National and State News-Wednesday, May 23rd

BAGHDAD (AP) - The U-S military says it is looking into a report that the body of a man who was wearing what appeared to be a U-S military uniform has been found floating in the Euphrates River south of Baghdad. A senior Iraqi army official says the body is that of an American soldier. Three soldiers have been missing since an ambush eleven days ago.

BAGHDAD (AP) - U-S military officials are reporting the deaths of nine U-S troops in Iraq yesterday. In the deadliest incident, three soldiers were killed when their patrol was hit by a series of roadside bombs. Three other soldiers were killed in two separate bombings, while another soldier was killed by small arms fire. And two Marines died in combat in Anbar province.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House has declassified intelligence from 2005 that states that Osama bin Laden ordered his senior operative in Iraq to plan terror attacks in the U-S. President Bush will cite that information in a commencement address today at the U-S Coast Guard Academy, seeking to rally support for the war.

LONDON (AP) - Amnesty International says the U-S war on terror is eroding human rights worldwide. The human rights group says the U-S and its allies are setting a bad example for other nations.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - The Justice Department's former White House liaison is expected to receive immunity before testifying before the House Judiciary Committee today. Monica Goodling had invoked the Fifth Amendment when previously questioned about her role in
the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia prosecutors say they'd pursued murder charges against the wrong man for nearly six months in the shooting death of a five-year-old girl. Prosecutors now say the man they initially accused of firing the stray bullet was asleep at the
time.

KUTZTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The state law that would have let schools ease property taxes and get more revenue from income taxes cost Kutztown schools plenty. School officials there say they want the state to pay them for expenses to advertise the ballot question and hold hearings.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The nonprofit group Wireless Philadelphia says a 15-square-mile test area just north of Center City works well enough to build the rest of a city wireless network. By
autumn, the network should provide a wireless Internet link to the whole city at a low cost.

SNOW SHOE, Pa. (AP) - Police say someone stole a refrigerated trailer containing 23-thousand pounds of cheese from a rest stop off Interstate 80. Police say the driver had left the trailer at
the Snow Shoe rest stop in Centre County to take the tractor to a repair shop.