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Sex assault case to get fresh start MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — The case of a 14-year-old girl who says she was raped by an older boy from her Missouri high school and left passed out on her porch in freezing temperatures is expected to get a fresh start under a special prosecutor. A special prosecutor will be able to launch his own investigation, interview witnesses and work independently from the local prosecutor who’s faced intense scrutiny for dropping felony charges in the case last year, experts said Thursday. “The idea is really to have a third party who is removed from the process, who can bring the appearance of objectivity and neutrality,� said Richard Reuben, a professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. “At the end of the day they would look like a prosecutor who is truly independent.�
Trains running as strike talks drag on OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A marathon negotiating session between a major San Francisco Bay Area transit agency and its two largest unions ran well into a second day Thursday as both sides worked toward a deal to end the monthslong contract dispute that has left many riders under the repeated threat of a commute-crippling strike. To the relief of thousands, trains were running on schedule Thursday morning while negotiations that began around 10 a.m. Wednesday went on for more than 24 hours. Union and Bay Area Rapid Transit officials declined to say whether they were close to a resolution. “We’ve been going for 24 straight hours now. It’s been intense,� said Chris Daly, political director of the Service Employees International Union, Local 1021.
People • Director attacked on ‘Transformers’ set HONG KONG (AP) — Hollywood director Michael Bay was attacked and slightly injured Thursday on the set of the fourth installment of the “Transformersâ€? movie series currently filming in Hong Kong, police said. A Hong Kong police spokeswoman said two brothers surnamed Mak who own a shop near the movie set approached Bay and demanded 100,000 Hong Kong dollars ($13,000). When Bay refused to pay, they assaulted him, she said. The brothers also allegedly assaulted three police officers who were called to the set. The spokeswoman said Bay suffered a minor injury to his face but declined medical treatment. She spoke on customary condition of anonymity.
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1.8 million-year-old skull gives glimpse of our evolution
Rare whale found dead in California LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare whale that has a dolphin-shaped head and saber-like teeth has been found dead on Los Angeles’ Venice Beach, even though it prefers frigid subarctic waters. The roughly 15-footlong female Stejneger’s beaked whale washed ashore Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Times reported. A truck hauled away the mammal, which was being examined at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum to determine how it died. The Stejneger’s beaked whale is rarely seen in the wild. The species typically dives deep in subarctic waters to feed on squid and small fish. It is believed to migrate as far south as Northern California, and how the whale ended up so far south will probably remain a mystery.
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U.S. Senator-elect Cory Booker, left, is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie before a groundbreaking ceremony for a supermarket, Thursday, in Newark, N.J. A day
earlier, Booker, who is the mayor of Newark, N.J., beat Republican Steve Lonegan during a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
Booker wins N.J. Senate seat, says he’s ‘a scrapper’ NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — U.S. senator-elect Cory Booker said Thursday he’s ready to go to Washington and is not afraid if he “breaks dishes� trying to serve his constituents in New Jersey. Booker, 44, the Democratic mayor of Newark, made the rounds on the morning talk shows a day after defeating Republican Steve Lonegan. His win came after an aggressive two-month race to finish the term of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died in office in June at age 89. Booker said he wants to channel Americans’ frustration with Congress into energy for change. “I think everybody
feels there’s fatigue and frustration with how things are, which creates a great climate for change,� Booker said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.� �Often before you have great victory, you have to have great frustration.� The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city takes to Washington a national profile — boosted by a strong social media presence, frequent television appearances and his status as a surrogate for Barack Obama during the president’s 2012 re-election campaign — just as the federal government begins functioning again after a 16-day shutdown. He hasn’t even started
his job as senator, but he is already being asked if he wants to run for president. “I would rule it out,� he said on WNYW’s “Good Day New York.� �I’m going into the Senate. If I break dishes on the way to try to serve the people of New Jersey, so be it.� Booker called himself a “scrapper� and said he was able to change Newark despite people claiming its problems were intractable, which is what he said people are now saying about Congress. “I find it eerily familiar with what people are saying to me now, because it was said 15 years ago in Newark,� he said. “The problems are too big.�
