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Firefighter Rob Ptolemy and his son Lucas, 2, listen to city council debate the 2013 operating and capital budget Tuesday at Toronto City Hall. Around 100 firefighters showed up, all dressed in red, electrocuted in Virginia’s death
to show solidarity against budget cuts that would affect their team. Story, page 3. COLIN MCCONNELL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE chamber Wednesday night PAGE 7
TTC cops charged in fines scheme
Five arrested. Eight tion with a fake-fines scheme vehicles, but they would not been issued, said Ross. er complaints about rude tran-
Public trust violated
designed to make it look like be where they said they were,” A joint TTC and Toronto sit workers and poor customer
transit officers fired after
they were working when, in said TTC spokesman Brad Ross. police investigation, includ- service.
“Their job is to protect
probe finds they weren’t fact, they weren’t. He would not say where the ing surveillance of some tran- Although no money was
working as claimed The TTC employees, includ- officers were or what they were sit enforcement officers, was stolen, the officers are alleged the public trust within
ing a sergeant in a supervisory doing when they were suppos- launched in September after to have collected pay for work the transit system and
position, were dismissed and ed to be working. irregularities in tickets were they didn’t perform, she said.
that trust has been
charged on Tuesday following Several hundred provincial spotted internally, he said. The transit officers earn be-
In a blow to the public trust, a joint investigation with To- tickets were issued to home- TTC chair Karen Stintz ad- tween $60,000 and $70,000 an- violated by their actions.
the TTC has fired eight of its 40 ronto police. less people who had no fixed mitted that the news couldn’t nually. Many of the fabricated It is a big deal and we
transit enforcement officers. “(The officers) would show address. The individuals would come at a worse time for the tickets were for loitering and
take it seriously.”
Five of them have been ar- up for work, they were in uni- never have received the tickets TTC, which has been trying to solicitation, which carry a $195
rested and charged in connec- form, they would be in their or even been aware they had recover from long-running rid- fine. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE TTC chair Karen Stintz
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Put off by gay counselling group,
Toddler death. Brother
people abandon U of T church
was ill with fl u as family
awaits autopsy results
A Catholic group that coun- from the university.
sels homosexuals to be celi- The Newman Centre then
bate has prompted dozens posted a comment on its Outside the apartment door and has now been released.
of offended people to leave a website specifying that the of a family in St. James Town, Toronto police remained
parish on U of T campus and program is not offered by or a bouquet of red roses lies on on the scene until late Tues-
earned a rebuke from the connected to the university, the floor. day afternoon, with an official
university. Yet it continues to but it supports Courage’s ac- It was here that a two-year- seal on the family’s apartment,
operate. tivities. old boy was found dead on pending the results of a cor- N
A chapter of the inter- “This group indoctrinates Monday, while his older broth- oner’s investigation into the
national organization Cour- ... praying yourself straight,” er was taken to hospital with toddler’s cause of death.
age, a self-described support said Stuart Graham, a former flu-like symptoms, according Coroner’s office spokes-
group for homosexuals in liturgical minister and lector to Toronto Emergency Medical person Jennifer Kerr said an
the Catholic Church, was in- at the parish who was one of Services. autopsy on the toddler’s body
vited to the Newman Centre’s those who complained. A woman identifying her- was performed Tuesday, and E
St. Thomas Aquinas Parish “They’re telling young self as the boys’ aunt said on that samples had been sent
last year. Shortly after, sev- people who are confused Tuesday the family is devastat- to a lab. Results are expected
eral parish members lodged and frightened that they’re ed by the toddler’s death. Wednesday, said Kerr.
a complaint with the Univer- damned. I’m shocked we’re She did say the older boy, It is still unclear whether
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T.O. budget blows
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hot and cold
Cross purposes. When council resumes But Ford spokesman
Wednesday, both the fire com- George Christopoulos said
Mayor’s vote for tax
promise and a separate move the mayor was being “open-
freeze after presenting opposed by Ford, to add $1.16 minded. If council had wanted
a 2% budget, fi re cuts million to a student nutrition the zero per cent he would
program, seem likely to have have went out and found the
have some seeing red the support of a majority 23 money.”
councillors. The property tax increase
The day started oddly when adds $49.65 for an average
Ford presented his budget, home assessed at $474,368.
Mayor Rob Ford sits under the complete with a two per cent An assessment shift brings the
wheels of a fire truck. property tax hike, then voted final tab to $62.08.
His executive committee’s in favour of Coun. Giorgio Later, it was obvious some
united front of no spending Mammoliti’s snap motion for councillors were feeling the
beyond the $7 million already a tax freeze. heat under the gaze of dozens
added to the $9.4-billion pro- “He presented a two per of red-shirted firefighters, the
posed 2013 budget splintered cent budget and then he voted president of their association Teachers step up protest
Tuesday. Some allies broke for zero per cent,” a clearly and two lobbyists arguing the
ranks in support of at least de- livid Coun. Denzil Minnan- proposed fire cuts would jeop- action with plans to
laying controversial cuts moth- Wong, Ford’s public works ardize public safety.
balling five fire trucks and clos- chair, said after the tax freeze Coun. Paula Fletcher tabled demonstrate at MPP offi ces
ing a station on Runnymede failed and the mayor voted for a motion to add 63 firefight-
Road, while others fumed. two per cent. ers to the budget to keep the
“I find it highly unusual for trucks and station operational. Toronto elementary and secondary school teachers protest Bill 115
Quoted the chair of the executive com- That sparked behind-the- at Mowat Block on Bay Street Tuesday. Union president Sam Ham-
mittee and the mayor to vote scenes talks even though Ford mond says about 2,000 Toronto public elementary school teachers
“I fi nd it highly unusual against his own budget.” has accused the firefighters joined the demonstration outside the Ministry of Education offi ces.
Coun. Mike Del Grande, of “blowing smoke” in oppos- Members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation,
for ... the mayor to vote Ford’s budget chief and very ing cuts identified by their which represents public high school teachers, plan similar protests
against his own budget.” close ally, said he hoped that fire chief after he was told to Wednesday at the offi ces of MPPs across the province.
Ford had pushed the wrong freeze spending. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong button to vote. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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04 NEWS metronews.ca
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Boyfriend in custody
after local woman
killed in Bangladesh
No charges laid. Investigation
Mystery surrounds
death of 20-year-old
(cid:580)(cid:3) Though early news
Jerin Mir reports in Bangladesh
said Jerin Mir was hit by
a train, her family say
they believe she died of
The young couple went for a severe head injuries after
walk along some train tracks in being slammed against
Dhaka, that much is clear, but the side of a slow-mov-
how and why 20-year-old Jerin ing locomotive.
Mir ended up dead remains a
mystery. (cid:580)(cid:3) Mir’s parents, who grew
The Scarborough woman Jerin Mir CONTRIBUTED/FACEBOOK up in Bangladesh and
was killed on Saturday in Ban- moved to Canada before
gladesh, where she had been a three-day detainment for their three children were
studying medicine for the past Sharan on Monday, after Mir’s born, are awaiting the
two years. family filed a case. results of an autopsy
A man identified by author- Family and friends say Mir they hope will provide
ities and friends as Mir’s boy- met Sharan in Bangladesh more details about the
friend is being held by police through a friend from the cause of her death.
in Bangladesh after her family Medical College for Women in
accused him in her death. Mo- Uttara, a suburb of Dhaka. Mir
hiuddin Sharan has been in and her boyfriend made their Sharan rushed into a local hos-
custody since Sunday, but as of romance official on Facebook pital, carrying Mir in his arms.
Tuesday had not been charged. in September, declaring them- Family members said she was Bartenders make a splash at cocktail contest
Under Bangladeshi law, po- selves “in a relationship.” bleeding from the head and
lice can make an arrest when a Family members said Mir died soon after.
citizen files a “murder case.” It visited an aunt on Saturday In news reports, Sharan Joshua Oliver Prout, who works at the Oxley Public House, vies with 26 other Toronto bartenders on Tuesday
is then up to the courts to de- afternoon and left at about 4:30 later told journalists that Mir for a spot in the fourth-annual MadeWithLove competition at the Marché Restaurant in the Financial District.
cide whether the accused will p.m. Soon after, she and Sharan had been hit by a train. Author- The mixologists pulled out all the stops to impress judges with their version of a city-inspired cocktail. The
be held during an investigation. went for a walk near a rail sta- ities were not able to confirm main event will be held in March. CONTRIBUTED/SIMON LA
A judge in Dhaka approved tion. Sometime around 8 p.m., this. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Armstrong confession a social event for cyclists
“Introducing some new they decided to show it on truth to come out of such a
cycling initiatives in Dun- the big screen. Founder Krys Old news? staged event.”
