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[Steve Dalporto] told jurors it was Jefferies who shot and killed [Louis Esclavon] -- a former percussionist who had at times been reduced to living on Hayward streets -- as Esclavon sat inside a van on Saklan Road in an unincorporated community near Hayward on Jan. 31, 2003. The motive, Dalporto said, was money that Esclavon apparently owed Jefferies' dying brother, Gerald, an alleged drug dealer whom Esclavon had befriended and lived with for a short time at thedying man's Saklan Road apartment. \"We are here today because [Reginald Jefferies] put a slug into Louis Esclavon,\" Dalporto told jurors in the first day of the trial. \"The facts will demonstrate in this case that Reginald Jefferies crept up ... like a snake in the grass. This was an arrogant, despicable act that caught everyone by surprise -- except Reginald Jefferies.\"

  The chase began shortly after 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, when Marion County deputy sheriffs tried to arrest [Reginald K. Jeffery] on a warrant for manufacturing and transporting methamphetamines. Deputies saw the suspect leaving the Ocala Forest Campground on State Road 42, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

Babson students could babble on and on about business management. With an enrollment of more than 3,000 students, Babson College is lauded as one of the nation's leading business schools. The school's undergraduate programs combine liberal arts with business curriculum; it also grants master's degrees in business administration, entrepreneurship, and other fields. Babson students in their first year receive the practical experience of creating for-profit ventures. Babson's entrepreneurship program has been ranked at the top of such programs in publications including Entrepreneur and U.S. News & World Report.

[Ruth Rendell] is all too willing to make life easy for Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford in \"The Babes in the Wood.\" In circumstances when an American cop would be arresting people and dragging them downtown for glaring lights and screeching questions, Wexford might just as soon go home for tea, leaving the suspects to stew (or just sleep) overnight. [Jeffery Deaver]'s \"The Vanished Man\" was one of the best novels I read in 2003, but one of my colleagues was disappointed by it. \"I like it when Deaver MESSES with me,\" he said, not using that verb. \"And he didn't MESS with me enough in this one.\" A very few of the tales are a little ham-handed by Deaver standards. Perhaps they're some of his earlier works, not quite salvageable even by Deaver, who is usually a painstaking rewriter.

Leesburg police Capt. Jerry Gelbach and defense attorney [Jeffery Pfister] look over the 1984 Ford Tempo that Jamous Walker is accused of driving after the shooting of Checkers manager [Rick Martin] last summer. The jury also got a chance to examine the vehicle on Wednesday. JOANN VITELLI/THE ORLANDO SENTINEL PL: 9502509-6 Willie and Winifred Walker, the parents of [Jamous], talk with defense attorney Jeffery Pfister during their son's murder trial. JOANN VITELLI/THE ORLANDO SENTINEL PL: 9502509-6 Jamous Walker PL: 9502509-9

Marily Stasio reviews crime mystery novels, inlcuding \"The Price of Butcher's Meat,\" by Reginald Hill; \"The Bodies Left Behind,\" by Jeffery Deaver; \"The Victoria Vanishes,\" by Christopher Fowler; \"Paris Noir,\" a collection edited by Aurelien Masson, and \"The Paris Enigma,\" by Pablo De Santis.