Word: saldivar
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...glare of courtroom television coverage. In Los Angeles prosecutors began their retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez on charges of having murdered their parents; the prior prosecution of the brothers, who claim they were driven to kill by years of sexual abuse, ended in hung juries. In Houston, Yolanda Saldivar went on trial for the murder of Tejano singing star Selena. The former president of Selena's fan club, Saldivar claims the shooting was an accident...
...Friday, two weeks shy of her 24th birthday, the singer, now known simply as Selena, was shot to death in a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. The accused assailant was a former employee, Yolanda Saldivar, 32, who once headed Selena's fan club and later ran a boutique owned by the singer. Saldivar was arrested after a nine-hour standoff with police in the parking lot of the Days Inn. The only explanation offered for the killing came from Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, who suggested that Selena's meeting with Saldivar at the Days Inn was about financial irregularities...
...Texas, but from all appearances its business was satisfactory. Brown kept a list of clients that allegedly included the names of some 3,000 prominent south Texas politicians, judges, businessmen and sports figures. After her establishment was raided by police last October, Brown gave the list to Armandina Saldivar, a writer for El Pueblo, a local newspaper that appears about once a month. When Brown was convicted of "aggravated promotion of prostitution," the paper began laying plans to publish the names...