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PRANK GONE WRONG TEEN JOKE LEADS TO FELONY CHARGE Tyell Morton (right) has admitted leaving a blow-up doll, a sex toy, in a girls’ bathroom at Rushville High School on May 31. He now faces a misdemeanor charge of disorderly

conduct and a more serious count, institutional criminal mischief, a felony that carries a potential sentence of two to eight years.

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OBAMA, LEADERS IN CONGRESS TO MEET ON DEBT President Barack Obama rejected proposals for a short-term deal to raise the U.S. debt limit and pressured congressional leaders to reach a broad agreement within two weeks to avoid a government default by August 2.

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NEWS BRIEFS Obama, leaders in Congress meet today on debt ACCUSED SOMALI TERRORIST PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN MANHATTAN COURT A Somali national who was secretly captured by the U.S. military in April pleaded not guilty to nine terror-related charges before a Manhattan district court judge Tuesday, and he was remanded to federal custody.

Officials say Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was captured in April and has been interrogated on a U.S. warship for more than two months. He was then read his Miranda rights, and he reportedly waived them.

Warsame is charged with supporting al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Somalian-based terrorist group alShabaab and conspiring to teach and demonstrate making explosives between 2009 and last spring.

He also has a weapons possession charge dating back to 2007.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a statement, “Capturing and bringing Warsame to justice is a body blow to any al-Qaida affiliate that aspires to fill the vacuum of a diminished al-Qaida central. I want to congratulate our military and the NYPD detectives and FBI agents whose collaborative work on the Joint Terrorism Task Force helps to protect New York and the rest of the nation from terrorism on a daily basis.”

Warsame faces up to life in prison.

President Barack Obama is committed to use civilian courts to try terrorists.

ADVOCATES CLAIM FIGHT NEAR MANHATTAN CLUB WAS POLICE BRUTALITY Community members, hip hop artists, local activists and elected officials gathered on the steps of City Hall Tuesday to show support for the five people charged in connection with a confrontation with police outside a Lower East Side club last week.

They said the five were beaten, maced and arrested by police officers at an album release party and claimed the officers used excessive force.

They also called for an end to police brutality.

“I seen them grab my friend Louie and beat him up, and then someone called to me, ‘Pete, your wife, your wife.’ So I ran outside, and I see Officer Chow pushing my wife and daughter to the ground, like they attacked them,” said hiphop artist Pete Rock.

“Cy Vance the [Manhattan district attorney], Black people put your behind in office, so you need to drop these charges and charge the police,” said Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron.

The five people arrested were charged with assault and disorderly conduct.

Several police officers and clubgoers were injured.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said police officers had every right to defend themselves and used appropriate force in doing so.

By STEVE HOLLAND and ALISTER BULL WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama rejected proposals for a short-term deal to raise the U.S. debt limit and pressured congressional leaders to reach a broad agreement within two weeks to avoid a government default by August 2.

Obama invited Democratic and Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress to the White House today to take stock of the stalled negotiations to reach a deal on budget cuts that would give Congress political cover to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling that caps U.S. borrowing.

The talks collapsed in acrimony two weeks ago and both sides have blamed the other for failure to reach a deal.

Democrats and Republicans have reached a rough agreement on billions of dollars in government spending cuts but are at loggerheads over taxes.

Democrats want to increase taxes on wealthier Americans to help lessen the deficit, while Republicans refuse any tax increase, fearing it would worsen the country’s 9.1 percent jobless rate.

The White House is looking to clinch a deal by July 22 to soothe market fears and give Congress time to approve it.

“We need to come together over the next two weeks to reach a deal that reduces the deficit and upholds the full faith and credit of the United States government and the credit of the American people,” Obama told reporters at the White House.

Republicans were skeptical that a new White House meeting would make much difference.

“I’m happy to discuss these issues at the White House, but such discussions will be fruitless until the president recognizes economic and legislative reality,” House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said in a statement.

“The legislation the president has asked for — which would increase taxes on small businesses and destroy more American jobs — cannot pass the House, as I have said repeatedly,” said Boehner, the top Republican in Congress.

Senate Republican leader Mitch

McConnell said he viewed the meeting as an opportunity to know “whether or not the president will finally agree to a serious plan to reduce the deficit.”

