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Two 18-year-olds were taken into custody over the weekend in connection with the shooting death of a Little Debbie delivery man earlier in the week, according to police. Investigators said Gary Vaughn, 51, was fatally shot Tuesday while wheeling a load of the snack cakes in the parking lot of Al's Food Store located on Parramore Avenue. Police said they arrested Oliver Lewis at a Lynx bus terminal in downtown Orlando and Tremele Fields at a home in connection with the shooting death. Investigators did not say which of the men fired the shots or if both used guns in...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- A man who allowed his home to be used to store crack cocaine that was shipped by mail was sentenced to 14 years in prison, federal officials said. Michael Washington, 32, pleaded guilty last January to making his home available for the storage of crack cocaine, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office. Washington, who weighs 574 pounds, argued during sentencing that he was too obese and in too poor of health to be adequately cared for in prison, and requested home confinement. However, the court said the agency was capable of addressing...

<p>When University of San Francisco Professor Peter Novak proposed to his students that they produce a series of events commemorating the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, he got a shock -- most of his students had not heard of Moscone or Milk.</p>