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INSIDE TODAY Stricter new smog limit
WORLD NEWS
BODY SCANNERS
would hit rural areas, too
DINA CAPPIELLO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency on
Thursday proposed stricter
health standards for smog,
replacing a Bush-era limit
that ran counter to scientific
Obama says
recommendations.
Hundreds of communities
An image from a new a anti-terror far from congested highways
security scanner is seen during
and belching smokestacks
a demonstration at Manchester
‘buck’ stops could soon join big cities
Airport, Manchester, England,
Thursday Jan. 7, 2010. and industrial corridors in
Read more on Page A8 with him violation of stricter limits
on lung-damaging smog.
SPORTS NEWS
Costs of compliance could
President Barack Obama
BOWL VS PLAYOFFS
speaks about the attempted be in the tens of billions of
Christmas Day airline bombing, dollars, but the government
Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, in In this April 28, 2009 file photo, smog covers downtown Los
said the rules would save
the State Dining Room of the Angeles. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday
other billions — as well as
White House in Washington. proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era
Associated Press lives — in the long run. limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations.
Read more on Next Page Continued on Page 4 Associated Press

Cold grips nation as crash in snowy Ohio kills 4
By MEGHAN BARR
JAMES MacPHERSON
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Steadily falling snow blanketed the
Midwest on Thursday, part of a vicious cold snap engulfing
much of the nation, and a tractor-trailer spun out of control
This undated image provided
by the BCS shows Bill Hancock, on snow-slick roads in Ohio, killing four people and injuring
the new BCS executive director. seven.
Hancock said, Thursday, Jan. The tractor-trailer jackknifed on Interstate 70, crossed the
7, 2010, that a major college
highway median and swerved into oncoming traffic, colliding
football playoff would lead to
with a small bus transporting adult disabled passengers, the
more injuries, conflict with final
Busses are encrusted in ice and snow at the back lot of a bowling Ohio Highway Patrol said.
exams, kill the bowl system and
alley in the Omaha, Neb., suburb of Elkhorn, where a fire was
diminish the importance of the The driver of the 17-passenger bus was among those killed,
being put out, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. A winter storm with bitter
regular season. said Sgt. Raymond Durant.
cold temperatures and blowing winds is traveling through the
Read more on Page A13 region. Associated Press Continued on Page 6
SECTION B
Local News 1
Classifieds 12
Latino 14
A2 UP FRONT
Friday, January 8, 2010
Obama says anti-terror responsibility is his
BEN FELLER, operative in Yemen posed a
Associated Press Writer threat to U.S. security, they
WASHINGTON (AP) — did not increase their focus
President Barack Obama on that threat and did not pull
declared Thursday he is together fragments of data
responsible for U.S. security needed to foil the scheme,
and suggested he would not said the summary.
fire anyone for the Christmas Still, the report concludes,
Day attack on a Detroit-bound “The watch listing system
airliner. Security lapses that led is not broken” and a
to the near-disaster were not reorganization of the nation’s
the fault of a single individual counterterrorism system is not
or agency, he said, vowing necessary. The report, instead,
they would be corrected. calls for strengthening the
Obama did not tell intelligence process used to add suspected
officials to change what they terrorists to watch lists.
are doing. Instead, he told According to the report,
them to just do it better, and “a series of human errors”
faster. occurred, including a delay
He left it to them to figure out in the dissemination of a
how. completed intelligence report
He said anew that the and the failure of CIA and
White House Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, center, accompanied by White House press
government had the counterterrorism officers to
secretary Robert Gibbs, left, and Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, briefs reporters in the White
information that might have search all available databases
House briefing room in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, about an alleged terrorist attempt to
prevented the botched attack for information that could have
destroy a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner.
but failed to piece it together. been tied to Abdulmutallab.