das, and watch the fall of a Hines is expecting a crowd The allegations against
“I have no illusions. I’ve
legend.” of local cyclists. Armstrong have led to di-
That’s the tagline for an Eon D’Ornellas, owner known for a long time verse opinions on doping in
event happening on Thurs- of D’Ornellas Bike Shop in about all of this. It’s cycling.
day at Domestique-Café Scarborough, is putting on a D’Ornellas, who is a for-
obvious to anyone in a
Cyclo Sportif, a cycling- party of his own. mer Canadian Olympic cyc-
themed coffee shop in Dun- “It’ll be a nice way of certain level of know.” list, took issue with the fact
das. watching it,” he said. “If that Armstrong denied the
Krys Hinds, founder, Domestique-Café
The café was already host- we do it like that, it will be Cyclo Sportif charges for so long.
ing a cycling-related event more interesting.” “If they clean it up now, I
that night. When they found The plan is to hold a Q- think it will be good for the
out about Lance Armstrong’s and-A session at 8:30 p.m., in “I’m just going to PVR it,” sport in the future,” he said.
Oprah Winfrey speaks with Lance Armstrong on Monday about the interview with Oprah Win- which people discuss Arm- said Mitch Kamiel, a mem- “Then everybody’s on fair
controversy surrounding his cycling career. The interview will air in two frey, during which he is re- strong’s career before the ber of the D’Ornellas Cycling playing ground.”
parts, starting on Thursday on Winfrey’s network. CONTRIBUTED ported to admit to doping, interview airs. Club. “Don’t expect any real TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
metronews.ca NEWS 05
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Dying mom’s family moved by help
‘Weight off my Watzl’s struggle
Quoted
shoulders.’ Offers
“It was a total shock to
of covering funeral, Kimberley Watzl, 41, was
other assistance mean me that anyone would given three months to live
try and help. Nobody has in October.
daughter could go
done anything like this
back to school (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:5)(cid:268)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)
for me in my whole life.” (cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:220)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)
(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:268)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:47)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:305)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:317)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:274)(cid:279)(cid:315)(cid:3)
Kimberley Watzl
(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:243)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:268)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:3)
As soon as the emails started promptly put her dreams of go- (cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:575)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:273)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:575)
pouring in, Amanda Gray ing to college on hold. She has (cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:553)
knew something was about to a $1,700 OSAP debt, which she
change. had no hope of paying off while (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:61)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:5)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:3)
Her single mother, Kimber- supporting Jamal. (cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:47)(cid:209)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)
ley Watzl, is dying of cervical When she learned an an- (cid:48)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:38)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:550)(cid:3)
cancer. Gray, 20, had feared she onymous donor had offered to (cid:315)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)
would not be able to afford a pay the full debt immediately, (cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
dignified burial or take care of she was momentarily speech- (cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:289)(cid:254)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)
her 14-year-old brother Jamal less. (cid:225)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:317)(cid:296)(cid:3)
when her mom passed away. “Wow ... I — I’m in shock,” (cid:315)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:553)
But after a Torstar News Ser- she stammered. “It’s like a
vice story last week revealed weight off my shoulders. That
the family’s plight, more than means I could go back to school phone with some readers.
100 readers replied with heart- as soon as possible.” The Saint Clare Catholic
felt messages of support. Now, a There have been dozens of Church, with help from the St.
church and funeral home have donations, plus offers of em- Vincent de Paul Society, will
offered a pro bono service, vis- ployment, home-cooked meals, provide the free funeral service,
itation and casket, while dona- tutoring and simply someone while Ward Funeral Home will Kimberley Watzl with her 20-year-old daughter Amanda Gray and 14-year-old son Jamal Gray are grateful for the
tions are expected to pay for a to talk to. Two readers are do- provide two days’ visitation and outpouring of support from the community. Watzl is dying of cervical cancer. TARA WALTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
cemetery plot and tombstone. nating an Xbox and laptop, gifts an upgraded casket.
“It’s a dream come true. that Watzl could not afford to John Ward, director of the The brother and sister still the family may be eligible for, It makes me happy to see my
There are no other words for buy her kids for Christmas. funeral home, said it’s what hope to buy a tombstone and which they are now explor- mother happy,” said Jamal. “It
it,” Gray said. “I never expected Even as her health grows he typically offers families on plot in Prospect Cemetery, ing. MPP Jonah Schein has also changed our lives.”
people would want to help us worse, Watzl seems joyful and social assistance, who receive a since it is close to their home at reached out to help Gray and The family has set up an
this much.” positive. She has printed out lump sum from ODSP that only St. Clair and Oakwood. Jamal. online donation account at in-
Gray won legal custody many of the emails sent to covers four hours’ visitation Readers also pointed to “I just want to say thank diegogo.com.
of her brother last fall and her children and talked on the and a basic casket. social services and programs you to everyone for helping. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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06 NEWS metronews.ca
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Quebec eyes
guidelines for
right to die
Suffering. Under new
legislation, assisted
suicide would not be
considered ‘suicide’
The Quebec government be-
lieves it has found a way to
not run afoul of Ottawa after
a legal panel recommended
that terminally ill patients
have the right to die.
Provincial junior health Junior minister Veronique Hivon
minister Veronique Hivon said THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tuesday the panel determined
that provinces have the juris- Rob Nicholson, said Tuesday Apartment for sale: Open concept, close to public transit
diction to legislate in matters the government’s position re-
of health and that the future mains the same.
legislation would clarify how “This is a painful and Emergency services attend the scene after a derailed train crashed into the side of an apartment building in Saltsjobaden, outside Stockholm, Tuesday.
acts to end a life wouldn’t be divisive issue that has been A woman in her early 20s obtained the keys, stole the train and drove it about 1.6 kilometres to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped
considered suicide. thoroughly debated in parlia- off the tracks, careened for about 25 metres and crashed into a three-storey building. She was the only one injured in the incident. The motives of the
Euthanasia and assisted ment,” she said. “We respect woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not immediately clear. JONAS EKSTRÖMER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
suicide are illegal in Canada parliament’s decision.”
under the Criminal Code. Julie Hivon said the Quebec
Di Mambro, a spokeswoman government can now pass
for federal Justice Minister a law with strict guidelines Fear of children. Teacher Canada vs. U.S. Flu shot
that will respect the wishes
Background of the dying to shorten their sues school over phobia helps Americans more
suffering and provide doctors
with a clear legal framework.
Canadians have grappled Under the recommenda-
with the right-to-die issue tions, patients themselves A former teacher is suing the Her lawsuit says her fear of New data suggests that Can- viruses.
for nearly two decades. would have to make the re- U.S. school district where she young children falls under the adians who got a flu shot Dr. Danuta Skowronski,
quest to a doctor on the basis used to work, saying adminis- federal Americans with Dis- this year cut their risk of who led the Canadian study,
(cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:83)(cid:305)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:209)- of unbearable physical or trators discriminated against abilities Act and that the dis- getting sick enough to re- says the cross-border differ-
tions follow a landmark psychological suffering. Two her because she has a rare pho- trict violated it by transferring quire medical care by about ence relates to the fact that
report from last March. physicians would have to ap- bia: a fear of young children. her and not letting her go back half. in Canada, most infections
prove the written request. Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, to her former school. That’s slightly lower than this year are caused by the
(cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:628)(cid:636)(cid:636)(cid:629)(cid:550)(cid:3)assisted suicide The Quebec panel, which had been teaching Spanish and Patrick McGrath, a clinical the estimate that the U.S. influenza A subtype H3N2.
hit the national radar was headed by lawyer Jean- French to teenagers in Ohio psychologist in Chicago said Centers for Disease Control Skowronski, who is with
when Sue Rodriguez, a Pierre Menard, said people since 1976. that anyone can be afraid of released late last week. the British Columbia Cen-
B.C. woman, fought all suffering from an incurable or Waltherr-Willard was trans- anything. In the U.S., the CDC said tre for Disease Control, says
the way to the Supreme degenerative illness should be ferred to a school with young- “We’ve had mothers who this year’s flu vaccine re- while the protection isn’t as
Court for the right to kill allowed to ask for medical as- er students in 2009. She says wouldn’t touch their children duces the risk by 62 per high as public health would
herself. She did in 1994. sistance to help them die. the kids there triggered her after they’re born,” he said. cent overall and by 55 per like, it’s still significant.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Convicted murderer
Divisive restrictions.
Obama set to present gun
will get his death wish
violence proposals
President Barack Obama will
reveal the details of how the
U.S. will address gun violence
on Wednesday, the White ‘Severely disturbed.’
House said Tuesday, while New Killer’s lawyers claim
York passed the toughest gun-
his mental illness is
control law in the nation and
dared other states to do the forcing him to enlist
same.
the government’s help
The Obama administra-
tion has been moving quickly to end his life
on the issue before the shock
fades over last month’s school
shooting in Connecticut,
which Obama has called the When Robert Gleason Jr. walks Virginia inmate Robert Gleason Jr.
worst day of his presidency. Barack Obama THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE into Virginia’s death cham- VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
The White House said ber Wednesday night and is
Obama would appear Wednes- divided Congress, whose sup- strapped into the rarely used Relentless violence
day with children who wrote port would be needed to pass electric chair, it will mark the
letters to him after the shoot- the most sweeping changes end of a twisted quest to speed
ing — a clear attempt to ap- under consideration, includ- up his own death. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:21)(cid:229)(cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:3)
peal to the public as opposition ing a ban on assault weapons, Gleason says it’s not be- (cid:251)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:35)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)
grows among pro-gun groups limits on high-capacity ammu- cause he wants to die, but (cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:220)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)
and Americans who fear their nition magazines like the ones rather because he knows he (cid:629)(cid:627)(cid:627)(cid:635)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:251)(cid:305)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3)
weapons will be taken away. used in the Connecticut shoot- will kill again if he’s not exe- (cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)
The U.S. has the highest rate of ing and background checks for cuted. He was already serving (cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:238)(cid:229)(cid:553)
gun ownership of any country anyone seeking to purchase a life in prison when he killed
in the world. gun. The gun in last month’s his cellmate then vowed to (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:5)(cid:3)(cid:317)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:251)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:292)(cid:305)(cid:296)-
Obama has acknowledged shooting was legally pur- continue killing unless he was (cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:3)
a tough fight ahead in a deeply chased. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS put to death. (cid:315)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:274)(cid:561)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:317)(cid:3)
When the system wasn’t (cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:38)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:317)(cid:3)
Alleged subway pusher Cannibalism case moving fast enough, he (cid:96)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:47)(cid:292)(cid:553)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:35)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:251)(cid:575)
strangled another inmate and (cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
warned that the body count (cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:553)
Victim ‘rolled like N.Y.C. officer
would rise if they didn’t heed
a bowling ball,’ denied bail his warnings. Gleason waived (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:96)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)
his appeals, and he remains (cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:575)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)
suspect claims A federal appeals court in a legal battle with his for- (cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:95)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)
denied bail Tuesday for a mer attorneys as they file last- (cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:35)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)
Homeless suspect Naeem New York City police officer minute appeals to try to save (cid:629)(cid:633)(cid:575)(cid:317)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:575)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:5)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:279)(cid:279)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:553)
Davis, charged with killing charged with conspiring to his life against his wishes.
a stranger by pushing him rape, kill and eat women “Why prolong it? The end (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:35)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:240)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)
into the path of a New York after a judge cited evidence result’s gonna be the same,” (cid:238)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)
(cid:95)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:315)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)
City subway train, told that the case wasn’t built Gleason said in one of num-
(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:268)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:553)
investigators his victim on a fantasy. erous interviews he’s given
“rolled like a bowling ball” The three-judge panel to The Associated Press over
after he landed on the agreed with three lower- three years. “The death part ter. Condemned Virginia in-
tracks, according to court court judges that Gilberto don’t bother me. This has mates can choose between
papers. He also wrote that Valle should remain impris- been a long time coming. It’s lethal injection and electrocu-
he “shouldn’t have let this oned until his trial, which called karma.” tion, and Gleason is the first Robert Gleason Jr. is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Greensville
happen,” the document was postponed until next Gleason is scheduled to inmate to choose electrocu- Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Gleason is the first Virginia inmate since
says. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS month. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS die at 9 p.m. Wednesday at tion since 2010. 2010 to select the electric chair as his method of execution.
