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Show ' ' DAILY A4 HERALD Sunday, August 24 2008 ' ' : FAST FACT a stage where water overflowsits natural w artificial banks on to nonnalty dry land, such as a river Inundating its flood plain. A flood is high-wat- .... Complied from Doily Herald win services . SoraMitropediiorWofidFids The Nation Fay not done yet threatens Gulf cities & APALACHICXXA. Fla. i 'I Fay just wont quit. ... The tropical storm that set a record with four landfalls in Florida chugged west across the Gulf Coast on Saturday and cities from Pensacola to New. Orleans prepared for several Inches of raid. g Proving that a tropical storm can be as deadly and damaging as a hurricane, - Fay killed at least 11 people ' in Florida and one in Georgia," , emergency officials said. Thousands of homes and businesses were inundated - with flood waters this week as the storpi worked its way ' north from its first landfall in the Florida Keys and zig-- ' zagged across the peninsula. Fays center made its fourth landfall around 11 p.m. Friday about IS miles of Apalachicola, according to the National Hurricane Goiter. Rains and strong wind gusts , blitzed Tallahassee, the state ' capital, for more than 24 hours, knocking down trees and pow-- :. er lines and cutting electricity to more than 12,000 customers, city officials said ' On Saturday evening, they asked residents to reduce their water use for the next 24 hours because heavy rains were caus-in-g local ponds and storm water ditches to overflow into the wastewater collection system. K . j-- . ' ,? V. slow-movin- . . . . : . north-northea- st . . . 'c I y H JU ' i f fk . - j . ? f K ni ? V i;; . . - . Bush blames Democrats for high gas prices CHARLIE LITCHFIELD : y - CRAWFORD, Texas President Bush on Saturday blamed the Democratic-le- d Congress for the high cost of gasoline and renewed his call ; . for expanded offshore' drilling U.S. (Hi supplies. , to increase .. To reduce pressure on prices, we need to increase the supply of oil, especially oil pro-- ; chiced here at home, Bush said m his weekly radio address. Congress left for the August recess without a solution to fuel prices. In a bid to force a vote on offshore drilling, Republicans blocked Democratic proposals to use the nations ... petroleum reserve, curb oil speculation and require oil companies to drill on already leased federal lands. The president, who is vaca--. tinning at his Texas ranch, said Americans support expanded exploration of oil in areas that include the Outer Continental , Bug day . Karty Kingston, 4, of Boise tries to catch . one-stor- - . and off Alaska House Speaker Nancy Fejo-- ' si, DCalif., signaled last week the Democrats' position could be shifting. With energy leg- islation to be introduced after . Congress returns, lawmakers will be able to consider open- ing portions of the Outer Continental Shelf for drilling. wit h , . . . . . - . . . . - SANANTONIO, Texas Court authorities here will be able to track students with a of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring. , But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets will infringe on students' privacy. Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the peace, said she anticipates that about 50 students from four San Antonio- area school districts likely, to be mostly high schoolers , will wear the anklets during the pilot program J' announced Friday, She said the time the students wear the anklets will be decided on a .. : re 100 mil-- , Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS . . Idaho.' lion households Worldwide. . , in Boise, service reaches at least . . The shelf is the shallow, sloping land that stretches for miles undersea between the '. coastline and the deep ocean New oil drilling is only al-lowed now in federal waters, in the western Gulf of Mexico they believe to be marquana appropriate safeguards, and without taxpayer subsidies to ' and Ecstasy in the room. Police were holding Prevatt Big Oil, she said. without bond on an arrest warrant from a 2000 burglary Couple charged in in nearby Hagerstown, and standoff Maryland Reynolds was being held, on . :. BALTIMORE A man who $250,000 bond. Authorities did ' held police at bay during a two-da-y not know if they either had re- tained an attorney. Maryland motel standoff and his pregnant girlfriend, who claimed to be his hostage, OMa. state worker both face charges, state police temporarily gets , said Saturday. bonus James Prevatt III, 26, and :.. OKLAHOMA OTY. Ren6 Reynolds, 21, both of Oklahoma officials say a typo Moncks Corner, S.C., were y resulted in a state employee captured Friday at the motel in Hancock, Md.,' receiving a bonus of $850,000 but it was only temporary. that officers had surrounded Jo Harris was supposed. .. for two days. Prevatt threatened to kill of- to receive an $850 longevity ficers and Reynolds duringlhe bonus for working at the Oklastandoff, which ended without homa Employment Security Commission for seven years. injury when police burst into the room after Prevatt opened But a misplaced decimal point turned that into a the door for a food delivery. windfall . ; He faces charges of theft, Officials say they caught the threat of arson with an exploerror before the $850,000 left sive device and drug posses-sion. Reynolds faces charges ' state fund. V of theft, conspiracy to threaten Harris's original paycheck isarson and drug possession. sued in February was canceled During the standoff, Prevatt and a new one was issued wfth the correct bonus. Officials told told police he had used drugs before and during the ordeal, Harris about the mistake and Maryland State Police spokes-- , asked her to watch her perman Greg Shipley said Friday. sonal bank account. Harris said she would let After the pair was captured, '. state officials know right away police said they found what : .Shelf. - m insect in her net while wandering the grounds of the Idaho Botanical Gardens during Bug Day, Saturday Idaho PiwfrThbuna if the extra money entered her account because I dont go to jail for anybody." has apologized