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PAUL PAYNE

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | August 21, 2017, 9:05PM

| Updated 4 hours ago.

UKIAH Peter and Susan Keegan were the toast of Ukiah.

He was a Harvard-educated doctor with a thriving family practice. She was a popular college English teacher and community theater actor.

Through most of their 32-year marriage, they were rock stars of the towns west side literati, with him expressing early public support for medical marijuana and her fighting to stamp out tobacco use among children.

It ended suddenly in 2010 when Peter Keegan dialed 911 from their Whitmore Lane house to report hed found his wife dead in the bathroom.

At first, investigators concluded shed died from a fall after loading up on alcohol and pain killers.

But after learning the couple had been in throes of a bitter divorce and reviewing forensic evidence, prosecutors reopened the case. Last week nearly seven years after Susan Keegan died a grand jury handed down a murder indictment to the only other person at home at the time: Peter Keegan.

Ever since, the town of 16,000 people has buzzed. Some insist the doctor, estimated to have served half the population at one time or another, is innocent. Others claim hes guilty, citing a hair-trigger temper.

Everybodys talking about it, said James Little, as he clipped a customers hair at Executive Barbershop on West Perkins Street, the county courthouse looming in the distance through a plate glass window. The town is so small everybody knows everybody.

At Schats Bakery next door, a popular eatery also in the shadow of the courthouse, customers ruminated over coffee and toast.

Anybodys capable of anything, said Phillip Castro, a Ukiah chef.

A jury trial promises to be a public spectacle the likes of which have not been seen for many years in the seat of Mendocino County.

Prosecuting the case is Tim Stoen, a longtime deputy district attorney and author, best known for his connection to Jim Jones Peoples Temple during the 1970s. His 6-year-old son Jonathan was among the 918 people who died in Guyana in 1978 in a mass suicide ordered by Jones in which they drank poisoned Kool-Aid.

Stoen is expected to argue detectives bungled the initial investigation and the coroner mistakenly ruled the death an accident. Hell introduce autopsy photos showing two wounds on Susan Keegans head consistent with bludgeoning as well as bruises on her forearms suggesting she tried to defend herself.

A Santa Rosa forensic pathologist, Jay Chapman, credited with developing the three-drug protocol for lethal injection, is expected to testify for the prosecution.

This was, in fact, an assault and a murder and not an accident, said Mike Geniella, a spokesman for District Attorney David Eyster.

Stoen will face off against another North Coast legal luminary, Santa Rosa attorney Chris Andrian. A criminal lawyer for more than 40 years, Andrian successfully defended Petaluma Dr. Louis Pelfini against charges he smothered his own wife, Janet, in 1999. A judge dismissed the case after video emerged showing the prosecutor had coached a testifying forensic pathologist.

Like Keegan, Pelfini was indicted by a grand jury instead of a through the preliminary hearing process in which both sides are allowed to cross-examine witnesses.

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The fact that Eyster chose that route to try Keegan suggests the evidence against him is weak, Andrian said.

Theres an old saying that you can indict a ham sandwich, said Andrian, who is expected to seek another dismissal. My experience tells me if you waited seven years and you go to the grand jury, youre just trying to appease somebody. Youre trying to get it off your plate.

But prosecutors counter the 19 grand jurors offered an impartial review after hearing testimony from Keegan, Chapman and others. It took so long to get there because of lapses in the original probe. Now, Keegan, free on a $300,000 bond, will return to court Oct. 20 to enter a not-guilty plea. The 65-year-old physician did not return a call Thursday seeking comment. He is battling cancer, Andrian said.

A trial date has not been set.

The Keegans, both East Coast transplants, arrived in California in the 1970s by motorcycle. They lived in San Francisco before settling in Ukiah where they raised two sons.

Peter Keegan graduated from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in 1979 and is a licensed family practitioner and surgeon. Most recently, he was a part-time doctor with the Round Valley Indian Health Clinic in Covelo.

Susan Keegan was born in New York City. She attended Radcliffe College and went to Sonoma State University, where she earned a masters degree in English literature.

She held a number of jobs in the Ukiah area over the years, including reporter, business manager for the Ukiah Players Theater, and an English and business teacher at Mendocino College. She also was community services director of the local chapter of the American Cancer Society. She wrote fiction, sang with a local quartet and acted with the local theater group.

At the time of her death, Keegan, 55, was separated from but remained living with her husband. She was looking forward to starting a new life on her own, said her friend, Mary Pierce, who met with Keegan at her Santa Rosa home the night before she was found dead early on Nov.11, 2010.

Keegan was upbeat and talking excitedly about being cast in a production of Hamlet, although she revealed her relationship had become emotionally abusive. Some say Peter Keegan lashed out when he learned he would be splitting his assets with her.

Still, she left that night in good spirits, Pierce said.

I never believed Susan went home and overdosed, she said. It was completely out of character for her. She was not a drinker. She was not in any way suicidal.