Associated Press
He announced about a dozen Unlike the run-up to the
changes designed to fix that, that the government was “There is, of course, no said. 2001 terrorist attacks,
including new terror watch list not already taking some of foolproof solution,” he said. The White House is anxious intelligence officials did share
guidelines, wider and quicker the steps Obama ordered. “We have to stay one step to resolve and move beyond information. But authorities
distribution of intelligence For instance, he directed ahead of a nimble adversary.” the issue, which threatens didn’t understand what they
reports, stronger analysis of the intelligence community He spoke from the White to damage the president had.
those reports, international to begin assigning direct House, his remarks delayed politically in a congressional The president seemed to
partnerships and an responsibility for following up twice as officials scrambled to election year and distract settle the question of whom to
interagency effort to develop leads on high-priority threats. declassify a six-page summary further from his agenda. blame by declaring that blame
next-generation airport Obama himself hinted at of a report he’d ordered from Republicans have pointed was shared by many.
screening technologies. the difficulties of improving top officials on the security to the attack and Obama’s “Now at this stage in the
While Obama promised intelligence and security failures. That summary was handling of it to criticize him review process, it appears
improved security, his against a terrorist network that released immediately after he as weak on national security that this incident was not the
solutions were laced with devises new methods as fast or spoke. — a perennial election-season fault of a single individual
bureaucratic reshuffling. faster than the U.S. can come “When the system fails, it is charge against Democrats that or organization, but rather
Americans might be surprised up with defenses. my responsibility,” Obama has sometimes been effective a systemic failure across
in the past. organizations and agencies,”
Clearly aware of the potential he said.
political fallout, Obama struck He ordered all involved
a tough tone toward the anti- agency heads to set up internal
terror fight, taking the rare accountability units to review
step — for him — of calling efforts to make changes. “We
it a “war.” will measure progress,” he
“We are at war, we are at war said.
against al-Qaida,” he said. Underscoring Obama’s
“We will do whatever it takes assertion that no one
to defeat them.” individual was responsible for
The unclassified summary failing to thwart the attack,
stated that U.S. intelligence the administration’s report
officials had received noted that Abdulmutallab’s
unspecified “discrete pieces name was misspelled in one
of intelligence” to identify instance, leading the State
23-year-old Nigerian Umar Department to conclude he
Farouk Abdulmutallab as did not have a valid U.S.
an al-Qaida operative and visa — when in fact he did.
keep him off the flight from Even so, the report said steps
Amsterdam. Officials received to revoke his visa could
fragments of information as have occurred only if other
early as October, according to intelligence information had
the report. been coordinated and he was
Although intelligence officials placed on a more restrictive
knew that an al-Qaida watch list.
U.S. NEWS A3
Friday, January 8, 2010
Suspect in St. Louis plant
shooting believed dead
JIM SALTER dead inside the plant from an losses. The federal lawsuit
Associated Press Writer apparent self-inflicted gunshot accused ABB and its pension-
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A wound. review committee of causing
disgruntled worker embroiled “We’re very confident that their retirement accounts to
in a pension dispute with this is the shooter,” Police include investment options
his company walked into Chief Dan Isom said at a news with “unreasonable and
the plant and opened fire conference. excessive” — and undisclosed Police cars are seen at the scene of a shooting where a gunman
Thursday, killing three people — fees and expenses. The with an assault rifle walked into the ABB Power Plant Thursday,
and wounding five before The shooting began at 6:30 suit went to trial Tuesday in Jan. 7, 2010, in St. Louis.
Associated Press
apparently killing himself. a.m. at the plant where the Kansas City.
The shooting spree at ABB Swiss-owned company refuge from the bullets. paramedics were standing by
Group’s plant sent frightened makes electrical transformers. The shooting began during “Many of them sought safety in case there were additional
co-workers scrambling into Police spent hours inside the a shift change at the plant, on the roof, in boilers and injuries, either from the
closets and to the snow- sprawling plant searching for which employs about 270 broom closets,” Dotson said. shooting itself or from seeking
covered roof for safety. the gunman and additional people. Forty to 50 employees Names of the victims were not refuge on the roof in bitter
Fire officials identified the victims. were likely in the building at immediately released. Police cold.
shooter as 51-year-old Timothy The motive for the shooting the time, police Capt. Sam said three of the injured were “It’s cold, and shock sets in,
Hendron of Webster Groves. wasn’t immediately known. Dotson said. in critical condition and two hypothermia,” Jenkerson said.
Police would not release his But in 2006, Hendron and It wasn’t clear how many shots were in fair condition. “It doesn’t sound good.”
name but said a man believed other ABB workers sued the were fired, but authorities said Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson Dozens of emergency vehicles
to be the gunman was found company over retirement employees scurried to find said firefighters and circled the sprawling plant.
A4 POLITICS
Friday, January 8, 2010
missed work and school days, sources will be required to do
the EPA said. in response to a tighter ozone
The proposal presents a range standard,” said John Kinsman,
for the allowable concentration a senior director at the Edison
of ground-level ozone, the Electric Institute, an industry
main ingredient in smog, trade group. “Utilities already
from 60 parts per billion to have made substantial
70 parts, as recommended reductions in ozone-related
by scientists during the Bush emissions.”
administration. Environmentalists endorsed
EPA plans to select a specific the new plan. “If EPA
figure within that range by follows through, it will mean
August. Counties and states significantly cleaner air and
will then have up to 20 years to better health protection,” said
meet the new limits, depending Frank O’Donnell, president of
on how severely they are out the advocacy group Clean Air
of compliance. They will have Watch.
to submit plans for meeting EPA estimates meeting the
the new limits by end of 2013 new requirements will cost
or early 2014. industry and motorists from
Former President George W. $19 billion to as much as
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson speaks during a news
Bush personally intervened $90 billion a year by 2020.
conference following her keynote speech at the second Governors’ Global Climate Summit in Los
in the issue after hearing The Bush administration had
Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009.
complaints from electric put the cost of meeting its
Associated Press
utilities and other affected threshold at $7.6 billion to
SMOG LIMIT comply with the law. Dakotas, Kansas, Minnesota industries. His EPA set a $8.5 billion a year.
Continued from Front Page The new limits being and Iowa might be forced to standard of 75 parts per billion, The new regulations would
More than 300 counties — considered by the find ways to clamp down on stricter than one adopted in mean more controls on large
mainly in southern California, Environmental Protection smog-forming emissions from 1997 but not as strict as what industrial facilities, plus
the Northeast and Gulf Coast Agency could more than industry and automobiles, or scientist said was needed to regulating smaller facilities
— already violate the current, double the number of counties face government sanctions, protect public health. and sources. New federal
looser requirements adopted in violation and reach places most likely the loss of federal Some of those same industries regulations in the works to
two years ago by the Bush like California’s wine country highway dollars. reiterated their opposition improve car and truck fuel
administration and will find it in Napa Valley. The tighter standards, though Thursday to a stronger smog economy and curb global
even harder to reduce smog- For the first time, counties in costly to implement, will standard. warming pollution at large
forming pollution enough to Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, the ultimately save billions in “We probably won’t know for factories will also help
avoided emergency room a couple of years just what communities meet any new
visits, premature deaths, and utilities and other emissions standards, the EPA said.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
A6 WORLD NEWS
Friday, January 8, 2010
FRIGID WEATHER Weather Service. most when other vehicles rear-
Continued from Front Page With the cold and icy, snow- ended the trucks. By Friday
One person was in critical covered roads responsible for morning, parts of Wisconsin
condition and six others were at least 15 deaths this year, could see up to 12 inches of
injured and taken to hospitals, officials throughout the U.S. snow.
he said. Six of the injured were told people to stay home if Snowflakes fell as far south
on the bus, and the tractor- they could. as Alabama and Georgia on
trailer driver was also injured. Snowfall was heaviest in Thursday.
