Ohio Murderer Executed:  Darryl Durr, convicted of the 1988 kidnap and murder of 16-year-old Angel Vincent, was put to death this morning in Ohio.  A story by Columbus Dispatch newsman  Alan Johnson reports that Durr was pronounced dead at 10:36 a.m., eleven minutes after receiving a single dose of anesthesia as prescribed under the state's new lethal injection process.  In last minute appeals,  Durr's legal team claimed that the single drug process was not FDA approved and that their client might have an allergic reaction.  The ACLU also argued for a stay claiming that Durr was unconstitutionally denied a DNA test of the victim's necklace which could have implicated someone else in the killing.  Durr was charged with Vincent's murder after his arrest for raping two other young women.  His ex-girlfriend, and the mother of his child, testified to seeing Vincent bound and gagged in Durr's car shortly before her January 1988 disappearance, and that he later told her that he had "wasted" the girl, choking her to death with her necklace.  The girl's badly decomposed body was found in a park three months later.   

Gang Sweep Nets 282 in San Diego:  Union Tribune news writer Debbie Baker reports that a multi-agency operation in San Diego last weekend resulted in nearly 300 suspected gang members being arrested.  The sweep, which included officers from the Highway Patrol, several local police agencies, the Border Patrol, ATF, INS and the U.S. Marshall Service was initiated to disrupt San Diego area gangs that are affiliated with Mexican gangs in cross-border drug and human smuggling.  In addition to parole, drug, and weapons violations, several of those arrested were being referred to immigration authorities.