The death initially was called undetermined, but in August 2012, law enforcement officials declared a continuing investigation had determined it was a homicide.

Susan Keegan died from inhaling vomit, the result of blunt force trauma to the head, according to Mendocino County sheriffs officials. She had hydrocodone and high levels of alcohol in her body, but they did not cause her death, according to the autopsy. Sheriffs officials said they had a person of interest in mind but no official suspect was named. And Peter Keegan refused steadfastly to cooperate, Geniella said.

Finally, late last month, a grand jury was assembled and prosecutor Stoen presented his case against Keegan behind closed doors. After about a week of testimony, the panel deliberated four or five hours before finding there was probable cause to indict Keegan for second-degree murder, which is a killing without premeditation.He faces a life sentence if convicted.

Keegan, who remarried, is supported by at least one of the couples two sons and numerous friends and former patients. Simon Keegan wrote on his fathers Facebook page Aug. 12 that we, the family, stand steadfast by our fathers side.

A lot of people were saddened by my mothers death, he wrote. Unfortunately, many of those people are misguided in their attempt to have justice.

But Susan Keegans sister, author Karen Feiden of New York, believes prosecutors are pursuing the right suspect. She has helped maintain the website, justice4susan.com.

We waited a very long time for this and were grateful to see it move forward, Feiden said.

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August 21, 2017 5:49 PM By Jon Delano

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GREEN TREE (KDKA) In 2014 and again in 2016, Republican Congressman Tim Murphy ran unopposed for reelection.

Democrats vow that wont happen again in 2018.

I am a teacher, and I am running for Congress, declared former Allegheny County councilman Mike Crossey of Mt. Lebanon.

Before a cheering group of supporters at the Aiken Elementary School in Green Tree, Crossey announced his candidacy for Congress, and he took on Murphy directly.

Tim Murphy has voted against our students needs. Tim Murphy has voted against our seniors needs. Tim Murphy has voted against womens health issues. Tim Murphy votes against working families.

The 18th congressional district stretches across four counties Allegheny, Greene, Washington, and Westmoreland.

Crossey signaled that Murphys vote for the House Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act is likely to be a big issue.

I believe in an America where quality health care is accessible to all, where health care decisions are made by doctors and patients, not insurance companies, and certainly not politicians, declared Crossey.

And the former statewide president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association took a swipe at the Republican congressman for not holding town hall meetings.

As your congressman, I will demonstrate leadership that listens, do regular town hall meetings, with offices in all four counties, he said. I will be accessible to all constituents. You will never have to ask, Wheres Mike?

Thats a reference to lawn signs that have cropped up in the 18th District, asking, Wheres Tim Murphy?

Crossey says Murphy started off as a moderate Republican but now votes with Speaker Paul Ryan.

Tim over the years has just started representing Paul Ryan. He has a 97 percent voting record with the Republican Party, and I believe as a member of Congress you need to represent everybody, Crossey told KDKA political editor Jon Delano on Monday.

The Murphy campaign noted Crossey made his announcement in the 14th district, not the 18th, and said it would be happy to send him a map of the district.

Crossey says he knew that but chose a school just across the district line attended by his grandkids.

Crossey is not the only Democrat running to take on Murphy.

At least three other Democrats are considering a run.

Murphy wont be easy to beat.

Even though Democrats outnumber Republicans in the 18th district, President Trump carried the district in 2016.

Democrats will choose their nominee in nine months.

Jon Delano is a familiar face on KDKA-TV, having been the station's political analyst since 1994. In September 2001 Jon joined KDKA full time as the Money & Politics Editor and this regions only political analyst who covers national and local...

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By SCOTT BAUER , Associated Press August 21, 2017 - 12:15 AM

MADISON, Wis. Wisconsin Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca was branded as failing "on all accounts" by a fellow Democrat who was "incredibly frustrated and concerned" with his actions after Barca joined Republicans in voting for a $3 billion tax incentive package for Foxconn Technology Group.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Democratic state Rep. Lisa Subeck of Madison spelled out her grievances to Barca on Friday, the day after the Assembly passed the incentive package backed by Republicans designed to attract Foxconn to build a massive display panel factory in the state.

Barca was one of three Democrats to vote for the measure Thursday, with 28 Democrats against. Barca, of Kenosha, and the other Democrats who voted for it represent southeast Wisconsin, near where Foxconn plans to build a factory that could employ thousands. Reps. Cory Mason of Racine and Tod Ohnstad of Kenosha joined Barca and 56 Republicans in voting for the bill; two Republicans joined all other Democrats in opposition.

Most Democrats were outspoken in their opposition to the measure, branding it as a corporate welfare giveaway that also puts Wisconsin's environment in jeopardy because of requirements that would be waived to speed construction of the plant that could open as soon as 2020.

Barca tried to walk a line, criticizing the process of quickly acting on the bill and saying that more improvements could be made to protect taxpayers, Wisconsin businesses and the environment. But ultimately he said he supported the incentive package because of the backing it has from people in his district.

