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A man wanted in the 1984 killing of a Florida woman has been arrested in California nearly four decades later, authorities said Thursday. Detectives from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office were traveling to San Diego County to interview Donald Michael Santini, who was being held in jail following his arrest Wednesday, the sheriff's office said in a statement. crop-wood.jpg Cynthia Ruth Wood HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE Santini had been on the run since June 1984, when Florida authorities obtained an arrest warrant linking him to the strangling death of 33-year-old Cynthia Ruth Wood of Bradenton, located south of Tampa. Wood's...

Right about now, you're probably starting to receive Christmas cards from friends and family. It's pretty safe to assume that most of them are adorned with candid shots of smiling faces, and some even have a picture of the newest addition to the family: a kid or man's best friend. Well a Christmas card from San Juan's mayor just earned him a spot on the famous blog "AwkwardFamilyPhoto.com."...

San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini, said today that he is in the process of verifying the allegations made by eight homeless men from New York who turned up in Old San Juan, and say that the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, paid for their passage to Puerto Rico. “We had zero homeless people in Old San Juan and now we have eight”, said the Mayor in an aside during a press conference announcing the inauguration of the Plaza de la Convalecencia in Rio Piedras. He said that the City has provided services to the men as if they...

SAN JUAN (AP) - The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a U.S. group that is leading the fight to extend the federal ban on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons, has censured San Juan mayor Jorge Santini, for his opposition to renewing the ban. Brian Malte, spokesman for the campaign chairman, publicly endorsed Santini’s opponent in the race for the office of mayor San Juan, Eduardo Bhatia, and called Santini’s opposition to the Federal Assault Weapons Ban “irresponsible” and “shocking.” “Mayor Santini is putting at risk the lives of the children of San Juan, their families, and the...

Politics 2003 Week of June 30 by John Gizzi Posted Jun 27, 2003 DAVID TOWELL, R.I.P. Although Tom Larainger and Hal Furman had both been interns and then full-time staffers for former Sen. (1974-86) Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.)—easily the most durable politician in modern Nevada history—neither had any strong memories of David Towell, who was the silver state’s lone U.S. Representative from 1972-74. For that matter, Towell himself—who died June 11 at 66 following a long illness—likened his own political career to a rocket ride that "went straight up and straight down." But, as dim and remote as he was from...