Milestones

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, ELIZABETH L. BLAND, Clayton Neuman, Michele Orecklin, Logan Orlando, Elspeth Reeve

CHARGED. SALVADORE MANGANO, 65, and his wife MABLE MANGANO, 62, owners of a Louisiana nursing home where 34 residents were found dead after Hurricane Katrina; with negligent homicide; in New Orleans. Prosecutors say they ignored hurricane warnings and turned down an offer from authorities to evacuate their patients; a lawyer for the couple says they were worried about moving the frail elderly. Each of the 34 counts carries up to five years in prison.

ARRESTED. JOHN BUSH, 21, youngest son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush; on charges of public drunkenness and resisting arrest; in Austin, Texas. The Governor, whose daughter Noelle was arrested in 2002 for trying to use a fake prescription and later underwent drug rehabilitation, called the matter "private" and said his son was "doing fine."

SURRENDERED. HEATHER TALLCHIEF, 33, former armored- truck driver and one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, for a 1993 heist in which she ditched her co-workers at a Las Vegas casino and drove off with some $3 million; in Las Vegas. Her lawyer said she had been "brainwashed" by her boyfriend and handed over the money to him; he's still at large.

CONVICTED. CHAI SOUA VANG, 36, Hmong immigrant and National Guard veteran accused of fatally shooting six deer hunters and wounding two others, all but one of them unarmed, after they confronted Vang about trespassing; of first-degree murder; in Hayward, Wis. Vang, who shot four of the hunters in the back, said he acted in self-defense after one used a racial slur and another shot at him.

DIED. SUSAN ANNE CATHERINE TORRES, 5 weeks old, born three months premature to her brain-dead, cancer-stricken mother who was kept on life support for three months to save the baby; after emergency surgery for a perforated intestine; in Washington.

DIED. CLARENCE (GATEMOUTH) BROWN, 81, master roots guitarist and fiddler who fought being labeled a bluesman and insisted his "American music"--which incorporated jazz, country, R&B and Cajun--defied categorization; two weeks after evacuating his home in Slidell, La., which was razed by Hurricane Katrina; in Orange, Texas. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in the late 1940s at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped onstage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes," he boasted.) A collaborator with artists from Eric Clapton to Roy Clark, the frequent Grammy nominee won the award for his 1982 album, Alright Again!

DIED. CHRIS SCHENKEL, 82, gracious founding father of sports broadcasting best known by younger fans for calling Professional Bowlers Association games for 36 years; in Fort Wayne, Ind. Over a 60-year career, the velvet-voiced baritone covered seminal events in such sports as golf, boxing, football and horse racing. Among his most notable broadcasts: the first televised Masters tournament, in 1956; the matchup known as the greatest game in NFL history, the 1958 league championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts; and the perfect 10 scored by gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.

DIED. SERGEANT MARK MATTHEWS, 111, oldest of the "Buffalo soldiers," a legendary regiment of black G.I.s who fought frontier wars with Native Americans (they nicknamed the soldiers, whose curly black hair reminded them of a buffalo's mane), laid hundreds of miles of roads and telegraph lines and won 20 Medals of Honor; in Washington. One of the World War II veteran's early missions was tracking Mexican bandit Pancho Villa along the Mexican border. "I never met him," Matthews said, "but I knew where he was at."