THE DAILY REVEILLE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
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EU leaders press Obama on bonuses, climate change
Yale animal lab technician charged with murder of student worker
BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders issued a joint plea to President Barack Obama on Thursday to back their call for rich and developing nations to cap bankers’ pay and to impose deeper cuts on emissions for a new global climate change pact. All EU nations are in “total unity” that the world cannot repeat the “scandal.”
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom. Police charged 24-year-old Raymond Clark III with murder, arresting him at a motel a day after taking hair, fingernail and saliva samples to compare with evidence from the grisly crime scene at Yale’s medical school.
Mexico says millions of swine flu cases possible during winter MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico could see up to 5 million cases of swine flu during this winter’s flu season, a higher projection than officials had previously given, the health secretary said Thursday. Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said in the worst-case scenario, deaths could reach 2,000. Cordova told the television network Televisa on Thursday that officials in recent weeks have seen a resurgence of the flu that first hit in April.
Americans’ household wealth grows for first time in two years WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in two years, Americans actually got a little wealthier. Household wealth grew by $2 trillion, or about 4 percent, this spring, ending the longest stretch of quarterly declines on records dating back to
1952, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday. Net worth — the value of assets such as homes, checking accounts and investments minus debts like mortgages and credit cards — came to $53.1 trillion for the second quarter. Stock portfolios came back to life this spring after the market hit its lows for the year in March, and home prices have stabilized. Obama honors US soldier killed on Afghan battlefield WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday praised a U.S. soldier who three times left cover for an attempted rescue while Taliban bullets and grenades rained around him, ultimately losing his own life while trying to save his comrade on an Afghan battlefield. A somber Obama, standing just feet from Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti’s parents, told a White House audience the 30-yearold soldier’s sacrifice should give Americans pause when they throw around words such as duty, honor, sacrifice and heroism.
STATE/LOCAL
Baton Rouge gets best, worst ratings in survey results
$45 million in new construction spending approved
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Baton Rouge is Louisiana’s best place to live and its worst, a new report says. A coalition of groups analyzed 2007 data on health, education and earnings to form a quality of life index. The “best” rating for Baton Rouge cited a suburban swath of predominantly white southern East Baton Rouge Parish combined with West Baton Rouge Parish. The “worst” rating came for sections of downtown and north Baton Rouge, which are predominantly black. The report, spearheaded by Oxfam America, the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation and other groups, said someone in the first area “is expected to live, on average, nearly half a decade longer, earn twice as much, is almost three times more likely to have a bachelor’s degree and is three times less likely to have dropped out of high school” than someone living in the other section.
(AP) — A nearly $45 million list of new state construction spending is moving ahead. The state Bond Commission approved the list of projects Thursday without objection. That list includes local museums, drainage projects, an animal shelter in Washington Parish, a baseball stadium in Baton Rouge and a slew of other construction plans.
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State board pushes for changes to Gov. Jindal’s ethics laws NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A nonpartisan research group has joined the state ethics board in calling for changes to ethics laws Gov. Bobby Jindal pushed through the Legislature in 2008. On Thursday, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana said Jindal and the Legislature should ask the Louisiana Law Institute — a group of lawyers, law school faculty and other experts — to examine the law and suggest revisions.
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