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Show HERALD DAILY A4 112008 Thursday, July FAST FACT Morning Briefing Contrary to popular opinion, the Trojan horse was not presented to the unsuspecting Trojans as a gift It was simply left in the abandoned Archaean camp outside the walls. Source: The Book of Compiled from Daily Herald wire services Man kills woman, self vr in Missouri mall ' .; ' 4? Amber Twenty Brewington, whwwas taken into custody late Tuesday following the latest alleged poisoning attempt, told investigators she was trying to speed up the boy's death to end his suffering, according to a police affidavit. The boy, Noah King, remained in critical condition with sodium poisoning at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh on Wednesday.. Brewington told investigators that King was admitted to a hospital in Columbia, Tenn., in May and was later transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he suffered explained seizures and possible brain damage, police said. While at the Nashville hospital, Brewington "gave her infant son four to five full syringes of high volume salt water in attempts to speed up his death," police wrote in an affidavit. "Amber felt that she did not wish to see her son suffer." J Buddhism in the 21st Century to MATT ROURKEAssociated Press ' ' J ' 'm- - . -- - trn mw 11,1.1---"- Plea deal ends Texas dognapping case A former small-tow- n South Texas ALICE, Texas mayor accused of secretly keeping her neighbors' dog after telling them the pet died has reached a plea deal. Grace Saenz-Lope- z pleaded no contest Tuesday to filing a false police report, a misdemeanor. Under terms of the deal, she'll pay a $300 fine and serve 48 hours of community service and two years of probation. Saenz-Lopethe former mayor of Alice, had claimed the Shih Tzu named Puddles died last year while she for neighbors Rudy Gutierrez and Shelly was Cavazos. Three months later, however, a relative of the neighbors saw the dog, renamed Panchito, at a grooming business. Saenz-Lope- z insisted that Gutierrez and Cavazos had neglected the animal, but state District Judge Richard Terrell in McAllen ordered her in April to return the dog. z, pet-sitti- . Wis. court rules BERLIN Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday night, Sazhin moved his bishop to go in for the kill and won the world championship of chess boxing, a weird hybrid sport that combines as many as five rounds of pugilism with a game of chess. The combatants switch CANTERBURY, England The Lambeth Conference, summit of a the world's Anglican bishops starting this week, will be a tense, closely watched fam- 45-ho- against abused men MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by five men who claimed two Roman Catholic dioceses should have reported sexual abuse claims against a teacher before he moved on to diocese and molested them. The lawsuit alleged that the Diocese of Milwaukee told Gary Kazmarek to "leave Milwaukee quietly" in the 1960s before he moved to suburban Madison and later Kentucky, where he is serving a prison sentence for abusing ' the five men between 1968 and Benedict keeps to West in travel SYDNEY, Australia While he didn't expect to travel much, Pope Benedict XVI is actually keeping pace g with his predecessor John Paul II. The difference is their destinations. John Paul, only 58 when he assumed the papacy, made extensive tours of the developing world, with stops in Catholic strongholds and some of the world's poorest countries among his first nine pilgrimages. Benedict, now 81, has stayed mainly in the affluent West. globe-trottin- another waterway instead of returning to the ocean. The marine mammals have 1973. been feeding on fish in the The high court unanimously Shrewsbury River near Red Bank for the past few weeks. rejected the men's claims that the Madison diocese was Federal environmental representative Teri Frady said negligent in failing to contact police or warn employers that Wednesday that wildlife officials saw the dolphins during Kazmarek was known for the weekend in the connecting sexually abusing children. The Navesink River. justices said the men did not Frady says that area is more allege that the diocese even knew Kazmarek was teaching remote and fewer people will at a Catholic school in Louisbother the dolphins there. ville, Ky., or that the archdiocese there had ever asked for references. "Reasonable and ordinary care does not require the Diocese to notify all potential subsequent employers within dioceses and parochial school systems across the country, along with all parents of future unforeseeable victims," Justice Louis Butler wrote for the With the exception of Brazil and a trip to Islamic Turkey, Benedict's itinerary reads much like the list released by the Vatican last week of the countries whose Catholics and dioceses con- tribute the most to the Holy See: the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria. Benedict is marking the Church's World Youth Day in this splendid city of First World opulence and is expected to announce that the next global youth event will i r-- " ,- " CjY 7 " - be in Madrid, Spain. The emergency landing .'' A ROCHESTER, N.Y. Rhode Island-bounairliner with 71 people on board has made an emergency landing in Rochester, N.Y., because of smoke in the cockpit produced by a faulty air conditioning unit. No injuries have been red .... JEFF ROBERSONAssoclated Press the parking lot after arriving at the scene of a mall shooting leaving Steve two people dead at Jamestown Mall on Wednesday in Florissant, Mo. Johnson described himself as a first cousin to both victims, a man who according to police shot and killed a woman inside the mall before killing himself. ported. Rochester airport director David Damelio says the regional jet traveling from Chicago to Providence, R.I., landed safely Wednesday morning. Firefighters evacuated the 67 passengers and four crew members. Authorities said the air conditioning unit was repaired and the flight looked set to resume later Wednesday. German-bor- n pope has made no secret of his interest in Catholicism in the Cockpit smoke forces W1 Hi Johnson collapses In Anglicans meet as schism threat looms "It's the No. 1 thinking game and the No. 1 fighting game," said Iepe Rubingh, the sport's