Monday, June 04, 2007

National and State News-Monday, June 4th

WHITE HOUSE (AP) - President Bush is heading to Europe with a major diplomatic flap on his hands. Russia's President Putin is upset over Bush's plan to locate a missile defense system in
Eastern Europe. They'll be able to talk about it at the G-8 Summit in Germany.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - No knockout blows in last night's Democratic presidential faceoff in New Hampshire. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton is urging her challengers to aim their fire at
Republicans. Others like Dennis Kucinich are scrambling to move up. He says if he were elected, he'd "reshape the world for peace."

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Defense Chief Robert Gates is in Afghanistan, telling a news conference today that Afghan militants are getting weapons from Iran. But he said he can't prove that Iran's government is directly responsible.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A 39-year-old Philadelphia man is being held on a one (m) million-dollar bond after turning himself in yesterday in a shooting that wounded five people. The victims are identified as his girlfriend and four of her relatives. Investigators are trying to find out what started it.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paris Hilton has checked into a Los Angeles County jail to begin her three-week sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. The hotel heiress will stay in a "special needs" unit, separate from most of the jail's more than two-thousand other inmates.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - The trial of a Pennsylvania woman accused of murder for hire in the death of her husband in 2005 begins today in Akron, Ohio. Doctor Gulam Moonda was shot after he and his wife -- 48-year-old Donna Moonda -- pulled off the Ohio Turnpike south of
Cleveland. Donna Moonda has pleaded not guilty.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A Philadelphia man has been charged with shooting five people in Lancaster, including a two-year-old boy. Police say Mark Galloway shot his 35-year-old girlfriend, her mother, daughter and grandson and the daughter's boyfriend early Sunday. Authorities say the shootings appear to have stemmed from a dispute between Galloway and his girlfriend.

HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) - Several hundred people gathered outside Hazleton City Hall in support of Mayor Lou Barletta, the city's Illegal Immigration relief Act, and national immigration reform. Speakers praised Barletta for proposing the city's immigration ordinance, which would penalize landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and businesses that hire them.

MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Rudy Giuliani returned to Montoursville High School last night, more than a decade after 16 students and five chaperones died aboard T-W-A Flight 800 when it crashed off the Long Island Coast in July 1996. The Republican presidential candidate was New York's mayor then. He says Montoursville has a special place in his heart.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Birds and bats have a powerful advocate in the new Congress, and he is making the wind energy industry nervous. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall is pushing legislation that would more strictly regulate wind energy to protect birds, bats and other wildlife who could be killed by wind turbines.

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