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Candidate's Death Piques Interest Across Nevada
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 29, 2006 02:48pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Friday, July 28, 2006 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Reno Police Await Autopsy Results on State Controller
By Sonya Geis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 28, 2006; Page A03
LAS VEGAS, July 27 -- A healthy Nevada politician suddenly dies. Two days later, her husband attempts suicide. Her husband, it emerges, was strangely close to the death of the politician's previous husband.
The death of state controller Kathy Augustine, a 50-year-old Republican candidate for state treasurer who was the only Nevada state elected official ever to be impeached and convicted, is the talk of Nevada. Reno police, and a lot of curious bystanders, are waiting for autopsy results to see whether this turns into a full-blown murder mystery.
"It raises all of our eyebrows," Reno police Lt. Jon Catalano said of the circumstances surrounding Augustine's death. Reno police opened an investigation and brought in extra help from the state Investigation Division.
Augustine was campaigning hard for an Aug. 15 election when, her husband, Chaz Higgs, said, he found her on the floor of their Reno home on July 8. Having apparently suffered a heart attack, Augustine died in a hospital three days later. |
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