founder. Rubingh's inspiration was "Cold Equator," a 1992 French comic book in which two heavyweight boxers beat each other's brains out for 12 rounds and then play a game of chess. "That's not functional. So I thought about how it could work," Rubingh said. Authorities have issued 11 citations for harassing the dolphins. An estimated 8 to 12 dolphins were in the Navesink over the weekend, down from 15 in the Shrewsbury earlier. It's unclear whether the others are back in the Atlantic. court. nmwm New sport combines brains-and-braw- n ft Press VILLAGRANAssociated chess boxer David Depto right moves a piece with'his biathlon. , . IT: flX) , back and forth between boxing and chess repeatedly putting their gloves on and taking them off, so that they can move the pieces around the board without clumsily in knocking them over a sort of 21st century. ge Vr j boxing and chess The Dalai Lama waves the audience after concluding his remarks at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday. The religious leader gave a public talk about Buddhism in the different A- nti . KM f : The SAN FRANCISCO California Supreme Court has refused to hear a case seeking to keep an inrthtive that would ban gay marriage off the NoEquality California filed a vember ballot. petition last month arguing The justices' decision not to among other things that the take up the case means Proposi- signature petitions used to put tion 8 will stay on the ballot bar- the proposal on the ballot were ring further legal action. It also misleading. clears the way for the secretary of state to print voter informaWayward N.J. dolphins tion pamphlets on the issue. river The initiative seeks to amend find RED BANK, N.J. Some California's constitution to of the dolphins that have been ban same-se- x nuptials in the state. It would overrule a May entertaining spectators in a river at the New Jersey shore decision by the state Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage. appear to have moved into ' "IL rra taped hand during a chess boxing world championship against German Frank Stoldt left organized by the World Chess Boxing Organisation in Berlin, Germany, in this Nov. 3, 2007, file photo. if Calif, court passes on lU.i.m ;xi: MIGUEL U.S. A TennesPITTSBURGH see woman has been charged with attempted homicide for trying to poison her son at a city hospital by injecting a saltwater solution into his feeding tube, police said. nI Questions """"""'I Woman accused of son poisoning 1 Trivia A FLORISSANT, Mo.. man shot and killed a woman in a shopping mall outside St. Louis on .Wednesday and then killed himself, police said. The pair were cousins, according to a man who said he was a relative. No one else was injured but the Jamestown Mall was evacuated. Marcus Gwynn said he heard four shots as he was walking into the mall to begin his shift at a Radio Shack store. "I seen a lady on the ground face down, then he sits on the ground and shot himself in the head," said Gwynn, 21. He described both the man and the woman as in their mid40s. Deborah and Michael Mingo said they were shopping at Sears when they heard several shots. She said she asked a clerk about the noise and was told it was likely construction, but a short time later people in the store were telling them to get out. The motive for the shooting just outside the Sears store had not been determined, said St. Louis County police spokeswoman Tracy Panus. Police tape was wrapped around the entrance to the food court near the scene of the shooting. gay-marria- ,001 The WORLD The Nation suit over 1 , West, particularly Europe, where Mass attendance is very low and many churches are empty. On the plane taking him from Rome to Sydney, Benedict said the church in the West was in "crisis" because people believe they no longer need God. He clearly has not made the developing world a travel priority Benedict's next scheduled trip is to France in September but there are those who think he should. In an interview with the Italian Catholic newspaper Avenger before the pope left Rome, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras stressed the importance of papal travel. "Only the rich can afford to come to Rome," he said. "So I say, only slightly joking, that papal trips are a kind of preferential option for the poor." once-a-deca- ily reunion. The Anglican Communion has been splintering since 2003, when the Episcopal Church consecrated the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. The meeting is considered a measure of the health of the global fellowship, and on the basis of attendance alone, the communion looks of fragile. About conserAnglican bishops vatives mostly from Africa are boycotting the conference. The 650 or so church leaders who are participating are a mix of traditionalists and liberals with divergent ideas on what Anglicans should believe. one-quart- Overseeing the is Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the Anglican spiritual leader. As the "first among equals," he has no authority to force a compromise. Still, he bears the heavy burden of trying to keep the centuries-olcommunion together. "In my view, the split has already taken place," said David Steinmetz, an expert in Christian history at Duke d Divinity School in Charlotte, North Carolina. "The interstill unanesting question is how wide and swered deep will it grow?" The Anglican Communion is a fellowship of churches that trace their roots to the missionary work of the Church of England. The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the U.S. China leaves unrest in . local hands BEIJING Re- sponding to a fresh wave of unrest as China gears up to host the Olympics next month, the communist leadership has told local leaders to be on alert to public grievances and find ways to resolve them. The order is the most recent in a series of calls reflecting the government's apparent concern over rising social inequality, ram- pant corruption and the weak legal system. Communist Party secretaries at the county level have been told to "keep track of key public complaint cases until they are e solved," the China Daffy newspaper said Wednesday, citing English-languag- earlier reports in Chinese state media. "The unprecedented move ... shows the central leadership is paying more attention to public complaints." |