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The Reincarnation of Pedro Zamora

Mar. 21, 2009
MTV's Pedro Zamora movie needs to get real.
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Accused rampage killer deemed incompetent

MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Washington state man accused of killing a sheriff's deputy and five others during a rampage this year is not competent to stand trial, a judge says.

No fetus found in Texas yard

GALENA PARK, Texas, July 12 (UPI) -- Investigators in Texas said Friday they had confirmed a teenage girl delivered a fetus but they have not been able to find it in her yard.

'Cadet' killer gets her day on television

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 7 (UPI) -- The scheduled television interview with one of the defendants in "The Texas Cadet Murder" isn't winning any points with the mother of the victim.

Argentina eyes Israel tech program

MISGAV, Israel, June 15 (UPI) -- Argentine officials visited an Israeli tech incubator this week, hoping to implement a similar program in Argentina's Santiago del Estero province.

Ex-cadet seeks new trial in Texas murder

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Naval Academy cadet Diane Zamora is making what could be her last bid for a new trial in the murder of a Texas teenager seven years ago.

'TV intoxicated' killer leaves country

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., June 2 (UPI) -- Ronny Zamora, known as the "TV intoxicated" killer of an 83-year-old woman, was deported Wednesday after his release from a Miami Beach prison.

TV-inspired killer to become free man

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Twenty-seven years after claiming "television intoxication" led him to murder his neighbor, Ronny Zamora becomes a free man in June.

TV slayer to be released year early

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The Florida Parole Board Wednesday moved up the release date for Ronny Zamora, convicted of a 1977 murder which he blamed on television violence.

12 years cut from TV trial convict's term

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Ronny Zamora, convicted of murder in the first trial ever televised, will be paroled in 2005 -- seven years early.
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler