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Bowling Green residents have varied opinions on the winter weather, but one thing is certain — in Ohio, it is, and always will be, unpredictable.

So far, the season has exhibited a wide range in temperatures and precipitation, according to climate reports from the National Weather Service. The average temperature in December was 28.6 degrees Fahrenheit, with a high of 52 degrees and a low of 11 degrees.

Welcoming winter weather In The BG News photo spread, check out Kreischer-Compton’s ‘Sweet Start’ to winter | Page 3

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Midwest winter weather brings residents woes

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Gary Garnet, Warning encompassed 15 days of light Coordination Meteorologist for snow, six days of light rain and the NWS, said it’s typical for an one day of heavy rain. NWS Ohio winter to have warm ups records illustrate the variability of winter weather patterns and cool downs.

“We get a lot of temperature in snowfall, as well. This year, swings and this year is really no 82 percent of the Midwest was different from that,” Garnet said. covered with snow as of Jan. “From the New Year on … we’ve 10. On the same date last year, gone into a cold streak so things 26 percent of the Midwest was snow-covered, and only 8.6 are a little different.”

At a glance, temperatures this percent on Jan. 10, 2008.

Opinions on winter weather week are forecasted to range from highs of 28 to 37 degrees, trends in Bowling Green are and expected to drop as low as See WEATHER | Page 2 16 degrees.

Precipitation in December

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People need to relax, says columnist Mike Thurau, and realize not all threats should be perceived as risks to national security because not every terrorist can do substantial damage | Page 4

Firelands endowment fundraiser exceeds goals

By Alissa Widman

The efforts of a dedicated fundraising board and former College Development Leader George Mayer will be felt at BGSU Firelands long after his retirement.

The branch college of the University surpassed a five-year goal set in 2005 to raise $1 million for endowed scholarships for students. Firelands exceeded the goal by about $10,000, and announced its success as part of Mayer’s retirement reception.

Firelands Dean of Students William Balzer credited much of the fundraising campaign’s success to Mayer’s contributions, as well as the donations of a “tremendously generous community.”

“The people of our community see very clearly the advantage of having a college nearby,” Balzer said, “and at annual programs, George would be very involved, working very closely with the development board in identifying donors, meeting with [them], and making sure we’re being good stewards of their dollars.

He was an integral part of development efforts.”

When asked about the campaign, Mayer noted his significant role, but also credited the generous donations of individuals and foundations, most of whom have personal ties to BGSU Firelands. He said connected donors spanned the country, hailing from states such as California, New Hampshire, Florida and more.

“We certainly want to thank

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Toxins in children’s jewelry Some Chinese manufacturers have been replacing lead with cadmium in children’s jewelry, and a U.S. agency plans to investigate | Page 6

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For what should the University award a scholarship?

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“When we hit that goal in December, I thought that was a nice way to retire.”

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Organization to host a photography contest based on what the University means to students and A picture can show a thousand residents. words, and can capture 100 years Photography submissions were of tradition. divided into three categories: This year, one of the ways the 35mm, digital and computer editUniversity celebrated its centen- ed. The competition was open to nial anniversary was by collaboSee PHOTOS | Page 2 rating with University Activities

By Jess James Reporter

2010 Census poll offers temporary job opportunities for students, residents

By Jess James Reporter

for the census data for a large portion of the Northwest Ohio area.

“Bowling Green is accountBowling Green locals suffering as a result of the economic able for 13 counties in the recession can earn some extra Northern Ohio district,” cash compliments of the local Courtney said. “We hire peoCensus Bureau. The Bowling ple who live in each county Green Census Bureau, located to head up fieldwork, pass out on North Main Street, will be surveys and collect follow-up hiring area locals to complete questionnaires.”

The Bowling Green Census the 2010 Census.

Larry Courtney, the Office Bureau is looking to hire Manager at the Bureau, said between 100-120 people. While Bowling Green is responsible field workers are desperately

needed, Courtney said, office jobs are available as well. The hourly wage starts at $12.25, and up to four days of training pay is also offered.

According the U.S. Census Bureau’s Web site, Bureau workers must be U.S. citizens over the age of 18 who have no felony record. Potential employees must also pass a 28-question entrance exam

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George Mayer | Development Leader the donors and the various foundations who supported our fundraisers,” Mayer said.

“Beginning in 2009, we were at about $850,000. We raised about $150,000 this past year in a very tough economy. When we hit that goal in December, I thought that was a nice way to retire, by exceeding.”

Debralee Divers, director of admissions and financial aid at BGSU Firelands, said the newlyraised funds are estimated to provide about 15 new endowed scholarships for students. Divers said the benefit of raising endowed scholarship funds is endowed funds are invested and gain interest, and the interest generated is given to students as a scholarship.

“That way, the money will always be there,” she said.

Endowed scholarships typically help about 150 Firelands students in an average year, Divers said.

Balzer said endowed scholarships are undoubtedly making a difference in the lives of financially-struggling students now and will continue to do so in the future.

“We have the pleasure of knowing these students really well,”

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BLOTTER MONDAY JAN. 11 5:29 P.M.

A resident within the 500th block of E. Merry Ave. was warned for disorderly conduct/loud music.

7:05 P.M.

Complainant reported her purse was stolen from her vehicle within the 400th block of S. Church St.

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Complainant reported loud noise within the 200th block of S. Prospect St.

TUESDAY JAN. 12 12:12 A.M.

Rachel Robinson, 25, of Bowling Green was arrested for obstructing official business on the corner of East Wooster and South Prospect streets.

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Jason Clark, 29, of Milton Center, Ohio, was cited for criminal trespass at Checkers.

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FIRELANDS From Page 1 he said. “Every time [a student] gets a scholarship, we know it’s making a difference, and we know it’s always going to be there meeting the needs of students who are so appreciative. Without it, they probably wouldn’t be in college.”

Divers said she is on the search committee reviewing about 50 applications and looking for Mayer’s replacement as the spring 2010 semester begins. She said the quality of candidates is overwhelming, but encouraging. “[Mayer left] some pretty big shoes to fill. We’re in the process of searching for someone to fill them,” she said.

“Hopefully by the end of this month we will have made a decision.”

CENSUS From Page 1 with questions on basic logic and reading skills. The Bureau offers the entrance test at several government buildings in the Bowling Green area.

“The test is nothing too overwhelming, just a few standard questions to show math and literacy skills,” Courtney said. “ We just want to help the community and the people who are looking for work.”

Jonathan Angelo is a junior and a Dining Services employee.

He does not work for the Census Bureau, but said the extra cash would be helpful for the new semester.

“Everywhere on campus has seen the effects of the recession,” Angelo said. “If students have extra time on their hands, it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to take advantage of the temporary work. University employees are seeing less and less hours, and the work the Bureau is offering sounds like easy money.”

For employment information call 866-861-2010.

PHOTOS From Page 1 anyone in the community and all submissions will be on display in the Union Gallery for the remainder of January.

Junior Ciara Eddings, UAO member and the director of the photography competition, has been working on the event since last March. She said the exhibit captures different people’s interpretations of what separates Bowling Green from other college communities.

“What we did was we extended an invitation to student photographers and community members to submit pictures of the people, places and things that makes Bowling Green unique,” Eddings said. “I wanted to organize this event because the University is 100 years old and I wanted a way for students to participate besides just going to the concert.”

Tiara Bivins, a freshman and new UAO member, helped

Eddings organize the event and arrange the display in the Union.

“I’m really liking being apart of UAO,” Bivins said. “Quite a few pictures were submitted so it might be a bigger job than expected hanging up all these entries.”

In all, 35 photographs were entered into the competition, ranging from images of Freddie and Frieda, students walking through campus and still shots of the Union.

One of the winning photographs was a still shot of University Hall taken by junior Emily Brumenschenkel.

“I submitted several pictures so I thought I had a pretty good chance of winning,” Brumenschenkel said. “For the University Hall picture I used Photoshop to bring out darker areas in the photo so it really looked bright and beautiful.”

There will be a small reception with punch and cookies in the Union Gallery on Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. All submissions are now available for viewing.

Historian: Prop 8 played on anti-gay stereotypes

By LISA LEFF Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Yale professor testifying in a case challenging California’s same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday that the 2008 campaign to pass Proposition 8 played on stereotypes historically used to portray “homosexuals as perverts who pray on young children, out to entice straight people into sick behavior.”

George Chauncey, a historian who specializes in the subject of 20th century gay life, was the second expert witness to appear for two couples unable to marry because of the state’s voter-approved gay marriage ban. Their lawsuit has led to the first federal trial to decide the constitutionality of laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman.

