National and State News-Thursday, June 21st

BAGHDAD (AP) - At least ten people are dead and 40 wounded after a suicide bomber blew up a mayor's office in a Sunni town in northern Iraq today. In Baghdad, mortars were fired into the
U-S-controlled Green Zone.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Egypt's president is arranging a regional summit on the Palestinian crisis next week. He's inviting the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to the meeting. It would be the biggest show of support yet for beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (AP) - Weather could keep shuttle Atlantis in orbit for an extra day or two. Plans are for the shuttle to land in Florida this afternoon after about two weeks in space. But the forecast calls for clouds and rain.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - It's not just state worker information on a computer device stolen from a state intern in Ohio last week. The governor says the backup tape also has names and Social Security numbers for 225-thousand taxpayers. Experts say someone with time,
money and computer savvy could get at the data.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Sammy Sosa says 600 "is not a bad number." After slugging hundreds of home runs as a Chicago Cub, Sosa swung, hopped and reached the homer milestone as a Texas Ranger, in a win against the Cubs last night. Only four other players have hit more out of the park.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The state House of Representatives could vote as soon as today on the budget bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate. But lawmakers still could end up spending part of July in Harrisburg. Governor Ed Rendell says the budget isn't his only high priority -- he says the Legislature needs to work on transportation, health and energy bills.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Police say the mothers of five children who died in a Pittsburgh house fire last week are expected to turn themselves in, likely today. Shakita Mangham and Fuhara Love are each charged with five counts of involuntary manslaughter. The two 25-year-olds are also charged with making false reports to police and other offenses.

ROCKWOOD, Pa. (AP) - State police in Somerset County are trying to make sense of a house in disarray where a man was found dead of a gunshot wound. Coroner Wallace Miller says 38-year-old Daniel Allan Krouse of Rockwood died of a single gunshot wound to his head, probably late Saturday or early Sunday. What authorities haven't figured out yet is who shot Krouse.

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) - The manager of a factory in the Poconos where 81 illegal immigrants were arrested says a temp agency was the real target of immigration officials. The manager for Iridium Industries says an immigration agent told him he was the victim. The company hasn't been charged with any wrongdoing.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Two men and a woman are dead from a crash on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia last night, forcing the highway to be closed in both directions. Police say a car flipped over, struck a guardrail and then landed on another car. Two people were thrown
out of the car that flipped, with one landing below the interstate, just north of the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.