Durant said the bus was Minnesota and parts of South Frostbite-inducing
carrying 11 people at the time Dakota, where blowing winds temperatures gripped much
of the crash. piled up drifts too big for of the nation, and schools in
The accident occurred near snowplow drivers to clear. at least 10 states were closed,
Springfield in southwest Ohio, Some parts of southwestern as were roads and government
Vehicles travel in white out conditions caused by blowing snow where a storm that stretched Minnesota received 8.5 offices.
on Interstate 80 west of Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. as far west as the Dakotas inches of snow by Thursday Nowhere was it colder than in
A storm system with sub-freezing temperatures and high winds is had dumped nearly 5 inches morning. Bismarck, N.D., where wind
traveling through the Midwest of snow by early evening, In Illinois, six snowplows chills hit a frighteningly frigid
Associated Press according to the National were involved in accidents, 52 below zero.
“The air freezes your nostrils,
your eyes water and your
chest burns from breathing,”
said Jane Tetrault, of Burke
County in northwestern North
Dakota. “And that’s just
going from the house to your
vehicle.”
While North Dakotans
get plenty of practice with
bundling up, folks in other
parts of the country were still
learning the basics.
With temperatures on
the Texas-Mexico border
expected to near freezing
Thursday night, officials in
Laredo issued an advisory
telling residents to “dress
warmly and stay dry.”
“Adults and children should
wear: a hat, a scarf or knit
mask to cover face and mouth,
mittens, water-resistant coat
and shoes, and several layers
of loose-fitting clothing,” the
city advised residents, who
usually see near 70-degree
weather in January.
Snow started falling at about
9 a.m. in the county where
the Ohio crash occurred and
caused several accidents
throughout the day, said
sheriff’s dispatcher Vannessa
Haley. The snow grew heavier
at about 12:45 p.m., when
dispatchers received reports
of the accident, Haley said.
The highway patrol said the
crash is being investigated
and would not say whether it
was weather-related.
The bus was from the Creative
Learning Workshop, which
provides vocational services
to adults with mental and
developmental disabilities.
The center is based in Warren,
Ohio, and has locations across
the state.
Phone calls to the center’s
director were not immediately
returned Thursday.
WORLD NEWS A7
Friday, January 8, 2010
Malaysian church fire-bombed amid ‘Allah’ dispute
EILEEN NG Only the first floor office and the High Court has
Associated Press Writer in the three-story Metro suspended its decision’s
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
Tabernacle Church was implementation until the
(AP) — Attackers fire-
destroyed in the pre- appeal is heard.
bombed a Malaysian
dawn blaze, said Kevin Muslims argue that “Allah”
church and tried to set
Ang, a spokesman for the is exclusive to Islam, and
another ablaze Friday amid
Protestant church. its use by Christians would
a growing conflict over the
The worship areas on the confuse Muslims and
use of the word “Allah”
upper two floors were tempt them to convert to
by non-Muslims, officials
undamaged and there were Christianity.
said.
no injuries. Kuala Lumpur police Chief
The attacks sharply
He quoted a witness as Mohamad Sabtu Osman
escalated tensions in the
saying she saw three or told The Associated Press
Muslim-majority country
four men on a motorcycle that it was premature to link
ahead of planned protests
break the main glass front the attacks on the churches
later Friday against a
of the church and throw a to the protests over the
Kuala Lumpur High Court Fire rescue personal inspect damage after unidentified attackers
gasoline bomb inside. The lifting of the Allah ban.
verdict which struck down set fire to a church in Malaysia, early Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. Officials
church occupies a corner “We are still investigating,”
say unidentified attackers set fire to a church in Malaysia amid a
a 3-year-old ban on non-
plot in a row of shops in he said. He also urged
growing conflict in the country over the use of the word “Allah”
Muslims using “Allah” in
Desa Melawati, a suburb of Muslims not to participate by non-Muslims.
their literature. Kuala Lumpur. in the planned protests, Associated Press
The Dec. 31 court decision
Separately, a Molotov adding that police would edition. Catholic officials discrimination by the
incensed many Muslims,
cocktail was thrown into be stationed at mosques to say “Allah” is the only word government.
who see it as a threat to
the compound of a Roman monitor the situation. they know for God. On Thursday, the Malaysian
their religion. Hateful
Catholic church before About 60 percent of Many Muslims in Malaysia judiciary’s Web site
comments and threats
dawn Friday but caused no Malaysia’s 28 million have refused to accept the was hacked and defaced
against Christians have
damage or injuries, said the people are Malay Muslims, argument that “Allah” is an with an apparent threat
been posted widely on the
Rev. Lawrence Andrew, the while the rest are ethnic Arabic word that predates to Christians, The Star
Internet, but this is the first
editor of the Herald. Chinese, Indians and Islam, and that it is used by newspaper reported. The
time the controversy has
Andrew said most churches indigenous tribes who follow Christians in countries such site, however, appeared to
turned destructive.
have employed extra security Christianity, Hinduism and as Egypt, Syria, Lebanon be normal on Friday.
The ruling was on a petition
guards amid the protest other religions. and Indonesia regularly in The Star said the hacker,
by the Herald, the main
threats. “Most churches are The Malay-speaking their worship. using the alias “Brainwash,”
publication of Malaysia’s
taking precautions. They indigenous tribespeople, The backlash against the defaced the site with a
Roman Catholic Church,
are aware it may just blow living in remote states of court verdict has reinforced banner saying: “Mess with
which uses the word Allah
up,” he said. Sabah and Sarawak, are complaints by religious the best, die like the rest”
in its Malay-language
The government has the main readers of the minorities in Malaysia and “Allah only restricted
edition. appealed the court verdict Herald’s Malay-language that they face institutional to Muslim only.”
A8 WORLD NEWS
Friday, January 8, 2010
EU nations divided on use of airport body scanners
SLOBODAN LEKIC the issue would have to
Associated Press Writer be taken by the European
BRUSSELS (AP) — Commission, and approved
European nations were by the EU parliament — a
sharply divided Thursday process that could take
over the need to install full- several months, even if all
body scanners at European member states agreed on the
airports, with some EU need.
members playing down the Schouppe agreed on the need
need for beefed-up security for a united European Union
measures. approach.
But the EU indicated it may “We must have a common
force nations to comply. position for all European
After meeting in Brussels Union members states so that
on Thursday, EU aviation there is a real transparency
security experts released between measures taken on
a statement saying the EU the European side and the
Commission may issue U.S. side,” he said in an
a binding regulation on interview with AP Television
imaging technology to News.
Members of staff are seen demonstrating a new full body security scanner at Manchester Airport,
reinforce passenger security, “I have the feeling that
Manchester, England, Thursday Jan. 7, 2010. Airline passengers bound for the United States faced
while at the same time (the Americans) are
a hodgepodge of security measures across Europe and airports did not appear to be following a U.S.
addressing the conditions for request for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries. exaggerating. I don’t know
using such technology, such Associated Press what kinds of controls they
as privacy, data protection were using previously,
and health issues. need to be changed first says. That is so small it does Airport, Europe’s busiest, but here, in Belgium and
Italy on Thursday joined before scanners can be used. not penetrate skin so it is Manchester and other sites. in the large majority of
the United States, Britain A majority of EU member considered generally safe for In Italy, Interior Minister European airports, security
and the Netherlands as states need to agree for that pregnant women, said the Roberto Maroni said controls were strict enough,”
nations that have announced to become an EU policy, he college’s spokesman, Shawn Thursday that full body Schouppe said.
plans to install the scanners said. Farley. scanners will be installed at Some experts have questioned
following a Nigerian man’s Germany’s position is that Neither technology type Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci the technical effectiveness of
reported attempt to blow up three conditions must be poses concern for any health airport, Milan’s Malpensa body scanners.
a U.S. airliner flying from satisfied before the scanners risks “since they don’t airport and in Venice within “I’m struggling to discover
Amsterdam to Detroit on could be deployed, Paris penetrate into the body,” said the next three months. In all, the logic for adopting the
Christmas Day. said. They are that the scans James Hevezi, head of the about 10 scanners will be scanner technology,” said
Washington is seeking will increase security, that radiology group’s medical purchased. Simon Davies, director of
enhanced security measures they are not a health hazard, physics commission and “Security comes first before Privacy International, an
on all trans-Atlantic flights and that the scans do to not physics chief at Cyberknife everything else for those independent watchdog on
heading for the United States. harm the individual’s rights. Center of Miami, a cancer who fly,” Maroni said at a surveillance issues.