After viewing several television commercials produced

by Proposition 8’s sponsors, Chauncey said images and language suggesting the ballot initiative was needed to “protect children” were reminiscent of earlier efforts to “demonize” gays, ranging from police raids on gay bars during the 1950s to campaigns to rid public schools of gay teachers in the 1970s.

“You have a pretty strong echo of this idea that simple exposure to gay people and their relationships is somehow going to lead a whole generation of young kids to become gay,” Chauncey said.

“The underlying message here is something about the undesirability of homosexuals, that we don’t want our children to become this way.”

Chauncey’s views were introduced to help persuade Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who is hearing the case without a jury, that the California measure unlawfully discriminates against gays because it was based on an underlying hatred or moral disapproval and serves no legitimate public aim.

Court concluded with a lawyer for Proposition 8’s backers just beginning to cross-examine Chauncey, who is scheduled to resume his testimony on Wednesday.

“It does seem to me that the direction of change leads consistently toward the appropriateness of allowing same-sex couples to marry.”

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WEATHER From Page 1 varied. Some residents said this winter has been relatively mild, especially when compared with past winters.

Brian Craft, Bowling Green Public Works Director, has lived in Bowling Green since the late 1980s. He described Ohio winters as consistent in terms of severity. Craft said he thinks Ohio, when compared to the rest of the nation, has somewhat mild winters that are better than some states, and worse than others.

“We’re kind of middle of the road,” he said.

University senior John Cook said this season, so far, is “not really any different than usual.”

Cook recalled his first year at the University as the worst he has encountered in his college experience.

“It was really, really cold and really, really windy,” he said.

“There were a few days where they cancelled class.”

Arthur Merrill, 63, has called Bowling Green home since 1977. He said he remembers the ‘Blizzard of 1978’ as the worst winter weather he’s experienced in the area.

The Blizzard hit the Great Lakes in January 1978, trapping residents indoors for days, according to NWS records.

“Picture snow everywhere, the roads are closed with (snow) drifts,” Merrill said.

Lifelong Bowling Green resident Kim Apple, 56, said the ‘Blizzard’ blew four feet of snow into her living room, stranding her at work for 72 hours. After that experience, she said she’s not perturbed by winter storms because she pays attention to weather forecasts and prepares accordingly.

“When they say (winter weather) warning, I listen,” she said.

As for predicting the outcome of the remainder of this winter, Garnet said it’s “too early to tell.”

“It’s an extremely variable season,” he said. “We’re not even a month into winter yet, but there are no significant trends in the atmosphere that would indicate if (snowfall) were going to be above or below normal.”

MERCURY FALLING Ohio’s top 5 Coldest Januarys: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

11.6 Degrees 15.0 Degrees 17.4 Degrees 18.4 Degrees 18.7 Degrees

1977-78 1989 1940 1912 1978

Source: National Weather Service Forecast Office, NWS http://www. erh.noaa.gov/iln/PSADAY.htm)

WINTER WONDERS Top 5 Snowfall Amounts in Ohio for a Month: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

40.2 inches January 1978 31.6 inches February 1910 26.9 inches March 1906 24.6 inches January 1996 24.4 inches January 1918 Source: National Weather Service Forecast Office, NWS http://www. erh.noaa.gov/iln/PSADAY.html

DEADLY EFFECTS Winter weather can make walking from class to class unpleasant, but its effects can be deadly as well.

There were no winter-weather deaths in Ohio in 2008 (the last was in 2007), but the winter of 2008 did claim 21 lives across the United States.

2008 Winter Weather Fatalities

■ Ark. ■ Calif.

■ Idaho ■ Minn.

■ Mont.

■ N.M. ■ Okla.

■ S.D. ■ Texas ■ Wash.

Total:

1 3 2 1 1 2 3 1 5 2 21

Source: www.weather.gov (http:// www.weather.gov/os/hazstats/winter08.pdf)

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Earlier Tuesday, another history professor, Nancy Cott of Harvard University, presented a centuries-old history lesson on government regulation of marriage, even touching on President Bill Clinton’s indiscretions to argue that the institution has evolved dramatically over time.

In her second day of testimony, Cott disputed a statement by a defense lawyer that states have a compelling interest to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples for the sake of procreation.

Cott said marriage also serves an economic purpose — one that was especially pronounced when it was assumed that men and women performed different jobs in their partnership.

But as traditional gender roles and the purposes of marriage have changed, the reasons to bar same-sex couples from marrying have gone away, she said.

“It does seem to me that the direction of change leads consistently toward the appropriateness of allowing same-sex couples to marry,” she said.

Under cross-examination by a lawyer for the sponsors of California’s Proposition 8, Cott conceded she couldn’t predict the consequences for society of same-sex marriage.

Defense attorney David Thompson spent more than two hours reading excerpts from Cott’s writings and testimony in state-level gay rights cases to portray her as an advocate who was selectively reading the historical record to support her personal views.

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“From the New Year on... we’ve gone into a cold streak so things are a little different.”

— Gary Garnet, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the NWS [see story, pg. 1].

PEOPLE ON THE STREET

For what should the University award a scholarship?

“Students who use their higher education to help the community.”

“To the hottest girl.

She should go here for free.”

“Having to deal with the ‘Maceteria.’”

SAUSHA PARHAM, Senior, Philosophy

RYAN EMCH, Junior, Medical Diagnostics

COLIN ANDREWS, Freshman, Broadcast Journalism

THE LEGEND OF BONES MALONE

“Having other siblings in college.”

Economy could improve in 2010 Aesop’s Fable of The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs — where the owners wanted to become wealthy immediately by killing the goose instead of waiting each day for an egg — epitomizes the past few years of the financial markets.

In the story, the goose is thought to have great wealth inside her, but transpires to be like any other fowl. The fictional account is unfortunately all too real for us in the present day. However, the coming year may help transform the financial nature of our nation for an auspicious future, although not without its challenges. The forthcoming regulation of the financial industry, while restrictive in the near-term, may actually aid the economy by forcing individuals and businesses to be more fiscally responsible.

Several of the major financial publications see a favorable upcoming year for stocks as the economy recovers from the Great Recession. Although I hope to be proved incorrect, this forecast may be premature as we have yet to experience the fall of the commercial real estate market. If the woes of this sector are anything like the blight of the residential housing implosion, take heed.

There has also been mention

and nanotechnology sectors.

If you’re wondering how to play the market throughout the upcoming year, or simply would like some sound investment advice, Walter Updegrave of Money Magazine suggests four principles on how to make the most of your money. First, don’t obsess over the “best” investments. He says, “Smart investing is more about assembling a group of tried-and-true assets that give you diversification than trying to predict tomorrow’s top gainers.”

Next, think long term and not year to year. Don’t get caught up in your performance over a specific time period, but rather how your investments play into your overall strategy of fiscal security.

After that, keep a tight rein on costs. There are always fees to consider when buying and selling investments, such as transaction costs, commissions and even taxes. Last, keep a tighter rein on yourself. In other words, invest for the long-run with the conviction that your investments will recover from market turmoil.

While you may not currently have much to invest, or are barely scraping by as it is, rest easy knowing you are making one of the best investments of your lifetime with a college education.

When the time comes that you are able to save, do some research and make the investing decisions that are right for you, keeping in mind the fable of the golden eggs where “much wants more and loses all.”

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of rising oil prices that could cripple the economy, much as in 2008 when prices ventured close to $150 a barrel and gas hovered at $4 a gallon. Additionally noted is the looming national debt and correlated threat of inflation spurred by deficit spending that may also cause problems for both investors and, more significantly, our nation.

Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine took the forecast a step further, surmising what may occur around the globe in the coming decade. Some predictions include reduced economic growth due to increased taxes and regulation, an increase in interest rates, less spending by American consumers, attention on alternative energy and the difficulty in caring for an aging baby boomer generation and their burden on Social Security.

As a former professor of mine would say, young people make an economy grow and old people make an economy slow. Kiplinger also predicts “developing nations will generate most of the world’s economic growth and account for nearly all additional demand for natural resources,” and that “your cell phone will replace your credit card” (“What’s in store for the next decade,” January 2010).

What’s more, the magazine presents three promising industries for growth in water (or “blue gold”) purification, as countries around the globe are finding it more difficult to obtain clean drinking water, and the bio-tech

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The flight 253 “attack” is the most recent airline-related incident involving someone with al-Qaida connections.

When al-Qaida first became a household name, it was because they were believed responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center as well as a portion of the Pentagon, five airliners and the death of thousands.

Based out of Afghanistan, this network of militant fundamentalists created a shockwave of fear that began in New York and rippled across the entire Western world.

