National Roundup

Connecticut
Police: Alleged car thief made food deliveries
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut say a man stole a car used to deliver Chinese food and continued dropping off orders so he could keep the customers’ money.
Keith Hinds was charged on Friday with larceny, possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and other drug charges.
It was not known Monday morning if the 45-year-old Hinds is represented by a lawyer.
West Hartford police received a call from a Chinese food delivery driver reporting that his car had been stolen after he left it idling to run into a school.
The driver also called his boss so customers could be notified that their orders were stolen with the car. Police say one of the orders was delivered after the car was taken.
Hinds was held on $5,000 bond.

Florida
Ex-ICE chief in Fla gets prison in child porn case
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A former top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in South Florida has been sentenced to 70 months in prison on a federal child pornography charge.
Anthony Mangione faced a minimum of five years in prison after pleading guilty in July to using his home computer to receive and transmit images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Mangione ran ICE’s South Florida operations from 2007 to 2011, including numerous child pornography investigations. He retired a few months after investigators searched his home and office computers in April 2011.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that Mangione told U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra on Friday that he began having problems with drinking and prescription pills about three years ago.
Prosecutors wanted Marra to sentence Mangione to 87 months in prison.

Texas
Judge suspended in video beating returns to bench
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge shown in a video beating his teenage daughter in 2004 will return to the bench this week after the Texas Supreme Court lifted his suspension.
The justices reinstated Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams on Tuesday, a year after they suspended him with pay when a video of him beating of his daughter became an Internet sensation.
Adams is scheduled to preside over cases on the regular court docket Wednesday in Rockport, Aransas County District Clerk Pam Heard told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times for an article in Sunday’s edition.
However, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services will no longer present him with cases involving violence against children.
County commissioners voted earlier this year to cut Adams’ 2013 salary by 1.6 percent to $144,000. Other elected county officials received a 2 percent cost-of-living increase. Adams doesn’t come up for re-election until 2014.
The sheriff’s office said it will enhance security the day he returns to work, a move Heard welcomed in light of the intense emotions generated by the family law cases presented in Adams’ court.
“Everything is different now in this day and age, and you always have to worry about it,” she said.
Adams’ older daughter, Hillary Adams, uploaded the 2004 video to YouTube just over a year ago. The video shows William Adams repeatedly whipping his then-16-year-old daughter with a belt for illegally downloading music.
The nearly eight-minute video viewed millions of times shows the judge lashing Hillary in the legs more than a dozen times and growing increasingly irate while she screams and refuses to turn over on a bed to be beaten.
“Lay down or I’ll spank you in your (expletive) face,” Adams screams as Hillary wails and pleads for him to stop.
Adams wife at the time, Hallie Adams, also is shown striking the then-16-year-old girl. She and her daughter have reconciled since then and have argued that Hillary’s father is unfit to sit on the county bench.
Adams’ attorneys have argued in court that his ex-wife is motivated by a desire to strip him of custody of their youngest daughter and Hillary, now 24, is motivated by bitterness over losing his financial support.

Nebraska
NPPD says Wells Fargo misled the plan about risks
COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — NPPD’s retirement plan says Wells Fargo misled it about the risks associated with a securities lending investment program.
Nebraska Public Power District sued the San Francisco-based bank for $1.5 million. The lawsuit was moved from Nebraska courts to federal court this month.
NPPD says Wells Fargo marketed its securities lending program as a conservative option for the retirement funds of 2,400 people. But instead of the $140,000 in additional returns the bank projected, NPPD’s retirement fund lost money.
Wells Fargo filed a petition to move the lawsuit to federal court, but it hasn’t responded directly to NPPD’s allegations. The bank has until Dec. 10 to reply in court.
The Columbus Telegram reports NPPD opted out of a class-action lawsuit investors filed against Wells Fargo over its securities lending program.

Pennsylvania
Man’s sentencing over terrorism delayed again
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man’s sentencing on charges that he had a concealed gun when FBI agents arrested him on charges of promoting terrorism on the Internet has been postponed a fourth time.
A federal judge has pushed back the sentencing from Wednesday until Jan. 30 without explanation after his public defender filed a sealed motion.
In past court filings, public defender Marketa Sims has objected to government claims that 23-year-old Emerson Begolly reached for his gun and knowingly resisted FBI officers who arrested him suddenly in a parked car. Sims contends Begolly is autistic and was spooked by the agents but not attempting to harm them he was arrested in January 2011.
The former Redbank Township man faces a possible sentence of 15 years in prison and remains in custody.