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“It’s common sense; it’s intelligent.Why don’t you spend some money now to save money in the future? And that’s what prevention and mitigation is.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on his funding request for measures to protect the state in the event of major storms in the future Article, this page

Most-wanted man changed his looks

LOS ANGELES - A murder suspect on the FBI’s most-wanted list gained weight and switched identities to evade authorities for 14 years, but his notoriety and a $100,000 reward finally led to his capture, the agency said Monday.

Jose “Joe” Luis Saenz was arrested in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Thursday on suspicion of four murders and remained jailed in Southern California, the FBI said.

The joint operation involved U.S. and Mexican authorities.

At a Los Angeles news conference, FBI officials said Saenz, 37, had altered his appearance and lived in a modest apartment over a beauty shop when he was taken into custody.

Saenz, a former East Los Angeles gang member who once went by the nicknames “Peanut Joe” and “Zapp,” had been a fugitive since being suspected of two Los Angeles killings in 1998. He was placed on the FBI’s top 10 fugitive list in October 2009.

FDA closes tainted peanut-butter plant

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration has halted operations of the country’s largest organic-peanut-butter processor, cracking down on salmonella poisoning for the first time with a new enforcement authority the agency gained in a 2011 food-safety law.

FDA officials found salmonella all over Sunland Inc.’s New Mexico processing plant after 41 people in 20 states, most of them children, were sickened by peanut butter manufactured at the plant and sold at Trader Joe’s. The suspension will prevent the company from distributing any food.

The food-safety law gave the FDA authority to suspend a company’s registration when food manufactured or held there has a “reasonable probability” of causing serious health problems or death.

Sunland sold hundreds of products to many of the nation’s largest grocery chains.

Homeowner faces murder charges

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. - A Minnesota homeowner who shot two teenagers during an apparent Thanksgiving Day break-in told authorities he feared they had a weapon, but acknowledged firing “more shots than I needed to,” according to investigators.

Byron David Smith, 64, was charged Monday with two counts of second-degree murder.

Smith told investigators he shot 18-year-old Haile Kifer several times as she descended a stairway into his basement, and his Mini 14 rifle jammed as he tried to shoot her again after she had tumbled down the steps.

Though Kifer was “already hurting,” she let out a short laugh, Smith told investigators. He then pulled out his .22-caliber revolver and shot her several times in the chest, according to the complaint.

Smith was also charged in the death of Kifer’s cousin, 17-year-old Nicholas Brady.

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