IN BRIEF

20 YEARS TO LIFE

60-year-old sentenced in woman's slaying

A 60-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years to life in prison for killing a woman last year.

District Judge David Wall sentenced William James Hendricks, who pleaded guilty in January to killing Laurie Cabarloc.

Hendricks and Cabarloc resided at the same assisted-living facility and were at one point romantically linked, court documents showed.

REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER

Tennessee fugitive arrested in Las Vegas

A Tennessee martial arts teacher was captured in Nevada after police said he fled from an arrest warrant for failing to register as a sexual offender.

Edsel Ahern Griffin, 65, was taken into custody by U.S. marshals March 20 in Las Vegas. He is scheduled to appear in court today.

He is a registered sex offender in Florida after being convicted in 1997 of two counts of sexual battery/coercion of a child by an adult.

Griffin, whose martial arts facility was featured in the Cleveland Daily Banner, was charged with failure to register in Tennessee. But before the arrest warrant was served, police said, he and his wife closed their business and abandoned their home.

STREETS OF FRESNO

Council aims to ban median panhandling

The Fresno, Calif., City Council wants to draft a new rule that would make it illegal to panhandle on median strips along city streets.

Council members voted Tuesday to ask the city attorney to write a regulation to limit or ban the practice.