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10 July
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3 Triad Serbs Face Immigration Charges

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GREENSBORO — Sasa Pantic couldn’t believe the call from his mother. It was in December. Federal agents were at his parents’ home to arrest his father, Ugljesa Pantic , and search their house. The family had no idea he was even being investigated. “We’ve been here for 10 years, he’s never been arrested before,” Sasa Pantic said this week. “He’s a good man. I’m not saying that just because he’s my dad. He doesn’t drink. He doesn’t smoke. As soon as he gets out, he wants to go back to work.” Two other families had already experienced similar fears and confusion in the...

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PARENTS REACH SETTLEMENT FOR SON’S INJURIES\ BENJAMIN UGOL WILL REQUIRE MORE SURGERY FOR INJURIES SUFFERED IN A WRECK ON HIS WAY TO SCHOOL WHILE DRIVEN BY A DRIVER UNDER CONTRACT

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Ruben and Ruth Ugol assumed their 5-year-old son was safely on his way to school one fall morning in 1999. But that assumption soon turned into shock when they learned he was nearly killed in a car wreck. Robert Donaldson, a driver whose company the school system hired to take Benjamin Ugol and other out-of-the way students to school, smashed his car into a telephone pole on Oct. 6, 1999.Benjamin, now 7, suffered massive injuries to his nose and intestines, his parents said. He still needs more plastic surgery to repair his nose, they said. Donaldson, who had been convicted earlier in...

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DWI CASE IN FATALITY TURNS ON GAS TANK THE DEFENSE SAYS THE TANK’S LOCATION LED TO THE FIERY DEATHS OF THREE WOMEN.

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A man charged with driving drunk, crashing into a limousine and killing three women in 2003 is blaming the deaths on a faulty fuel tank. The force of the crash did not kill the women, defense attorney Krispen Culbertson argues in court filings. It was the gas tank's improper placement on the limousine - among other issues - that caused the vehicle to explode on impact, igniting a fire that killed the trio, he contends.Jurors likely will hear this defense as Culbertson's client goes on trial Monday on charges of murder. Jeffrey Niles McFayden, 36, is accused of killing Cornelius resident Tara...

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Jury In Fatal Crash Starts To Deliberate

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Jeffery Niles McFayden charged w/three counts of second-degree murder and one count of driving while intoxicated in the traffic deaths of TARA HOWELL PARKER, MYSTI HOWELL POPLIN AND MEGAN ELIZABETH HOWELL. By Ellica Church Staff Writer GREENSBORO — Jurors will continue deliberations today in the trial of a man charged with killing three women while he was driving drunk. The jury began deliberating Thursday afternoon but hadn’t reached a verdict after 2½ hours. Jurors have been asked to determine whether Jeffrey Niles McFayden is guilty of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter or not guilty in each of the three deaths. McFayden, 36, also...

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Jury Acquits Man In Murder

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GREENSBORO — A man in custody for more than a year and a half in connection with a fatal shooting at a Greensboro pool hall was acquitted Friday of a first-degree murder charge. It took a jury about three hours to determine that Tuong Nguyen, 24, did not kill 29-year-old Yjuen Kpor outside Phong’s Billiards on April 6, 2003. Superior Court Judge John O. Craig III asked sheriff’s deputies if they could see to Nguyen’s release from custody at the Guilford County jail Friday night. Nguyen’s attorney, Krispen Culbertson, said he believed the lack of consistency in the statements of eyewitnesses to the shooting...

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