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Rhinestone Cowboy has ‘captive’ fans

PHOENIX — Glen Campbell called it “a captive audience” — and he wasn’t kidding. Mr. Campbell, nearing the end of his 10-day sentence for extreme drunken driving, gave a free 30-minute concert Friday night for about 1,000 inmates at Maricopa County’s outdoor jail.

“Tent City, you’re gentle on my mind,” Mr. Campbell sang during the million-selling “Gentle on My Mind.” The Phoenix-based singer-guitarist performed several of his top-10 hits on a makeshift stage atop a flatbed truck with some hay bales as a countrified backdrop.

Mr. Campbell, 68, was arrested in November near his posh Phoenix home after causing a minor traffic accident. He pleaded guilty in May to extreme DUI and leaving the scene of an accident, then began his jail term July 1 with his final eight days set up as work-release.

The country star also performed “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” in his eight-song set and led the rough-and-tumble audience in the chorus of “Rhinestone Cowboy.”

Children found safe after killing

KENNEWICK, Wash. — Four children who were reported missing after their grandparents were fatally shot were found safe yesterday, but their father remained at large, authorities said.

Neighbors reported seeing James T. Moran leave the mobile home where the shootings took place Friday evening, police Sgt. Randy Maynard said. Cpl. Tim Scott said the victims were the children’s maternal grandparents.

The children were found at the home of Mr. Moran’s parents in Lake Moses early yesterday. Their mother had been in Arkansas. Cpl. Scott said he did not know the status of the Morans’ marriage.

An Amber Alert had gone out for the four children.

Murder suspect denies charges

HONDO, N.M. — Prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether a 14-year-old boy accused of killing his family should be tried as an adult. At a hearing Friday in children’s court, Cody Posey denied fatally shooting his stepsister, his stepmother and his father, who managed a ranch for ABC newsman Sam Donaldson.

Cody told authorities his father regularly abused him. He faces three counts of murder and four counts of tampering with evidence in the Monday slayings.

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