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It’s Where You Live! September 27, 2013

Volume 105, No. 228

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‘Top Chef’ New Orleans promises alligator

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No compromise: WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving closer to the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans vowed Thursday they won’t simply accept the stopgap legislation that is likely to remain after Senate Democrats strip away a plan to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health care law. The defiant posture sets the stage for weekend drama on Capitol Hill after the Senate sends

the fractious House a straightforward bill to keep the government operating through Nov. 15 rather than partly closing down at midnight Monday. The Senate is likely to act Friday after Democrats use their procedural advantages to remove the House’s tea party-inspired provision to “defund Obamacare.” Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and several rankand-file Republicans said the House simply won’t

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accept a “clean” spending measure, even though that’s been the norm in Congress on dozens of occasions since the 199596 government closures that bruised Republicans and strengthened the hand of Democratic President Bill Clinton. “I don’t see that happening,” Boehner said. Still, he declared that “I have no interest in a government shutdown” and he doesn’t expect one to occur on Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said the Democratic-led chamber will not relent. “The Senate will never pass a bill that guts the Affordable Care Act,” Reid declared. A partial government shutdown would keep hundreds of thousands of federal workers off the job, close national parks and generate damaging headlines for whichever side the public held responsible.

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Japan car parts makers in pricefixing plea

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ po-boy shops, gourmet restaurants and suburban bayou-side eateries are the backdrop for the country’s search for its next “Top Chef,” and some of the city’s food stars came out to celebrate. See Page 6

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine Japanese auto parts manufacturers and two of their executives will plead guilty and pay $740 million in criminal fines for conspiring to fix the prices of more than 30 products sold to many of the world’s largest automakers operating in the U.S., the Justice Department announced Thursday. See Page 5

Washington faces two deadlines: The Oct. 1 start of the new budget year and a mid-October date — now estimated for the 17th — when the government can no longer borrow money to pay its bills on time and in full. The first deadline requires Congress to pass a spending bill to allow agencies to stay open. The mid-month deadline requires Congress to

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Fifth grade elementary school teacher Jeanna Heitkamp, left, along with Danielle Davis, principal for kindergarten through 12th grades, look over the shoulder of Logan Filbrun while working on decimal problem solving Thursday at the school. Newton Local Schools was recently awarded the National Blue Ribbon award.

Small school, big results Newton Elementary School earns top national honor Melanie Yingst

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PLEASANT HILL — Newton Elementary School may be small in size, but it garnered a huge national award from the U.S. Secretary of Education this week. Newton Elementary was selected as one of only 286 schools in the U.S. as a National Blue Ribbon School as an “Exemplary High

Performing” school in the nation. The National Blue Ribbon program category of “Exemplary High Performing,” defines that award as schools that are recognized among their state’s highest performing schools, as measured by state assessments or nationally-normed tests. Newton Local School Principal Danielle Davis said she and her entire staff were

ecstatic to earn national recognition for the National Blue Ribbon School award on Tuesday. Davis said she was contacted by the Ohio Department of Education, which nominated the elementary school for the award at the end of last year. “I think its been our consistency,” Davis said, on why the elementary school stood out among the best of See SCHOOL | 2

TROY — The eyes of the nation got a glimpse of Troy’s own version of the “Hatfields and McCoys” recently. An episode of ABC’s “20/20” focused on the simmering feud between Troy neighbors Melissa Zimmerman and Mitch Whalen. The episode, entitled “The People Next Door,” aired last Friday. On the episode, “Neighbors From Hell” blogger Bob Borzotta flew to Troy and met with the Mayfield Drive residents. “It’s not home, sweet home — it’s been horrible,” Zimmerman said in an interview with “20/20.” Zimmerman complained about the overgrown shrubbery in Whalen’s yard, which she should she could overlook. She said, however, that she could not overlook the alleged threatening gestures Whalen has made against her and her son. She told the television show Whalen has called her names, threatened her with a knife and used his finger to mimic a gun. Zimmerman, a single mother, also said Whalen has even questioned her son’s paternity by painting the letters “DNA” on the side of a tree in orange paint. Zimmerman said in the interview. Zimmerman showed the ABC show survellience video of what she claims was Whalen shining a red laser from his house into her window less than 60 seconds after the “20/20” crew left Mayfield Drive. When interviewed off-camera by Borzotta, Whalen said he “just wants it all to stop.” “Mitch repeatedly says to me, all he wants is to be left alone,” Bortzotta said. To see the full episode of the show, visit www.abcnews.go.com/2020

Militant group attacks Kenyan border towns NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Islamic extremist group that killed scores of people at a Nairobi mall has now attacked two Kenyan towns near the Somali border, killing three people. The leader of the Somali group affiliated with al-Qaida said the attacks will continue until Kenyan troops are withdrawn from Somalia. The leader of al-Shabab said in a message that there is no way Kenya can “withstand a war of attrition inside your own country.” “Make your choice today and withdraw all your forces,” said Ahmed Abdi Mohamed Godane, who goes by his nom de guerre Mukhtar

Abu Zubayr, in a new statement posted on the Internet late Wednesday. “Otherwise be prepared for an abundance of blood that will be spilt in your country, economic downfall and displacement.” Al-Shabab said the Nairobi mall attack was not only directed at Kenya, but was also “a retribution against the Western states that supported the Kenyan invasion and are spilling the blood of innocent Muslims in order to pave the way for their mineral companies,” according to the statement from Godane. Al-Shabab attacked Nairobi’s upscale

Westgate mall Saturday and held it for four days in a siege in which at least 67 people were killed. Forensic experts from around the world, including the U.S., Britain, Germany and Canada, continued their work Thursday reconstructing events in the crime scene including by carrying out fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis. Early Thursday, al-Shabab fighters attacked the border town of Mandera, killing two police officers, injuring three others and destroying 11 vehicles, said regional police chief Charlton Mureithi. Wednesday night, See KENYAN | 2

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A team of international and Kenyan forensics investigators carry a box of equipment to examine a silver saloon car, seen behind bushes, parked a short distance opposite the entrance to the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday.

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