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Soldier one of two killed by car bomb in Iraq

By TIMES WIRES
Published November 16, 2006

JACKSONVILLE

A soldier from Jacksonville was one of two killed when a car bomb exploded near their vehicle Sunday during combat operations in Samarra, Iraq, military officials announced.

Spc. Harry A. Winkler III, 32, of Jacksonville, and 1st Lt. Michael A. Cerrone, 24, of Clarksville, Tenn., both were members of the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, N.C.

Winkler was promoted to specialist posthumously, said Maj. Tom Earnhardt of the 82nd Airborne. He also had earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

He is survived by his wife, Charity, a son and a stepson.

WEST PALM BEACH

Former U.S. Rep. Foley's father dies of cancer

Ed Foley, a longtime educator and father of disgraced former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, died of cancer Tuesday, his family said. He was 85.

A Massachusetts native, Ed Foley moved to Florida in the 1950s. He was a teacher and principal who frequently campaigned on his son's behalf.

The younger Foley resigned Sept. 29 when confronted with sexually explicit online messages he sent to teenage male Capitol pages. State and federal authorities are investigating whether he broke any laws.

Foley has been in a treatment center in Arizona for alcoholism since Oct. 1. It wasn't known Wednesday whether he would come out of treatment to attend his father's funeral.

He abandoned a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2003 after his father's cancer diagnosis.

EUSTIS

LAKE YIELDS TWO CHILDREN'S BODIES 

The bodies of two children missing since their family's boat sank in a Central Florida lake over the weekend were recovered early Wednesday.

Searchers found the bodies of Eric and Katelyn Singleton, ages 8 and 2, floating on the surface of Lake Yale, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Kat Kelley said.

Mechanical problems caused the boat to take on water and sink rapidly Sunday evening, the commission said. Kelley said the girl's parents put a life jacket on her, but neither child was found wearing a life vest.

Eric and Michelle Singleton were able to swim to shore, he hanging onto their 3-month-old daughter. The mother was hospitalized a day for hypothermia.

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