Census Worker

Kentucky Census Worker Committed Suicide, Investigators Say

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER and ROGER ALFORD | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics


FRANKFORT, Ky. — On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the governmen...

Bill Sparkman, Kentucky Census Worker, May Have Committed Suicide

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest inc...

Official: Census Takers In Kentucky Want Teams After Bill Sparkman's Death

AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics


BIG CREEK, Ky. — The manager of a part-time census taker who died under mysterious circumstances in southeastern Kentucky says other workers are...

Census Worker Hanging... What Pelosi Warned?

Landon Ross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Landon Ross

We don't have all the facts regarding Bill Sparkman's death. Yet the fact that, upon hearing of this incident, politically minded people wonder whether the death was a result of right wing invective is telling.

The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

Census Worker Killed By Asphyxiation: Police

AP | ROGER ALFORD and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics


BIG CREEK, Ky. — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with du...

Census Worker Death: "Very Serious Concern" That Hanging Was Politically Motivated (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics


Associated Press reporter Devlin Barrett was on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" show Wednesday night to discuss the shocking death of a census worker in Kentu...

Bill Sparkman Murder: Tragic Details About Census Worker Found Hanged

Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...

Census Worker Hanged: Bill Sparkman Found With "Fed" On Body

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


MANCHESTER, Ky. — A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforce...