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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A woman who was forbidden from driving after pleading guilty in a fatal crash was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for violating probation when she took her children to school. To avoid jail time, Sonia Ortiz, 25, had accepted a plea deal in August for her involvement in a 2003 crash that killed West Palm Beach Police Officer Thomas Morash. Ortiz, who did not have a license, pulled out in front of Morash, who was on a motorcycle, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. She was charged with driving without...

Florida man uses Web to snare a suspectDriver in traffic fatality awaits trial; anonymous tipster sent e-mail09:02 AM CDT on Saturday, May 15, 2004Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. – A business consultant who was angered when the suspect in his brother-in-law's traffic death didn't appear for trial started a Web site devoted to the suspect's capture – and it worked. Rolando Pozo said he knew it was a long shot when he created the Web site as a diversion from the helplessness and anger he felt when suspect Carlos Giddings failed to appear in court for his trial. But recently, Mr....

SUMMERVILLE--Jimmy Burbage of Dorchester had taken his wife out for dinner and then a movie Sunday night. They chose the science fiction thriller "Terminator 3" because they thought it would be a fun, escapist fantasy. "We ended up seeing reality unlike we've ever seen before," Burbage said Monday. While smoking a cigarette outside a Ladson Road movie theatre, Burbage watched as a distraught 18-year-old North Charleston woman drove a white Chevrolet Lumina over a four-inch curb and plowed into a 17-year-old boy and girl. Cynthia Meagan Bowen, a recent graduate of Stratford High School from Goose Creek died Sunday....

Ted K weighs in on anti-war talk by Howie Carr Sunday, September 29, 2002 It had to be a serious speech, as someone noted Friday, because Sen. Ted Kennedy remembered to wear his trousers. And so the senior senator weighed in, so to speak, on C-SPAN 2. He laid out the case for not going to war, and it boils down to one salient fact: More Americans have been killed by Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile than by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Invading Iraq would be another Bay of Pigs, worse for American security than the terrorist visa program, an...