That’s a huge task, however, Some EU countries have treatment center. news conference. “Any security expert knows
since European airports carry expressed concern that Until now, the EU has allowed The U.S. Transportation this is a red herring, a
thousands of passengers on full-body scanners will be member states to decide on Security Administration, diversion from the real issue,”
more than 800 flights a day dangerous to staff member whether to use body scanners which uses 40 scanners he said. “The biggest failure
across the lucrative North and passengers because of at airport checkpoints. In throughout the United States, in this case was a failure
Atlantic route. the radiation they emit. 2008, the EU suspended work has announced plans to order of intelligence. That’s the
But as the EU aviation However, the American regulating the use of body dozens more. Achilles heel of an effective
security experts met Thursday College of Radiology issued a scanners after the European Since the attempted terrorist counterterrorism strategy.”
on the subject of scanners, statement Wednesday noting Parliament demanded a more attack on Dec. 25, the EU has U.S. officials say a Nigerian
Belgium’s secretary of that a passenger flying cross- in-depth study of their impact been reevaluating its security man, Umar Farouk
state for transport, Etiennne country gets more radiation on health and privacy. regulations. Abdulmutallab, tried to
Schouppe, described such from the flight at high Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport Aviation experts now must destroy a Northwest Airlines
enhanced measures as altitude than from either of has 15 of the scanners and assess whether body scanners flight from Amsterdam to
“excessive,” saying security the two types of scanners the the Dutch have vowed to can fit into EU legislation, Detroit on Christmas Day
requirements at European U.S. Transportation Security buy 60 more. They also are officials said. by injecting chemicals
airports are already “strict Administration is using — retrofitting the scanners “We have to reach agreement into a package of pentrite
enough.” presumably the same systems with software that projects together with the (European) explosive concealed in
Spain, too, has expressed used in Europe. a stylized human figure onto parliament and member his underwear. He failed
skepticism about the need One type, millimeter wave the computer rather than the states,” Antonio Tajani, to ignite the explosive.
for body scanners, and technology, used low-level actual body image to address European vice president, Abdulmutallab, 23, was
the German and French radio waves — not radiation. privacy concerns. said Thursday. “It’s best to indicted Wednesday on
governments remain The other technology uses British Prime Minister have a European solution charges including attempted
uncommitted. very weak X-rays that give Gordon Brown is pressing for than having individual murder and trying to use a
German Interior Ministry a radiation dose equivalent Britain to add more scanners member states deciding on weapon of mass destruction
spokesman Stefan Paris said to flying for two minutes at than the few they have been their own.” to kill nearly 300 people.
EU rules on flight safety 30,000 feet, the statement testing at London’s Heathrow Any significant action on
WORLD NEWS A9
Friday, January 8, 2010
Official: Jamaica to take in radical Muslim cleric
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A Jamaica- “We are working closely with our international
born Muslim cleric who has called for killing partners on this subject,” Hinds said during the
Americans, Hindus and Jews has not committed same radio program.
any crimes in his native country and the The permanent secretary of Jamaica’s Security
Caribbean island will take him in, the foreign Ministry, Richard Reese, referred security
affairs minister said Thursday. questions to police.
It is unclear when Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal might Gilbert Scott, former permanent secretary of the
arrive in Jamaica, where he lived before departing security ministry, said agents closely monitored
for Africa in early 2009 on a Jamaican passport, el-Faisal during his time on the Caribbean island
Minister Kenneth Baugh told Nationwide News in 2007.
Network radio. El-Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in
He did not know what route el-Faisal would take rural St. James parish and immigrated to Britain
to Jamaica. in the early 1980s. He was deported to Jamaica
“As far as monitoring him, that will be left to in May 2007 after serving time in a British
the Ministry of National Security who have their prison for urging the killing of several religious
program in place to maintain surveillance,” said groups.