Subeck, in an email sent to all Assembly Democrats obtained by the AP, accused Barca of failing "on all accounts" to differentiate his views on Foxconn with that of the rest of Democrats who voted against the measure. She was particularly upset with Barca for holding an impromptu news conference in the Assembly parlor, right around the corner from his office, shortly after the evening vote Thursday.

"I have to admit that I was surprised that immediately after a vote on which you took a different position than most of the caucus, you would hold yourself out to speak on our behalf on the issue, especially without letting any of know you intended to do so," Subeck wrote to Barca. "I am also concerned that the message you conveyed ... It seems you were trying to justify your own vote rather than share the caucus perspective consistent with our agreed upon message."

She said that Barca's public comments "have not been consistent with the majority position of the caucus and have served counter to our interest."

Subeck said Barca should have allowed someone else to speak who could better represent how most Democrats felt about Foxconn.

Barca wrote in response that he hadn't planned to have a news conference but after the Thursday vote "we had one outlet in particular that was very aggressive and several others that wanted to talk." Barca said his staff asked the reporters to move to the nearby parlor, where he and Assistant Majority Leader Dianne Hesselbein of Middleton and Rep. Mark Spreitzer of Beloit answered questions.

Barca did not address her concerns about what he actually said.

Neither Barca nor Subeck returned messages on Sunday seeking comment.

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By Jim Suhr By Jim Suhr August 20 at 7:16 PM

KANSAS CITY, Mo. A Missouri lawmaker who drew bipartisan outrage over her brief Facebook comment expressing hope that President Trump would be assassinated apologized publicly Sunday to Trump and his family, calling the post a mistake.

But Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a black Democrat, said she has no plans to resign as numerous top Republicans and Democrats in Missouri have insisted since Thursdays post in which she wrote, I hope Trump is assassinated! Gov. Eric Greitens and Lt. Gov. Mike Parson, both Republicans, said Friday that state senators should oust her.

I made a mistake, and Im owning up to it. And Im not ever going to make a mistake like that again. I have learned my lesson. My judge and my jury is my Lord, Jesus Christ, Chappelle-Nadal, who later deleted the post from her personal Facebook page, told reporters at a church in Ferguson.

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Editor, Manteca Bulletin,

Martin Luther King stated, I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. No race is superior to another; but the Democrat party has tried to link President Trump and his supporters to the KKK without looking into their own mirror and history.

Trump stated all organizations of hate are unacceptable. This includes the KKK, Antifa, or Black Lives Matter, which uses their name as a mask to incite violence with political and racial tension.

Lets look at the facts of the KKK.

The Democrat party created the KKK to fight against equal rights for blacks after Republican President Abraham Lincoln won the Civil War. No Democrat voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to blacks. The KKK was honored at every Democrat National Convention from 1868 through the 1930s.

Several prominent Democrats dabbled as one-time KKK members President Harry Truman; Hugo Black, who was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Supreme Court from 1937-1971.

Democrat Majority Leader, Robert Byrd, who was not only a KKK member; but a Grand Keagle, a recruiter for the KKK signed up members for $10 a head. He joined because it offered excitement, and because the Klan was an effective force in promoting American values. He stated in a letter, The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth. in every state in the nation. Byrd became the Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate and served from 1951-2010 and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

In the 1960s Martin Luther King, Republican, fought against the Democrats, ultimately sacrificing his life for his dream of equality. It was Republicans and a black Republican by the name of A. Phillip Randolph, who organized Kings March on Washington in 1963, which was opposed by Democrat President John F. Kennedy, who used the FBI to target King while Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Democrat, used wiretapping to spy on Martin Luther King.

Remember Governor George Wallace? Democrat. Bull Connor? Democrat. They supported slavery and were the ones turning water hoses and dogs on black protesters in the 1960s

Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson, who as a senator, also fought against the Civil Rights Act in 1957, was also known as a racist. Yet, he realized negroes were getting pretty uppity these days. LBJ continued, Now, weve got to do something about this, weve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. After Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, he stated to two governors on Air Force One, Ill have those (N-word) voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

As recently as the 1980s, Senator Ernest Hollings, Democrat, publicly referred to blacks as darkies and Hispanics as wetbacks without suffering any punishment from his party.

In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed into law Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. However, in 1985, then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, Democrat, signed Act 985 into law, making the birthdates of Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee, the general who led the Civil War Confederate Army, state holidays on the same day in Arkansas.

On May 5, 1993, Clinton praised Senator J. William Fulbright as my mentor, as he gave the nations highest civilian award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a man who spent the vast majority of his public career and life as a proud segregationist, who voted against the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts.

I have no problem placing Civil War monuments in a Civil War museum; but there should not be a double standard. Monuments of racists Democrats should be also be taken down and placed in their own Racist Democrat Museum.

Frank Aquila

Manteca

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