Kentucky Census Worker Committed Suicide, Investigators Say
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...
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...
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...
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...
Landon Ross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
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.
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
AP | BRUCE SCHREINER and ROGER ALFORD | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics