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Landlord guilty of negligence

By Mary Schenk
Saturday, November 4, 2006 7:47 AM CDT

URBANA – It's been almost four years since Otha Lee Harmon died of carbon monoxide poisoning on a freezing night because of a faulty furnace in a north Champaign rental home.

On Friday, a Champaign County judge held his landlord, a prominent Champaign businessman, criminally responsible for neglecting that furnace in the basement of 613 E. Grove St.

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