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• Officials: Suspect lived unnoticed after 'death' Nov 05, 2021 07:49 PM
  
  • NEW ORLEANS - After the skeletal remains of a slain Las Vegas girl were found in the Louisiana woods, investigators reached a startling conclusion: The man suspected of kidnapping her was supposed to have died 16 years earlier.
  • As authorities mount a nationwide manhunt for Thomas Steven Sanders, they are still trying to understand how a man who abandoned his family in 1987 and was declared dead in 1994 lived unnoticed for years.
  • A warrant was issued Thursday accusing Sanders of kidnapping 12-year-old Lexis Roberts, whose skeleton was found last month.

  • Judge orders Lori Berenson freed from prison Nov 05, 2021 07:21 PM
    
    • LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian judge ordered convicted rebel collaborator Lori Berenson freed from prison Friday, ruling that her initial parole order was sound, but the New Yorker's legal troubles remained unresolved.
    • Judge Jessica Leon originally paroled Berenson in May, ruling that the activist had served the necessary three-quarters of a 20-year sentence.
    • But a higher court annulled the judge's decision on a technicality in mid-August, sending Berenson back to a Lima woman's prison.

    • Hurricane adds to Haiti's woes, 4 dead in floods Nov 05, 2021 07:21 PM
      
      • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hurricane Tomas flooded camps of earthquake refugees, turning some into squalid islands Friday as it battered Haiti's rural western tip, while largely sparing the vast homeless encampments in the shattered capital.
      • Driving 85 mph winds and a lashing storm surge battered Leogane, a seaside town west of Port-au-Prince that was 90 percent destroyed in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
      • In one refugee camp, dozens of families carried their belongings through thigh-high floodwaters to a taxi stand on higher ground, huddling under blankets and a sign that read "Welcome to Leogane."

      • White ex-transit officer given 2-year prison term Nov 05, 2021 07:17 PM
        
        • LOS ANGELES - A white former transit officer was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for fatally shooting an unarmed black man on a California train platform, angering the victim's family and friends, who demanded a harsher punishment.
        • The case against defendant Johannes Mehserle has provoked racial unrest at every turn, and police in Oakland, the scene of the killing, were on alert for more problems following a sentence that many thought was too light.
        • Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, shouted, "Oh my!"

        • Rescue workers remove bodies from Cuba plane crash Nov 05, 2021 07:17 PM
          
          • GUASIMAL, Cuba - Rescue workers on Friday pulled bodies from the charred wreckage of a state airliner that went down in rugged central Cuba, as desperate relatives gathered at the capital's airport and called foreign embassies seeking information on their loved ones.
          • All 68 people aboard AeroCaribbean Flight 883 were killed when the turboprop plane went down Thursday afternoon in a remote area near the village of Guasimal in Sancti Spiritus province.
          • One Japanese national was also on board.

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