Baugh, without revealing specifics. El-Faisal once led a London mosque attended by
Kenya deported El-Faisal to Gambia on convicted terrorists, and Britain has said that his
Thursday after several countries, including the teachings heavily influenced one of the bombers
United States, denied him a transit visa. Kenya’s in the 2005 transport network attacks in London
immigration minister said Gambian authorities that killed 52 people. File - This Oct. 2008 file photo by Muhammad ud-
have agreed to help el-Faisal find his way Mustafa Muhammad, the head of Jamaica’s Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
Yemen’s deputy prime minister Rashad al-Alimi says
home. Muslim community, has said he is extremely
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of
Security agents will monitor el-Faisal’s activities concerned about el-Faisal’s return and plans to
trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas,
in Jamaica because of his history of calling for meet with community leaders. may have met in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki, a
violence in other nations, according to Glenmore He said Jamaica’s poverty and lack of security radical American-Yemeni cleric linked to al-Qaida
Hinds, Jamaica’s assistant police chief. He would might make it easy for people to infiltrate their and the alleged Fort Hood shooter U.S. Maj. Nidal
Malik Hasan.
not disclose details, citing security protocols. community.
Associated Press
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Friday, January 8, 2010
`American Idol’ thinks young, edgy in ninth season
By LYNN ELBER, that includes Simon Cowell, said Fox executive Preston
AP Television Writer Randy Jackson and, back for Beckman, adding, “They want
LOS ANGELES – “American her sophomore turn, Kara to root for someone and see
Idol” was the colossus that DioGuardi. someone win.”
dominated television in the Can “Idol” hang on as the No. DeGeneres brings “something
new century’s first decade, 1 series, a spot it’s held for unique and will be the nurturing
generating top ratings, a heady five years among all viewers person on the show and create
share of buzz and a handful of and for six years among 18-to- an interesting dynamic with
bankable stars including Kelly 49 year olds, a demographic Simon. But at the end of the
Clarkson, Carrie Underwood much favored by advertisers? day, it’s not on her shoulders
and Jennifer Hudson. Yes, said industry analyst to carry the show,” he said.
FILE- This May 21, 2006 file “THIS is `American Idol,’” Shari Anne Brill — for now. Cecile Frot-Coutaz,
photo, shows actor Charlie In this undated publicity image
host Ryan Seacrest first “It will remain the top-rated CEO of series producer
Sheen as he arrives for the released by Fox, new ‘American
intoned in 2002, and the show through this year,” said FremantleMedia North
screening of the film ‘Platoon,’at Idol,’ judge Ellen DeGeneres is
the 59th International film singing contest that was a Brill of Carat USA. After America and an “Idol” shown.
festival in Cannes, southern summer surprise turned into that, she said, it’s a guessing executive producer, said she’s (AP Photo/Fox, Michael
France. A Colorado judge has an annual visitor with staying game, especially if uber- nothing but bullish on the Becker)
ruled, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, power. judge Cowell decides to exit future. Actor Gary
that Sheen must appear in Whether it can retain its status after this season and “Idol” is “Thank God it’s an event, like
person at a hearing in Aspen this year, let alone through the deprived of his sharp bite (or a sporting event, so it rises
Coleman
on allegations he threatened second decade, is a crucial at least loud bark). above the crowd,” she said.
his wife with a knife. question for its home base, The show’s producers and Fox Its ad rates are a cut above, too:
(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, released
Fox, as well as the network’s pay due respect to the judging A 30-second commercial on
File)
competitors and the seemingly panel but say what counts “Idol” cost around $500,000
Sheen bottomless well of aspiring most are the “kids,” their last season and hit more from hospital
singers who see it as a shortcut favored term for the mostly than $600,000 for the finale,
to discovery. 20-something contestants according to the ad-buying
ordered It’s a challenge for a series angling for a record contract firm Initiative, while other top
that, entering its ninth season and career, such as last year’s 10 shows were getting closer
Tuesday (8 p.m. EST), is winner Kris Allen and runner- to about $250,000 for half-
to appear
undergoing its biggest shake- up Adam Lambert. minute spots.