This was eight and a half years ago. Since then, we have waged two wars fought by enlistees and mercenaries, suspended habeas corpus for targeted individuals, made torture a routine part of our interrogation process and created a domestic spy network using technology that would have tightened Joseph Stalin’s pants.

As a result, America is more diplomatically isolated, in debt, militarily overcommitted and responsible for the deaths of more innocent bystanders than were killed on 9/11. The tradeoff for all this is supposed to be an increased sense of safety and the peace of mind to continue going about our days as we normally would.

However, the Christmas “attack” threatens to send our collective fight or flight response into overdrive yet again. What, then, are we to be afraid of? Is it a disturbed Nigerian with a

burn on his penis? Is it the existential threat of future “bombs” being “detonated” resulting in further underpants fires?

Are we really going to clamor for ever more Orwellian measures of “security” because there might be a man out there who is preparing to light his pants on fire in front of us?

There is no permanent solution to the nebulous and secretive world of international terrorism. The nature of the beast is to constantly change and adapt to whatever conditions are most favorable to its continued existence.

If you are unable to feel safe as long as there are terrorist cells operating somewhere in the world, then you will never feel safe. However, we too are capable of adaptation.

There is one variable in the equation of international terror that ordinary individuals have control over, and that is how we choose to respond to living in a world with terrorism. The true success of an attack is not measured in body count or property damage, but its effect on the psychology of the targeted population. Terror is the goal of the terrorist — not death, destruction, or war, but terror.

Every attack depends in part on the consent of ordinary Americans to feel terrorized and we have repeatedly proven we are willing to feel intimidated.

We have shown this by giving up the rule of law and handing it to private mercenaries, unaccountable civilian interrogators and secret tribunals.

We have allowed some of the most powerful information technology ever created to be channeled into ever-more invasive means of violating

our privacy. We have voted for ignoramus political figures who maintain an image of strength and severity in order to calm our fears. This is why terrorist groups claim responsibility for their failures as well as their successes.

With every inch of our personal liberties we surrender to the government in order to feel a little safer, America becomes a little bit more like Afghanistan.

When you are called in for questioning due to the books you read or the people you associate with, it will not be Muslim fundamentalists who drag you to the police station, it will be Americans who look and talk just like you.

By sheepishly allowing evergreater measures of control and surveillance to be integrated into our daily lives, we are doing far more damage to life as we know it than Osama Bin Laden ever could. The fight for American freedom is not a contest between American soldiers and Afghani (or Yemeni or whatever) fundamentalists, it is between Americans and Americans.

I invite you to ask yourself, is a man’s underpants bursting into flames scary or hilarious? I know I might have a dark sense of humor, but the entire scenario seems more appropriate to a Benny Hill sketch than a master plan for the destruction of the West.

As a matter of fact, I think I may have seen a similar occurrence on “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

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Reid not ‘going to dwell’ on Obama comments

BOSTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has no plans to visit Massachusetts to campaign for the Democrat seeking the Senate seat held by the late Edward Kennedy.

Spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked Monday about the possibility of a presidential trip on behalf of state Attorney General Martha Coakley.

She would maintain the 60th vote Democrats need to prevent a filibuster of Obama’s top domestic priority — a health care overhaul.

She is running against Republican Scott Brown and independent Joseph L. Kennedy. The independent is no relation to the late senator.

Gibbs says Obama isn’t afraid of hurting Coakley, just that a trip is not on his agenda. A Boston Globe poll on Sunday showed Coakley leading by 15 percentage points.

The election is Jan. 19.

APEX, Nev. (AP) — Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid says that since he’s apologized for his comments, he now wants to move past criticism about his characterization in 2008 of thencandidate Barack Obama as a “lightskinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect.”

He says he’s not, in his words, “going to dwell on this anymore.”

Reid told reporters Monday in his home state of Nevada that he has apologized to the president and everyone else within the sound of his voice.

Reid was appearing at a news conference to announce federal economic recovery plan financing for a new electricity transmission line in Nevada.

Jeb Bush coming to Ohio CINCINNATI (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will help raise funds for Ohio GOP governor candidate John Kasich (KAY’-sik) during a southwest Ohio swing.

Bush and Kasich led an economic development forum in Mason yesterday. Bush also will headline an earlier Republican governors fundraising breakfast in Cincinnati and an evening fundraiser for Kasich.

The brother of former President George W. Bush and son of expresident George H.W. Bush served eight years as Florida’s governor.

He’s the latest in what’s expected to be a long series of prominent political figures getting involved in the 2010 race for Ohio governor.

Former President Bill Clinton last week led a pair of fundraising events for Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland.

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McCain rebuffs questions on Palin vetting process WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain says he’s content with his life in the Senate and happy he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate last year.

McCain steadfastly refused to discuss a new book that says the vetting of the Alaska governor was “hasty and haphazard.” Asked about this on NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday, the Arizona Republican said, “I wouldn’t know. The fact is, I’m proud of Sarah Palin and I’m proud of the campaign she waged.

She energized our party.”

Asked how it was possible that he could not know about the clearance process, McCain replied, “I wouldn’t know what the sources were, nor care.” The assessment is in a new book, “Game Change,” written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

He predicted Palin will be a “major player” in GOP affairs.

Governors facing troubles as economy hits home

By Beth Fouhy and Mike Glover The Associated Press

tions. We’re not going back on our commitment to teachers, but there have been reductions DES MOINES, Iowa — Like many in resources.”

Culver is not alone: 37 goverDemocratic governors today, Iowa’s Chet Culver won in 2006 nors are on the ballot, and fighton the strength of ambitious ing as much against a deep and and expensive promises such as lingering downturn as they are universal preschool and a plan against political rivals.

It’s a challenge that almost to bolster the state’s alternative defies partisanship, with energy industry.

But persistent budget woes have Republicans such as California’s forced the 43-year-old Culver Arnold Schwarzenegger conto trim virtually all aspects of fronting the worst budget crisis government, including social in a generation.

The problems, however, may programs he pledged to expand, and a stern re-election race is be most acute for Democrats.

They are defending 19 seats ahead this fall.

“We’re making tough cuts while scaling back the kind of which will result in pain,” said spending that strengthens their Culver, whose poll numbers appeal to important groups have tumbled as the economy such as minority voters, teachhas tanked. “We’re not closing ers and other unionized public early childhood centers, we’re employees.

“In a recession, there’s a lot less reducing some of the appropria-

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Seth Masket | IPolitical scientist money for governors to work with and they get blamed for cutting social programs and not following through on campaign promises,” University of Denver political scientist Seth Masket said. “It’s a particularly tough environment for Democratic incumbents because they are seen as the party in power.”

Democratic prospects can be tied in part to President Barack Obama, whose popularity has dropped because of the jobless situation and a populist backlash

against federal spending and rising deficits. Last year, Republicans captured governors’ seats in New Jersey and Virginia from Democrats.

The outcome of governors’ races this year will have a significant impact on Obama’s political fortunes. Governors oversee the redistricting of their states’ legislative and congressional districts after the 2010 census.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, once considered a rising Democratic star, just dropped his bid for re-election after one term. His poll numbers were weak and he faced a strong challenge from former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, the likely GOP nominee. Colorado’s budget shortfall has forced Ritter to make education cuts and he’s angered state employees by directing them to take furlough days.

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Mass. Senate race becoming proxy on health bill Race in Mass. could shape the health care bill prospects of the Democratic party

By Glen Johnson and Liz Sidoti The Associated Press

BOSTON — The race to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has turned into a proxy battle over the fate of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

A once-pedestrian contest between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown has coarsened with a week to go, as the two have cast themselves as custodians of the pivotal Senate vote to determine the bill’s fate.

“As the 41st senator, I can stop it,” Brown said last week during a debate, highlighting his potential to be the breakthrough Senate vote that upholds a GOP filibuster. While he opposes the bill, the state senator voted in 2006 in favor of a Massachusetts universal health care bill that has largely been the model for the Obama legislation.

The stakes are so high Democrats won’t rule out taking as long as a month to certify the election results — should Brown win — to prevent a Republican from assuming the seat until the Senate completes its work on Kennedy’s hallmark legislation.

While the majority of voters in Massachusetts are unenrolled in either major party, there is little empirical evidence to suggest Coakley will lose the special election. The state has a Democratic House and Senate, a Democratic governor and all six constitutional officers — including Coakley, the attorney general — are Democrats, as well.

In particular, Republicans are hoping a closer-than-expected finish would bolster a claim that Democrats are at risk of losing their congressional majorities.

Democrats want to protect the president from embarrassment over health care, his top domestic priority.

“The outcome of this race couldn’t be more important,” Obama himself wrote in a fundraising e-mail Monday night.

Vicki Kennedy, the senator’s widow, delivered her own emotional endorsement of Coakley last week. She and four other speakers said electing Coakley was necessary to preserve the crucial 60th Democratic vote that has prevented Republicans from stopping the overhaul bill.

“The choice is very simple,” Coakley told the crowd. “With your help and your vote on Jan. 19, we can make Sen. Kennedy’s vision of affordable and quality health care for all Americans a reality.”

The third candidate, independent Joseph L. Kennedy, has largely been relegated to the sidelines. The Libertarian businessman is not related to the late senator.

Edward Kennedy died Aug. 25 of brain cancer after a nearly 47year Senate career.

Brown is one of 21 Republican lawmakers in the 200-member Legislature. He is perhaps most widely known for once posing nude in Cosmopolitan magazine, but he also has a sterling resume. It includes 30 years of service in the Army National Guard and stature as the service’s top defense lawyer in New England.

“In a country like ours, we should have checks and balances,” Joyce Pierangelo, 49, of Wilbraham, said as she held a Brown campaign poster outside the debate.

Brown’s supporters have helped create a media frenzy by highlighting a one-day, automated Rasmussen Reports poll showing what they cast as a closer-than-expected race. He also pounded Coakley throughout their final debate on Monday.

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NATION BRIEFS Army officer charged with smuggling cash from Iraq

Punxsutawney Phil to text his weather prediction

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A grand jury in Tennessee has indicted an Army officer on federal charges of smuggling more than $100,000 out of Iraq.

The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that 46year-old Maj. Charles E. Sublett of Huntsville, Ala., was arrested Monday on charges of bulk cash smuggling and making a false statement.

Sublett supervised supply contracts while serving at the Balad Regional Contracting Center in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

The indictment says that in 2005, customs officials in Memphis intercepted a package that Sublett sent from Balad. The customs declaration listed no cash but the package contained nearly $108,000 in U.S. cash and another $11,600 worth of Iraqi dinar.

A message left at an Alabama phone listing for Sublett wasn’t immediately returned Tuesday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil will text his weather prediction this year.

Mickey Rowley, Pennsylvania’s deputy tourism secretary, says he realizes that not everyone can come to Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day, so this is a good way to get the word out.

Those who want to find out whether the famous groundhog predicts an early spring or six more weeks of winter can text “Groundhog” to 247365. They will get a text message with the prediction on Feb. 2.

Each year, thousands of people descend on Punxsutawney in western Pennsylvania to find out whether Phil sees his shadow. Members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club pull the marmot from its hiding spot and, they say, listen for his prediction in a language they call “groundhog-ese.”

The text, however, will be in English.

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Chicago police to look into gangland-era slaying CHICAGO— Chicago police have agreed to look into the 1939 gangland-style slaying of the father of the city’s most famous war hero.

Deputy Chief Al Wysinger said yesterday his cold case unit would investigate the slaying of businessman Edward J. O’Hare at the request of Alderman Edward Burke.

O’Hare was the father of World War II hero Edward “Butch” O’Hare, after whom the city’s busiest airport is named.

Edward J. O’Hare had ties to the notorious mobster Al Capone.

Burke and some historians contend that Edward J. O’Hare was a police informant who helped put Capone in prison for income tax evasion.

No one was arrested in Edward J. O’Hare’s killing.

—Don Babwin (AP)

Wash. lawmaker wants to banish negative language

By Donna Gordon Blankinship The Associated Press

“ We really put too many negatives on our kids.

We need to come up with positive terms.”

he says, he is insulted more by the idea of the bill than what he called the political correctness it represents.

SEATTLE — Decades ago, “It’s not the label, it’s the peopoor children became known ple who show up to help (chilas “disadvantaged” to soften dren) that make the difference,” the stigma of poverty. Then he says. “What helps is a smart, they were “at-risk.” Now, a Rosa Franklin | Senator well structured program, that Washington lawmaker wants to has funding and credibility.” replace those euphemisms with Positive labeling is more than makers, state officials and a new one, “at hope.” a gimmick or political correctDemocratic State Sen. Rosa advocacy groups.

“We really put too many nega- ness, Franklin says. She believes Franklin says negative labels are hurting kids’ chances for tives on our kids,” says Franklin, her idea could lead to a parasuccess and she’s not a bit who is the state Senate’s presi- digm shift in state government concerned that people will dent pro tem. “We need to come and to changes in classrooms across the state. be confused by her proposed up with positive terms.”

In some ways, both lawmakRepublican Rep. Glenn rewrite of the 54 places in state law where words like Anderson disagrees, saying ers are correct, says Alison “at risk” and “disadvantaged” the potential cost of getting Bryant Ludden, associate prothe bill from idea to print- fessor of psychology at the are used.

The bill has gotten a warm ing — an average of $3,500 College of the Holy Cross in welcome among fellow law- — is too much. And besides, Worcester, Mass.

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Feds to set aside habitat for jaguar recovery

NEW YORK— A Somali teenager accused of staging a brazen high-seas attack on a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Africa last year is facing new allegations of piracy involving two other vessels.

Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse and others tried to seize the two ships in the Indian Ocean in the weeks leading up to their widely publicized capture of the Maersk Alabama, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan. The new court papers didn’t name the other ships and offered few details about the alleged attacks.

“Today’s indictment alleges criminal conduct beyond the attack against the captain and crew of the American-flagged Maersk Alabama,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. “Modern-day pirates who wreak havoc off faraway coasts will be met with modern-day justice in the United States.”

There was no immediate response to a phone message left with Muse’s attorney. He was due in court later yesterday for a pretrial hearing on the original charge.

—Tom Hays (AP)

TYLER, Texas (AP) — A defense attorney says a teenager accused in the stabbing death of a Texas high school teacher will get mental health treatment after being declared unfit to proceed in the justice system.

Jim Huggler, an attorney for the youth, tells the Tyler Morning Telegraph that a forensic psychologist and the state agreed Monday on the diagnosis of the youth.

Huggler says which facility the teen will go to will be determined at a hearing Friday.

The boy has been held in a juvenile detention facility since 50year-old Todd R. Henry died Sept.

23 after he was stabbed in his classroom at John Tyler High School.

Huggler says the youth will get 90 days of treatment before another hearing to determine his mental fitness for legal proceedings.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials plan to set aside critical habitat for the elusive endangered jaguar.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will review which lands the big cats need to survive in an item published in the Federal Register yesterday. The decision had been expected last week.

Conservationists see the case as a test of whether the Obama administration will take extra steps to protect animals whose ranges stretch beyond the nation’s borders.

Jaguars are the largest cats native to the Western hemisphere and live primarily in Mexico, Central and South America. They once inhabited an extensive area that spanned California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana.

They were thought to have been eliminated in the U.S. until two were spotted in 1996 near the ArizonaNew Mexico border.

US agency goes after cadmium in children’ s jewelry Campaign goes after Chinese imports that substitute other toxins for lead

By Jeff Donn and Justin Pritchard The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, warning Asian manufacturers not to substitute other toxins for lead in children’s jewelry and beginning an inquiry into cadmium found in the products around the United States.

Regulators reacted swiftly to an Associated Press investigation reporting that some Chinese manufacturers have been using cadmium in place of lead in children’s charm bracelets and pendants, sometimes at extraordinarily high levels. Congress clamped down on lead in those products in 2008, but cadmium is even more harmful.

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Cadmium, which is known to cause cancer, is a soft, whitish metal that occurs naturally in soil. It’s perhaps best known as half of rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, but also is used in pigments, electroplating and plastic.

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Notes: free T-shirts, shot at 50,000 dollars available to students at men’s hoops game

By Paul Barney Assistant Sports Editor

FOOTBALL Five players named Academic All-MAC

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“The reality is you have to keep playing for 40 minutes in every game in the MAC.”

For those students who head to tomorrow’s men’s basketball game may go home with more than memories.

The first 500 students to arrive will receive a free orange BG Tshirt, and the game is also set up as a “Spotlight Showdown” for Harshman and Kreischer during the ongoing student attendance competition.

One student from each of the dorms will have a shot for 500 dollars during the game, while another lucky fan will have a chance to shoot for 50,000 dollars in a contest sponsored by Meijer.

The Zips shot 61 percent in the second half, including 6-of-7 from behind the arc – outscoring BG 39-17.

“We had opportunities,” coach Louis Orr said. “It was a tale of two halves and we have to play for both halves.”

It’s that time of year again

Missed opportunities

January in Bowling Green brings freezing temperatures coupled with a new semester of classes, and for BG basketball, the beginning of conference play.

The Falcons men’s basketball team officially opened their MidAmerican Conference schedule Saturday at Akron, and despite a game-high 17 points from Joe Jakubowski, BG fell 71-45.

