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By TIMES WIRES
Published July 7, 2006

Patient accused in killing dies

Olin Holcombe, a 93-year-old suffering from Alzheimer's, has died. Three months ago he had taken up his metal cane in a Hudson assisted-living facility and beaten a fellow Alzheimer's patient beyond recovery. That man, 81-year-old Roland Casanova, died 16 days later. The beating continued until a sheriff's deputy twice used a Taser on Holcombe, who in happier times had been a chiropractor in Indiana.

Frontier justice subdues teen

Manuel Molina found a burglar inside his Dade City home, then chased him with his pickup. Not recommended, but not illegal. Then, police and witnesses say, the 32-year-old began shooting his semiautomatic gun at the teen, missing him but eventually catching him and forcing him back to the pickup at gunpoint. Police got involved, and Molina ended up in jail, accused of aggravated assault with a firearm and kidnapping. The original suspect, a 16-year-old from Dade City, was charged with burglary and taken to a juvenile detention facility.

Dune work kills young sea turtle

A juvenile loggerhead sea turtle was killed early Saturday morning during a dune restoration project in the Panhandle. As a result, the operation has been shut down until Oct. 1. The project, which aims to add 3.4-million cubic yards of sand along 3.7 miles of beach on Navarre Beach, has been shut down twice before. Crews found fragments of a loggerhead sea turtle shell in the screen of a dredge June 17. A young Kemp's ridley turtle was killed by the same dredge in March.

[Last modified July 7, 2006, 01:20:39]