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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called on President Obama and the Senate on Friday to solve what he called "the persistent problem of judicial vacancies." To that end,
per the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, there are 96 federal court vacancies.

The chief justice's report focused on the judicial branch's efforts to save money in difficult economic times. It did not explicitly press for an increase in judicial pay, a topic that had been a major theme in earlier reports.

The Chief justice who was appointed by a Republican president said that his interest was not in particular appointees but in a judiciary functioning at something like full strength. The Chief Justice identified what he called a systemic problem. He said, "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes."

"There remains," the chief justice wrote, "an urgent need for the political branches to find a long-term solution to this recurring problem."

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Lidvian Zelaya, a 35-year-old woman, died Monday after undergoing liposuction and a buttocks enhancement surgery at Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute.

Mrs Zelaya was rushed to Florida Medical Center where doctors told her husband she died from cardiac arrest.

An autopsy on Zelaya has been started at the Broward County Medical Examiner's office, but the cause of death has not been determined, officials told The Sun Sentinel.

The operation was to be done by Dr. Roger L. Gordon, who was disciplined by the state in connection with two plastic surgery deaths in 2004.

Family representatives told The Sun Sentinel that Zelaya went to Strax to have fat suctioned from her back and belly, and to have the material injected into her backside, and that she chose Strax because she got a good deal.

Liposuction is the most dangerous of cosmetic procedures. Death rates are estimated at 1 in 5,000.

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Another day, another person injured in a Hit and Run accident.

Francesca Moise, a 7-year old, was walking with her mother, brother and sister along the 7300 block of Tam O'Shanter Boulevard when a car ran onto the grass along the sidewalk and struck her. Police and relatives said told The Sun Sentinal, that Francesca is in a coma after she was hit by a car whose driver did not stop Wednesday evening.

As reported by Danielle A. Alvarez, a white-and-black vehicle, later described by the Sheriff's Office as an Acura Integra, hit the girl and sped away. Francesca's siblings, Nedia, 14, and Baresi, 10, said they knew their younger sister had been hit when they saw the bag she was holding fly in the air. The little girl had severe wounds on her face and was covered in blood.

Her mother, Milly Moise, tried to revive her daughter at the scene, relatives said.

Rescuers were able to restore her heartbeat before she was airlifted to Broward General Medical Center. Francesca remains there in critical condition, police said Thursday.

Deputies located the Integra abandoned near a Lauderhill warehouse. Police said the damage to the car was consistent with striking a small child. They are trying to determine who was driving the car when Francesca was struck.

Police are asking anyone with information on the accident to call Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-8477.

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Leopoldo Carrillo, a 78-year-old man was struck and killed by a car in Little Havana early Sunday morning.

Mr. Carrillo was hit near Southwest Fifth Avenue and Seventh Street, just west of Interstate 95.

At about 6:15 a.m., a passerby stopped and found Mr. Carrillo lying on the street, in distress but still alive. The passerby called 911, and Mr. Carrillo was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center, where he died.

At this time, Police have no leads. Carrillo's family urged the driver or other witnesses to come forward. ``It's very painful to hear that your father was hit by a car and that that car didn't stop,'' said a tearful Jacqueline Carrillo, the younger of Carrillo's two grown daughters. ``He didn't deserve to die this way.''

As reported by The Miami Herald, Miami investigators think Carrillo was trying to cross Seventh Street from north to south when he was hit.

Investigators asked anyone with information to call the Miami Police Department's traffic homicide unit at 305-603-6525 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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A tractor-trailer rear-ended two cars on U.S. 27 in Weston, killing three people and injuring four others. The accident occurred in an area of U.S. 27 where troopers shut down a street-racing gathering about two weeks ago.

The Highway Patrol, relying on witnesses' accounts, told the Miami Herald that an Acura Integra and a Honda Civic were stationary, next to each other and occupying two lanes of northbound U.S. 27, a desolate stretch of highway in the Everglades, when they were rear-ended by a tractor trailer. The Florida Highway Patrol was investigating whether illegal racing contributed to the incident, which occurred at about 12:15 a.m., about six miles north of Interstate 75, also known as Alligator Alley.

The Civic's driver, Angel Lazo, 18, of Miami Springs, on Friday told WSVN-7 that he wasn't racing, saying he was having car trouble. He told the station that he instructed the Integra's driver, Raymon Garcia, 18, of Virginia Gardens, to follow behind him as he pulled over.

Anthony Perez, 19, of Miami, died from his injuries early Friday at North Broward Medical Center. Ileana E. Mira, 19, and Dairon Ledesma, 15, both of Hialeah, died instantly in the crash early Thursday. Mira and Ledesma were in the rear seats of the Acura Integra.

The Tractor Trailer was headed north on U.S. 27 when he saw two cars on the highway. He tried to stop, but could not, the Highway Patrol said.

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Jose Diaz was involved in a fatal crash on the Palmetto Expressway December 3, 2010, while he was performing mechanical repairs under a car parked on the east side of the Palmetto just north of Northwest 103rd Street.

Mr. Diaz' car broke down and he was trying to repair it when a van crashed into his car. The car was parked partially over the painted median because the road has no shoulder. The van was being driven by Luis Antonio Roque, 32, of Miami, who was not injured.

FHP Lt. Alex Annunziato told The Miami Herald that Diaz was lying on a dolly under the car, which had been raised with a jack when his vehicle was struck. Annunziato also said that Roque drove the minivan up the ramp and over the painted median, hitting Diaz's car, and knocking it off the jack. The vehicle then landed on Diaz.

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