Brothers Killed After Their Cars Collide


Two brothers were killed in a head-on traffic collision with each other.

Jessie West, 24, and James West, 33, were killed Sunday, not far from their home. James West was driving when he lost control and crossed into the path of his brother's oncoming car, police said.


"We've never had anything quite like this," Van Buren County sheriff's Sgt. Virg Franks told the Kalamazoo Gazette.


Police said skid marks left at the scene suggested the crash was accidental. Family and friends told police there were no bad feelings between the brothers.


Jessie West was wearing a seat belt and was trapped inside his car when police arrived. James West, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from his car. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph and the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune reported.


Jessie West worked as a supervisor at Gallagher's Eatery /&/amp; Pub in Paw Paw and left early Sunday, saying he wasn't feeling well. His brother worked as a truck driver and moved into the home about eight months ago, said Jessie's longtime neighbor, Josh Hunsberger.


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Colombia clowns killed on stage


Two circus clowns have been shot dead during a performance in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta, police say. The attacker jumped into the arena and fired before fleeing, police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Efe news agency.

Local reports say the audience of about 20 people, mostly children, thought the shooting was part of the show before realising both men had been killed.


Last year, a prominent circus clown, known as Pepe, was also shot dead by a unknown assailant in Cucuta.


The motive for the latest killing remains unclear, police said. Local media reports suggest two attackers may have been involved.


One clown was shot in the head as he performed on stage, about an hour into the Circo del Sol's evening show.


The second, named as 18-year-old Franklin Leal, from Cucuta, was then shot as he stood by the ticket booth, according to the newspaper La Opinion.


The travelling circus had set up in a suburb of Cucuta, capital of Norte de Santander province near the Venezuelan border, about 10 days earlier, the paper says.


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Preparer who falsified tax returns sentenced to 8 months


A Virginia Beach tax return preparer was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in prison after admitting that he falsified 65 to 70 returns, costing the government more than $100,000.

Alonzo C. Nelson, 47, of Norfolk, operated Nelson Income Tax Service at 2329 Virginia Beach Blvd. The Internal Revenue Service began investigating him in 2004 after agents noticed that the number of his clients receiving tax refunds was between 95 and 99 percent.

In March that year, an undercover IRS agent had a tax return prepared at Nelson's business. Nelson increased the deductions on the return to increase agent's refund from $13 to $1,973, according to a federal prosecutor's statement filed in court.
"We want you to make more money," Nelson told the agent, the statement said.

IRS agents raided Nelson's office in May 2004. In an interview with agents, he admitted to falsifying as many as 70 returns, including for his business, the statement says.

The IRS estimates that it lost about $105,000 in the falsified tax returns. Authorities could not be reached late Tuesday to say whether the taxpayers would be held liable for those undeserved refunds.

In U.S. District Court on Tuesday, a federal judge also sentenced Nelson to five months of home detention and prohibited him from preparing tax returns while serving one year of probation.

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