Tuesday, June 26, 2007
BARTOW, Fla.—A former Ecuadorean businessman was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing four people in a business dispute, despite pleas from his native country to spare his life.
Nelson Ivan Serrano, 68, was convicted last year on four counts of first-degree murder for the Dec. 3, 1997, shootings of George Gonsalves, 69; Frank Dosso, 35; Diane Patisso, 28; and George Patisso Jr., 26.
Serrano, Gonsalves and Dosso's father were business partners at a garment conveyor factory until a dispute over finances led to Serrano's firing as company president in 1997.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The former No. 2 official at the Interior Department says he does not deserve prison time in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles faces sentencing Tuesday for obstruction of justice. He has admitted lying to a Senate committee investigating his relationship with the disgraced lobbyist. As part of his plea deal, prosecutors recommended that Griles serve no more than a 10-month sentence, but only half of it in prison. The othe...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
VENICE, Fla. (AP) -- A Tennessee man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when an 11-foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in, authorities said. Bruce Burger, 50, was trying to retrieve his ball from a pond on the sixth hole Monday at the Lake Venice Golf Club. The alligator latched on to Burger's right forearm and pulled him in the pond, said Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. He used his left arm to beat on...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
A Florida soldier was among a group of people killed in an explosion in Baghdad, military officials said.
Pfc. Daniel J. Agami, 25, of Coconut Creek, died June 21 from injuries he sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle, the Department of Defense said Monday.
The other soldiers killed in the explosion were: Sgt. Alphonso J. Montenegro II, 22, of Far Rockaway, N.Y.; Sgt. Ryan M. Wood, 22, of Oklahoma City; Pfc. Anthony D. Hebert, 19, of Lake City, Minn.; Pfc. Thomas R. Leemhuis, 23, of Binger, Okla.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A man suspected of driving drunk is charged with killing a 7-month-old girl when he hit the car of an Alabama family headed to Florida for a beach vacation. Gary Andrew White, 40, of Pensacola, was charged Monday with DUI manslaughter in Saturday's death of Chloe Collar. Two breath tests showed he had a blood alcohol content of .094 percent and .086 percent, according to a police report. The legal limit for a driver is .08 percent in Florida. Christopher and Danielle ...
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