National and State News-Tuesday, May 8th

GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) - With the tornado devastation in Greensburg, Kansas, nearly total, emergency responders are still struggling to account for all of the town's 16-hundred residents.
The death toll is nine and cadaver-sniffing dogs scoured rubble yesterday alongside residents who were allowed back in to inspect property.

WASHINGTON (AP) - It's Queen Elizabeth's last day in the United States after helping celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first permanent British settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. The queen today tours the World War Two memorial, Children's National Medical
Center and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

BAGHDAD (AP) - A day laborer wounded in the latest Iraq bombing says the victims are just poor people and he asks an often heard question, "Why do they do this to us?" At least 16 people died today when a car bomb tore through a busy market in the Shiite holy
city of Kufa.

LONDON (AP) - The chances of a child surviving in Iraq weren't very good before the war and they've gotten worse. Save the Children says one in eight Iraqi children died of disease or
violence before their fifth birthday in 2005. Iraq is last in the world in child survival rates and has made the least progress toward improvement.

JERUSALEM (AP) - The tomb of King Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land, has been found. An Israeli archaeologist says it's at Herodium, a flattened hilltop in the Judean Desert where Herod built a palace compound. Pieces of an ornate, limestone sarcophagus have also been discovered.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Roman Catholic school in Harrisburg has canceled today's classes because of a threat of violence. Police were summoned to Bishop McDevitt High School yesterday afternoon, but there were no lockdown or early dismissals. Police say they
have a suspect and believed they can make an arrest today.

MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Hundreds of corrections and law enforcement officers -- including some from Pennsylvania -- are in Moundsville, West Virginia, this week for the eleventh annual Mock Prison Riot at the former West Virginia Penitentiary. The event
gives officers the chance to use new technologies in a simulated crisis.

WATERVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Nearly a dozen volunteer fire crews have been battling a brush fire since 10:30 Monday morning in Cummings Township, Lycoming County. Reports are that around 4:30 this morning the blaze was under control. The fire was discovered on Little Pine Creek Road. There's no word yet from fire officials how many acres have been burned.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - Four Franklin & Marshall College students are hospitalized. Their sport utility vehicle collided with a lumber truck yesterday on U-S 222, about five miles northeast of Lancaster. Three are seniors scheduled to graduate on Saturday. College President John Fry says a student center room will be set aside today for concerned friends.

NEW YORK (AP) - The last play written by the late Pittsburgh native, August Wilson, opens tonight on Broadway. "Radio Golf" is the final chapter in Wilson's monumental, decade-by-decade look at the black experience in 20th century America. It is a play forged by illness, reworked in a furious burst of creativity during the last months of the playwright's life.