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School bus kills teen thought trying to catch it

By wire services
Published April 26, 2005

JACKSONVILLE - A 14-year-old middle school pupil died Monday after being run over by a school bus he may have been running to catch, police said.

Barry Wendall Bows was taken to Shands Jacksonville hospital, where he died. Barry attended Ribault Middle School.

Police spokesman Ken Jefferson said bus driver Gary Eugene Taber, 46, stopped to pick up children and was making a right turn when he felt a bump. Taber stopped and found that the right rear tires of the bus had run over the child. None of the 35 children on the bus were injured.

"Preliminarily, we believe the child was running late and was trying to catch the bus," Jefferson said.

COCOA - A Brevard County sixth-grade teacher is accused of sexually molesting a 13-year-old student.

Daniel Cliatt, 29, of Rockledge, a teacher at Endeavor Elementary School, was arrested Saturday on 48 counts of sexual battery and 48 counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child.

An investigation began Friday after a teacher chanced upon a sexual encounter between Cliatt and the male student, police said. The teacher "went to the principal, who contacted us," said Barbara Matthews, a spokeswoman for the Cocoa Police Department.

Cliatt told about another victim, investigators said, and they suspect there are more. They found a pornographic videotape in his classroom.

Cliatt was in jail in lieu of $250,000 bail Monday.

LAKE BUENA VISTA - An elephant calf died during its mother's labor of more than a day at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom.

The African elephant died Sunday in its mother's womb, said spokeswoman Jacquee Polak.

The mother elephant, Ibala, 26, went into labor early Saturday night. In the following hours, her contractions lessened, and a veterinarian had to induce labor. Late Sunday, veterinarians determined through an ultrasound that the baby had died, Polak said.

"This is a time of profound loss for the dedicated team of people who have been working tirelessly during the two-year gestation," Beth Stevens, vice president of Disney's Animal Kingdom, said in a written statement.

VIERA - A Brevard County sheriff's deputy was arrested Monday and accused of setting a wildfire.

Henry F. Schook III, 28, was charged with reckless or intentional burning of wild lands, a felony, and illegal possession of an incendiary device, a misdemeanor. He was released on $5,000 bail.

State Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement investigators said they watched Schook from the ground and air as he set a fire while on patrol early Monday.

Investigators had been monitoring Schook since February when the Division of Forestry reported a number of suspicious fires in Brevard County.

Schook has worked for the Sheriff's Office for three years.

LAKELAND - A hospice resident died after a fire broke out because he was smoking in bed, officials said Monday.

The Sunday fire at LifePath Hospice was contained to the room of Fred Schultz, 62, Lakeland fire spokeswoman Cheryl Edwards said.

The sprinkler system put out the fire, and firefighters found Schultz's body in the room, Edwards said. The Medical Examiner's Office was awaiting the results of toxicology tests to determine the cause of death.

A second hospice resident was taken to Lakeland Regional Hospital, Edwards said.

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