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SEAWORLD, HUMANE SOCIETY WANT OBAMA TO END JAPANESE WHALING
SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby and Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle sent Obama a letter Thursday urging him to treat the end of commercial whaling as a much stronger priority for action within the context of America’s diplomatic relationship with Japan.
MAN FACING 120-YEAR SENTENCE FOR FIRING GUN GETS TIME SERVED
Randal Ratledge of Jacksonville was sentenced Friday to 117 days in jail and received credit for 117 days he’s already served. Ratledge had been charged with six counts of aggravated assault after a 2012 incident involving his neighbors. But jurors acquitted Ratledge of two of the charges and reduced the other four to misdemeanors. Then a judge combined the four misdemeanors to one count of improper exhibition of a firearm.
POLICE SHOOT BLOODY DOG AFTER IT MAULED WOMAN
Leesburg police Lt. Joe Iozzi says 66-year-old Sonda Tyson died Thursday night. The Orlando Sentinel (https://goo.gl/bO20us) reports the woman’s family called paramedics about 6 p.m. saying she needed medical attention. When they arrived, they found a large dog covered in blood barking and blocking their entrance.
MAN GETS 40 YEARS FOR FATALLY STABBING MOTHER
Micah Lee Hobbs was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder as part of a deal with prosecutors. Hobbs had been facing a possible death sentence. Authorities say Hobbs repeatedly stabbed his mother, Eva Marie Hobbs, with a kitchen knife at their home in March 2014. He was later found laughing on a road near the home.
PANTHER KILLED IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports that the 1-year-old cat’s body was found Friday on Alligator Alley in Collier County. The remains will be taken to a Gainesville facility for a necropsy. A total of 12 Florida panthers have been found dead in 2016, with 10 road fatalities.
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