Iraq: Wave of car, suicide blasts kills at least 61 BAGHDAD (AP) — A barrage of car bomb and suicide bomb blasts rocked Baghdad and two northern Iraqi communities Thursday, killing at least 61 people during a major holiday period and extending a relentless wave of bloodshed gripping the country. The bulk of the blasts struck in mainly Shiite Muslim parts of the Iraqi capital shortly after nightfall, sending ambulances racing through the streets with sirens blaring. Authorities reported nine car bomb explosions across Baghdad, including one near a playground that killed two children. It was the deadliest day in Iraq since Oct. 5, when a suicide bombing targeting Shiite pilgrims and other
attacks left at least 75 dead. Iraq is weathering its deadliest outburst of violence since 2008, raising fears the country is returning to the widespread sectarian killing that pushed it to the brink of civil war in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Iraq’s resurgent branch of al-Qaida is believed to be behind much of the killing as part of its campaign to undermine the Shiite-led government. Thursday’s bloodshed began early in the morning when a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car among houses in an ethnic minority village in northern Iraq. That attack, in the Shabak village of al-Mouafaqiyah near the restive city of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of
Baghdad, killed at least 15 and wounded 52, police said. The United Nations envoy to Iraq condemned the attack and said rising violence in Ninevah province requires “urgent action and strengthened security cooperation� between regional authorities and the central government. “The United Nations pays particular attention to the protection of minority communities who continue suffering from heinous attacks (and) economic and social barriers,� envoy Nickolay Mladenov said. Another suicide bomber struck hours later, setting off an explosives belt inside a cafe in Tuz Khormato, killing three and wounding 28, police chief Col. Hussein Ali Rasheed said.
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DMANISI, Georgia (AP) — The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree may have fewer branches than some believe, scientists say. The fossil is the most complete pre-human skull uncovered. With other partial remains previously found at the rural site, it gives researchers the earliest evidence of human ancestors moving out of Africa and spreading north to the rest of the world, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The skull and other remains offer a glimpse of a population of pre-humans of various sizes living at the same time — something that scientists had not seen before for such an ancient era. This diversity bolsters one of two competing theories about the way our early ancestors evolved, spreading out more like a tree than a bush. Nearly all of the previous pre-human discoveries have been fragmented bones, scattered over time and locations — like a smattering of random tweets of our evolutionary history. The findings at Dmanisi are more complete, weaving more of a short story. Before the site was found, the movement from Africa was put at about 1 million years ago. When examined with the earlier Georgian finds, the skull “shows that this special immigration out of Africa happened much earlier than we thought and a much more primitive group did it,� said study lead author David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgia National Museum. “This is important to understanding human evolution.� For years, some scientists
have said humans evolved from only one or two species, much like a tree branches out from a trunk, while others say the process was more like a bush with several offshoots that went nowhere. Even bush-favoring scientists say these findings show one single species nearly 2 million years ago at the former Soviet republic site. But they disagree that the same conclusion can be said for bones found elsewhere, such as Africa. However, Lordkipanidze and colleagues point out that the skulls found in Georgia are different sizes but are considered to be the same species. So, they reason, it’s likely the various skulls found in different places and times in Africa may not be different species, but variations in one species. To see how a species can vary, just look in the mirror, they said. “Danny DeVito, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal are the same species,� Lordkipanidze said. The adult male skull found wasn’t from our species, Homo sapiens. It was from an ancestral species — in the same genus or class called Homo — that led to modern humans. Scientists say the Dmanisi population is likely an early part of our long-lived primary ancestral species, Homo erectus. Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, wasn’t part of the study but praised it as “the first good evidence of what these expanding hominids looked like and what they were doing.� Fred Spoor at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, a competitor and proponent of a busy family tree with many species disagreed with the study’s overall conclusion, but he lauded the Georgia skull discovery as critical and even beautiful.