Greensville Correctional Cen- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
More than 80 killed at
Pakistan. Supreme court
orders PM’s arrest amid
Aleppo university: Activists
mass protests against him
Pakistan’s leaders received a
powerful one-two punch Tues- Syria. Both the Assad
day as the Supreme Court or-
dered the arrest of the prime regime and rebel
minister in a corruption case groups have denied
and a firebrand cleric led thou-
responsibility for twin
sands of protesters in a second
day of anti-government dem- blasts on campus
onstrations in the capital.
The events set the stage for
renewed political crisis in Pak-
istan, a key U.S. ally in the fight Twin blasts inside a university
against Islamic militants and campus in Syria’s largest city
efforts to stabilize neighbour- on Tuesday set cars ablaze, blew
ing Afghanistan. They sparked the walls off dormitory rooms
accusations that Pakistan’s top Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and left more than 80 people
judge and powerful generals THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE dead, anti-regime activists said.
were working to destabilize What caused the blasts re-
the government ahead of par- at a time when the country is mained unclear.
liamentary elections expected plagued by high unemploy- Anti-regime activists try-
in the spring, and possibly de- ment, rampant energy short- ing to topple President Bashar
lay the vote. ages and frequent attacks by Assad’s regime said his forces
The upcoming elections Islamic militants. carried out two airstrikes. Syrian Syrians gather at the site of an explosion at a university in Aleppo, Tuesday. Two explosions struck the main
would mark the first time a Many claim the country’s state media, for its part, blamed university in the northern city, state media and anti-government activists said. SANA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
civilian government complet- politicians are more interested rebels fighting the Syrian gov-
ed a full five-year term and in lining their pockets through ernment, saying they fired rock- fighting, frequent shelling and ists and the government sift the saying they fired two missiles
transferred power through the corrupt dealings than address- ets that struck the campus. airstrikes by government forces. information they give the media at the university on the first
ballot box. Past governments ing problems facing citizens. Aleppo, Syria’s largest city The competing narratives of in an effort to boost their cause. day of the mid-year exam per-
have been toppled in military The court ruling relates to and a commercial capital, has the two blasts at the city’s main Aleppo’s university is in the iod, and killed students and
coups or dismissed by pres- a case involving private power been harshly contested since university highlight the diffi- city’s northwest, a sector con- people who were staying at the
idents allied with top generals. stations set up to provide rebel forces, mostly from rural culty of confirming reports from trolled by government forces, university after being displaced
A coup isn’t expected but electricity to energy-starved areas north of the city, pushed inside Syria. The Syrian govern- making it unclear why govern- by violence elsewhere.
there is widespread unhappi- Pakistan. The judges are inves- in and began clashing with gov- ment bars most media from ment jets would target it, as op- The UN says more than
ness within the military, judi- tigating allegations that the ernment troops last summer. working in the country, making position activists claim. 60,000 people have been killed
ciary and the public about the bidding process was marred by Entire neighbourhoods independent confirmation diffi- Syria’s state news agency since conflict began.
government’s performance corruption. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS have been destroyed due to in- cult, and both anti-regime activ- blamed the attack on rebels, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Martian rock World losing its sizzle
14.5 C. That’s above the 20th
century average of 13.9 C.
Drilling time nears 2012’s average
That ranks 2012 as the
for Curiosity rover temperature ranks 10th hottest year in NOAA
records that go back to 1880.
NASA says the Curiosity 10th in history The hottest was 2010.
rover should be ready to A La Nina and mild
begin drilling on Mars soon. New weather data shows weather in Alaska, Canada
It’s the most highly an- that the world’s average and parts of Asia moderated
ticipated milestone since the An artist’s rendering of the Mars temperature in 2012 barely the globe’s average temper-
six-wheel, nuclear-powered Science Laboratory Curiosity on Mars. slipped into the top 10 hot- ature. The U.S. recorded its
rover landed near the Mar- NASA/JPL-CALTECH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS test years on record, despite hottest year ever last year.
tian equator five months ago. the U.S. smashing heat NASA, which measures
Mission managers Curiosity will test its drill marks. temperatures differently,
outlined the drilling plan for the first time. The spot The U.S. National Oceanic ranks 2012 as ninth warm-
Tuesday. Project manager contains a diverse sample of and Atmospheric Adminis- est. Both agencies an-
Richard Cook says the team rocks that the rover can pick tration says last year’s world nounced the data Tuesday.
has chosen the site where from. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS average temperature was THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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