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In November Paul Z. Singer, head of Singer Financial Corporation in Philadelphia, was sentenced to nine months in prison for a one-night vandalism spree in 1996. Singer claimed tension from business pressures caused him to load cans of spray paint into a backpack and take off in his BMW. When he was arrested, said police, he had written graffiti all over 31 walls, windows, and cars.
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State prosecutors in Hartford, Connecticut, will again attempt to bring Kenneth Curtis, 32, to trial for the murder of his former girlfriend in 1987. Curtis had avoided trial earlier because of mental incompetence due to a brain injury, a result of his attempt to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head. A judge had released him in 1989, saying Curtis had almost no chance of regaining his faculties, and an appeals court removed an order that he be retested every year. WTNH TV in New Haven recently found that Curtis is currently enrolled as a premed student at Southern Connecticut State University, with 48 credits and a 3.3 average, and that a state agency had given him almost $1,000 in tuition assistance.
Army military policeman Daniel Christian Bowden, 20, was arrested in June at the Fort Belvoir Federal Credit Union in Virginia as he attempted to deposit almost $3,000 in cash into his account. A teller called police because she recognized Bowden as the very man who had robbed the credit union of nearly $5,000 two weeks earlier.
In September elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Muslim slate won control of the city council of Srebrenica, a city that Serbs had “ethnically cleansed” of Muslims during the war. Under the 1995 Dayton peace accords, Bosnians can vote in their former municipalities, no matter where they currently reside.
In Washington, D.C., in October, Mr. Alexander Alexander gave away his daughter Stacy in marriage to Mr. John Roberts Stacey.
