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LeadDog releases comprehensive Street Maps for Honduras

ANCHORAGE, AK. September 19, 2006 - LeadDog Consulting, LLC today announced the release of detailed geographic databases of major roads for Honduras and city streets for Tegucigalpa to support military, government, asset-tracking, and commercial GIS applications. Designed to deliver accurate positional data, assist organizations track their assets, and provide accurate base level mapping. LeadDog’s product provides numerous vector layers and attributes such as:

- Streets at 1:10,000 scale
- Street names
- Street classifications
- Extensive Points of Interest (airports, hospitals, government offices, etc…)
- Water and Landmark polygons
- Political division and borders

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Former Honduran President Rafael Leonardo Callejas was denied entry into the United States upon arriving in Miami, authorities said Tuesday.

“Callejas was apparently detained entering the U.S. because of some problems with his visa,” Roberto Bermudez, Honduras’ ambassador to the U.S., told HRN radio.

Bermudez said Callejas was detained Monday and put on a flight Tuesday from Miami back to Honduras.

Bermudez said the Honduran Embassy was trying to get more details about the case “because it involves a former president and Honduran citizen and we should ensure his rights and personal safety have been respected.”

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EL PROGRESO, Honduras - Our inseparable high school trio - Dalila Dubon, Aurora Gonzalez and I - was abruptly disrupted in 1969 when Dalila was sent to study in Tegucigalpa for a year. Our trio readjusted the day that the new kid in town, Jeannete Barahona, joined our 11th-grade class at Instituto San Jose here. Dalila returned for our senior year, and we became a quartet of lifelong friends.

In impeccable school uniform and with a natural aura of royalty, Jeannete - daughter of Don Rufino Barahona, the superintendent of a United Fruit Co. subsidiary - was taken to and from school in a chauffeur-driven car. She was one of only a handful of students who enjoyed such a luxury in our modest town. The rest of us rode our bikes or walked.

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LAREDO, Texas - A former U.S. border control agent pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to conspiring to transport illegal immigrants for money, a felony that carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced.

William John Ferrone, 42, of Laredo, could also face as much as a $250,000 fine. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents stopped Ferrone on July 28 and found 11 illegal immigrants from Mexico and Honduras in his sport utility vehicle, authorities said.

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