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STATE BRIEFS
Police: Student
didn't die in trunk
RIVERDALE (AP) - A
Morehouse College student
found dead in the trunk
of his car was likely killed
before his body was stuffed
into the trunk, authorities
said.
Carlnell Walker’s body was
found at his home Saturday.
“Lack of blood in the car
was a clear indication that
he was dead when his body
was placed in the trunk,”
Clayton County assistant
police Chief Jeff Turner
said.
Authorities still have not
determined the cause of
death. Walker, 23, had been
stabbed in his left side, but
Turner said the injury was
not what killed him.
Calling the death an
apparent homicide, police
found blood on Walker’s liv
ing room floor and clumps of
dreadlocks that had either
been cut or pulled from his
head. Police were sent to
the home Saturday at the
request of Walker’s mother,
who said she had not heard
from him in more than two
weeks.
Georgia drops
water request
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia
has dropped its request
that the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers stop releasing
so much water from Lake
Lanier.
On orders from Gov. Sonny
Perdue, Georgia had filed
for a temporary restraining
order June 21 in federal court
against the corps. The same
day, Florida countered with
a filing in a federal court in
Birmingham, Ala., to force
the corps to release more
water from Lake Lanier to
protect endangered freshwa
ter mussels.
The federal judge in
Birmingham granted
Florida’s request and
ordered the corps to immedi
ately release 40 percent more
water for mussels strand-
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ed on dry streambanks.
Georgia protested, leading
to a week of negotiations
among Georgia, Florida and
Alabama that ended with a
short-term water sharing
agreement.
Through July 24, Florida
and Georgia agreed to a
compromise: Water will be
held back in the lakes for
Georgia’s water supply, while
Florida will get a limited
amount of additional water
to protect mussels. In the
agreement, Georgia dropped
its request for a temporary
restraining order, but will
keep alive the underlying
suit, which criticizes the
corps’ operations on federal
lakes on the Chattahoochee
River.
But Georgia could end up
making additional requests
from the court in the future,
said R. Todd Silliman, an
attorney with McKenna
Long & Aldridge who repre
sents Georgia.
85 hogs killed in
evening wreck
HARTWELL (AP) - About
85 hogs were killed when a
two-level tractor-trailer car
rying 43,000 pounds of pork
ers wrecked on a northeast
Georgia highway.
Another 15 of the 250-
pound hogs that survived the
accident Monday evening on
Ga. 77 died from heat stress
by Tuesday afternoon, said
Jack Williford, the uncle of
hog owner Mike Yeargin.
“When I got there, I got
out and heard hogs squeal
ing,” Hart County Sheriff
Mike Cleveland said.
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Dillard 84 66 t-storm
Dublin 93 73 t-storm
Duluth 86 71 t-storm
Gainesville 87 73 t-storm
Helen 86 69 t-storm
Lagrange 89 71 t-storm
Macon 90 73 t-storm
Marietta 86 73 t-storm
Milledgeville 92 76 t-storm
City
Houston 88 74 t-storm
Los Angeles 84 67 sunny
Miami 89 80 t-storm
Minneapolis 95 73 t-storm
New York 86 72 mst sunny
The Georgia State Patrol
said driver Danny Puckett,
38, lost control in a curve
and overturned en route
to an Alabama processing
plant.
Cleveland said the hogs
that were killed were buried
near the scene, and the oth
ers were taken to a nearby
farm.
Williford said a represen
tative of the Hart County
Humane Society supervised
the burial, remaining at the
scene until almost 3 a.m.
Tuesday. He said the driver
apparently lost control when
the load of hogs shifted.
State gets $6.4M
more for bird flu
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia
will get an additional $6.4
million in federal funding
to prepare for a pandemic
of bird flu or other form of
influenza.
The funding, announced
Tuesday, supplements
the $2.6 million the state
received in February. That
brings the state’s total of
federal flu pandemic fund
ing to $9 million to date.
Georgia has not yet made
any separate state appropri
ation for pandemic flu, said
Susan Lance, state epide
miologist with the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources.
Health officials fear that
the HSNI influenza virus
- which birds have carried
from Asia to the Middle
East, Europe and Africa -
could mutate to a form that
easily spreads from human
to human.
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Schremko sentenced
for embezzlement
By KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - Former
Georgia schools superinten
dent Linda Schrenko was
sentenced Wednesday to
eight years in prison and
ordered to pay more than
$414,000 in restitution for
her role in an embezzlement
scheme that helped pay for
her face lift and campaign
for governor.
U.S. District Judge
Clarence Cooper ordered
Schrenko to repay
$414,887.50, and said her
prison sentence will be fol
lowed by three years super
vised probation and 100
days of community service.
As Schrenko arrived at the
courthouse, officials confis
cated her car. Her defense
team said she will be expect
ed to report to a federal pris
on within four to six weeks.
Cooper called Schrenko’s
offenses, “an egregious
abuse of the public’s trust,”
and said acts like hers are
why the public is losing trust
in public officials.
Schrenko, wearing a tai
lored black suit with pink
lapels and cuffs, made a
brief statement lo the court:
“I would like to thank your
honor for a fair trial and
the way in which you have
treated me.”
Just before leaving in a
car driven by an unidenti
fied man she said, “I made
a lot of mistakes and I trust
ed people I shouldn’t have
trusted.”
Asked whether she plans
to write a book, Schrenko
replied, “I don’t know. Who
knows? I’ll have a lot of
time.”
Schrenko’s right arm was
in a cast. She told reporters
she injured her wrist when
she fell at home.
Her sentence was in line
with a plea deal that she had
struck with prosecutors mid
way into her trial in May.
Schrenko, 56, pleaded
guilty to fraud and money
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laundering in exchange for
testifying against her co
defendants. In the binding
agreement, she agreed to
serve eight years in prison.
Prosecutors said the
scheme defrauded the public
of $600,000 in federal educa
tion funds, intended for deaf
and honors students.
Schrenko’s plea deal led
to the swift imprisonment
of her campaign manager,
Merle Temple, with whom
she acknowledged having an
affair, on charges of obstruc
tion of justice on suspicion
of leaking information to
Schrenko’s lawyers.
In a plea deal of his own
last year, Temple had agreed
to testify against Schrenko.
In May, she gave prosecutors
a tape of a phone call with
him. Temple said during the
call that he would withhold
some testimony against her
as long as her lawyer didn’t
“hurt” him, according to a
transcript.
He had earlier pleaded
guilty to wire fraud, conspir
acy and theft of public funds
and was expected to be a star
witness in the Schrenko case
before the plea agreement.
He has yet to be sentenced.
Another Schrenko co
defendant, computer firm
owner Stephan Botes, was
found guilty of conspiracy,
theft of federal funds and
wire fraud charges. He is set
to be sentenced next month.
Botes’ chief financial offi
cer, Peter Steyn, was found
innocent of all charges.
Prosecutors say Schrenko
tunneled $614,000 in federal
Department of Education
money to companies owned
by Botes, who provided no
services. Some of those funds
had been intended for state
schools for the deaf.
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