California / IN BRIEF : LOMA LINDA : Man Held in Grisly Alabama Murder

A surveillance camera captured the decapitation of a service station clerk during a weekend holdup in Mobile, Ala., leading to a capital murder charge against a drifter from Loma Linda. Police Capt. Frank Sullivan said Samuel Ivery, 35, was arrested Sunday morning within a block of the station where the body of Debra Lewis, 27, was found. Authorities said she was alone at the station when she was assaulted Saturday about 1:20 p.m. Police waited until after her funeral Wednesday to confirm that the woman had been decapitated in the videotaped killing. Sullivan said the murder scene was the worst he had seen in 20 years of police work. The weapon was not identified. Ivery is in jail without bond.