for any he caused in the city of about 18,000, about 15 miles west of Deliver. ss Colo, official cancels event with h Bestor made his decision basis. "We are at a critical point in our time where we can either case-by-ca- after a City Council meeting Thursday at which residents ' complained the evert with the English-languaservice of the Middle East.news network would be disrespectful to vet-erdns and active U.S. soldiers. is based in Qatar andisfundedby the royal family of the Persian Gulf nation. The network says its English . The city GOLDEN, Cola manager of Golden, Cola, has decided to withdraw his invita- tion to let the Aklazeera news network broadcast from a barbecue in his backyard on the final night of the Democratic National Convention. ' City manager Mike Bestor . educate or incarcerate, Penn said, linking truancy with ju-- , Venile delinquency and later criminal activity. We can teach them now or run the risk erf possible incarceration later on in life. I don't want to see the latter." . . : . The WORLD Pakistan's ruling coalition on verge of collapse Rights group: 78 Afghans killed; U.S. to investigate KABUL, Afghanistan Scares of Afghan civilians who had gathered in a small village for the memorial ceremony of a militia commander were killed when US. and Afghan soldiers bunched an attack in the middle erf the night, officials and villagers said Saturday. President Hamid Karzai condemned the early Friday operation in western Afghanistan and said most Of the dead were civilians. The U.S. coalition, however, said it believed only five civilians were among those killed and said that it would investigate the Afghan . claims. An Afghan human rights group that visited the site of the operation said Saturday that at feast 78 people were killed. The Ministry of Interior has said 76 civilians died, including 50 children under the age of 15, though the Ministry of Defense said 25 militants and five civilians were killed. Meanwhile, a school principal and police official said Afghan soldiers tried to hand Pw SAUTAM SUWHAMOMtMf out food and clothes Saturday in Azizabad the village in Hindu festival Herat province where the opStudents of the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind attempt eration took place. But villagto break a pot containing curd hung from a rope by forming a ers started throwing stones at human pyramid during Janamashtami celebrations in Mumbai, the soldiers, who then fired on India, on Saturday. Janamashtami, the festival that marks the the villagers and wounded up birth of Hindu God Krishna will be celebrated on Sunday. to eight people. I ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan's ruling coalition tee-- ; tered on the brink of collapse Saturday as the two main partners squabbled over a successor to ousted President Pervez Musharraf. Former Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif, who heads the junior partner in the coalition, demanded the dominant Pakistan People's Party slash the resident's powers before he would support its candidate. Asif Ali Zardari, head of the PPP and widower of the partys assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto, agreed Saturday to run for the presidency. Sharif also pushkl forward the deadline far restoration of dozens of judges sacked another key by Musharraf issue dividing the two main parties since they forced the president from power less than week aga Still pressure was building for the two sides to end differences that appeared increas. . . . . ingly irreconcilable. Presidential elections by parliament were set for Sept. 6 and the political in-fighting is a distraction from militant violence flaring in the volatile northwest, where 37 insurgents were killed Saturday in retaliation for a string of deadly suicide bombings. . Though Zardari is a long-- . time Musharraf critic, he would likely continue the for-mer general's support for the U.S.-fewar against terrorism. d Al-Qai- da local low-co- $15 apiece to assemble. Similarly, the cell responsible for the July 2005 transit bombings in London needed only about $15,000 to finance the entire conspiracy, includ- ing the cost of airfare to Paki- just . using more cells stan to consult with st LONDON Since the Sept! 11. 2001, attacks, has increasingly turned to local cells that run extremely low-co- supervisors, according to .official British government probes. ' ' : .. . ' ' . st operations and generate cash through criminal scams, bypassing the global financial dragnet set up by the United ,. States and Europe. Although spent an . estimated $500,000 to plan and execute the Sept. 11 attacks, many of the group's bombings' and assaults since then in Eu- - ' rope. North Africa and Southh east Asia have cost as much, or less. The cheap riots are evidence that the U.S. government and its allies fundamentally miscalculated in assuming they coukl defeat the network fay hunting for wealthy financiers and freezing bank accounts, according to many U.S and European counterterrorism ore-tent- officials. In an ongoing trial here of eight men accused of planning to blow up airliners bound for the United States two years aga jurors have been told how the accused shopped at drugstores for ingredients to build bombs that would have cost Survivor. Wing dipped sharply before crash MADRID, Spain The air- liner that crashed this week in Madrid had just barely got air--', borne and its right wing dipped sharpfe before the plane started wobbling and went down, one of the few survivors of the disaster said Saturday. Ligia Palomino Riveros, a . Colombian-bor-n Spaniard, also told The Associated Press that after a seemingly minor technical malfunc-tio- n forced the pilot to abandon a first takeoff attempt, she thought the airline was go-switch ing to and should planes. She said two buses were brought in next to the Spanair MD82 bound for the Canary Islands, and she assumed these were to take passengers to another plane. They did not. Spanair did not resjxmd to a query Saturday as to whether it had in fact contemplated putting the passengers on another aircraft. . . |