Second-Place Finisher Challenges Mexico Election Result
Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador, who came in second in Sunday’s election to the presumptive president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, said Monday evening that he would challenge the results of the outcome and ask for a recount.
López Obrador accused Peña Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or the PRI, of buying votes to manipulate the outcome of Sunday’s election. Initial exit polls showed Peña Nieto, 45, with about a 7 percent advantage over López Obrador, of the leftist progressive alliance, made up of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and ...
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(KERENS TX SCHOOL MYSTERY!) Marvin Aldredge abt 1971 - 1989 Student dies of apparent suicide An 18 year-old- Kerens High School student died Monday afternoon about 1 p.m. of an apparent suicide in the school’s gym during a P.E. class.
Marvin Aldredge, a junior, was discovered by two students in the weight room area of the boy’s dressing room. He apparently hung himself by suspending a rope through some of the weight equipment in the dressing room, according to school officials.
Emergency crews and members of the Navarro County Sherriff’s department were called to the scene. Aldredge’s body was taken to Dallas where an autopsy is being performed, by order of Pct. 2 Justice of the Peace, Badie Stewart.
The student had been living with the Jack Marshall family in Kerens since Dec. 13. He was originally from Celina, where his family still resides.
According to superintendent of Kerens schools, Lloyd Smith, the student had been told that he was to visit with one of the school’s counselors at the beginning of the P.E. class, but Alderdge never made the appointment.
“This is very tragic no matter where it happens,” said Smith of the incident, “but because he had lived here such a short time, much of his (Aldredge’s) situation remains a mystery to us.”
According to Smith, the school district is standing ready with trained counselors to speak with the students concerning the tragedy.
“We are going to be evaluating the situation today and will see what we feel that we need to do in order to meet the needs of the individual students,” Smith said “We will do what we have to in order to help the students get through this.” Funeral services for Aldredge are still pending at this time.