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ONTARIO - The mother of Anthony Soltero on Friday demanded that the De Anza Middle School assistant principal she claims threatened her son with jail time be kept away from children. Louise Corales dropped off a letter at the office of Ontario-Montclair School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee requesting that Assistant Principal Gene Bennett be removed or transferred from his position until an investigation is completed. She was joined by her attorneys and the Anthony's father, Jaime Soltero. "I want the vice principal transferred into a position where he's not around children. I definitely want him transferred during the investigation," Corales...

Bomb plot figure dies in prison EX-DE ANZA COLLEGE STUDENT FOUND HANGED IN CELL, AN APPARENT SUICIDE By Patrick May Mercury News Former De Anza College student Al Joseph DeGuzman, serving an 80-year sentence for trying to hatch a Columbine-style assault on the Cupertino community college campus, has hanged himself, prison officials said Friday. DeGuzman, 22, was discovered hanged by a sheet in his Folsom State Prison cell at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, said prison spokesman Lt. Robert Trujillo. An attempt to resuscitate the inmate was unsuccessful. Prison officials sounded an alarm and called an ambulance. Emergency medical personnel pronounced DeGuzman...