Republicans were angered a week ago when Obama accused Congress of spending too little time on the problem and compared lawmakers to schoolchildren putting off their homework.

Republican Senator John Cornyn floated the idea over the weekend of a short-term measure to lift the debt ceiling for six to eight months in order to meet the August 2 deadline while congressional negotiators take more time to work on a broader agreement.

“I don’t share that view,” Obama said in rejecting the proposal.

Congress must raise the U.S. borrowing limit to avoid a default, which could trigger a spike in interest rates, push the United States back into recession and send global financial markets plummeting.

The U.S. Treasury has said it will run out of money by August 2 to pay all of the country’s bills, including Social Security payments.

U.S. markets so far have shrugged off the looming default deadline but the Obama administration has warned of economic catastrophe if the country fails to meet its financial obligations.

With the budget talks in an impasse, neither side has come forward with the kind of compromise that will be needed and instead have been engaging in political posturing.

Democrats have criticized Republicans for defending tax breaks that benefit corporate jets, yachts, races

horses and other luxury items. Those breaks have a minimal impact on the budget but have high symbolic value.

Republicans said that closing those tax breaks would hurt businesses and the economic recovery.

Boehner took a dig at the president’s leadership.

“I’m pleased the president stated today that we need to address the big, long-term challenges facing our country. Our nation’s long-term future requires presidential leadership to address those challenges,” Boehner said in his statement.

A final deal will test the ability of Obama and Boehner to compromise because both of whom must answer to the left and right wings of their parties with an eye on 2012 elections.

Obama said he had a series of discussions with congressional leaders from both parties over the July 4 holiday weekend.

“We’ve made progress, and I believe that greater progress is within sight.

But I don’t want to fool anybody, we still have to work through some real differences,” he said.

On Capitol Hill, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said he would stage a vote on a nonbinding resolution that would call on millionaires to “make a more meaningful contribution to the deficit reduction effort.”

It would have no legal impact, but it would allow Democrats to continue a charge they have honed in recent weeks — that Republicans are more interested in defending the interests of the wealthy than solving the country’s budget problems.

First day hiccup for NY same-sex marriages

By GRANT MCCOOL Same-sex couples eager to marry in New York hit a bureaucratic snag when marriage license applications made available to them for the first time on Tuesday still used the terms “bride” and “groom.”

City Council spokesman Jamie McShane said forms that accommodate all marriages would be online sometime on Tuesday, less than three weeks before New York State’s Marriage Equality Act takes effect.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the act into law on June 24, making the state the sixth and most populous in the United States to allow gay marriage.

It was not clear whether the online form seeking “Groom - Info” and

“Bride - Info” was proving a temporary deterrent to applications for marriage licenses, but some decided to wait.

“I know things take time and being that there is only one option, if it was important for me to be married on July 25th, I would fill out the form as is,” said Sandi Rowe, a graphic designer who wants to marry next year.

She said she encourages wedding planning sites to change their language from the “bride/groom” option.

The Marriage Bureau was due to begin performing ceremonies for same-sex couples on July 25. State law generally requires couples to wait 24 hours after receiving a license before they can be married.

New York was expecting an eco-

nomic windfall from the legislation.

One estimate by the Independent Democratic Conference advocacy group of New York State Senators estimated that 21,000 gay and lesbian couples would marry in the first three years the law is in force, adding as much as $284 million to the state’s economy over that time.

The window of Rothman’s men’s apparel store in the city’s Union Square had a sign on its front window saying “We love NY equally” to celebrate and attract customers.

“It’s great because we do a lot of weddings in this store and we are excited because frankly it’s a whole other group of people that are now going to be getting married,” owner Ken Giddon said. “All of a sudden every wedding party will have two grooms instead of one.”

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Teen prank leads to felony charge When 18-year-old Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall on the last day of school, he didn’t expect school officials to call a bomb squad or that he’d be facing up to eight years in prison and a possible felony record.

The senior prank gone awry has raised questions of race, prosecutorial zeal and the post-Columbine mindset in a small Indiana town and around the country, The Indianapolis Star reported in its Tuesday editions.

Legal experts question the appropriateness of the charges against Morton, and law professor Jonathan Turley at George Washington University posed a wider question about Morton’s case on his legal blog.

“The question is what type of society we are creating when our children have to fear that a prank (could) lead them to jail for almost a decade. What type of citizens are we creating who fear the arbitrary use of criminal charges by their government?”

