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Show Ik Friday February 15, 2008 www .heraldextra.com y mm My & ins. Utah Valley Edition . 50 CENTS i OUR NEWSPAPER P i' .7 una VUI JlJl Man shoots himself after opening fire in lecture hall Caryn Rousseau and Deanna Bellandi ASSOCIATED THE PRESS A former stuDEKALB, ILL dent dressed in black walked onto the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class Thursday, killing five students, wounding 16 and setting off a panicked stampede before committing suicide. Police say they have no motive for the rapid-fir- e assault, carried out by the gunman who fired indiscriminately into the crowd with a shotgun and two handguns as students dove to the floor and ran toward the exits. At least two of the wounded were hospitalized in critical condition. "I kept thinking, 'Oh God, he's going to shoot me. Oh God, I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead,'" said Desiree Smith, a senior journalism : oil f MS 11 mum Uj'Urr major who dropped to the floor near the back of the auditorium. "People were crawling on each other, trampling each other," she said. "As I got near the door, I got up and I started running." University President John Peters said four people died at the scene, including three students and the gunman, while the other two died at a hospital. The teacher, a graduate student, was wounded but was expected to recover. Peters said the gunman was a former graduate student in sociology at NIU, but was not currently camenrolled at the 25,000-studepus about 65 miles west of Chicago. "It appears he may have been a student somewhere else," University Police Chief Donald Grady said. Authorities did not release any other details about the gunman or identify the victims. ft ""' nt See SHOOtTnG, A3 JIM Rescue workers carry an unidentified victim from the scene of a shooting in DeKalb, III, Thursday. Pres. Bush orders U.S. satellite shot down SCO gets $100M to escape Chap. 11 vN' If r Grace Leong DAILY Lindon-base- d HERALD SCO Group, which was forced into bankruptcy as a result of an unsuccessful legal offensive so far against Big Blue and Novell, may emerge from its Chapter 1 1 filing in the coming months because of a $ 100 million infusion from Stephen Norris Capital Partners and investors from the Middle East. SCO officials declined to identify the Middle Eastern partners who are helping to fund its comeback. . Known for his Middle Eastern connections, Steand former phen Norris, president of global private equity investment firm The Carlyle Group, M year. Under SCO's Chapter 11 reorgae New nization plan, the York private equity grpup will take control of the company and take it private, officials announced on Thursday. SCO officials said the plan, which is subject to approval from U.S. Bankruptcy Court, is expected to be filed in Once the reorganization plan high-profil- r HERBERTAssociated and his former rival Mitt Romney at a news conference Press in Boston on Thursday. Romney endorses McCain's GOB candidacy Liz Sidoti high-profi- had helped advise Saudi Prince bin Talal, Citigroup's largest individual shareholder, engineer a rescue bid for the beleaguered bank when bad mortgages left the largest U.S. lender with a $10 billion loss in the fourth quarter of last Lolita C. Baldor THE GERALD Sen. John McCain, 5HE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON Republican campaign dropout Mitt Romney endorsed John McCain for the party's presidential nomination and asked his national convention delegates to swing behind the likely nominee. "Even when the contest was close and our disagreements were debated, the caliber of the man was apparent," the former Massachusetts governor said, standing alongside his rival at his campaign's headquarters. "This is a man capable of leading pur country at a dangerous : hour." one-tim- e now-defun- "Primaries are tough," said McCain, referring to their earlier rancor. "We know it was a hard campaign and now we move forward, we move forward together for the good of our party and the nation." u The two met privately before appearing together at a news confer-- , ence. McCain had campaigned in Vermont and Rhode Island but added a flight to Boston to accept the en- - "Even when the contest was close and our disagreements were debated, the caliber of the man was dorsement. McCain effectively sealed the nomination last week when Romney withdrew from the race; only former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and I See . KILLAMNorthern Star at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University apparent." . Mitt Romney on endorsing ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON President Bush has ordered the Pentagon to use a' Navy missile to attempt to destroy a broken U.S. spy satellite and thereby minimize the risk to humans from its toxic fuel by intercepting it just before it the atmosphere, officials said Thursday. The effort the first of its kind will be undertaken because of the potential that people in the area where the satellite would otherwise crash could be harmed, the officials said. Deputy National Security Adviser James Jeffrey, briefing reporters at the Pentagon, did not say when the attempted intercept would be conducted, but the satellite is expected to hit Earth during the first week of ' March. "This is all about trying to reduce the danger to human beings," Jeffrey said. Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the same briefing that the "window of opportunity" for such a shoot-dowpresumably to be launched from a Navy ship, will open in the next three or four days and last for seven or eight days. He did not say Sen. John McCain ROMNEY, A3. V See SATELLITE, ' A3 mid-Ma- See SCO, A3 ymmm INSIDE BRIEFING A2 EDITORIALS A5 OUR TOWNS B1 OBITUARIES B4 BUSINESS B6 SPORTS CI WEATHER LIFE & STYLE COMICS D4 $ 0 0 (5 Sunny Q Michael Knuzelman THE 0 0Q000M 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 ;! VOLUME 85 ISSUE 199 (? & Q Q I"'1 ft ALEX BRANDON " Associated Press trailers being used for housing for University of New Orleans students and faculty are shown early Monday morning in New Orleans, Aug. 28, 2006. '' ' 7 rr r ry,7 V i PRESS trailers because government-issue- d tests found dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes. FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison said the agency hopes to get everyone out and into hotels, motels, apartments and other temporary housing by the summer, when the heat and stuffy air could worsen the problem inside the trailers. "The real issue is not what it will cost but how fast we can move peo FEMA 055'0005 0" ASSOCIATED After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of roughly 35,000 HIGH 37 LOW 17 C6 D1 Katrina victims will be moved out of poisonous FEMA trailers v rti ii r-?- r. ft ': t f. t, f.,i ple out," he said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fumes from 519 tested trailers and mobile homes in Louisiana and Mississippi were, on average, about five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes. Formaldehyde, a preservative commonly used in construction materials, can lead to breathing problems and is also believed to cause cancer The findings stirred worry "anlf. anger across the Gulf Coast, where FEMA is already a dirty word and housing has been scarce since Hurri- canes Katrina and Rita Struck in 2005. "Am I angry at FEMA? Of course I am. They should have started mov-- 1 . ..':.... See 7 " FEMA, A3 t ' |