The Falcons were only down four points at the half, but a 28 percent shooting effort by BG in the final 20 minutes allowed for Akron to pull away.

Turnovers will hurt any team’s chance of winning a game, and against the Zips, BG learned firsthand just how important it is to take care of the basketball.

Akron took advantage of the Falcons’ 21 turnovers and scored 28 points as a result.

“We played hard, I don’t have a problem with our effort,” Orr said. “It’s just a matter of realizing that every possession is important.”

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COURT LEADER: Point guard Joe Jakubowski lead BG with 17 points in their last game, a loss to Akron.

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The Falcons’ women’s basketball team takes to the court tonight against a struggling Buffalo team. Here are the top five players to watch in the matchup.

1. Prochaska: Junior Lauren Prochaska looks to add to her great start in the MAC this season, averaging 20 points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals per game in conference play.

2. Brown: Buffalo’s Kourtney Brown became the second fastest player in Bulls history to reach the 1,000point mark. In Saturday’s loss to Akron, Brown finished with 20 points and 14 rebounds.

3. Pontius: In a win over Ohio on Saturday, BG’s Tracy Pontius had a game-high 18 points, connecting on four three-pointers.

4. Breske: Tara Breske will have the task of guarding the Bulls’ Brown.

5. Fortman: Buffalo’s Jessica Fortman is averaging 10 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.

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KEY PLAYERS: Tara Breske (left) and Lauren Prochaska (right) will be heavily relied on in the game against Buffalo.

Falcons host Buffalo in MAC play tonight

By Sean Shapiro Sports Editor

Buffalo’s struggles this season, which included a 7-game losing streak and back-to-back losses in MAC play, At 4-11 and 0-2 in the Mid-American has been in large part due to injuries to Conference, it appears Buffalo should most of their starting rotation.

“They’ve got a rotation which has be an easy win for the women’s basketmissed time on and off this season, ball team tonight in Anderson Arena.

Opening tip is scheduled for 7 p.m. and I don’t think any of those are seaHowever, don’t expect the Falcons to son ending,” Miller said. “We have to overlook their opponent, even if they prepare like they’re all going to be back have a sub-par record. so one of the challenges is knowing “Buffalo is a team that is certainly exactly who is going to play.” better then their record indicates,” BG One bright spot for Buffalo has been coach Curt Miller said. forward Kourtney Brown, who is In addition to the preparation from their averaging a double-double with 16.5 coach, the BG players will also remember See BULLS | Page 8 the close game they had in Buffalo last season, winning 89-82 in overtime.

Despite weak record, BG not taking Buffalo lightly

By Sean Shapiro Sports Editor

During Curt Miller’s nine-year tenure at the University, BG teams have rarely taken an opponent lightly.

That won’t change tonight, when the Falcons take on a Buffalo team that has struggled posting a 4-11, 0-2 Mid-American Conference, record this season.

For Miller the key has always been taking the season one game at a time.

“This program has always done a good job taking it one game at a time, that has always been our philosophy,” Miller said.

“But, we don’t overlook the fact we’ve been a little flat at times this year compared to

times last year. Each game is a new challenge and we really spend a lot of time on scouting reports to get them ready for the dangers each team poses.”

Turnovers One of BG’s strengths this season has been how well they’ve been handling the ball and not turning it over to their opponent.

Over the Falcons past seven games, they’ve turned the ball over a maximum of 15 times, which has helped them post a 6-1 record during that stretch.

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SHOOTER: Scott Thomas and the Falcons will look to improve their three-point shooting.

MEN From Page 7 Bring your “A” game Conference play is when tensions begin to rise and the physicality of the game is more noticeable – and the MAC is no exception.

Every conference game is prominent in deciding a team’s fate come postseason play, and playing a full 40 minutes is a big part of that.

“The reality is you have to keep playing for 40 minutes in every game in the MAC,” Orr said. “MAC games are a physical war. Physically, you’re going to get challenged every play.”

BEREA, Ohio — Browns coach Eric Mangini slipped into a chair behind the dais adorned with an orange helmet in Cleveland’s media room and noted the drastic changes.

He lost his wooden podium, the one he stood behind during a tough season. He found some friends.

Flanked by new team president Mike Holmgren and general manager Tom Heckert, and seated near business executive Bryan Wiedmeier, Mangini, who last week learned he would be back for a second season with the Browns, smiled and joked about his company.

“It’s pretty great to be up here with three other people answering questions,” said Mangini. “I can get used to this.”

Later, a relaxed Mangini made it clear that he wasn’t kidding.

“It wasn’t a joke,” he said in a back room following the news conference to introduce Heckert and Wiedmeier. “It’s nice to have other voices in the organization and to be able to share different perspectives. Everybody has different roles, and for them to be able to get clarity, I think that’s a good thing.

“This is a real fantastic situation for me personally and for us organizationally.”

Last year, Mangini had little help.

He now has a team.

In bringing in the respected Heckert, Philadelphia’s GM

since 2006, Holmgren has given Mangini a qualified executive to add players and continue to build the Browns, who finished the season on a four-game winning streak.

While assessing Mangini’s performance last season, Holmgren concluded that Mangini had been “thrust” into a situation where he had too many responsibilities. Holmgren would know.

He served four years as both Seattle’s GM and coach and found parallels in what he experienced to what Mangini went through.

Holmgren believes a coach should coach, so he reconfigured Cleveland’s front office to ease Mangini’s load.

“Are you are a better coach when you just coach and don’t worry about all that stuff?” Holmgren said. “You certainly have more time. And your focus should be better on coaching. But it’s not like all of a sudden we’re here and Tom’s here and all Eric has to do is doodle Xs and Os. “He’s going to be very involved in the player decisions. Now, does he have to worry quite as much?

No. I’m going to take some of the worry and some of the anxiousness away from him.”

By dividing up the power, Holmgren believes the Browns will function more effectively.

And while the control is split, Holmgren’s goal is to have consensus on all major decisions.

“It will continue to be my hope that the decisions this organization makes going forward will be handled by these fellas right

Grabbing the bull by its horns BG opens its home MAC schedule tomorrow night against Buffalo. Since the 2006-07 season, the Falcons are 3-0 against the Bulls in Anderson Arena.

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here,” he said. “I trust them. I believe in them. They’re good football people. If we pick a player in the draft, whatever we do, it’s a decision that has been thought through, come to a conclusion by a lot of discussion, maybe some argument.

But at the end of the day, it’s a Cleveland Browns decision.”

Holmgren was hired by owner Randy Lerner to fix the Browns.

Since 1999, Cleveland has had just two winning seasons, hired four full-time coaches, five general managers and led the NFL in turmoil and press conferences to introduce the next regime.

Holmgren believes stability has arrived.

“It was my charge by our owner to find the best people I can find for these positions, and then define their roles and let’s go,” he said as Lerner kept a low profile in the back of the room. “I just believe they know they’re going to get this job done. I don’t think this is business as usual. We will not continue to have these kind of press conferences. We’re all in it for the long haul.”

Mangini’s fate was unknown a week ago. When Holmgren assumed control of the Browns on Jan. 5, one of his first orders of business was to decide on the coach. He sent Mangini home to ponder some philosophical questions, and then met with him for several hours the next day.

In addition to talks both described as “honest,” Holmgren consulted with a good friend, former NFL coach Bill Parcells,

before choosing to keep Mangini.

“And since I made the decision, it gets better everyday,” Holmgren said. “It’s good and he’s happy about it clearly. He’s a good football coach and I want to help him. I’m not coaching any more.”

Holmgren came away from the meetings with a better understanding of Mangini, who has been portrayed as sullen, arrogant and tyrannical. Holmgren said there’s another side of Mangini.

“Every once in a while he smiles a little bit, and every once in a while I’ll crack a joke and he’ll laugh and I’ll say, ‘That’s good stuff, you should do that more often,’” Holmgren said. “This is a hard business. As a coach, we work like crazy people. You’ve got to have some fun at this.”

Holmgren, who spent 17 years on the sideline, understands the pressures of coaching. In his new role, he wants to be a sounding board for Mangini, someone the coach can turn to for advice or just to vent his frustrations. Someone Mangini didn’t have before.

“He can bounce things off me now if he chooses,” Holmgren said. “I always had somebody.

When it gets hard and it gets dark, you like to be able to leave your office and go someplace else and say, ‘Help me’ or ‘What am I doing?’ When you get to be a head coach, you’re such a big shot in this league that there’s not that many guys that you would do that with. You’re fortunate if you have one in the building.

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points and 11.5 rebounds per contest.

