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Man accused of threatening Gov. Bush, Collier judge in letter acts as his own lawyer Tuesday, January 8, 2002 By CHRIS W. COLBY, cwcolby@naplesnews.com Unlike what happens with most people in the bright orange Collier County Jail uniform, Larry Parks' day in court Monday didn't go half bad. Parks insisted on wearing the jumpsuit instead of dress clothes and turned down a judge's advice that an attorney be appointed to his case. Instead, he acted as his own lawyer, despite the risk of facing up to 10 years in prison if convicted of threatening Florida's governor and a Collier judge. ...

Authorities questioned four men Friday for possible involvement in an alleged plot to kill Gov. Jeb Bush and held two others on immigration charges, but by day's end they had all but wrapped up the case after their most promising lead collapsed. The lead: a van investigators thought might contain traces of explosives after bomb-sniffing dogs reacted to it. Late Friday night, residue tests proved negative. Investigators already were skeptical of information provided by a jailhouse informant that four South Florida men with Arab names had plotted to blow up the governor in Tallahassee Friday. Additional information about the inmate ...

ASHINGTON, Sept. 25 — The president of Egypt and the deputy prime minister of Italy say that Osama bin Laden's network of Islamic terrorists threatened to kill President Bush and other leaders of the industrialized world when they met at a summit meeting in Genoa last July. The White House, in line with longstanding policy not to discuss threats on the president, declined to comment today. In an interview on French television on Monday, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt spoke in specific terms about the threat, saying that "on June 13 of this year, we learned of a communiqué ...