Paragraphs 5 through 8 of the THIRD article read: "'We never really figured out a motive,' prosecutor Kevin Haskins said. "

"Defense attorney George Donveas argued that Arteaga, who suffered from depression, had a hallucination after taking the drug Prozac ."

"During the killing, he contended, 'he had a hallucination that the devil told him to kill the child.'"

"However, Arteaga had stopped taking the drug before the killing."

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Man sentenced in death of boy, 10

FULLERTON A man who stabbed to death his girlfriend's 10-year-old boy and then tried to decapitate the body was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison.

Efrain Loza Arteaga, 28, of Anaheim was sentenced Friday in Superior Court.

He was convicted in August of first-degree murder and use of knife in the Jan. 22, 2000, slaying of Francisco Meza.

A jury ruled that he was sane when he used a kitchen knife to stab the fifth-grader more than a dozen times in the neck and chest.

"We never really figured out a motive,' prosecutor Kevin Haskins said.

Defense attorney George Donveas argued that Arteaga, who suffered from depression, had a hallucination after taking the drug Prozac .

During the killing, he contended, "he had a hallucination that the devil told him to kill the child.'

However, Arteaga had stopped taking the drug before the killing, and the prosecutor said no trace of Prozac was found in blood drawn at the time of his arrest.

Academy proposes Latin Emmy show

LOS ANGELES A Latin Emmy Awards telecast on Spanish-language networks is among the possibilities as officials consider how to honor Hispanic programming.

"We want to ascertain the best way to salute excellence,' said Todd Leavitt, president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles-based academy organizes the prime-time Emmy Awards. It is working with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York, which administers sports and news Emmys. The academies collaborate on the daytime Emmys.

The national academy's board has given a preliminary nod of approval to a Latin Emmy ceremony as part of a "continuing commitment of diversity and inclusiveness,' according to an academy release Thursday.

The proposed ceremony would rotate among leading Spanish- language networks.

: From wire reports
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