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A 34-year-old Navy petty officer was given a 25-year prison sentence in Orlando for raping his eight-year-old daughter every time she brought home a bad report card. In one note he threatened to do it “400 times” for a particularly bad report card.
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Wonder Weaver, a tailoring business near West Palm Beach, Florida, has begun soliciting business to mend bullet holes in clothing. In December owner Bernice Penn showed a reporter a three-piece suit that came to her with ten bullet holes in the lapels, vest, and pants, and said it was none of her business how the holes got there. (She said she had a “tame” mending business in Massachusetts but has adapted to the South Florida market.)
In November in Miami, Jacqueline Calise, injured by an auto driven by Efram Summerset, who had stolen the car from David Gonshak, sued Gonshak. Calise said that if Gonshak had protected the car better, Summerset never would have been able to steal it. Gonshak had left the keys in the car at a dealership’s service entrance when Summerset stole it.