A janitor at Rushville Consolidated High School saw Morton run away from the school May 31, and

security footage showed a person in a hooded sweatshirt and gloves entering the school with a package and leaving five minutes later without it, according to court documents. Administrators feared explosives, so they locked down the school and called police. K9 dogs and a bomb squad searched the building before finding the sex doll.

“We have reviewed this situation numerous times,” Rush County Schools Superintendent John E. Williams told the newspaper last week. “When you have an unknown intruder in the building, delivering an unknown package, we come up with the same conclusion. ... We cannot be too cautious, in this day and age.”

Morton was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and institutional criminal mischief, a felony that carries the potential of two to eight years in prison. “I know there has been plenty of pranks done at that school,” said Morton’s mother, Cammie Morton. “I went to that school. When I heard what they was charging him for, my heart just dropped.”

Joel Schumm, a professor at the Indiana University School of LawIndianapolis, questioned the validity of the charges. “Their reaction is understandable, but use the school disciplinary process,” he said. “Don’t try to label the kid a felon for the rest of his life.”

The Rush County Prosecutor Philip J. Caviness told The Associated Press that he doesn’t intend to seek a prison term for Morton, but said school officials acted appropriately and that the charges are warranted. “I’m pretty comfortable with the charges that we’ve filed,” he said.

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts focused on Morton’s case recently in his nationally syndicated column, suggesting that Morton’s case was another example of unfair treatment for a Black youth without a wealthy family. Morton’s father brushed off that suggestion when Pitts asked him about it, and Morton’s mother declined to discuss that point with The Star.

Morton’s attorney, Robert Turner, also downplayed race, suggesting that the size of the small blue-collar

city an hour southeast of Indianapolis played a role. “I don’t think they do this sort of thing very often,” Turner said. “Had this happened in Indianapolis ... they would not have had this kind of charge filed.”

Morton’s mother said Tyell Morton wants to attend college, but is worried about the case. “It’s stressful for Tyell,” Cammie Morton said. “He doesn’t know where his life is going to end up. He has been looking — I’ll just put it this way: He’s scared.”

Report: NY property-tax cap may hit cash-poor cities

By JOAN GRALLA New York State’s new propertytax cap might further pressure counties, cities, towns and school districts already struggling with lower tax revenue and higher expenses in the recession’s wake, according to a report released on Tuesday by Moody’s Investors Service.

The new law, which was signed on Tuesday by Governor Andrew Cuomo, is intended to help homeowners by compressing property taxes. The law is also intended to buoy the economy by lowering a barrier to new jobs.

At a median of $3,755 per household, New York’s property taxes are more than double the U.S. median of $1,917, the governor said in statement.

Cuomo, noting three governors had failed to reduce “out-of-control” property taxes, said: “New York will no longer be the tax capital of the nation and this tax cap will go a long way toward revitalizing the state’s economy.”

The new cap limits yearly increases in property taxes to whichever is less — 2 percent or the rate of inflation. Voters can get around the cap with a 60 percent vote on a school budget or a legislative body.

A number of states have examined capping property taxes, often the most important source of tax dollars for counties, cities, towns, and schools.

After Massachusetts capped property taxes in 1980, the levy did decline, according to a 2010 study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, D.C.-based

think tank. But the think tank questioned whether that benefit was outweighed by the cap’s “harmful impact,” citing more reliance on state aid, wider gaps between rich and poor communities, and cuts in service.

New York’s property-tax cap risks accelerating a few downturns, according to Moody’s report.

“While the cap will not directly prompt rating downgrades, the new restriction on the taxing powers of local entities only adds to their weakened finances,” Moody’s analyst Robert Weber said in a statement.

Moody’s said that a number of New York’s school districts have a cushion: They salted away reserves during the past few years. And for all school districts, debt service is exempt from the limits imposed by the cap.

But after three years of flat revenue, some towns are particularly vulnerable to curbs on tax increases.

“Of particular concern are the issuers who already face significant financial pressure,” said Weber, listing as examples the towns of Colonie, Fishkill, and East Greenbush, and the cities of Newburgh and Glen Cove.

At least three cash-strapped counties also could be hurt: Monroe, Nassau, and Rockland, Moody’s said.

