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Show 2 Wednesday, March 11,2009 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchroniclexonrf All stories and photos from The Associated Press 10 shot, killed in south Ala.; Shooter dead SAMSON, Ala.—A gunman on a terrifying rampage across two southern. Alabama counties killed at least nine people Tuesday, including members of hisown family and apparent strangers, and burned down his mother's home before shooting himself at a metals plant, authorities said. Police were investigating shootings in at least four different locations in several communities, all of which were believed to be the work of a single gunman who had not yet been identified by investigators. The afternoon of bloodshed began in Kinston, near the Alabama-Florida border, where the shooter burned down his mother's house, according to the Coffee County coroner, Robert Preachers. Officials located the woman's body inside the house, but they had not been able to get inside the still-burning house to determine if he shot her first. The gunman then headed east, into Geneva County, where he shot and killed five people—four adults and a child—at a home in the nearby town of Samson. Then he killed one person each in two other homes. The identities of all the victims were unknown, but Preachers said they included other members of the shooter's family. 1 1 Wednesday 47/32 Partly Cloudy Riding the Global Economic Challenges - Hong Kong's Stimulus Plan: 3 ' i p.m. to 4 p.m. @Hinckley Caucus Room, OSH Room 255 • Tim Wise: ASUU uVolces Social Justice Speakers Series: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. @ * Union, Main Ballroom • The Middle East Through its Films; "Caramel": 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Utah * ";r.'t Museum of Fine Arts > '';''•: 1 2 Thursday 49/33 Partly Cloudy An unidentified man is reflected in a storefront window that was shot during the shooting spree in Samson, Ala. on Tuesday. A gunman went on a shooting spree in two south Alabama towns Tuesday, killing nine people before he shot himself at a metals plant authorities said. Police are investigating at least four separate shootings, all believed to be done by one gunman, whose name was not released, the Alabama Department of Safety said in a statement "He started in his moth- tion and wounding Mcer's* house," Preachers said. Cullough in the shoulder "Then he went to Samson and arm with bullet fragand he killed his granny ments that struck his truck and granddaddy and aunt and the pump. "I first thought it was and uncle." "We don't know what somebody playing," he triggered it," Preachers said. He said the gunman roared into the parking added. The gunman also shot at lot and slammed on his a state trooper's car, strik- brakes. Then he saw the ing the vehicle seven times rifle. and wounding the trooper He said the gunman fired with broken glass. and the rifle appeared to He then killed someone jam, then he "went back to at a Samson supply store, firing." Then he drove off. and another person at a McCullough, a father of service station. two, said he tried to help Samson contractor Greg the woman who was shot McCullough said he was and yelled for someone to pumping gas at the station call an ambulance. when the gunman opened "I'm just in awe that fire, killing a woman com- something like this could ing out of the service sta- take place. That someone could do such a thing. It's just shocking," 'McCullough told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Police pursued the gunman to Reliable Metal Products just north of Geneva, about a dozen miles southeast of Samson, where he fired an estimated 30 rounds from a semiautomatic weapon, the Alabama safety department said. One of the bullets hit Geneva Police Chief Frankie Lindsey, who was saved by his bullet proof vest. The gunman then went inside the plant and shot himself, according to the safety department's statement. • Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. @ Health Sciences Center East Visitors Terrace ': • Honors College Talent Showcase: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Hall, Room270 :\. \\ • Lecture on Sustainability: The Bottom Line of Green: 5 p.m. to 5:45 p.m..® Christensen Center, Room 205 1 3 Friday 50/31 Partly Cloudy • Spring Semester 2009 academic deadline: Last day to drop (delete) . second session classes ..-.-.• • Legislative Wrap-Up: noon to 1 p.m. @Hinckley Caucus Room, OSH Room 255-, • Gymnastics vs Florida: 7 p.m. @ Huntsman Center • Modern Dance Senior Concert 1:7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. @ Hayes Chrisv tensen Theatre ,.,._ ^ ^ . - v y ; - , / • • • • ' • '••••- -• • * =v^--'7* WORLD Dalai Lama: Tibetans 'suffering' under China ' DHARMSALA, India—life for Tibetans under Chinese rule has been "helL on earth," the Dalai Lama said Tuesday, attacking Beijing in a speech to mark 50 years since the failed uprising that forced him into exile. The unusually harsh rhetoric from the Nobel Peace laureate, who accused the Chinese government of treating his people "like criminals deserving to be put to death " highlighted the widening gulf between the two sides since last year when violence engulfed the region and talks broke down. . , • "These 50 years have brought untold suffering to the land and people of Tibet," the 73-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader told some 2,000 Tibetan exiles gathered to commemorate the 1959 rebellion. U.S. Congress sends $41 OB spending