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• Curl said she doesn't believe Moeller's execution will help her heal, but she said she needs to be there.
• "It won't bring me closure. It will bring me relief that he's dead and he'll never get out to do this to anybody else's child," she said. "I know what Becky went through, and I know what I went through as a mother trying to handle it."
• Curl in 2010 visited the crime scene to recognize the 20th anniversary of her daughter's killing. She said she broke down and cried when she thought about what happened there.
• "It just seemed like a lonely place there," she said. "I was just envisioning her being there and screaming. No, I don't believe anybody could have hurt her."
• Curl put up a cross at the site before saying, "Beck, get in the truck, we're going home." She and her husband returned to the site one last time before leaving town.

• "It just seemed a little more peaceful there," she said. "I think she came back with me."
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Judge slams landowners in Canadian pipeline ruling
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press

• HOUSTON (AP) -- The ruling came down in a brief, late-night email, 15 words that slammed the yearslong effort of a Texas landowner to prevent a Canadian company from occupying part of her family's 65-year-old farm to run an oil pipeline from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries.
• As shocking as the ruling was, Julia Trigg Crawford, the third-generation manager of the Red'Arc farm in Direct, Texas, vowed Thursday to fight on, just hours after Lamar County Court-at-Law Judge Bill Harris ruled TransCanada could be considered a "common carrier" and use eminent domain to condemn a section of her land for the Keystone XL pipeline.
• "It's kind of like there's a bully in the playground and until someone gets their nose bloodied they will keep going," said Crawford, already on her way to Washington.
• TransCanada welcomed the judge's decision.
• "This ruling reaffirms that TransCanada has -- and continues -- to follow all state and federal laws and regulations as we move forward with the construction of the Gulf Coast Project," spokesman Shawn Howard said in the statement.
• The ruling is the latest legal victory for TransCanada, whose plan to transport heavy tar sands crude through a 1,179-mile pipeline across the United States to Texas Gulf Coast refineries has been mired in controversy nearly every step of the

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