Tuesday - May 12, 2009

STATE POLICE NEED YOUR HELP IN NABBING THOSE WHO DAMAGED SOME CON EDISON TRUCKS OVER THE MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND…

IT HAPPENED AT THE SAINT CLAIR BUSINESS PARKING LOT TWO IN EAST NORWEGIAN TOWNSHIP. OFFICIALS SAY 13 2009 G-M-C 5500 TRUCKS WERE DAMAGED BY ROCKS TO THE TUNE OF 75-HUNDRED DOLLARS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT STATE POLICE IN SCHUYLKILL HAVEN AT
593-2000.

(AP) - An attorney says the Reading Police Department can't objectively review the actions of an officer who beat a suspect with a heavy-duty flashlight. Francis Nunez (NOON'-yehz) suffered a brain injury in the March 14 altercation with Officer Mark Groff. Last week, an internal review board cleared Groff of any wrongdoing. Tom Kline is Nunez's civil attorney. He told The Associated Press on Monday that he doesn't consider the board's ruling to be
the final word. Kline said in a statement: "Mr. Nunez's injuries speak for themselves. He was an unarmed individual who was badly beaten. The Reading Police Department is obviously not in a position to reviewthis matter independently and objectively."

(AP) - A company that provides school bus service in south-central Pennsylvania says it has procedures in place to make sure children aren't left on school buses - but one driver in
Lancaster didn't follow the rules. Shultz Transportation says that driver is no longer working for
the company. She forgot a 3-year-old developmentally disabled boy who was left unattended on the bus last month while his mother grew increasingly worried. Shultz President Mike Kramer says the company requires its drivers to walk to the rear of their buses and make sure no
children remain when they finish their routes. He says the driver didn't follow the procedure and is no longer working for Shultz.

(AP) - Free daily newspapers in Philadelphia, New York and Boston are getting a new owner. The money-losing Metro papers in the United States are being sold to a company run by a former Metro CEO. The deal announced Monday was signed with Pelle Tornberg's
newly-formed Seabay Media. It includes the free daily newspapers in New York and Philadelphia, as well as the Boston Metro, which is published through a partnership with the Boston Globe.

(AP) - Some deadlines for the primary election one week away. Tuesday is the last day to apply for absentee ballots for the May 19 primary. Ballot request forms must be submitted to county boards of elections by 5 p.m. The absentee ballots must be returned by Friday, though there
are exceptions for voters in the military, living overseas, and for emergency ballots. Metro is financed entirely by advertising and handed out for free to commuters. It was launched in Stockholm in 1995. It now has more than 81 editions in 22 countries, including those in the U.S.
Chief Financial Officer Anders Kronborg says the sale of the loss making U.S. operations was part of the company's strategy to get through the economic and financial crisis.

MUNICH (AP) - Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk(dem-YAHN'-yuk) has arrived in Germany to face accessory to murdercharges in the deaths of 29,000 Jews and others in Nazi-occupiedPoland. The 89-year-old former Ohio autoworker says he was aprisoner of the Nazi's and never hurt anyone. A German court willdecide if he's medically fit to stand trial.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trustees for Social Security and Medicare arescheduled to provide their annual financial report today. Manyprivate analysts say because of the recession they believe bothprograms could run out of cash sooner than last predicted.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Feb. 12 crash of a turboprop plane into ahouse in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., was the worst U.S. air crash inmore than seven years, killing all 49 on the plane and one on theground. A safety hearing begins today with a top question being theflight captain's training.

MARDAN, Pakistan (AP) - Army helicopters have dropped Pakistanicommandos behind Taliban lines in the Swat Valley as part of awidening offensive against the militants. Meanwhile, U.S. missileshave killed eight people in an attack on a suspected insurgenthide-out elsewhere in the northwest.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The crew of Atlantis will bespending today checking the shuttle for any launch damage. It'sracing toward the Hubble Space Telescope for a repair missionthat's especially dangerous because of all the space junk in thetelescope's 350-mile-high orbit. Atlantis is due to arrive atHubble tomorrow.