up yet with Ellen DeGeneres In focus groups with viewers, A promising sign for “Idol”
taking the place of Paula it’s about contestants that is the overall broadcast TV
in person
Abdul on the judging panel provoke the most emotion, picture.
at Aspen Cassandra Wilson honored
with blues marker
hearing
a blues marker was unveiled project designed to bolster the
ASPEN, Colo. – A Colorado in her honor at a school she state’s blues tourism industry. FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2008
judge has ruled that actor attended as a child. The trail will stretch from file photo, actor Gary Coleman
appears on the the NBC ‘Today’
Charlie Sheen must appear in The ceremony drew a crowd Memphis Minnie’s grave in
program in New York.
person at a hearing in Aspen of some 200 students, friends Walls, near the Tennessee
(AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
on allegations he threatened and other musicians, including border, to Farish Street in
his wife with a knife. singer Dorothy Moore and downtown Jackson, a historic LOS ANGELES – Gary
Pitkin County Chief Deputy bluesman Bobby Rush. black business district and Coleman’s agent says the
District Attorney Arnold Wilson, a two-time Grammy home of the Alamo Theatre “Diff’rent Strokes” actor is
Mordkin said Thursday the Award-winner whose eclectic where many famous black fine after a slight seizure sent
FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2009
judge denied a request by the repertoire has included covers entertainers have performed. him to a Los Angeles hospital
file photo, Cassandra Wilson
actor’s lawyers that he should of blues tunes, absorbed music That’s where Moore’s marker for less than a day.
arrives at the MusiCares
be allowed to participate on Person of the Year Tribute from her earliest years. Her was placed in 2008. Agent Robert Malcolm says
Feb. 8 by phone. honoring Neil Diamond in Los father, Herman Fowlkes Jr., Scott Baretta, a researcher for the 41-year-old Coleman was
Mordkin says prosecutors Angeles. was a bassist who played with the trail, said Wilson’s marker released from a Los Angeles
did not take a position on the (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file) blues harmonica icon Sonny will illustrate how jazz and hospital Wednesday night. He
request. By SHELIA BYRD, Boy Williamson II. blues have intersected. was taken there by ambulance
Sheen was arrested in Aspen Associated Press Writer Wilson chose the site for “Jazz musicians have always earlier in the day after feeling
on Christmas Day on suspicion JACKSON, Miss. – Jazz the marker. The Brinkley played blues, but usually faint and vomiting at a hotel.
of felony menacing, domestic vocalist Cassandra Wilson Middle School is located in when they talk about blues, Malcolm says he returned
violence and other charges. can easily explain why the what is now an economically they’re referring to chord to the hotel after his release
Brooke Sheen told police he Mississippi Blues Trail would depressed area of Jackson, but changes for a particular style and planned to go home later
put a knife to her throat and embrace jazz artists. Wilson said it’s where she got of song and not to songs very Thursday.
threatened to kill her. “Blues is an essential her start. closely associated with blues,” Coleman, who has had two
Sheen denies threatening his component of jazz. It’s like “It’s where I learned about Baretta said. “What’s unique failed kidney transplants, was
wife with a knife. Attorneys one of the building blocks. music. It’s where I played and about her is that she covers in town to meet with producers
for both husband and wife say It’s what we use in order to went to school and it’s such songs by Delta blues artists, of his latest film, “Midgets vs.
they want to try to reconcile. navigate changes. You always a wonderful neighborhood,” such as Robert Johnson and Mascots.” Coleman says he
The 44-year-old actor stars have to keep close ties to that Wilson said. Son House, and that music wants them to remove a brief
in “Two and a Half Men” on original sound and feeling,” The marker is the 100th on generally wouldn’t be found in scene of frontal nudity that he
CBS. Wilson said Thursday after the trail, created as part of a the repertoire of jazz artists.” did not authorize.