Show The Herald Journal Logan- Utah Friday September 27 2002 — A5 - Nation In brief D I I Isidore swamps Gulf Coast DELACROIX blew lamCi foairadlife giam down fiwe ' NORFOLK Neb (AP) — the bank and took the Subaru Three robbers opened fire which had temporary inside a northeast Nebraska lags in a window rather than bank Thursday morning license plates Schools in Norfolk were killing four US Bank locked down as police employees and a customer and searched for the suspects and shooting a woman in the shoulder authorities said banks in surrounding commuRain was hampering the nities locked their front doors search for the three men who to customers ran from the bank about 9 am “Everyone is just a little and were seen driving away in nervous” said Barb Rabe a white Subaru Police Chief clerk for the city of Wisner Bill Mizner about 30 miles said Bank Robbery southeast of “We are tryNorfolk ml SD Authorities ing to deter- w(K mine what wouldn't say Norfolk! whether the happened We’re hoping NEBRASKA men got away Lincoln' with any security tapes will help money Mizner KAN said the FBI explain that" Mizner said was called to Mizner said help in the two employees in the bank ' investigation were unharmed and a female Rain prevented the State customer was wounded The Patrol from using its heli- woman was treated for a guncopter and planes to search for shot wound to the shoulder the suspects in the hours after and was released said Jaque the robbery and the Patrol Genovese a spokeswoman for was pulling in officers from Faith Regional Health Ser- other areas of the state to help vices in Norfolk Patrol spokeswoman Terri Windows in the bank were Teuber shot out during the robbery Gov Mike Johanns and and the drive-thr- u window at a executives with the bank’s nearby Burger King was shatparent company US Bancorp tered by a stray bullet of Minneapolis also planned to fly to Norfolk “Everyone started screaming” said Shellee Honcik an “Obviously this is a tragic accountant who was at the situation and We’re trying to restaurant at the time “We’re cooperate with police and do all still in shock” all we can to help in the invesNo one was at the drive-thr- u tigation” said Steve Dale a window when it was shot out US Bancorp spokesman and none of the 20 people in Norfolk a rural farming the restaurant was injured) she community with a population said of about 25000 is about 90 Mizner said the robbers miles northwest of Omaha It who witnesses described as is best known as the homethree men wearing baggy town of comedian Johnny Carson pants broke into a house near La ( AP) — Tropical Storm Isidore uhore Thursday with near hurricane-forc- e wind off tornadoes with Coast the Gulf spinning swamping 15 inches of rain and knocking out more than to power 140000 homes and businesses Thousands fled their homes iii Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama before the storm reached land at 3 am Floodwaters swept through houses in communities across the region and rose to the windshields of g cars in New Orleans Gov Mike Foster said the storm did at least $18 mil lion in damage in Louisiana including $37 million in lost sugar cane He said the damage estimate will grow and he was seeking a federal disaster declaration Hie storm was packing wind up to 65 mph when it arrived below the 74 mph threshold of a hurricane Isidore lost its punch and was downgraded to a tropical depression as it moved past Jackson Miss in late - sit low-lyin- YP afternoon Forecasters said the storm would slide into die Ohio Valley by the weekend bringing heavy rain to the Midwest and the Northeast Up to 8 inches of rain woe forecast in Tennessee Several tornadoes spun out of the storm and touched down in the Florida Panhandle One hit a barn near ' Graceville Fla breaking the leg mid collarbone of a farmer while another damaged more than a dozen houses iii Santa Rosa Beach Titanic salvage effort sinks —NORFOLK Va The struggling company (AP) that has salvaged die Titanic for the past 15 years says it is giving up its rights to the shipwreck and will no ' longer conduct expeditions to the site r RMS Titanic Inc of Adanta announced its plans Tuesday in papers filed in federal court here and with the Securities and Exchange Commission Federal judges in Norfolk have overseen the salvage since 1992 - The judges awarded sole salvage rights to RMS Titanic in 1994 but die company has faltered daily in recent years Its stock has plummeted to 15 'cents a share this year from a high of $4 in 1999 The decision by RMS Titanic could prompt a race to reach the wreckage by other companies The wreck can be salvaged only during the summer because of weather in the North Atlantic where the luxury liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland Canada Some 1500 of the 2000 aboard died in the disaster The wreck was discovered in 1985 and RMS Titanic began its work two years later The company conducted six salvage expeditions the last in 2000 at a cost of $11 million The company has recovered about 6000 artifacts ‘ AP photo Neb through a Investigator Randy Raney exits the US Bank door Thursday morning following an armed robbery Five people were killed in the robbery in Norfolk t WorldCom controller pleads guilty to fraud : Remains not missing girl’s — NEW YORK (AP) — forma controller pleaded guilty to securities fraud Thursday saying he was told by “senior management” to falsify records in what became the largest corporate accounting scandal in US history David Myers 44 entered the plea in US District Court after telling Judge Richard Casey he wanted to waive his right to be indicted on the charges It was the first admission of guilt in the multibillion-dolla- r scandal Prosecutors say Myers and Scott Sullivan the forma chief financial offica at WorldCom directed employees to falsify ' balance sheets to hide more than $38 billion in expenses The deception enabled WorldCom to report a profit when it was actu- - Worid-Com- ’s STONEVILLE NC (AP) Hair from remains found in a wooded area doesn't match that of a missing Virginia girl who vanished after her parents were shun 30 miles away police said Thursday Authorities bn Wednesday recovered a human skull bone fragments and a full head of hair on the rural property near a pond Hair from the remains was compared under a micro- -' scope to hair samples found in the Bassett Va home Jennifer Short who disappeared Aug 15 of The Henry County Va sheriff’s office said in a statement the preliminary testing showed the samples do not match DNA testing to be done by the medical examiner’s office in Roanoke Va should provide a definitive result in a few days police said Investigators working in a steady rain Thursday in all directions in fanned out for about a half-mil- e search of more evidence ' A Vacuum Service A Repair NO EXCUSE IJkl Central Vacuum THERE'S bullet-sh- attered a reluctant particijjtant who had “expressed his discomfort and displeasure with the iactions being undertaken by World- afly losing moneys according to Com” regulators “I combined with others to assist in the commission of fraud” Myers told the judge Casey asked the defendant if he had committed the three crimes spelled put in court papers: conspiracy securities fraud and making false filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission Myers faces up to 10 years on the most serious charge He is cooperating with the authorities against his forma bosses Janis said WorldCom which owns the nation's No 2 “Yes sir I long-distan- did” Myers answered Outside court attorney Richard Janis said his client was Prosecutors say the fraud began when Myers and Sullivan ordered WorldCom accounting executives Buford Yates Betty Vinson and Troy Normand to record billions in operating expenses as capital expenses’ ' Sullivan and Yates were indicted a month after the bankruptcy filing on securities fraud charges The cooperation of Myers and others may increase the pressure on Sullivan to strike a deal with prosecutors and tell them what if anything forma WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers knew about the alleged accounting ce telephone company MCI became the biggest corporate bankruptcy iii US history in July The company has since revised the amount of accounting improprieties up to $71 billion and recent reports said the final total may reach $9 billion (drnmmtir'' Uprights and ' Alternate Tlma-U- crimes Systems All Models FOR ABUSE We stock most : Call Tache For Free Confidential help with domestic violence W'700 & N 752-44- mb Ike j fatfeau’s Suite 112 16S East 1400 North 1301 N 600 W 103311 UT (435) 750-325- “US"' g Timing Belts Loaea Bridgerland Applied Technology College fw 0 Trenemleelone State Safety Inspection IWi Mi in sandwich or hamburgi 55 Service O a Buck Save far SI U belts Parts Available HEMICAL 953 bags OK Cooling System T I Police Academy E4t6I1nN& Electrical Problems Watenximps 787-004- 0 State Inepectione Fuel Injection Ss3 f Mam St CLSSSf-- (435)7923908 'I I - 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