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Show Saturday, February 9, 2008 HERALD DAILY A4 Morning Briefing FAST FACT M&Ms owe their success to the United States military, which was in G.l.s' pockets and backpacks hungry for a candy that could hold up their could without be eaten and tngger tingers getting siiocy. Source: Who Knew? Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation Woman kills 2 fellow students in classroom, takes her own life ; BATON ROUGE, La. A old woman killed two fellow students with a .357 revolver in a classroom at a vocational college Friday, then committed suicide, police said. The women apparently were shot in their seats in the second-floo- r classroom at Louisiana Technical College, Bat on Rouge Sgt. Don Kelly said. About 20 people were in the emergency medical technology class at the time, he said. Police identified the victims as Karsheika Graves. 21. and Taneshia Butler, 26. "Why those two women were targeted .;. is still an unanswered question," Kelly said. Police did not release the shooter's name because her relatives had not been contacted. The shooter entered the room briefly, spoke with the instructor and left, he said. She returned through another door and fired six rounds, Kelly said, reloaded and shot herself in the head. Officers ran into the building within four minutes of the first 911 call, which came at 8:36 a.m., Kelly said, "There was mass pandemonium, people running," he said. "One officer the first into the classroom told me he could still smell gunpowder." Teacher stabbed in front of fifth-grade- rs His PORTSMOUTH, Ohio schoolteacher wife had left him and filed for divorce. A young woman he was seeing may have had second thoughts about her relationship with an older man. ; William Michael Layne stabbed them both his estranged wife in front of her e class in Portsmouth and the other woman in an al- ley behind her home. Then he put a shotgun in his mouth and ended it, police said. Christi Layne, 53, was in critical but stable condition Friday after surgery at Cabell Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., Portsmouth Police Chief Charles Horner said. Stephanie Loop, 22, was in the same condition at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, the chief said. Christi Layne's students at Notre Dame Elementary School saw her husband barge into the classroom and stab her Thursday morning. Layne fled, attacking Loop a few blocks from the school. Police tracked him to his home near the Ohio River, surrounded it and finally found old dead after a the standoff. Loop's cousin, Chrissy Shepherd, told the Portsmouth Daily Times that Layne considered Loop his girlfriend. "1 don't know if he feared she was abandoning him or what," she told the paper for a story published Friday. fifth-grad- PABLO Surveying the damage MARTINEZ MONSIVAISAssocialed Press President Bush jcenterj greets C.W. Warner second from the right and Paulett Warner Ifar right as he surveys a neighborhood damaged by the tornadoes Friday in Lafayette, Tenn. At left is Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen. Dust seen as cause of Ga. refinery blast as crews pull 3 bodies from wreckage charge. The result was as devastatPORT WENTWORTH, Ga. Volatile dust was blamed ing as a bomb. Floors inside the plant collapsed, flames spread Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and throughout the refinery, metal crews pulled three bodies from girders buckled into twisted tunnels beneath the mangled heaps and shredded sheet metal littered the wreckage. mass of metal and beams left by the blast. Three others known to be in- Brother: Gunman left side the plant during the explo- suicide note warning sion were still missing. Search 'truth will come out' efforts were slowed by the . A gunKIRKWOOD, Mo. instability of what was left of the refinery, gutted by flames man carrying a grudge against and wracked by the impact of City Hall left a suicide note on the blast itself. his bed warning "the truth will come out in the end," before Anxious families of the night-shihe went On a deadly shooting workers at the Imperial Sugar plant gathered spree at a council meeting, his at the parish hall of a Catholic brother told The Associated church across the street and Press on Friday. Arthur Thornton, 42, said wept as officials relayed grim in an interview at the family's news from the plant. home he knew when he read Investigators were unable note that Charles to determine what sparked the the one-lin- e Lee "Cookie" Thornton was the overnight explosion as fireman who stormed the meeting fighters battled flames inside the vast refinery a network Thursday night and killed five of warehouses, silos and people before police shot him dead. ings eight stories tall connect"I want to say for my family ed by corridors of sheet metal. Imperial President and CEO that I'm am truly, truly sorry," John Sheptor said sugar dust in Arthur Thornton said, breaka silo where refined sugar was ing into tears. "I'm so sorry. stored before being packaged This didn't have to happen." . ft ers over their banks. It was the second time in five months that area residents were faced with cleaning up from a flood. Fed up business owners urged Strickland to do likely ignited like gunpowder. Sugar dust can become combustible if it's too dry and builds up a static electric something. "I don't know how many more of these I can take," furniture-store owner Jim Hering-hau- s told the governor. Strickland said he understood their anger. After flying over nearby Findlay, Strickland said it was terrible to see how many families had been affected by this week's flooding, especially beORLIN WAGNERAssociated Press cause many were just putting their homes back together following the August flood, which Unidentified supporters hold signs as Republican presidential was the worst since 1913. "The state stands ready to hopefyul former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks during a rally in Topeka, Kan., on Friday. help," the governor told focal emergency officials. "We're all in this together." H.T. Lynch and Connie Karr. Friends and relatives said At least 300 homes in Find-la- y Flowers and balloons were flooded this time, most of the dead gunman had a longplaced outside City Hall Friday which