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Driver suspected in NYC crash has troubled past; mourning in community as infant dies
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities were looking for a man with a history of violence and substance issues who came barreling down a residential street at twice the speed limit in a car he didn't own and crashed into a pregnant woman and her husband, killing them and ultimately the child they were expecting.
• Police identified the suspected driver as Julio Acevedo, and said he was speeding down the Brooklyn street in a BMW at 60 mph early Sunday when he collided with another car carrying Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21. They died Sunday, and their premature son died Monday.
• Acevedo, 44, was arrested last month on a charge of driving while under the influence, and the case is pending. He served about a decade in prison in the 1990s for manslaughter. No one answered the door at Acevedo's last known address, in a public housing complex in Brooklyn. Neighbors said his mother lived in the same building, but she did not answer her door.
• A close-knit ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn was in mourning, and their grief worsened following the baby's death. The child had been delivered by cesarean section after his parents were killed. The baby weighed only about 4 pounds when he was delivered, neighbors and friends said. He died of extreme prematurity, the city medical examiner's office said.
• The baby was buried near the fresh graves of his parents, according to Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the Hasidic Jewish community. About a thousand community members turned out for the young couple's funeral a day earlier.
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Arkansas professor heads Syrian opposition coalition's new offices in New York, Washington
• LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- As a professor at the University of Arkansas, Syrian-born Najib Ghadbian is no stranger to educating Americans about the Middle East.
• Now, he's taking his knowledge beyond the classroom, stepping into a new role as the Syrian opposition coalition's representative in the United States.
• In teaching political science, Ghadbian has sometimes asked students to label countries on a blank map of the region. "And out of 25 countries, if I get two or three, that would be great," Ghadbian said.
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