The Supreme Court approved an American request for the extradition of Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia, a Colombian accused of smuggling billions of dollars of cocaine into the United States. Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will decide whether the extradition will go forward. Called the “new Pablo Escobar” by the Brazilian police when he was arrested in São Paulo last August, Mr. Ramirez-Abadia, left, is said by the State Department, which put up a reward of $5 million for him, to command a multibillion-dollar drug and money-laundering operation that extends from the United States to Europe. He faces indictments brought by United States prosecutors in New York.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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