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Friday, September 30, 2011
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Syrian regime supporters pelt U.S. ambassador with food items
Police reports: NY woman says man offered her $180,000 to kill him
New Orleans to host ArenaBowl XXV in 2012, league celebrates 25 years
BEIRUT (AP) — Angry supporters of President Bashar Assad’s regime hurled tomatoes and eggs at the U.S. ambassador to Syria on Thursday as he entered the office of a leading opposition figure and then tried to break into the building, trapping him inside for three hours. The Obama administration blamed the Syrian government for the attack in Damascus, saying it was part of a campaign to intimidate American diplomats.
HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York woman is accused of running over a bound man who she said promised her $180,000 if she ended his life, but police said they have no evidence he wanted to die. Francis Nelson, 74, was found dead, his hands and feet still tied, near his abandoned car on a rural road in upstate Herkimer County on Tuesday morning. On Thursday, Jennifer Riesel, who met Nelson through a social club in their hometown of Little Falls, was charged with his murder.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans will host ArenaBowl XXV in 2012. Officials say the championship event will be the fifth hosted by New Orleans, joining the BCS National Championship game, the NCAA Final Four, the Allstate Sugar Bowl and the 2013 Super Bowl. AFL Commissioner Jerry B. Kurz said Thursday the city has a tremendous AFL fan base and believes the city is the perfect place to celebrate the league’s 25th anniversary. New Orleans served as the host city for the last two neutral site ArenaBowls in 2007 and 2008. Nearly 400 Southeast species could be protected under Endangered Act
US criticizes UN for failing to cut $5.2 billion budget adequately UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States criticized the U.N. on Thursday for not making deeper cuts in its proposed $5.2 billion budget for the next two years amid an economic crisis that has forced member states to make far greater sacrifices. Ambassador Joseph M. Torsella, U.S. representative for management and reform to the United Nations, told the U.N. budget committee that the current plan eliminates just 44 positions from a workforce of 10,307 — a mere 0.4 percent.
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A pro-Syrian regime protester holds up a placard against Turkish and United Kingdom prime ministers Thursday in Damascus, Syria.
Gunman kills pregnant woman in Spain, but baby saved via C-section MADRID (AP) — A gunman walked into a Catholic church and killed a pregnant woman Thursday, then committed suicide, but emergency crews performed a C-section on the woman inside the church and saved the baby, a police official said. Another woman sitting near the victim was wounded by a stray bullet in the shooting, a National Police Corps official said. The pregnant woman was just days away from giving birth.
Tulsa school official faces lawsuit after calling educators ‘dirtbags’ TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s schools superintendent said Thursday that her chief of staff’s personal Twitter post calling school administrators “dirtbags” was a “poor choice of words” — but called a lawsuit targeting parents of special-needs children that prompted the comment vindictive and “groundless.” In her Sept. 7 posting, Jennifer Carter referred to a lawsuit the Jenks and Union school districts brought against the parents of special-needs students who had sued the districts.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly 400 animal and plant species in the southeastern U.S. are part of a national push by the Obama administration to settle whether hundreds of varieties are endangered. The administration agreed to consider whether more than 700 freshwater species — 374 of which are found from Virginia to Louisiana — deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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Chancellor Michael Martin speaks with mass communication junior Richmond Taylor Cox and other students Thursday at “Chats with the Chancellor.”
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