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In January a woman named Rose Shot to Pieces was convicted of illegally selling alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. And in October Kendall “Face” Pitts was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Durham, North Carolina, for a drug-related shooting.
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The body of a woman who died in a fire in Nashville in August was sent to her hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, where burial arrangements were made by the Burnom and Son Funeral Home.
In the Nichirei International women’s tennis tournament in September in Tokyo, third-seeded Kimiko Date of Japan defeated Taiwan’s Shi-Ting Wang.
Coach Phil Padilla of South Harrison High School in Bethany, Missouri, was asked at his August sexual-abuse trial (he was later acquitted) whether he’d ever had an extramarital affair. He replied, “Not that I’m aware of.”
Michael Norton, 37, was arrested in June, shortly after he allegedly stole two video cameras from a Citibank in Brooklyn, New York. Norton had jumped up on a counter to unscrew the cameras from the wall and in the process presented his face to the cameras. He apparently assumed the camera was a self-contained unit. But the part he unscrewed contained only the lens; the recording unit was in another part of the building.
