HUNTSVILLE, Texas
“Railroad Killer” Resendiz executed
Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 murders near railroad tracks around the country, was executed Tuesday night.
In his final statement, Resendiz asked for forgiveness.
Resendiz, 46, was pronounced dead at 8:05 p.m. CDT. The Mexican drifter known as the “Railroad Killer” was executed for the slaying of physician Claudia Benton 7 1/2 years ago.
She was killed during a deadly spree in 1998 and 1999.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
Viagra find threatens Limbaugh plea deal
Rush Limbaugh will probably have to wait several days to find out if he violated his deal with prosecutors in a prescription-fraud case, the state attorney’s office said Tuesday.
Limbaugh, 55, was detained Monday at Palm Beach International Airport on his return from the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found Viagra in his bag, but his name wasn’t on the prescription, a sheriff’s spokesman said. Limbaugh’s lawyer, Roy Black, said the prescription was in his doctor’s name “for privacy purposes.”
Under last month’s deal, a “doctor-shopping” charge will be dismissed if Limbaugh doesn’t get arrested for 18 months, among other terms. Prosecutors said he deceived multiple doctors to get overlapping painkiller prescriptions.
EUREKA, Mont.
Bullet in suicide also kills girl, 16
A man who committed suicide at a party also killed a 16-year- old girl when the bullet traveled through his head and struck her in the chest, authorities said.
Jacob R. Lee, 19, and Lorena Mocko, 16, were found shot to death about 1 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln County authorities said.
CANCÚN, Mexico
No. 2 police officer, his bodyguard killed
Assailants shot and killed a top policeman and his bodyguard as they drove home in the resort city of Cancún, authorities said Tuesday.
Wilfredo Flores Saucedo, Cancún’s second-highest-ranking officer, and his bodyguard were attacked shortly before midnight Monday, Police Commissioner Adrian Samos Medina said. Police made no arrests, he said.
