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RIVER VIEWS TRUMP FLOOD PROTECTION CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Her Missouri hamlet soon to celebrate its 200th birthday, Mayor Jo Anne Smiley embraces Clarksville’s perilous place along the Mississippi River, never mind that that the waters again ...
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April 23, 2013
Boston Marathon bomb suspect charged
BOSTON (AP) — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating and charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes that could bring the death penalty. Tsar naev, 19, was charged in his hospital room, where he was in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway. His older brother, Tamerlan, 26, died Friday after a fierce gunbattle with police. The Massachusetts college student was charged
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with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. He was accused of joining with his brother in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressurecooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 200 a week ago. The brothers, ethnic Chechens from Russia who had been living in the U.S. for about a decade, practiced Islam. Two U.S. officials said preliminary evidence from the younger man’s interrogation suggests the brothers were motivated by religious extremism but were apparently not involved with Islamic terrorist organizations. Dzhokhar communicated with his interrogators in writing, precluding the type
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of back-and-forth exchanges often crucial to establishing key facts, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly. They cautioned that they were still trying to verify what they were told by Tsarnaev and were looking at such things as his telephone and online communications and his associations with others. In the criminal complaint outlining the allegations, investigators said Tsarnaev and his brother each placed a knapsack containing a bomb in the crowd near the finish line of the 26.2-mile race. The FBI said surveillance-camera footage
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This combination of undated file photos shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.
showed Dzhokhar manipulating his cellphone and lifting it to his ear just instants before the two blasts. After the first blast, a
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This black-chinned hummingbird, a male, replenishes itself at a feeder. The males began to appear at the end of March, with a few early arrivals migrating through the area around the middle of March. Local birders report that the first females began showing up on April 1.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — For all the big moments in Graeme McDowell's career, his resume was short on PGA Tour victories. McDowell relished what he called his first ...
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Kautz pleads no contest
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block away from Dzhokhar, “virtually every head turns to the east ... and stares in
Steffanie Kautz pleaded no contest to charges of voluntary manslaughter, Friday, in the death of 14year -old Breana Bodge. Bodge’s body was found in a Roswell apartment. The teenager died in May 2011 as a result of diabetic ketoacidosis or diabetic coma. Kautz was charged initially with child abuse resulting in death of a child because the girl was in Kautz’s care at the time. The original affidavit of criminal complaint reported that the family knew Bodge was a severe diabetic. Kautz’s boyfriend and Breana’s father, Michael Bodge, was working at a well site at the time of the death. Defense contended that Kautz had done what she could to notify the family,
Portable ATMs, phone-charging Early Intervention in China’s earthquake zone Program in danger LUSHAN, China (AP) — The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China’s full range of disaster response is on display: trucks with X-ray equipment, phone-charging stations, bank tellers-onwheels — even a tent for insurance claims.
tion — long considered a crucial leadership test in China — since a much more devastating earthquake in 2008, also in Sichuan, and another one in 2010 in the wester n region of Yushu.
The efforts under way in mountainous Sichuan province after a quake Saturday that killed at least 192 people showed that the government has continued to hone its disaster reac-
“Lushan was so heavily hit and my family’s house toppled. It has been such a disaster for us,” said Yue Hejun, 28, as he waited to recharge his family’s three mobile phones at a charging stall, volunteered by a communications company and coordinated by the government in a new addition to the arsenal of services
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tempers flared at a Senate hearing on immigration legislation Monday as a Republican senator objected to a Democrat’s criticism of attempts by some to link the Boston Marathon bombings to the immigration bill. “I never said that! I never said that!” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, interjected as Sen. Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., suggested that some were using the Boston bombings as “an excuse” to slow down or stop the bill. Schumer said he wasn’t talking about Grassley, who said last week that the bombings raised questions about gaps in the U.S. immigration system that should be examined in context of the new bill. Meanwhile Sen. Jeff Ses-
sions, R-Ala., accused Schumer of “demeaning” several witnesses called to Monday’s Judiciary Committee hearing by the GOP side. Schumer had complained about Sessions saying that business and labor officials backing the Democratic side on immigration were “special interests,” noting that the immigration bill has widespread support and asserting that the three witnesses scheduled to testify against the bill were “far more special interest.” Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., banged his gavel to settle the proceedings. The exchange came as the Judiciary Committee opened its second hearing on sweeping legislation to strengthen border security, allow tens of
after natural disasters. “If we can charge our phones, we are at least able to keep in touch with our family members outside and that helps to set our minds at ease.”
At a mini-clinic with two green cots in the open air and a small tent for doctors to sleep, a doctor said Monday the gover nment has learned the importance of fast coordination since the Yushu quake, which killed more than 2,600 people. Much of the initial relief in that disaster came from
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Tobosa Developmental Services encouraged parents and community members to join the organization’s effort to save its Early Intervention Program, Monday at the Roswell Public Library. For more than 30 years, Tobosa has received funding and positive reviews from the state. However, the nonprofit recently received a
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letter from the Developmental Disabilities Supports Division that granted funding for three other programs, but not the Early Intervention Program. The program provides services such as speech, physical and occupational therapies to children from birth to age 3. On average, more than 450 families a year utilize the program. Without funding, Executive Director
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Tempers flare at immigration hearing following marathon bombing reference See CHINA, Page A3
thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, and provide an eventual path to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants now here illegally. As happened at the first hearing Friday, the Boston Marathon bombings cast a shadow over the proceedings. The attacks were carried out by two ethnic Chechen immigrant brothers; both arrived legally and one was a naturalized U.S. citizens. Leahy used part of his opening statement to chastise those who would link the bombings to the legislation. “Let no one be so cruel as to try to use the heinous acts of these two young men last week to derail the dreams and futures of millions of hardworking people,” Leahy said.
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Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, questions a panel of witnesses during the committee's hearing on immigration reform, Monday, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Sen. Chuck Grassley, RIowa, the committee's ranking member; Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; and Schumer.