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The Central Texas woman who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $65,000 from the Heart of Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse was sentenced to 10 years probation and ordered to pay restitution.
In her new memoir, "Lit," Mary Karr turns a poet's eye to adulthood, alcoholism and her conversion to Catholicism. She talks about attending Macalester College, living in the Twin Cities and appreciating poetry. She's in town Wednesday for a reading.
A 30-year-old man leapt to his death from the top floor of a 16-storeyed building at Tardeo on Sunday evening. Dattaram Jadhav used to live with his wife, Usha, and 4-year-old daughter, Shweta, at Ganesh Society near MP Mill Compound.
A former bank executive who is an admitted alcoholic was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for stealing $611,590 from the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association in Chester Township while serving as its volunteer treasurer.