were hit last summer, standing feud with the city, h in their honor. ;'; said Jim Barker, the city's and he had lost a federal lawsuit against the safety director. St. Louis suburb just 10 days The Blanchard River reached Second flood in five 5 feet above flood stage early earlier. At earlier meetings, he months in Ohio town said he had received 150 tickets Thursday before it began to OTTAWA, Ohio Gov, drop, according to the National against his business. The victims were identified Ted Strickland toured flooded Weather Service in Cleveland. The damage wasn't nearly as towns across northwest Ohio Friday as Public Works Director Kenneth Yost, Officer Tom on Friday, after three days of widespread as itAvas during the Ballman, Officer William Biggs heavy rains and melting snow summer, but it was enough for drove most of the region's riv those cleaning up again. and council members Michael rS At Supporting Huckabee . free-speec- The World 11 killed, 6 injured in Proposal on Islamic Law member of Parliament from the Labor Party, said he agrees fire at home for in England stirs dissent elderly of U.K. with "the vast life away from the area where it died. "Neanderthal mobility is majority As Britain reels under unMuslims (who) oppose any At least 11 people were highly controversial," said such move to introduce Sharikilled when a fire engulfed a Katerina Har-vaprecedented levels of immigration that have challenged the at the Max Planck Institute ah here. British law is the envy home for the elderly in westof the world." small island nation's traditions, ern Austria on Friday, a local for Evolutionary Anthropology 4 n - 'SlL-r- ' ; iliSthe Archbishop of Canterbury But some polls have shown in Leipzig, Germany. government spokesman said. Six people were injured, entered the fray this week by that substantial numbers of Some experts believe NeBritish Muslims would like three of them seriously, said anderthals roamed over very declaring it is probably "unavoidable" that some limited Thomas Mair, a spokesman for limited areas, but others say to live under some form of form of Islamic Shariah law will Islamic law, and often feel the regional government in the they must have been more mohave to be accepted in Britain. alienated when their traditional province of Vorarlberg. bile, particularly when hunting, The archbishop, Rowan Wil"It is a catastrophe, comHarvati said. legal principles come into conflict with secular civil law. Until now, experts only had liams, is the spiritual leader of pletely terrible," Chancellor AlMuslims have long complained the Church of England, and fred Gusenbauer told the Ausindirect evidence, including his pronouncement, aimed at that while Christian and Jewish tria Press Agency. Gusenbauer stone used in tools, Harvati ' '' 5 V5 arrived in the town of Egg . said. "Our analysis is the first building greater inclusiveness religious marriages are recognized under the law, Muslims late Friday, the news agency for Britain's 1.8 million Musthat brings evidence from a Nemust usually perform a sepaanderthal fossil itself," she said. lims, has instead unleashed a reported. storm of dissent, even among rate civil ceremony. Twenty three residents and some Muslims, and calls within Williams made it clear he two supervisors were in the Kenya's rivals close the church for his resignation. was talking about only limbuilding when the fire started, Annan says agreement, Prime Minister Gordon ited adoption of Shariah, the Mair said. He could not immelaw of on Brown's office speedily has based the dead or the the diately identify system NAIROBI, Kenya Kenya's rival political parties moved Quran and the teachings of the injured. sought to distance the government from the proposal, while Some 250 firefighters also toward an agreement to share Prophet Muhammad that many not entirely ruling it out, and Muslims consider their reli- - . were at the scene, Mair said, power, the chief mediator said several parliament leaders adding that the fire had been gious duty to obey. It covers Friday, raising hopes for a were openly critical. put out. everything from how to pray breakthrough in the postelec"We have to accept that to who may marry, how trade tion crisis that has left more 40,000-year-ol- d is to be conducted, and how whatever your views, whattooth than 1,000 people dead. ever your faith, whatever the In another sign tensions punishments should be meted indicates Neanderthals out for crimes. It provides, for were easing, the internal secugreat cultural diversity be more traveled may which I celebrate in this counexample, that men may take rity minister lifted the ban on FERNANDO VERGARAAssociated Press d there's got to Analysis of a try we have up to four wives if they care public rallies imposed after viobe a certain set of values that tooth found in southern Greece lence broke out over the East for them adequately. Day we all subscribe to, otherwise The archbishop said he was African country's disputed suggests Neanderthals were Yenid de la Hoz cuts roses at the La Mana Flower company the whole thing falls apart," proposing consideration of the more mobile than once thought, Dec. 27 presidential election. in Tocancipa, north of Bogota, Colombia, to be shipped to said Nick Clegg, leader of the Former U.N. chief Kofi Anprinciples of Shariah only in paleontologists said Friday. the U.S. ahead of Valentine's Day, the biggest holiday of the Liberal Democratic Party. "Re- limited areas such as family Analysis of the tooth part nan, who is mediating talks, flower sales. According to statistics from year for fresh-cu- t spect for the same body of law law, and only in cases in which of the first and only Neandersaid he expected to complete the Society of American Florists, more than 80 percent of the is part of that glue that holds a all parties agreed to submit to thal remains found in Greece work on a settlement by early roses Americans buy for their Valentines come from outside showed the ancient human an alternative legal forum and democratic society together." next week. "We are making the United States, mainly Colombia and Ecuador. Khalid Mahmood, a Muslim could opt out at any time. had spent at least part of its progress," Annan said. ti "- - X T" a ' " ?K4 US to 40,000-year-ol- Prepping for Valentine's |