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Compiled from Times wires Magazine honors MilliganFlorida Comptroller Bob Milligan is among the winners of Governing magazine's Public Official of the Year awards. Milligan was commended for reorganizing the financial regulatory system in his office along "professional, nonpartisan lines." Every year Governing recognizes innovative public officials who have brought about change and political reform. Milligan will step down in January after eight years in office. In 1998 Florida voters approved consolidating the offices of comptroller and insurance commissioner into the office of chief finance officer. Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher has already won the office without opposition in today's election. Charge filed in ALF deathKEYSTONE HEIGHTS -- The owner of an assisted living facility has been charged in the death of an 88-year-old resident. Kathleen O. Wells, owner and administrator of the Homestead, was charged Friday with aggravated abuse or neglect, giving improper medications, failing to render necessary care and failure to seek medical care. She was free Monday on $15,000 bail. Jessie Pauline Lockerman died at the Homestead Oct. 20. Officials said she may have been overmedicated and given at least one medication not prescribed for her. Authorities began investigating the case after interviewing former and current staff members about Lockerman's death, said Bradford County Sheriff Bob Milner. The Department of Children and Families removed the other seven residents at the home. Stunt pilot dies in crashSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- A Florida stunt pilot crashed his fighter jet and died Monday while returning home after an air show in the Dominican Republic. The F-86E jet crashed as Jimmy Rossi was starting his trip back to the United States after Sunday's Caribbean Air Show. Rossi, 66, a former airline pilot, lived in Ocala. The cause of the crash near San Luis, just east of Santo Domingo, remained unclear. Rossi used the F-86E to simulate combat as part of the show on Sunday with another pilot, Tobe Gooden, who was flying an old Russian MiG-17 jet fighter. The two left together from the San Isidro air base at 8:40 a.m. Monday. Minutes later, Gooden said, he saw a ball of flame come out the back of Rossi's plane. Rossi, losing altitude, tried to land in a field but the plane broke apart and he was thrown out just before it caught fire.
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