“She is clearly one of the best post players in the league, a high percentage finisher and a kid we’ve got to limit some touches with,” Miller said.

Brown recently became the second fastest player in school history to reach 1,000 points in her career after scoring 20 points last week against Akron.

“We’ve got to give Brown different looks, obviously Tara [Breske] has to stay out of foul trouble.

We’ve got to give her looks in regards to doubling down, play more zone in stretches and just trying to confuse them and keep them off balance,” Miller said.

Brown’s output this season has been aided by the improved three point shooting from their guard play allowing Buffalo to spread the ball around.

For BG they’ll look to improve to 3-0 in the MAC (12-4 overall) after taking down Akron and Ohio last week.

Lauren Prochaska has been the offensive catalyst for the Falcons this season, averaging 18.1 points a game and grabbing 5.6 rebounds per contest.

Prochaska’s production has improved after an early season illness, winning MAC player of the week for the third time this season after averaging 20 points per game in BG’s wins over Akron and Ohio.

After tonight’s tilt the Falcons head to Kent State this weekend for a 2 p.m. start with the Golden Flashes this Saturday.

“We are just simply valuing the basketball and understanding how important execution is to our success, there is a very, very fine line between winning and losing and turnovers is a big part of that,” Miller said.

Miller is also happy with his team’s recent commitment to making every possession count, something that had lacked earlier in the season.

Post Play While guard play has always been one of the Falcons’ strengths, Miller feels in order for the Falcons to win the MAC tournament this season it will all come down to post play at the basket.

For the Falcons, most of their hopes of a dominant post presence lie with center Tara Breske ,who has been averaging 8 points and 4.1 rebounds per game this season.

“She had to wait her turn, she was a part of that Sweet 16 team and MAC Championship team.

But, she was very much a role player and she learned behind some of the best post players in school history her freshman year,” Miller said.

Back to School During the Falcons’ last two games they’ve had the luxury of their players concentrating solely on basketball.

But, with the start of second semester earlier this week the players also had to focus on classes which isn’t a bad thing according to Miller.

While there was a minor adjustment in the practice schedule, Miller feels being well rounded is also important to the team.

“It’s a good adjustment because they need balance, because sometimes it’s healthy not to be thinking about basketball 24-7, just 23,”Miller joked.

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Guatemalan plotted death to frame president

Donors urged to help finance Palestinian program

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The niece of a British junior minister was convicted of murder on Tuesday for the stabbing of a young man she had picked up in a pub in France, and she was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The court in Versailles, a suburb of Paris, ruled a day after Jessica Davies, 30, had testified: “I cannot remember having killed Olivier, but I take responsibility for it.� She told the court she had blacked out during the killing of 24-year-old Olivier Mugnier in 2007 and that she was “still searching for an explanation.�

Davis, who is a dual FrenchBritish citizen, is a niece of Quentin Davies, Britain’s junior defense minister in charge of procurement. British media have closely covered the criminal case, with photos of Davies in handcuffs on the front page of some newspapers.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — U.N. investigators say a Guatemalan lawyer who appeared in a posthumous video accusing the country’s president of his murder actually contracted the hit men who killed him.

Attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg made a video before he was slain charging that Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom would be involved if he were killed.

U.N. investigator Carlos Castresana says Rosenberg asked cousins of his first wife to help him contact a hit man.

Castresana is head of a special investigation group that was invited by the government to probe the May 10 murder.

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. envoy George Mitchell urged European and other international donors on Tuesday to help the Palestinian Authority finance its institution-building program as it prepares to set up a Palestinian state.

After meeting with America’s partners in the quest for a solution to the IsraelPalestinian conflict, Mitchell said President Barack Obama was committed to achieving peace in the Middle East. “Central to the effort is resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of two states,� Mitchell told reporters. “To that end we stressed coordination and working together to support the Palestinian Authority’s program to build the institutions of a future state,� he said. “No one country and no one person can do this alone.�

U.S. to help Afghan farmers raise crops instead of drugs KABUL (AP) — The Taliban make Afghanistan’s opium business easy, offering credit, seeds and fertilizer to farmers to grow the drugs that fuel the insurgency.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who wrapped up a three-day visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, is determined to change that momentum by offering similar incentives to steer farmers away from the drug trade and toward grapes, wheat and other legitimate crops. “If the Taliban offer something, you have to be able to beat it with something else,� he told The Associated Press.

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KABUL — The Afghan government is crafting a plan to offer jobs, vocational training and other economic incentives to tens of thousands of Taliban foot soldiers willing to switch sides after eight years of war.

Officialshopethemultimilliondollar initiative, which would reach out to 20,000 to 35,000 low- to mid-level Taliban insurgents, will succeed where past programs have failed. Skeptics, though, wonder whether significant numbers of militants will stop fighting when they believe they’re winning. “If this works, it is the turning

point in the war,� said Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, a top adviser to President Hamid Karzai, who has promoted the idea of national reconciliation and has even offered to talk with the Taliban’s top leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar.

Afghan officials insist their program will be different from one in Iraq where entire platoons of Sunni insurgents who were shooting at U.S. forces one day were paid salaries the next to turn away from al-Qaida and join local security groups under American supervision.

The officials said their program, which will be discussed at a Jan. 28 conference on Afghanistan in London, would create conditions for individu-

“If you reintegrate the foot soldiers and the mid-level commanders, you will shrink the space in which the Taliban can operate in Afghanistan.�

Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai | Afghanistan presidential adviser als to lay down their arms while top Taliban leaders are urged to negotiate peace. The Taliban leadership has rejected this so long as foreign forces remain in Afghanistan.

Some Afghans, who fear for their safety and are frustrated by an ineffective, corrupt central government in Kabul, have seen little choice but to side with the Taliban in their villages. The goal

is to lure scores of Taliban fighters off the battlefield so that violence will drop and the Afghan government will have time to shore up governance and the nation’s security forces. “If you reintegrate the foot soldiers and the mid-level commanders, you will shrink the space in which the Taliban can operate in Afghanistan,�

Stanekzai said.

U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, told the German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published this month that the U.S. is ready to back a reintegration program for individual fighters, or groups of fighters.

McChrystal believes “a tremendous number of fighters and commanders� would like to quit and “we just need to craft the kind of program that supports that.�

In recent months, there have been isolated cases of Taliban fighters leaving the insurgency.

Fifty-seven of them surrendered to authorities in Herat province, according to U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon’s latest

quarterly report on Afghanistan.

Twelve laid down their weapons in Kunduz, along with 26 in Paktika province, 24 in Ghazni province and 51 in Baghlan province, the report said.

To lure others, Defense Minister Rahim Wardak said the Afghan government will have to offer incentives, such as employment or vocational training — as well as protection. “The whole Afghan nation is fed up with three decades of conflict and I do believe that they want to support this government,� he said. “But up to now, we were not able to provide them with protection, which they needed ... so once we are able to do so I think there will be a great change.�

China to be short 24 million England to cut funding for universities “[Cuts would have] wives within decade, study says a devastating Raphael G. Satter The Associated Press

Chinese government worried that brideless men will cause crime increase BEIJING (AP) — Abortions of girl fetuses are expected to leave China with 24 million more men than women over the next decade, according to a study that warns the imbalance will dash many young men’s chance at marriage and lead to increased crime.

China enforces strict family planning controls, including limiting most couples to having one child. Because of a traditional preference for male heirs, many families terminate pregnancies of girl babies in order to be able to continue trying for a boy. Infanticide of baby girls has also become a problem.

The study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reported in Chinese state media

this week, specifically said such preferences were behind the ballooning imbalance. “Sex-specific abortions are extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas,� the CASS report said. “The phenomenon of abortions of female fetuses is very serious.�

China bans tests to determine the fetus’ sex for non-medical reasons, but they are still commonly done, mainly by underground private clinics in the countryside.

The report said the malefemale ratio at birth in China was 119 males to 100 females, with the gap as high as 130 males for every 100 females in some provinces. In industrialized countries, the ratio is 107 to 100.

The report is similar to other

studies in recent years that warn of serious social problems because of the gap.

The official Global Times newspaper quoted researcher Wang Guangzhou as saying men with lower incomes would have trouble finding spouses in rural areas, leading to crime problems.

The newspaper also said abductions and trafficking of women were widespread in areas with excess numbers of men.

The CASS study mirrors a report published last April in the BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, that said China has 32 million more young men than young women because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son.

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LONDON — Oxford, Cambridge and other British universities said Tuesday that the government’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of pounds (dollars) from their funding would put their world-class reputations in jeopardy.

Unlike most elite institutions in the United States, Britain’s top schools rely almost exclusively on taxpayers keeping them going.

