anti-abortion activists watched closely, Texas Senator Wendy Davis stood from 11:18 am until 10 pm on Tuesday, in a feat of stamina and conviction, and filibustered the Republican sponsored abortion bill in the Texas State Senate.