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Navy Veteran Found In His Apartment Had Been Dead For 3 Years
The mother of a Navy vet- eran is seeking answers after her son's body was discov- ered in his Texas apartment where officials said he had been dead for three years.
The remains of Ronald Wayne White, 54, were re- covered Nov. 12, from the DeSoto Town Center Apart- ments in suburban Dallas.
White had been dead "for an extended period of time, up to when he was last known alive three years ago," the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office said in a statement.
White's mother, Doris Stevens, said she last spoke to her son in November 2016. White was a defense con- tractor and traveled the world in that role, she said.
Stevens told NBC News Friday that her son had stayed in the United States to vote in the 2016 presidential election and had planned to go to the Philippines, where he had bought a home. White retired from the Navy as a senior chief petty officer in 2004, his mother said.
White, who was single and had been divorced about 20 years, had recently sold his house in Glenn Heights, approximately 20 miles from Dallas, according to his mother.
Stevens, 70, said she
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grew concerned about her son in February 2017, as the two never went months with- out speaking. If he was in the United States, they would speak at least once a week and if he was out of the coun- try, he would check in with her once or twice a month, she said.
By April 2017, when she could not reach him on his birthday, she said she knew something was wrong. Voice- mail messages to his phone went unanswered, she said.
Stevens said she called the Glenn Heights and Dallas police departments to file a missing person report.
"They asked how old my son was and I told them and they said, 'You can't make a missing person report for a grown up,'" she said.
Stacey Abrams seems likely to be in the conversa- tion as a potential vice presi- dential pick next year. A second Georgian could also be on plenty of short-lists in 2020.
Former Vice President Joe Biden floated the names of both Abrams and Sally Yates, the ex-acting U. S. At- torney General from Atlanta, at a campaign stop in Iowa over the weekend.
Abrams ruled out a 2020 run for president in August,
Barack Obama exhorted some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest Democratic donors to “chill” in their de- bate over the party’s candi- dates, seeking to ease the tensions among tech billion- aires who have broken into separate camps backing Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and — most surprisingly — Eliz- abeth Warren.
And even if the eventual nominee is not “your perfect candidate,” Obama said, “I don’t care.”
At a high-dollar fundraiser on Thursday nestled across
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when she unveiled a national expansion of her voting rights group. But she has left open the possibility of ac- cepting an offer to be a run- ning mate, a prospect she’s raised any time she’s asked.
“My political future will be determined in the future. But my present and the work that needs to be done before my party chooses the nominee will be focusing on electoral opportunities and fighting voter suppression,” she told the AJC recently.
the street from hiking trails winding through the Los Altos Hills in California, the former US president down- played 2020 candidates’ dif- ferences as merely disagreements over “tactics” — even as he reiterated con- cerns about his party possibly going too far to the left.
“Everybody needs to chill out about the candidates,” Obama said. “But gin up about the prospect of rallying behind whoever emerges from this process and making sure that we’re hitting the ground running.”
Barack Obama Tells Silicon Valley’s Leading Donors To ‘Chill Out’ Over Differences Between Candidates
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