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Email your legal! legals @ kpcmedia.com Call Kelly at 877-791-7877x182 for details LEGAL NOTICE Central States Tower, IL, LLC is proposing to construct a new telecommunications tower facility located at N SR 5 Cromwell, IN 46732. The new facility will consist of a 199 foot tall self-support tower within a fenced lease area along with corresponding support equipment. Any interested party wishing to submit comments regarding the potential effects the proposed facility may have on any historic property may do so by sending comments to: Project 61135210-EB c/o EBI Consulting, 6876 Susquehanna Trail South York PA, 17403, or via telephone at 224-217-3707. NS,00356467,10/18,hspaxlp NOTICE OF UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION 57C01-1309-EU-58 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA. Notice is hereby given that Gary A. Gingerich was on the 30th day of September, 2013, appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Gladys L. Shepherd, deceased, who died on the 11th day of September, 2013. All persons who have claims against this estate, whether or not now due, must file the claim in the office of the Clerk of this Court within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this notice or within nine (9) months after the decedent’s death, whichever is earlier, of the claims will be forever barred. Dated at Albion, Indiana, this 30th day of September, 2013. Michelle Mawhorter Clerk of the Circuit Court of Noble County, Indiana B. Douglas Hayes Attorney No. 0014844-49 Yoder, Ainlay, Ulmer & Buckingham, LLP 130 North Main Street P.O. Box 575 Goshen, IN 46527-0575 NS,00355946,10/11,18,hspaxlp PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given the Noble County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing on the following petitions: Said public hearing will be held in the Dekko Meeting Room, Noble County Office Complex-South, 2090 N State Road 9, Albion, IN, at 7:00 p.m. on: Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Variance No.1895 Sickafoose, Kirk A & Rebecca L Request a Development Standards Variance from the Noble County Unified Development Ordinance ( Article 5.12 Confined Feeding Standards ) to allow a 250’ setback from the East side instead of the required 500’ per the Noble County UDO to construct a 24’x212’ pole building for confined feeding. Real Estate is located in Section 27 of Jefferson Township, Quadrant 100, parcel 002 common location known as 1701 N 400 E. Variance No.1896 Goshen College Inc Request a Development Standards Variance from the Noble County Unified Development Ordinance (Article 2.02 OS District Development Standards) to allow a maximum height of 30’ for construction of all future accessory structures instead of the required 20’ per the Noble County UDO. Real estate is located in Section 17 of Noble Township, Quadrant 100, parcel 001; common location known as 4415 W 200 S Albion, In. Variance No.1897 Ayers, Kenneth L & Gail E Request a Development Standards Variance from the Unified Development Ordinance (Article 2.10 Rural Estate District Development Standards) to allow 70’ building setback from centerline of the road instead of the required minimum of 85’ per the Noble County UDO to construct a 12X18 enclosed front porch. Real Estate is located in Section 35 of Orange Township, quadrant 200, parcel 015; common location known as 6303 N 500 E Kendallville, IN 46755. All applications are on file in the office of the Noble County Plan Commission for public examination. Noble County Plan Commission Teresa Paauwe-Tackett Administrative Assistant NS,00357014,10/18,hspaxlp PUBLIC NOTICE BENCHMARK DISTRIBUTION TERMINALS Benchmark Distribution Terminals is submitting Notice of Intent (NOI) letter for our facility located at 2670 US Highway 6, Waterloo, IN 46793 to notify the Indiana Department o Environmental Management of our intent to comply with the requirements of 327 IAC 15-6 to discharge storm water exposed to the industrial activities. Run-off from the facility will discharge to tributaries leading to Cedar Creek. Questions or comments should be directed to Daniel T. Crago - Environmental Manger with Valley Asphalt, 11641 Mosteller Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45241. NS,00356951,10/18,hspaxlp
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