But strapped for cash, the government has slashed its higher education budget by 600 million pounds (nearly $1 billion) over the next three years — a figure British media say comes to a 12 percent reduction when combined with

students and staff, but also on Britain’s international competitiveness, economy and ability to recover from recession.� “It has taken more than 800 years to create one of the world’s greatest education systems, and it looks like it will take just six months The Russell Group | research rep to bring it to its knees,� according to an editorial by the group’s Chairman Michael Arthur and other cuts.

British universities have little Director Wendy Piatt, published chance of raising big funds on in The Guardian newspaper.

In defending its decision, the their own: Student fees by law are capped at about 4,000 pounds a government noted that higher year, and endowments generally education funding had risen by 25 percent since 1997. Higher are no more than modest.

The Russell Group, represent- Education Minister David Lammy ing 20 leading research univer- said now was time “to look to the sities, said the cuts would have higher education sector to tighten “a devastating effect, not only on its belt.�

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Swiss court fines speeding millionaire $290,000

Cops: Pa. man steals $50, flees on Wal-Mart scooter

Woman charged in McDonald’s rampage

Md. to sell historic Cecil County bridge

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland (AP) — A Swiss court has slapped a wealthy speeder with a chalet-sized fine — a full $290,000.

Judges at the cantonal court in St. Gallen, in eastern Switzerland, based a record-breaking fine on the speeder’s estimated wealth of over $20 million.

A statement on the court’s Web site says the driver — a repeat offender — drove up to 35 miles an hour (57 kilometers an hour) faster than the 50-mile-an-hour (80-kilometer-an-hour) limit.

Court clerk Heidi BaumannBecker said Thursday the unidentified driver can appeal the decision, handed down in November, to the Swiss supreme court.

The Blick daily newspaper in Zurich reported the fine was more than twice the previous Swiss record of about $107,000.

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania man in a hospital gown stole $50 from his ex-girlfriend at Wal-Mart, then tried to flee on a store-owned motorized shopping scooter.

Thirty-two-year-old Craig David Jr., of Smithfield, was charged Wednesday with robbery and disorderly conduct.

State police Cpl. Chuck Frey says David had just been released from a hospital for injuries in a domestic dispute Jan. 1. Frey says David had been hit with a frying pan and table leg.

David was still in a hospital gown yesterday night when he met an ex-girlfriend who agreed to pay for his prescription medication. Instead, police say he grabbed $50 from her and scooted away.

David remained jailed Thursday.

He does not have an attorney.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman has been charged with trashing a McDonald’s restaurant in Missouri because she was unhappy with her cheeseburger. Police said they received many tips after releasing video of the Dec. 27 incident.

In the video, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times online, a customer is seen throwing a sign and a water dispenser over a counter and pushing three cash registers to the floor.

Yesterday, the Jackson County prosecutor’s office charged 19-yearold Alesha McMullen of Kansas City with Class D felony property damage. It wasn’t immediately known if McMullen has an attorney. A phone listing for her could not be found.

Police said McMullen told officers her order was prepared wrong and the restaurant refused to give her a refund.

CHILDS, Md. (AP) — Maryland highway officials have a bridge in Cecil County they want to sell you.

The State Highway Administration said the Maryland Route 545 bridge over Little Elk Creek in Childs is available to be purchased and reused at a new location. The state is willing to sell the bridge to a city or county government, historic preservation group, nonprofit, corporation or individual.

The new owner would be required to preserve the bridge according to established standards for historic bridges.

The steel pony truss bridge was built in 1932 and is 27 feet wide.

Federal regulations require that bridges must be at least 32 feet wide to handle the traffic load that crosses the span daily.

State officials said it would be easier to take the bridge apart and move it than it would be to widen it.

Man allegedly threatens neighbor for snow stomping

‘Cougars,’ ‘cubs’ unwelcome on Carnival cruises

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — A man was released from jail on charges he threatened a neighbor who had disturbed him by stomping snow from his feet outside their apartment building. Police said 46year-old John C. Shepardson was released on bond Monday following his arrest Saturday.

Officers said he brandished a shotgun and threatened 39-year-old Michael C. Pickel who had been stomping snow from his feet around 7 a.m. Saturday.

According to the Kingsport TimesNews, Shepardson told police the stomping awakened someone else who was sleeping in his apartment.

Shepardson was charged with aggravated assault. A spokeswoman at the jail did not know Monday if he had an attorney.

MIAMI (AP) — Carnival Cruise Lines won’t be sailing anymore with a boatload of “cougars” and their willing prey.

The Miami-based company has turned down a request from a singles travel group to book another cruise with the cougar theme. The term refers to older women who date younger men.

The singles group says the ban is unfounded. They point to their first cruise on Carnival’s Elation in December that drew about 300 women and the men they call “cubs.”

Carnival says there were no problems with last month’s trip, it’s just a business decision. They have no room for groups with that “theme.”

Analysts say it’s meant to protect Carnival’s focus on family fun.

Party planners say they’ve had no trouble booking with rivals Norwegian and Royal Caribbean.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Residents in a Knoxville’s wealthy Sequoyah Hills neighborhood are alarmed that a man wants to convert his home into a duplex and run a music studio and fertility service out of it. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported David Perkins is asking the Metropolitan Planning Commission to allow the change, saying he wants to operate businesses that would involve music lessons and the coordinating of two fertility services.

“We are very much opposed to all of this,” said Jim Bletner, board member of the Kingston Pike Sequoyah Hills Association, who said members would appear before the commission tomorrow to speak against Perkins’ proposal.

A duplex would be out of character in the neighborhood and the businesses could intrude on neighbors’ tranquility, he said.

Perkins — a musician — proposes to conduct music lessons in his home and book appearances from there. No performances would be held there, he said.

Neighbors said a previous

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Perkins told the newspaper he made up the list to pump up his business and attract more bookings.

“That was just hype,” he said.

“How big do I have to be to get somebody’s attention to talk to me on equal-part terms as an entertainer? It’s marketing; it’s hype.”

None of the events are taking place, and Perkins said he has removed them from his MySpace page.

Perkins operates two Web sites for part of his business called Family Building LLC, which he said helps couples who are trying to conceive.

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Attorney General Eric Holder was to announce the initiative after his deputy, David Ogden, issued a memo to federal prosecutors in those areas instructing them to do more to fight tribal crime — a problem the Justice Department has long been accused of ignoring.

Ogden’s memo also said 47 new prosecutors and FBI personnel will be assigned to handle such crimes.

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Freedom in decline for 4th straight year WASHINGTON — The crackdown in Iran in 2009 highlighted a continuing decline in freedom and rights for the fourth consecutive year, the democracy watchdog group Freedom House reported yesterday.

The Middle East remained the most repressive region in the world and Africa sustained the most significant decline, the report said after examining political and civil rights in 194 countries and 14 territories.

Jennifer Windsor, executive director of Freedom House, cited attacks on front-line democracy activists, including what she said was brutal repression on the streets of Iran.

She also pointed to sweeping detention in China of “Charter 08” advocates of expanding freedom and an end to Communist party dominance, as well as the murders of journalists and human rights activists in Russia.

—Barry Schweid (AP)

WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed open to the idea of continuing to let the federal government indefinitely hold inmates considered “sexually dangerous” after their federal prison terms are complete.

“You are talking about endangering the health and safety of people, so the government has some responsibility, doesn’t it?” said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Lower courts have said the federal government cannot do this. But in arguments before the high court Tuesday, Solicitor General Elena Kagan said the government has a responsibility to ensure that sexual predators are notturnedbackontothestreets.

The federal government’s responsibility and power extends to ensuring “those people who have been in custody are released responsibly,” Kagan said.

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Suicide is rising among young male war veterans

November trade deficit increases to $36.4 billion

Clinton seeks answer to sticky dispute with Japan

WASHINGTON— The Pentagon has ordered 3,100 troops, mostly based in Fort Hood, Texas, to deploy to Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama’s plan to beef up U.S. forces there.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said yesterday the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division should arrive in summer. The 2,600 soldiers assigned to the brigade will be accompanied by about 500 support troops.

Obama is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan with the expectation that U.S. troops would start leaving by July 2011. About 25,000 troops have been given deployment orders.

Fort Hood was the site of shootings last November that killed 13. An Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, has been charged in the case.

—Anne Flaherty (AP)

WASHINGTON — Home from war and out of the military, young male veterans appear to be committing suicide at a higher rate.

The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday that preliminary data reflects that the suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old male veterans has increased significantly. It said the rate went up 26 percent from 2005 to 2007. VA officials said they assume that most of the veterans in this age group served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

If there is a bright spot in the data, it’s that in 2007 veterans in the group who used VA health care were less likely to commit suicide than those who did not. That’s a change from 2005.

