Ohio
Man gets 5 years for giving wife AIDS, not telling
CLEVELAND (AP) -- An Ohio man has been sentenced in Cleveland to five years in prison for infecting his wife with the AIDS virus.
Authorities say the unsuspecting woman had a 14-year relationship with Fernando Castro. Her treatment was delayed because he never told her about his AIDS condition.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty sentenced the 51-year-old Castro on Monday on his guilty plea to felonious assault.
Health officials said in court that had they known he was sexually active, they would have helped him tell his wife. But he claimed on hospital forms that he was single.
Castro apologized to his wife in court and asked for her forgiveness. She wants a divorce.
Nebraska
Teenager faces adult charge of robbing a bank
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) -- A 15-year-old Grand Island boy faces adult charges of robbery.
Javante Moore is accused of robbing the Five Points Bank of nearly $12,000 on Saturday.
A warrant affidavit says officers used video from the bank to identify Moore, who was arrested later Saturday.
Police say Moore hid near the bathrooms until the bank closed. He crawled to the teller area, took the money, then ran to an exit door that was locked. Police say Moore persuaded a bank employee outside to unlock it.
The affidavit says Moore shoved the unlocked door into the employee, knocking her down, and then ran.
Hall County authorities say Moore remains in custody. Court records don't list an attorney for him yet.
Florida
Slain trainer's family, park want video suppressed
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- SeaWorld and the family of a trainer slain by a killer whale want to prevent video of the attack from becoming public.
Dawn Brancheau died last month after being pulled into the water by the 12,000-pound orca.
SeaWorld's cameras recorded the death, and the tapes were voluntarily turned over to law enforcement.
Once the Orange County Sheriff's Office concludes its investigation, the material would become public under Florida law.
Brancheau's family said Monday through a spokesman that public airing of the killing would only worsen their grief.
They could seek a court injunction. The family and SeaWorld have been consulting the lawyer who represented Dale Earnhardt's widow in a successful court fight to keep his 2001 autopsy photos private.
Minnesota
Judge considers verdict in fatal crowd shooting
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- A St. Louis County judge is considering whether to overturn homicide charges against a man convicted of shooting into a crowd, killing one person and injuring another.
Defense attorney Keith Shaw told the judge Monday that Philbert Barnes was running away when he shot at a group of people while holding a gun upside down outside in Duluth last July. Shaw argued Barnes had no intent of killing anyone. Curtis Cooney was struck and killed. Another man was hit in the leg.
Prosecutor Vern Swanum argued that if Barnes merely meant to scare the group, he would have fired the gun into the air.
A St. Louis County jury found the 40-year-old Barnes guilty of intentional and attempted murder in January. The Duluth News Tribune reports Judge David Johnson will make a decision by March 18, Barnes' sentencing date.
Vermont
Cop sues county prosecutor for defamation
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- A South Burlington police detective is suing the Chittenden County prosecutor for defamation.
Detective Cpl. John "Jack" O'Connor claims State's Attorney T.J. Donovan attacked his credibility during a 2008 civil rights trial and then waged a person vendetta against him.
The dispute arises from comments Donovan made during a 2008 civil-rights trial in federal court in Burlington, where he testified at the behest of a man who sued O'Connor for racial-profiling.
Donovan testified he rejected a request by O'Connor for a search warrant in an unrelated case.
Donovan says O'Connor's lawsuit is without merit.
Pennsylvania
Men spun 'carpet yarn' about seized black tar heroin
NEW BALTIMORE, Pa. (AP) -- State police say two Pittsburgh-area men stopped with $500,000 worth of heroin in their car tried to hide the drugs by spinning a carpet yarn of sorts.
Fifty-year-old Robin Turner, of Stowe Township, and 56-year-old Mohammed Ali Ghafoori, of Millvale, were stopped for speeding near the Allegheny Tunnel near Somerset about 11:15 p.m. Saturday.
Police say the men told police they were returning from New Jersey where they had purchased some Oriental carpet yarn. But police say the men acted nervously and a drug-sniffing dog found nearly a quarter pound of black tar heroin -- wrapped in the carpet yarn -- after the men consented to a search of the car.
Louisiana
Man found guilty in deadly home invasion, robbery
VILLE PLATTE, La. (AP) -- A sentencing date of May 13 has been set for Charles Edward Grace of Ville Platte, who has been found guilty in connection with a 2009 home invasion that left a teenager dead.
The 35-year-old Grace faces more than 300 years in prison following his conviction on two counts of armed robbery, two counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, aggravated burglary and conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary.
While he did not take a direct part in the home invasion, prosecutors said Grace was considered the ringleader of the crime during which six people were held hostage at gunpoint and robbed and one of his teenage accomplices was killed.
Alabama
Eight music acts sue over lack of festival payments
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Eight music acts are suing the former president of Birmingham's City Stages festival for payment for performances during the 2009 event.
A lawsuit filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court says acts such as the Doobie Brothers, the Neville Brothers and the Indigo Girls received bad checks from the Birmingham Cultural & Heritage Foundation, City Stages' parent company, after their performances at the festival in June.
Published: Wed, Mar 10, 2010
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