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Mexican American slugger Brandon Rios has started his preparations ways ahead of his Nov. 14 fight with former pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao in a matchup that Rios anticipates would be "a bloody war."
"All-out war, it’s gonna be an all- out war. I think it will be a bloody mess," Rios told On the Ropes Boxing Radio. "He’s gonna go crazy, I’m gonna go crazy, it’s just gonna be a great fight you know?”
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US DA: Suspect preyed on 5 Filipino kidsBy JUN MEDINA
A convicted sex offender was indicted by federal grand jury on Wednesday for producing child pornography victimizing five children in the Philippines and for distributing child porn via the Internet.
U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri said Kenneth Gaylord Stokes, 68, a U.S. citizen who resided near the city of Cebu in the Philippines, was charged in a seven-count superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Missouri.
Mechanical failure blamed for limo fire
By NICHOLAS VON WETTBERG
SAN MATEO (Bay Area, Calif.) -- The official cause of last month’s tragic limousine fire on the San Mateo Bridge that claimed the lives of five Filipino women and injured four others has been ruled as a result of mechanical failure.
Last week investigators concluded that the vehicle’s suspension system had failed and that the air springs in the rear of the limo had popped, which led to friction, a fuel leak then the deadly eruption.
Rios training early for Pacquiao fight
By JUN MEDINA
Mexican American slugger Brandon Rios has started his preparations ways ahead of his Nov. 14 fight with former pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao in a matchup that Rios anticipates would be "a bloody war."
"All-out war, it’s gonna be an all- out war. I think it will be a bloody mess," Rios told On the Ropes Boxing Radio. "He’s gonna go crazy, I’m gonna go crazy, it’s just gonna be a great fight you know?”
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