—Kimberly Hefling (AP)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit jumped to the highest level in 10 months as an improving U.S. economy pushed up demand for imports. However, exports rose as well, boosted by a weaker dollar, supporting the view that American manufacturers will be helped by a rebounding global economy.

The Commerce Department reported yesterday that the trade deficit jumped 9.7 percent to $36.4 billion in November, a bigger imbalance than the $34.5 billion deficit economists had forecast.

Exports rose 0.9 percent, the seventh consecutive gain, as demand was up for American-made autos, farm products and industrial machinery. Imports, however, rose a much faster 2.6 percent, led by a 7.3 percent rise in petroleum imports.

—Martin Crutsinger (AP)

HONOLULU — Leaping into a deepening dispute with a longtime Asian ally, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is meeting with her Japanese counterpart to discuss the future of a U.S. Marine air field and, more broadly, the U.S.-Japan security alliance.

Yesterday Clinton was also delivering a speech designed to clarify the Obama administration’s views on modernizing the groupings of Asian and Pacific nations in ways that would enhance their cooperation on a wide range of issues, including regional security, trade and the environment.

For decades the main U.S. ties to the Asia-Pacific region have been through security and trade agreements with individual countries, such as the 50-year-old security treaty with Japan that allows the basing of U.S. forces on Japanese territory.

—Robert Burns (AP)

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“You are talking about endangering the health and safety of people . . .”

practice would overstep official bounds when it comes to sentencing people for federal crimes. The federal government “doesn’t have the power to detain individuals as a result of their mental illness based on the fear that they are going to go out and commit a crime,” he said.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Justice Justice Antonin Scalia agreed with him, saying that to allow the federal antine federal inmates whose government to indefinitely hold dansentences have expired but have gerous people because states won’t a highly contagious and deadly do it “is a recipe for the federal govdisease. “Would anybody say that ernment taking over everything.”

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of the federal government would not have Article I power to effect Appeals in Richmond, Va., ruled that kind of public safety mea- lastyearthatCongressoverstepped sure? And the exact same thing its authority when it enacted a law is true here. This is exactly what allowing the government to hold Congress is doing here,” she said. indefinitely, people who are conSeveral justices seemed to agree sidered “sexually dangerous.”

In April, Chief Justice John with her. “It seems to me that the constitutional answer is the Roberts granted an administrasame in this statute as in the case tion request to block the release of of somebody who incurs a very up to 77 inmates at a federal priscommunicable disease and the on in North Carolina. These were government wants to prevent him people whose prison terms for sex from infecting the community,” offenses were ending. The justice’s order was designed to allow time said Justice John Paul Stevens.

Federal public defender G. Alan for the high court to consider the DuBois (doo-BOYCE’) said this administration’s appeal.

Courts look to other countries in international custody dispute

By Mark Sherman The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia practically hisses when his colleagues consult foreign law to help interpret the U.S. Constitution. But yesterday, Scalia found himself looking approvingly to other countries in a case over an international custody dispute.

The court is taking its first look at how American authorities handle the Hague Convention on child abduction, aimed at preventing one parent from taking a child to another country without the other parent’s permission.

“The purpose of a treaty is to have everyone doing the same thing,” Scalia said, “and I think, if it’s a case of some ambiguity, we should try to go along with what seems to be the consensus in other countries that are signatories to the treaty.”

That view seemed to put Scalia, who has said the same thing before, on the side of a

Michelle Obama grows awareness in garden First Lady’s White House garden provides an opportunity to promote national healthy eating habits

By Darlene Superville The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — To Michelle Obama, her White House garden is more than a plot of land. It’s also a soapbox.

The South Lawn garden has given Mrs. Obama a platform to speak out about the country’s childhood obesity problem, extol the benefits of eating fresh food and teach children early to appreciate vegetables.

It also has offered Mrs. Obama another way to open

the White House to people who don’t normally visit.

The garden now is ready for winter, fitted with protective coverings called “hoop houses,” a kind of temporary green house, to help keep various crops — spinach, cauliflower, lettuce, carrots, cabbage and other greens — growing during the cold months.

Aides say the garden has ex“seeded” expectations. It has become so popular that even foreign dignitaries ask Mrs. Obama about it when they meet. Crops have been donated

to a neighborhood soup kitchen, and the first lady’s green thumb has inspired others to start gardening, too.

Local fifth-graders whose public school has a similar garden helped prepare the plot, plant the crops and harvest the produce. They even were brought into the White House kitchen to cook some of the food and experience what eating “fresh” tastes like.

During the first lady’s recent visit to “Sesame Street” to help Elmo and some kids plant vegetable seeds, Big Bird asked if

he had heard correctly that she eats seeds. Not exactly, she replied, but “I do eat what grows from these seeds.” She encourages the kids to eat all their vegetables, telling them that if they do, they’ll “grow up to be big and strong just like me.”

The garden also inspired a culinary showdown on an episode of “Iron Chef America.”

Filmed partly at the White House, the contest paired White House chef Cristeta Comerford and Bobby Flay against the duo of Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse.

“The purpose of a treaty is to have everyone doing the same thing.”

Antonin Scalia | Justice British father who accused his estranged American wife of violating Chilean law and a court order in Chile by taking their son to Texas without his consent. The child, born in Hawaii and now 14, is a U.S. citizen.

Timothy Abbott asked an American court to order the child returned to Chile, based on the treaty. The mother argued that she has exclusive custody of the boy and that U.S. courts are powerless under the treaty to order his return. The New Orleansbased 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the mother, Jacquelyn Abbott.

The high court appeared inclined to side with Timothy Abbott, although some justices

raised concerns that a decision in his favor in this case could lead to undesirable results in others.

Chief Justice John Roberts wondered who would decide whether a child should be returned “if you have the mother taking her daughter from, say, a country where she would be forced to be raised under Sharia (strict Islamic) law.”

Justice Stephen Breyer said he worries about the case of a father who shouldn’t have access to his child, but who lives in a country that forbids one parent from taking a child to another country without the other parent’s consent. “Even Frankenstein’s monster is considered to have custody for the purposes of this,” Breyer said, despite a family law judge ruling, “’Don’t let him near that child.’”

Breyer and Scalia, who often square off about the value of foreign law in the Supreme Court, joined yesterday to help count up countries that have ruled on the child abduction treaty.

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Ohio man pleads not guilty in pipe bomb case

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A state report says a former school official accused of stealing from the Cleveland and Toledo districts also spent taxpayer money to investigate board members and critics.

The state auditor’s office says Daniel Burns spent $1,500 while in Toledo to investigate and do criminal background checks on three board members and two district critics.

Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor said last week that Burns stole nearly $660,000 through fake equipment purchases and a duplicate payment scheme for equipment repair in Toledo.

Burns oversaw the district’s business office for many years before working for the Cleveland schools.

He has been indicted in Cleveland for allegedly pocketing $160,000 for printing equipment purchases never provided. He has pleaded not guilty.

He has not been charged in Toledo.

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio man injured in November when two explosions rocked his apartment has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of possessing dozens of pipe bombs.

Fifty-six-year-old Mark Campano of Cuyahoga (ky-uhHOH’-guh) Falls was arraigned yesterday.

He was brought into a federal court in Cleveland with his left hand still bandaged.

Campano didn’t speak but nodded his agreement when a judge said he would enter a not guilty plea on his behalf. He’s charged with having about 37 unregistered pipe bombs.

Campano, a former doctor who practiced in Ohio and West Virginia, was arrested after two explosions ripped through his apartment.

His mother says her son didn’t intend to harm anyone and detonated the devices in remote areas as a hobby.

Freed death row inmate charged in Minn. assault

Ohio drug defendant: I’m too young to be charged

BAXTER, Minn. (AP) — A former Ohio death row inmate has been charged with felony assault in Minnesota for allegedly hitting his son with a baseball bat.

Kenneth Thomas Richey, 45, will appear in court on Jan. 19. Richey was arrested Jan. 6 at the Baxter home of his son, Sean Richey, and charged with felony second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.

Richey was freed on $3,000 bond.

According to a criminal complaint cited by the Brainerd Dispatch yesterday, Sean Richey told police his father grew angry and attacked him after the pair had been wrestling playfully.

Richey was convicted in Ohio of setting a fire in 1986 that killed a 2-year-old girl. He was ultimately freed from death row after a federal appeals court in 2007 ruled his lawyers had mishandled the case. As part of a deal to resolve the case, Richey, a U.S.-British citizen, agreed to leave the country.

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Federal prosecutors in Columbus say Rigoberto Gomez-Gomez told authorities he was 30 years old when he was arrested in August.

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