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Show Monday, April 5, 2010 Page 2 World&NatiOn Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com Clarify Correct On April 2, The Utah Statesman printed that the agrigulture department hosted Barnyard Bingo on the Quad. The event was hosted by a management group in MGT 3110 to benefit the SEED program and was assisted by the Animal Science Club within the College of Agriculture. On April 2, The Utah Statesman printed that the classes offered by USU to obtain a concealed weapons permit are held at no cost to students. The classes are offered to students for $35. Celebs&People LOS ANGELES (AP) — First she was secretly videotaped in the nude. Now she's receiving death threats. At least a dozen e-mails had been sent to DirecTV threatening ESPN reporter and "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Erin Andrews since September, her attorney Marshall ANDREWS Grossman said. The messages discuss the case of Michael David Barrett, who was sentenced last month to 2.5 years in federal prison for secretly shooting nude videos of Andrews, her attorney Marshall Grossman said. Nat'/Briefs Series of Baghdad car bombs kills 31 BAGHDAD (AP) — Police say the death toll from three car bombs in Baghdad has reached 31. Suicide attackers detonated the bombs within minutes of each other Sunday. One exploded near the Iranian embassy, and the two others went off in an area that houses several foreign embassies, including those from Egypt and Germany. Earthquake shocks Baja LOS ANGELES (AP) — Damage reports from the U.S.Mexico border region are growing after a magnitude7.2 earthquake in Baja California that was felt from Tijuana and Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Phoenix. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, a bustling commerce center on the Mexican side of the border where trucks carrying goods cross into California. More than 900,000 people live in the greater Mexicali area. The quake struck at 3:40 p.m. Sunday, but damage also was being reported north of the border. Calexico Fire Chief Peter Mercado tells KABC-TV in Los Angeles that there is substantial damage in the older section of the southeastern California city. Mercado says there is structural damage and broken windows, leaking gas lines and damage to the water system. But he says no injuries have been reported. Across the border, a parking structure at the Mexicali city hall has collapsed. Mexicali is a bustling commerce center where trucks carrying goods cross into California. It was the largest earthquake in the region in nearly 18 years and was followed by aftershocks or distant "triggered" earthquakes on both sides of the border, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones. A multistory parking structure collapsed at the Mexicali city hall but no one was injured, said Baja California state Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo. Other early reports indicated only minor damage, but communication in the region more than 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles is often slow. "I grabbed my children and said, 'Let's go outside, hurry, hurry!"' said Elizabeth Alvarez, 54, who said the quake hit as she was getting ready to leave her house with her children in an eastern Tijuana neighborhood, across the border from San Diego. Hundreds of people fled Tijuana's beach fearing a tsunami, said Capt. Juan Manuel Hernandez, chief of aquatic rescue at the Tijuana fire department. STRUCTURAL DAMAGE to the Escomex business school building is shown in this photo after an earthquake in Mexicali, Mexico, Sunday,April 4. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California, Mexico, about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. AP photo Tsunami experts quickly reported that no tsunami was expected along the West Coast, and Hernandez said the beach filled back up with people within an hour. Tijuana Fire Chief Rafael Carillo said firefighters were rescuing people trapped in an elevator at the Ticuan Hotel in downtown Tijuana, but mostly were responding to reports of fallen cables and minor damage to buildings. Friday, April 2 - Top 10 Signs Your Baseball Team Isn't Ready For The Season POPE BENEDICT XVI addresses the faithful during the "Urbi et Orbi" (To the city and the World) message, at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 4. photo courtesy L'Osservatore Romano VATICAN CITY (AP) — It was the Catholic calendar's holiest moment — the Mass celebrating the resurrection of Christ. But with Pope Benedict XVI accused of failing to protect children from abusive priests, Easter Sunday also was a high-profile opportunity to play defense. "Holy Father, on your side are the people of God," Cardinal Angelo Sodano told the pontiff, whom victims of clergy sexual abuse accuse of helping to shape and perpetuate a climate of cover-up. Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, dismissed those claims as "petty gossip." The ringing tribute at the start of a Mass attended by tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square marked an unusual departure from the Vatican's Easter rituals, infusing the tradition-steeped religious ceremony with an air of a papal pep rally. Dressed in gold robes and shielded from a cool drizzle by a canopy, Benedict looked weary during much of the Mass, the highlight of a heavy Holy Week schedule. But as he listened intently to Sodano's paean, a smile broke across the pope's face, and when the cardinal finished speaking, Benedict rose from his chair in front of the altar to embrace him. The pontiff hasn't responded to accusations that he did too little to protect children from pedophile priests, even as sex abuse scandals threaten to overshadow his papacy. Sodano's praise for Benedict as well as the church's 400,000 priests worldwide cranked up a vigorous campaign by the Holy See to counter what it calls a "vile" smear operation orchestrated by anti-Vatican media aimed at weakening the papacy and its moral authority. Sodano said the faithful came to "rally close around you, successor to (St.) Peter, bishop of Rome, the unfailing rock of the holy church" amid the joy of Easter. "We are deeply grateful to you for the strength of spirit and apostolic courage with which you announce the Gospel," said Sodano, who sought to assure Benedict that the scandals were not costing him credibility among his flock. "Holy Father, on your side are the people of God, who do not allow themselves to be influenced by the petty gossip of the moment, by the trials which sometimes buffet the community of believers," Sodano said. The cardinal also rushed to the defense of all the Catholic priests who generously serve the people of God, in parishes, recreation centers, schools, hospitals and many other places, as well as in the missions in the most remote parts " CLARKSBURG BRESLAW • STONELEIGH Logan's Premier Student Apartments CLARKSBURG I See QUAKE, page 14 Vatican Easter mass infused with defense of ope LateNiteHumor 10. Your spring training begins in June. 9. Only thing they tested positive for was cheese fries. 8. Outfielders following Justin Bieber on tour. 7. Manager spends hour after hour practicing free throws. 6. You get winded standing for the National Anthem. 5. When writers compare clean-up hitter to Ruth, they mean Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 4. Instead of giving signs, third base coach screams, "Bunt, you fat bastard!" 3. Tomorrow whole team scheduled to undergo Tommy John surgery. 2. General manger used payroll trying to build a hot tub time machine. 1. Your star pitcher defected to Cuba. The Crowne Plaza hotel in Mexicali had minor damage — burst pipes and broken windows — but no on was hurt, said receptionist Juan Carlos Fernandez. "There was a little bit of panic," Fernandez said. "Wait, it's trembling again." Guests fled their rooms at the Hotel Playa Club BRESLAW STONELEIGH For more information call Darla • (435) 755-8525 • Pager (435) 206-1926 • darladclark@pcu.net or go online at wwwcbsapartments.com of the world." Benedict, who turns 83 on April 16, was holding up well against the campaign of "deceitful accusations" against him, Venice Cardinal Angelo Scola said in an interview on Italian state TV Sunday. Scola said he recently had dined with the pope, who was drawing on his "usual spiritual energy." Easter Sunday Mass was the last major Holy Week appearance by the pope in Rome for the thousands of faithful who have poured into the city. On Monday, he will greet pilgrims in the courtyard of the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the Alban Hills south of Rome. Worshippers cheered Benedict at the end of Sunday's two-hour-long Mass in the cobblestone square bedecked with daffodils, tulips and azaleas. After the Mass, Benedict moved to the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to deliver his "Urbi et Orbi" message —Latin for "to the city and to the world" —which analyzes humanity's failings and hopes. He singled out the "trials and sufferings," including persecution and even death, of Christians in Iraq and Pakistan, and of people in Haiti and Chile, devastated by earthquakes. He hoped for peaceful coexistence to win out over criminal violence in Latin American countries plagued by drug trafficking, and promised to pray for peace in the Middle East. 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