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FILE: 2008: Maryland Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards at a Capitol Hill press conference.REUTERSMaryland Rep. Donna Edwards said Sunday she wasnt ready to support a boycott of Florida over the Trayvon Martin case, despite reported support from members of her own Congressional Black Caucus.Edwards, a Democrat, told Fox News Sunday that she has yet to fully examine the call to boycott, as proposed by civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson.Jackson said after a Florida jury found neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman not guilty July 13 of all charges in the fatal 2012 killing of Martin, a teenager, that his Rainbow PUSH Coalition would consider a boycotting on Florida, which he characterized as a kind of apartheid state."Edwards said that to her knowledge the caucus has yet to formally discuss the issues and express concern about a statewide boycott.The impact on some communities could be devastating, Edwards said.Her comments follows three other caucus members -- Democratic Reps. Lacy Clay, Bennie Thompson and Barbara Lee saying they would support such a boycott."That's probably the best strategy because people understand dollars and cents," Clay, D-Mo., said Friday, according to The Hill newspaper. "And they understand, if there's a significant drop-off in revenues at conventions, at Disney World and Universal Studios that will get the attention of the powerful." illed in the last six to 10 days.One woman said she was familiar with the suspect and had seen him walking through the neighborhood. She said she had told him to stop talking to her daughter and warned him after seeing him talk to her cousin."It's very scary, especially when he used to be talking to my daughter," said Nathenia Crosby, 48. "But I told him he was too old to be talking to my daughter because she was only 19. When I found out how old he was, I said, `You need to move on, she's too young.' "Sowell was found guilty in 2011 of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home from June 2007 to July 2009. Police found their mostly nude bodies throughout the house after a woman escaped and said she had been raped in there.Sowell's victims ranged in age from 24 to 52, all were recovering or current drug addicts and most died of strangulation; some had been decapitated, and others were so badly decomposed that coroners couldn't say with certainty how they died.Prosecutors described him in court papers as "the worst offender in the history of Cuyahoga County and arguably the State of Ohio." He was sentenced to death.In the East Cleveland case, the bodies were each in the fetal position, wrapped in several layers of trash bags, Norton said. He said detectives continue to interview the suspect, who used his mother's address in Cleveland in registering as a sex offender, the mayor said."The person in custody, some
