Ariz. fugitive reportedly seen in Salt Lake City

September 16, 2008

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY - A man sought in the fatal shooting of an armored truck courier in Phoenix apparently has been spotted around Salt Lake City, and FBI agents are canvassing his associates for information.

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When Acquitted Doesn’t Mean Acquitted

Judges Can Sentence Criminals to Longer Prison Terms Even After a Jury Has Acquitted Them

By SCOTT MICHELS

When Roger White helped his brother and his brother’s girlfriend rob a bank in Maysville, Ky., he led police on a high-speed, 17-mile chase down country roads before he finally crashed his car and was caught.

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State Dept. Contractor Charged in Passport Breach

Passport Files of Presidential Candidates Illegally Searched
By KIRIT RADIA and JASON RYAN

A former government official involved in breaching the passport files of presidential contenders is expected to plead guilty next week.

Lawrence Yontz, a contractor working at the State Department, was charged last week in a criminal information filed by the Justice Department on federal charges of unauthorized computer access. A criminal information is a court document filed by prosecutors charging a suspect with a crime, versus an indictment, which is returned by a grand jury.

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Billions in Storm Damage Claims May Strain Texas Insurance Pool

Hurricane Ike caused as much as $16 billion in property damage, by some estimates, but the state-led insurance pool that will pay much of the cost has only $2.3 billion, leaving the Texas government on the hook potentially for billions of dollars in claims.

Insurance companies all but stopped offering hurricane coverage for property on the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 cost them billions of dollars in claims and as property values soared, raising their exposure to disaster claims.

The pullout of commercial insurance carriers forced most property owners on the coast to turn to the state-run insurer of last resort, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, or the wind pool, as it is called.

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Tighter Lead Rule for Kids’ Items

All children’s products must meet a new, tougher lead standard by Feb. 10, regardless of when they were made, according to a legal opinion expected to be released today by the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s general counsel.

The opinion, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, represents the agency’s official guidance to businesses. It allows companies to sell off their existing inventory of soon-to-be banned products through Feb. 10, including through exports.

After that, manufacturers and retailers will probably have to destroy products that don’t comply with the new limit, said Gary Wolensky, a partner with Phoenix-based law firm Snell & Wilmer who represents companies in product-liability cases.

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