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News in Brief
Mother jailed for
malnourished baby
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 6-
month-old old boy — so se
verely malnourished that he
was described as a “skeleton
with skin” — was hospitalized
after police arrested his moth
er and her live-in boyfriend on
child-abuse charges.
The unidentified boy was tak
en to University Hospital, where
X-rays showed he had several
broken bones, Child Protective
Service (CPS) spokesperson
Donna Garrett said.
Claudia Villalobos, 21, and
Juan Cuevas, 34, were arrested,
police spokesperson Sgt. Gabriel
Trevino said. Both were charged
with injury to a child, he said. Vil
lalobos was also charged with
endangering a child.
CPS workers and police went
to the hoarse after receiving an
anonymous hotline call.
Neighbors told the station
they never knew the couple had
a child in the house.
Killer executed
after 5 reprieves
ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A killer
whose life was spared five times
by reprieves was executed Tues
day night for the 1991 murder.of
a fast-food restaurant employee.
Feltus Taylor, 39, shot Donna
Ponsano to death during a rob
bery at Cajun’s Fabulous Fried
Chicken in Baton Rouge. The
manager, Keith Clark, was shot
four times in the head and left
partially paralyzed.
Taylor, who had been hired
and fired twice as a fry cook at
the restaurant, had gone to the
restaurant to get his job back.
Clark had already replaced
Taylor, but he gave him 35 cents
to buy a newspaper so the two
could sort through classified
ads. Clark said Taylor snapped
when Ponsano passed by,
grabbed her arms and demand
ed that Clark open the safe.
Clark gave Taylor $1,300, but Tay
lor still opened fire.
Taylor’s most recent reprieve
came in September. He was
eating his final meal of seafood
gumbo and fried soft-shell
crabs when his execution was
delayed by the Supreme Court.
The high court lifted the re
prieve in April when it refused to
hear the appeal.
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603 Church Avenue in Northgate
(979)846-5717
www.aaaiecatholic.org
Pastoral Team
Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor
Rev. David A. Konderla, Associate Pastor
Campus Ministers - Deacon Bill Scott,
Martha Tonn, Lillian Smith
Maureen Murray, Heidi Nicolini
Daily Masses
Mon.-Fri.: 5:30 p.m.
Sat.: 10:30 a.m. (Korean)
Weekend Masses
Sat.: 5:30 p.m. (English),
7:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Sun.: 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m.
Church of Christ
Fellowship Free Will
Baptist Church
College & Career Class
You are invited to a Bible
study especially for students.
Sunday mornings at 9:45
1228 W. Villa Maria
779-2297
For more information contact
Marcus Brewer: 696-6558
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417 University Dr. (on Northgate) • 846-8731
Sunday Services: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.
College Sunday School 9:45
Sr. Pastor Charles Anderson
amumc@tca.net
Bryan / College Station Church of Christ
Sunday
Wednesday
Bible Class 9:00 a.m.
Bible Class 7:00 p.m.
Worship 10:00 a.m.
Worship 6:00 p.m.
College Station Conference Center
(Just across George Bush from TAMU Golf Course)
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NEWS
Thursday, June 8,2
THE BATTALION
FBI investigates eBay fraud
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FBI
is investigating whether people are
driving up prices at online auctioneer
eBay by bidding on each others' items.
The probe was launched after
lawyer Kenneth A. Walton tried to auc
tion an abstract painting bidders be
lieved was by Richard Diebenkorn,
whose work has sold for millions.
A spokesman in the FBI's Sacramen
to office, which is leading the investiga
tion, declined comment Wednesday.
But Donald Vilfer, a supervisory
special agent, told The New York Times
in a story Tuesday that investigators
opened the case after reading a story in
the newspaper that described how
Walton and other eBay users had bid
on each other's items and offered
glowing testimonials.
Self-bidding, known as shill bid
ding, is'forbidden by eBay and is gen
erally illegal at traditional auctions.
Participation in a bidding ring vio
lates federal laws prohibiting mail
and wire fraud. Each count carries a
maximum penalty of five years in
Walton, 32, said Tuesday heliadr
been contacted by the FBI and km
nothing of an investigation.
No one knows if the painting
question is in fact an origin
Diebenkorn. Walton didn't makefe
claim when he offered the "great!*
wild abstract painting” he said h
bought at a garage sale for auction
eBay on April 28.
The bidding began at 25cents,v:
to $10 and slowly climbed. A
man named Rob Keereweer wonli
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