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Show At D A I I HERALD Y Wtdnnfoy, Mirch Morning Briefing 5. 2008 FAST FACT Fred Astaire's real name was Frederick Austerlitt. Tt Sourt toot ol Anwum Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation Student fabricated tale of gunman The WORLD Most of the victims had been shot and at least one child had been stabbed, authorities said. The children ranged in age from about 1 to 12 years old, police said. Some had trouble negotiating some Ar- kansas roads, and authorities RALEIGH, NX. -I- n the urged motorists to stay home. A band of snow and rain end, the lies piled up too fast stretched from the southern for Matthew W. Haney to handle. Plains to northern New England during the morning, and The Appalachian State University senior's attempt to the Weather Service posted avoid paying for a damaged winter storm warnings across sections of Oklahoma, apartment door led him to fabricate a story of a masked Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, with winter weather gunman in a Pink Floyd advisories along the Great running toward the Boone, N.C., campus, police ; Lakes. Thunderstorms swept say. That prompted authorithrough the Southeast. ties to lock down the college for more than an hour MonMemphis police have convicted of keeping Haitian teen as a slave A mother and her adult daughter were convicted Tuesday of keeping a Haitian teen as their slave for six years in their South Florida home. Evelyn Theodore, 74, and Maude Paulin, 52, were convicted of conspiring to violate Simone Celestin's 13th Amendment rights to be free from slavery and forcing her to work for them. Paulin, a Miami-Dad- e County teacher, also was con- A MEMPHIS, Tenn. day into one of the city's big-ge- st murder investigations in decades two men, two women and two boys shot and stabbed police'conced-eTuesday they had virtually nothing to go on. Winter weather Investigators said they believed the attacker or attackMissouri plagues ers were not among the dead, to North Carolina ruling out a murder-suicidLITTLE ROCK, Ark. But detectives faced a Deep snow, heavy rain and broad window for the killsleet from the Mississippi Val- ings: some time between ley to the East Coast snarled Saturday night and Monday travel, caused scattered flood- evening, when the six bodies ing and complicated primary-da- y and three wounded children were found in a small brick voting Tuesday. home on a dead-enstreet in Two people were killed in Illinois when their car slid on a poor neighborhood east of downtown. a sleet covered road into the Officers went door to door path of a truck. As much as 13 inches of looking for tips that could lead to a suspect or a motive. snow fell at Russellville in "We're working with a west central Arkansas, with up to 8 inches in Missouri and blank sheet of paper," police 9 around Alton, 111., the Naspokeswoman Monique Martional Weather Service said. tin said. victed Of harboring an illegal-aliefor financial gain. Theodore and Paulin's Saintfort Paulin, were both acquitted of that count but convicted of a lesser charge of harboring an n d illegal alien. Claire Telasco, Paulin's sister, was acquitted of conspiracy and forced labor chairgps. Prosecutors alleged that Celestin was stolen at age 5 from her mother and grandmother in a mountain village and forced to pretend she was an orphan at the orphanage Theodore ran with her late husband in Ranquitte, Haiti. At age 14, the girl was takvisa. en to the U.S. on a Prosecutors alleged that for the next six years, Celestin's life consisted of work days as an unpaid servant. 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The dispute reflected the often contentious relations between the West and Russia and China about how to deal with Iran's refusal to suspend enrichment and meet other Security Council demands aimed at ensuring its nuclear program isn't trying to produce atomic weapons. The sanctions approved Monday ordered a freeze on assets of additional Iranian officials and companies with links to the country's nuclear and missile programs and banned for the first time trade with Iran in some goods that have both civilian and military uses. After Russia's natural gas monopoly announced the second supply cut in two days Tuesday, Ukraine's natural gas company said there are no immediate plans to divert Europe-boun- d gas to Ukrainian customers, but held out the possibility it could do so if reserves run low. Much of the Russian gas consumed in Europe comes in pipelines crossing Ukraine. 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President Bush last month requested $515 bil. Venezuela and Ecuador had FARC. lion to fund the Pentagon, an the ties with deepening amount that does not include Ecuador said Venezueja-anColombia was lying. spending for the wars in Iraq The Organization of Ameriand Afghanistan. can States held an emergency 8 killed in helicopter meeting in Washington to try to calm one of the region's crash in Iraq worst political showdowns in BAGHDAD An Iraqi years. Colombia apologized for the attack, but Ecuador wasn't military helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, killing an satisfied, calling for OAS to American soldier and seven investigate. other people, the U.S. military 2 nothing to go on day evening. Haney's lies then continued with a series of television interviews. It wasn't until Tuesday morning, when he was grilled by a Boone detective, that Haney conceded that it had all been a hoax a creative yarn that got away from him. 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