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Back here at home, authorities in texas have released an image of two persons of interest in the death of a couple from New Hampshire. That image shows another couple driving away in their truck. Heres abcs marcus moore. Reporter police are calling this man and woman, crossing the u. S. mexico border with a truck they say belonged to a murdered couple, persons of interest. We just want to find out who these people are and talk with them about the facts of the case. Reporter the surveillance image of the unidentified man and woman by his side potentially a critical clue as investigators hunt for whoever is responsible for james and michelle butlers death. The couple from New Hampshire were fwourndrieieieied found bun a beach in padre island last week where the pair had been on a road trip. Their last known contact with family days before a heartbreaking and gruesome discovery. They are always in contact with the family. Even for a day they were out of contact was really strange. Reporte
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The corporation was exonerated in the late 7. 70s. We had subcommittees on each development that came in that we had one for childcare, one for parks and rec, development and everything. So the training programmes we had with the college and also with model cities, we trained people in our community for each phase of the projects that were coming into Hunters Point. Where there was business, we had a Business Programme to train people with businesses. It went through the hunter Point College which was the first campus college. Every college we started through model cities, we started a minister witmission with hiringl of the others. But for those familiar will the mission, talk with i forgot the directors name now don markham . No, he was the director of the model cities. They could link up with the colleges out there, training with childcare. We had over 40 people through the Childcare Programme and each were able to buy homes, so if we want people to stay in our community, we need to