### Wednesday May 8, 2008 ###
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Loor’s girlfriend to
follow him in prison
~ Craig sentenced for fraud, forgery and money laundering ~
PHILIPSBURG--Charlene Craig listened stoically while the judge read the verdict in her case in the Courthouse on Tuesday morning. The 35-year-old girlfriend of former chief of Immigration police commissioner Marcel Loor was sentenced to twenty months, five of which were suspended, for fraud, forgery and money laundering.
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Stab victim stabilises as
police seek eyewitnesses
PHILIPSBURG--The victim of last Saturday’s stabbing is currently in “stable condition” at St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) while police try to find more witnesses to the attack that almost took his life.
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Police increase presence in
Cul de Sac school district
ST. PETERS/SOUTH REWARD--Police pushed up their presence in the St.
Peters/South Reward school district Tuesday following rumours that several students planned to take revenge after an ambush near a school on Monday left a school bus damaged and several students in shock.
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‘Sweet Leroy’ sent to
prison for 30 months
PHILIPSBURG--Dutch Quarter brothel owner Leroy Richardson (48) has been sentenced to 36 months behind bars, six of which were suspended, with three years’ probation.
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Parents, hospital wrangle
over cause of baby’s death
~ Incident underscores need for precise record keeping ~
MARIGOT--The stillbirth of a baby at Louis-Constant Fleming Hospital last Saturday has sparked a dispute between the grieving parents and management as to what caused the death and whether it could have been prevented.
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Sandy Ground woman
struck by car, loses life
MARIGOT--Marie-Philomene Mecharles, a 59-year-old Haitian resident of Sandy Ground, was killed instantly in the early hours of Tuesday morning when she was struck by a car while walking to church.
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