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Here is a parenting parable for our age. Carla Wagner, 17, of Coral Gables, Fla., spent the afternoon drinking the tequila she charged on her American Express Gold Card before speeding off in her high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out Rollerblading. Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Carla was given a trial date--at which point her parents asked the judge whether it would be O.K. if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does...
SENTENCED. NATHANIEL BRAZILL, 14, Florida teen who was convicted of second-degree murder last May for shooting his 35-year-old teacher; to 28 years in prison; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Though he was 13 at the time of the murder, Brazill was tried as an adult...
DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of the seminal Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd; in his sleep; in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Wilkeson survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the group, including fellow founder Ronnie Van Zant. The band, reformulated in 1987, had scheduled a late-August concert...
DIED. GUNTHER GEBEL-WILLIAMS, 66, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus animal trainer; of cancer; in Venice, Fla. Gebel-Williams, the best-known animal trainer in the world, diminutive at 5 ft. 4 in., trained tigers and leopards to jump through flaming hoops and wrap their bodies around his neck. Though a gifted trainer, he lost teeth and bore deep scars from the huge animals, with whom he performed in 12,000 shows. When Kenny, one of his beloved panthers, died, his skin was preserved and displayed in Gebel-Williams' living room...
...dusk, two days after the fourth of July, Jessie Arbogast was having a Kodak moment on the beach in Pensacola, Fla. The Gulf waves were mild, no higher than a foot and a half. His sister and the other girls had ventured out much farther, but Jessie, 8, his brothers and some cousins stayed 15 ft. from shore, crouched in the shallow surf. Then, one brother felt something swish by his leg, and Jessie saw the sharp fins of a bull shark protruding 2 ft. above the water. The shark took an exploratory bite of his arm and a chunk...