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DISASTER IN THE GULF
Oil stops gushing for first time in 86 days
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Ex-Belleview
coach accused
of having sex
with third girl
9 INSIDE HOUSE DURING CRASH
Doctor’s car
slams home;
charges filed
In the latest case, a paternity test
shows that Omar Davis Curry is the
father of a teenager’s baby.
A house occupied by nine people was struck
by a vehicle, injuring three residents and
causing structural damage to the home.
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Car crashes into house
Authorities say Faith Sarfarazi was
driving a sports car Wednesday
night when she turned onto
Southwest 33rd Street, lost control
of the vehicle, drove into a yard and
knocked out a water main. The
vehicle then destroyed an electrical
box, spun around in a circle,
fished-tailed and backed into the
house at 4124 S.W. 33rd St. (1). She
lives at 3235 S.W. 41st Ave. (2)
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night and Thursday morning
— also told the Star-Banner that
they previously had spoken to
Sarfarazi and her husband, Paul,
about driving too fast in the
community.
Paul Sarfarazi, owner of Medical
Management Inc., said Thursday
afternoon that he owns 13 vehicles
and that his wife drives the Corvette as well as a four-door Dodge
sedan. He said she does not speed
in the neighborhood and that the
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Tenant sought to lease lavish TbW building
The owner would like
to attract a company
that would bring jobs.
By Susan Latham Carr
Staff writer
Victor Benatar could not
have picked a worse time to
show off his sleek office
building to his bankers.
Last August, Benatar,
who was trying to refiTODAY:
Showers.
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of rain
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nance his property, was
ushering his bankers and
adjusters into the glasswalled building he rented
to Taylor, Bean & Whitaker
— just as FBI and TARP
agents, along with TBW
employees, were exiting.
Within days, Lee Farkas,
former chairman of Taylor,
Bean & Whitaker, the 12th
largest wholesale mortgage
lender in the county, was
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Taylor, Bean & Whitaker had a 20-year lease on the
building located at 315 N.E. 14th St. in Ocala.
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P
olice have arrested an
Ocala ophthalmologist
whose red Corvette spun
out of control Wednesday
night and barreled into
the front room of a neighbor’s home on Southwest
33rd Street.
Police found Dr. Faith Sarfarazi
in a bathroom in her home, which
is about 100 feet from the damaged
home. She was held on charges of
leaving the scene of
a crash with injuries
and property
damage.
Jackson Poulose,
who owns the
damaged home, told
the Star-Banner that
Sarfarazi
Sarfarazi has sped
through the neighborhood in the
past.
In fact, several neighbors — all
speaking independently of each
other between late Wednesday
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A former Belleview High School girls basketball
coach who is already accused of having sex with
two teenage students was arrested again on
Thursday
this time accused
of having a child
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fished-tailed and backed into the
sexual activity with a minor.
house at 4124 S.W. 33rd St. (1). She Curry
In the latter case, Curry is
lives at 3235 S.W. 41st Ave. (2)
accused of having sex with a girl
who attended Belleview High. Authorities are
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uncertain whether she was his student
in January
2008, which is when
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33rd St.
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later
in the year. The results of a recent
paternity test show Curry is the father.
Florida statute 794.05 prohibits75a person age 24
or older from engaging in sexual activity with
someone age 16 or 17. Violators can200
be charged
with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a
second-degree felony.
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According to Bevan, the girl’s parents approached authorities in April 2009. The girl, who
has since graduated from high school, was
reluctant to cooperate at first, but acknowledged
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Staff writer
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Police say Ocala ophthalmologist Faith Sarfarazi crashed her Corvette
into a neighbor’s home Wednesday night. Her husband, Paul, said her shoe
somehow jammed the accelerator. See a video at Ocala.com
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Neighbors: Woman had a history
of driving too fast in community
aP PHOTO/BP PlC
This image shows that oil has stopped flowing
from the new 75-ton cap in the Gulf of Mexico.
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NEW ORLEANS — BP announced
Thursday that it had capped its
hemorrhaging well, at least temporarily, marking the first time in 86
days that oil was not gushing into the
Gulf of Mexico.
Oil stopped flowing around 2:25
The second option seems unlikely,
but whatever the decision, the cap is
an interim measure until a relief well
can plug the leak for good.
“I am very excited that there’s no oil
in the Gulf of Mexico,” Wells said,
“but we just started the test and I
don’t want to create a false sense of
excitement.”
That was not much of a risk along
the Gulf Coast, where countless
livelihoods have been put in jeopardy
and fishermen frequently and
gloomily remark that Prince William
Sound has never been the same since
38th Ave.
By Campbell Robertson
and Henry Fountain
The New York Times
p.m. when the last of several valves
was closed on a cap at the top of the
well, said Kent Wells, a senior vice
president for BP.
The announcement came after a
series of failed attempts to cap or
contain the runaway well that tested
the nation’s patience. Wells emphasized that pressure tests were being
conducted to determine the status of
the well, which is now sealed like a
soda bottle. BP and the government
could decide to allow the oil to flow
again and try to collect all of it, or
they could leave the well closed
permanently.
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The government could decide
to let the oil flow again and
try to collect it all.
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Congress passes
financial overhaul
One Republican critic described the
bill as a “legislative monster.”
By Binyamin Appelbaum
and David M. Herszenhorn
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The sweeping expansion of
federal financial regulation approved by Congress on Thursday and now headed to President
Barack Obama’s desk reflects a renewed mistrust
of financial markets after decades in which
Washington stood back from Wall Street with
wide-eyed admiration.
The bill, heavily promoted by Obama and
congressional Democrats as a response to the
2008 financial crisis, cleared the Senate by a vote
of 60 to 39, largely along party lines, after weeks
of wrangling that allowed Democrats to pick up
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