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Richmond City Council’s Jewell arrested on DUI charge
Richmond Councilman E. Martin Jewell was arrested early Saturday and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, Richmond police said.
The 5th District councilman was arrested about 1:30 a.m. near Byrd Park, about a mile from his Maplewood Avenue home.
Jewell was released later in the morning, Saturday on a $500 bond, an officer at the Richmond city lockup said. Police did not release further details about the arrest.
Brief by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Six seek 7th District seat on Richmond City Council
The political shuffling that began when Dwight C. Jones was elected Richmond mayor last year will end Nov. 3 with a special election for the 7th District seat on the City Council.
Six candidates are vying to represent the East End: Ronald L. Bond, Clarence Kenney, Deanna Lewis, Cynthia I. Newbille, Garry F. Powell and Robin D. Robinson.
The winner will replace interim Councilwoman Betty L. Squire and finish the four-year term that Del. Delores L. McQuinn won last year. McQuinn surrendered the council seat early this year after winning a special election to represent the 70th District in the House of Delegates. Jones vacated the House seat after he was elected mayor.
Brief by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Henrico police investigate bank robbery
Henrico police are investigating a robbery Sunday at a SunTrust branch.
At approximately 10 a.m., a suspect walked into the bank branch at 1131 Gaskins Road and handed a note to a teller in which he demanded money, police said.
Police said the suspect, who later fled on foot, is a white or possibly Hispanic male between 30 and 40 years of age, between 5 foot 1 inch and 5 foot 5 inches tall, with short black hair, a thick mustache and beard.
He was wearing a blue and white, plaid long-sleeve flannel shirt, blue jeans, white tennis shoes, and a green baseball cap with a tan bill and “This is CAP” written in tan, police said.
Anyone with any information about this crime or the identity of the suspect is asked to contact Henrico Investigator Young at (804) 501-5000 or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000.
Brief by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
National and International
NJ town grieves for slain priest, accused janitor
An arrest in the brutal slaying of a Roman Catholic priest has brought little solace to this bucolic, upscale community, which widely views the suspected role of the longtime church janitor as a second tragedy.
More than 150 people at St. Patrick’s Church for Sunday’s early mass prayed for the Rev. Ed Hinds, whose body was discovered in the church rectory Friday, and for Jose Feliciano, who is charged with stabbing the priest 32 times with a kitchen knife.
Authorities say the slaying occurred at about 5 p.m. Thursday after an argument between Hinds and Feliciano in the rectory.
Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi told CNN that the two men argued “over Feliciano’s continued employment.” He said Hinds dialed 911 from his cell phone and said he was being attacked and needed help. The call was cut off. The 911 operator called back and Feliciano answered and said “everything’s fine,” Bianchi said. The operator wasn’t able to send authorities because the calls from the cell phone could not be traced, he said.
Brief by The Associated Press
RI hospital has 5th wrong-site surgery since ’07
Health officials are investigating how a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital mistakenly operated on the wrong part of a patient’s hand, the hospital’s fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007. Hospital President Timothy Babineau said in a letter that the mistake Thursday happened on a patient scheduled for surgery on two fingers. A joint on one finger underwent a procedure meant for another.
Babineau said the surgery was then performed on the correct finger and the patient was discharged.
The hospital has not released the names of the patient or surgeon involved.
Hospital officials are investigating what went wrong, as is the state Department of Health.
Rhode Island Hospital was fined $50,000 after brain surgeons operated on the wrong side of patients’ heads in three separate cases in 2007.
Brief by The Associated Press
Uruguayans vote for ex-rebel or ex-president
Uruguay faced a stark choice in Sunday’s presidential election between a former rebel who yearns to create enduring socialism and a former president who would distance the nation from leftist Latin American governments.
Uruguayans also considered a voter initiative to remove amnesty for human rights abuses under the 1973-85 dictatorship.
Jose “Pepe” Mujica, the former guerrilla and candidate of the ruling leftist coalition, was the clear front-runner, but polls suggested he would narrowly miss the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
His closest rival, center-right candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle, pushed hard to privatize government as president from 1990-95. This time around, he wants to remove the income tax imposed by outgoing President Tabare Vazquez and downsize government in the South American country of 3.4 million residents.
Brief by The Associated Press