bill to Obama WASHINGTON—Congress on Tuesday sent President Barack Obama a once-bipartisan bill to fund the domestic Cabinet agencies that evolved instead into a symbol of lawmakers' free-spending ways and penchant for back-home pet projects. The Senate approved the measure by voice after it cleared a key procedural hurdle by a 62-35 vote. Sixty votes were required to shut down debate. Obama is expected to sign the measure Wednesday to avoid a partial shutdown of the government. But the White House has kept the bill at arm's length, calling it last year's business. Obama is also set to announce steps aimed at curbing lawmakers' so-called earmarks. The $410 billion bill is chock-full of those pet projects and significant increases in food aid for the poor, energy research and other programs. It was supposed to have been completed last fall, but Democrats opted . against election-year battles .with Republicans and former President George W. Bush. The measure was a top priority for Democratic leaders, who praised it for numerous increases denied by Bush. It once enjoyed support from Republicans such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. But the bill ran into an unexpected political hailstorm in Congress after Obama's spending-heavy economic stimulus bill and his 2010 budget plan forecasting a $1.8 trillion defi- UN: Iran violated weapons sanctions UNITED NATIONS—A key Security Council committee reported T\iesday that Iran violated UN. sanctions by trying to send weapons-related material to Syria on a cargo ship now docked in Cyprus. Japan's UN. Ambassador Yukio Takasu, chairman of the committee monitoring sanctions against Iran, provided few details, but his report marked the first official confirmation that the Cypriot-flagged M/V Monchegorsk was trying to circumvent the UN. arms embargo on Iran. The ship docked on Jan. 29 and is still there, diplomats said.France's UN. Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert described its shipment as "explosives and...arms." Takasu said a UN. member state— identified by the United States, Britain and France as Cyprus—sent a letter to the committee in early February "seeking guidance with respect to its inspections of cargo on a vessel carrying its flag that was found to be carrying arms-related material." The committee responded with a letter saying the transfer of the material was a violation of a 2007 Security Council resolution that prohibits Iran from transferring any arms or related material and requires all countries to prohibit the procurement of such items from Iran, Takasu said. He told the council that the committee sent letters "to concerned member states" on March 9 asking for "any relevant information regarding this transaction" within 10 days. Copies of the letters to Iran and Syria, obtained by the AP, said the ship's manifest indicated that the ship was chartered by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line, that the cargo was loaded in Iran and was to be unloaded in Syria. cit for the current budget year. And Republicans seized on Obama's willingness to sign a bill packed with earmarks after he assailed them as a candidate. "If it had not been for the stimulus and the budget proposal it might have been ... noncontroversial," said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio. "The stimulus bill riled an awful lot of people up.... And then the budget proposal comes out." Within Democratic ranks, there was relief, not jubilation. The 1,132-page spending bill has an extraordinary reach, wrapping together nine spending bills to fund foreign aid and the annual operating budgets of every Cabinet department except for Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. CROSSWORD SPONSOR Frustrated with the BCS? Show it on your chest! Senate Republicans: Some big banks should close WASHINGTON—Leading Senate Republicans are critical of the Obama. administration's approach to the banking crisis, saying some of the big banks, in trouble ought to be shut down. "Close them down, get them out of business. If they're dead, they ought to be buried," Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said Sunday on ABC's "This Week,"." "We bury the small banks; we've got to bury some big ones and send a strong' message to the market. And I believe that people will start investing in . banks." , ,: The faltering giant Citibank—the government recently increased its stake . in the New York bank to more than 30 percent—has always been "a problem . child," Shelby said. . ../ - UTAH Utah Legislature approves $8.5 billion hi spending . . The painful process of slashing state programs and jobs is nearly done—for. ,. now. . , . Utah lawmakers on Tuesday approved spending $8.5 billion to keep state. . agencies running beginning July 1—with the knowledge that if the economy. continues to spiral downward they might have to come back later this year to. , make additional cuts. " All told, the nearly $10.9 billion budget for the 2010 fiscal year will be about $600 million less than the one lawmakers approved around this time last year. A bill that authorizes about $2.3 billion for public education spending is still awaiting a vote in the Senate. Under the plan, most state agencies will see:ta$i?-1 - J budgets slashed by about 9 percent. • _ -: •: -; - J Corrections , . .. . and Clarifications BUY T-SHIRTS AT The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error maflelas: soon as possible. 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