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Laredoan gets 15 years for sex crime BY LAUREL ALMADA Times staff writer A Laredo man charged with sex crimes against a young child pleaded guilty Friday in the 406th District Court in exchange for a 15-year prison sentence. Omar Lopez-De Leon, 33, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault, three counts of indecency with a child involving sexual contact and two counts of indecency with a child involving exposure. The incidents were alleged to have occurred on June 1, 2002 and Sept. 1, 2002. Before presiding Judge Andres Reyes, the defendant pleaded guilty to the three...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - There was something wrong with the schoolteacher with the headache — doctors could see that from the start. Though charming and intelligent, the 40-year-old man couldn't stop leering at female nurses. He had been in trouble with the law for sexual advances toward his stepdaughter, and now he was talking about raping his landlady. University of Virginia Medical Center neurologists Dr. Russell Swerdlow and Dr. Jeffrey Burns had never seen a case like this. The man had an egg-sized brain tumor pressing on the right frontal lobe. When surgeons removed it, the lewd behavior and pedophilia faded...

Why would anyone feel more sympathy for Kobe Bryant at this point than for his alleged victim? Why would anyone allege a superstar's innocence simply by intoning hated doctrine from the liberal left? "Hosed by the N.O.W. GANG" in one subject heading implies a scenario where Kobe Bryant becomes a victim of N.O.W, rather than the young woman as the alleged victim of Kobe Bryant. Is there anyone willing to take one small step further which would paint Kobe Bryant as a victim now cramped into Hillary Clinton's crowded "vast right wing conspiracy" corner? After more than a week of...

Investigation stymied until Graton man turns himself in, implicates boy A 9-month-old Sebastopol homicide case that was headed for the unsolved mystery pile apparently was solved Monday after a 28-year-old man turned himself in, saying he wanted to unburden his guilty conscience. Miguel Olvera of Graton walked into the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department asking to speak with a detective about the Oct. 9 stabbing death of Gordon Fowler, 74, who lived just south of Sebastopol. Fowler's slaying had confounded detectives who decided just last week that the case was nearing a dead end. But Olvera told detectives enough to convince...

<p>BRIDGEPORT — After calling former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano a "sexual predator," a federal judge on Friday sentenced him to 37 years in prison for charges related to the sexual abuse of two young girls.</p> <p>"What you did is indescribable," U.S. District Court Judge Alan Nevas said as Giordano stood before the bench. Giordano stared straight ahead, hands clasped behind him.</p>

GREEN — FBI agents arrested a prominent Atlanta attorney at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport on Friday, accusing him of an Internet sex crime involving a child — and planning to have sex with her and her mother. Lou Litchfield, 56, was arrested by FBI agents when his flight landed at the airport. Agents said he was here to have sex with who he thought were a 12-year-old girl and her mother, but actually were undercover agents. A partner in an Atlanta law firm that handles family law cases and a former state legislative attorney, Litchfield was charged with using the...