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Saturday, November 7, 2009
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France seeks security driver in bank heist

PARIS -- French police conducted a nationwide search Friday for a security driver who vanished with euro11 million in cash from a bank in the central city of Lyon, authorities said.

Lyon prosecutor Xavier Richard said the 39-year-old suspect appeared to have acted alone and prepared his escape in advance. A police search revealed that the suspect's apartment was empty, there were no sheets on the bed and the refrigerator was empty.

Loomis France, the No. 1 French company specialized in transporting money and valuables, identified the alleged thief as Tony Musulin.

Survivor of family slayings wants probe

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The lone survivor of a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion wants an investigation into why prison officials let a writer interview one of the defendants behind bars for a book on the case.

William Petit, whose wife and daughters were killed in their Cheshire home, is asking state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to investigate what he calls "gaffes" and "miscues" involving Joshua Komisarjevsky's interviews with writer Brian McDonald.

McDonald recently published a book detailing Komisarjevsky's version of the events, in which he blames his co-defendant, Steven Hayes.

2 teens charged with girl's death at school

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Two 16-year-old boys have been charged as adults in the death of a 16-year-old girl who was shot after a homecoming football game in Long Beach.

Los Angeles County prosecutors say Tom Love Vinson and Daivion Davis were charged Friday with one count each of murder and two counts each of attempted murder.

Davis pleaded not guilty Friday. Vinson's arraignment was continued to Nov. 16.

Police say honor student Melody Ross was an innocent bystander who was shot when two gangs had a confrontation Oct. 30 at Woodrow Wilson High School. She died at a hospital.

Man pleads not guilty to killing daughter

LOS ANGELES -- A man serving time for killing his infant son and trekking around the country with the child's body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter.

Prosecutors contend that Jason Hann stuffed 2-month-old Montana Hann's corpse into a trash bag in 2001 then kept it in trailers and motorhomes for nine months as he and his girlfriend moved from state to state doing odd jobs.

The body was finally discovered in an Arkansas storage facility.

Hann, 34, pleaded not guilty in Indio Superior Court to murder and assaulting a child causing great bodily injury after being extradited from Kentucky, where he was serving time for killing his 6-week-old son 10 years ago.

The Associated Press


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