The new property-tax cap does not apply to New York City, which pays for its schools out of the general fund.

In contrast, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers do fall under the property-tax cap though their school districts are exempt, Moody’s said.

Militants may try bomb implants to attack

By JEREMY PELOFSKY WASHINGTON — Militants are showing renewed interest in using a surgically implanted bomb to blow up a commercial flight, though there is no indication an attack is imminent, a U.S. security official said yesterday, citing new intelligence.

U.S. authorities have warned their counterparts abroad as well as air carriers about the new information and were taking steps to boost security.

“The Department of Homeland Security has identified a potential threat from terrorists who may be considering surgically implanting explosives or explosive components

in humans to conduct terrorist attacks,” the advisory to foreign counterparts said, according to the U.S. security official.

Such a threat is likely to come from overseas rather than domestically, but precautions were being taken on both sides, the official said on condition of anonymity.

The new intelligence did not indicate an attack was imminent, the official said.

U.S. authorities have been on high alert after American forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May, ramping up security at airports, government buildings and other facilities in case of a retaliatory strike.

The official declined to say whether

the new intelligence came from documents collected at the compound in Pakistan where bin Laden was found and killed.

The possibility of a suicide bomber attacking with explosives implanted in the person’s body has long been a concern for authorities — and a difficult threat to detect.

Attacks in the past have involved explosives packed in luggage, shoes, clothing or other items.

A Nigerian man was arrested in December 2009 and has been accused of trying to ignite a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. In October, toner cartridges packed with explosives were sent aboard U.S.-bound

cargo planes but were intercepted and defused overseas before they exploded.

In the wake of such attacks, U.S. aviation security authorities have steadily ramped up passenger and cargo screening, requiring travelers to have their shoes X-rayed, go through full-body scanners and restricting liquids allowed in the passenger cabin of planes.

Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nicholas Kimball said passengers flying into the United States may notice enhanced security measures, including talks with them as well as pat-downs and the “use of enhanced tools and technologies.”

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Nearly half of all students who pursue academic programs at for-profit college programs are minorities. Many are “non-traditional” students – single parents, veterans, fullor part-time working adults.

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DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011

Michele Bachmann: The John Wayne of political lies

By GEORGE E. CURRY Whether making the round of Sunday morning talk shows, giving the Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, or announcing her own presidential candidacy, Michele Bachmann does one thing consistently – lie.

The Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, who has been described as Sarah Palin with a brain, has enjoyed a dramatic rise in public opinion polls following the latest debate among GOP candidates seeking the party’s presidential nomination. But Bachmann’s comments are a reminder of the adage: Figures can lie and liars can figure. Here are some of the most egregious examples: BACHMANN [CBS “Face the Nation,” June 26]: The Congressional Budget Office estimated Obamacare will cost the economy 800,000 jobs, probably the – HOST BOB SCHIEFFER: Again, that is data that other people would question.

BACHMANN: That’s – well, that’s what the Congressional Budget Office, that’s not Michele Bachmann, that’s Congressional Budget Office figures saying that we’re – we have the potential of losing 800,000 jobs.

FACTS: As Factcheck.org noted, “The CBO didn’t say that. Instead the CBO said that the law would cause a reduction in the amount of labor workers choose to supply. Some Americans would decide to work fewer hours or retire earlier because

their ability to get health insurance would be more secure. And lowincome workers would receive subsidies to purchase insurance, putting more money into their pockets. Overall, the CBO said the impact on jobs would be ‘small.’”

BACHMANN [Jan. 25 Tea Party Response to the State of the Union address]: Unfortunately, the president’s strategy for recovery was to spend a trillion dollars on a failed stimulus program, fueled by borrowed money…Not only did that plan fail to deliver, but within three months the national jobless rate spiked to 9.4 percent. And sadly, it hasn’t been lower for 20 straight months. While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs. Let me show you a chart. Here are unemployment rates over the past 10 years.

In October 2001, our national unemployment rate was 5.3 percent. In 2008…it was just 6.6 percent. But, just eight months after President Obama promised lower unemployment, that rate spike to a staggering 10.1 percent.

FACTS: The watchdog group Media Matters, on its politicalcorrection.org site, stated: “From December 2007 to July 2009 – the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy – private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 in December of 2009. So, out of 8,467,000 private sector jobs lost in this dismal cycle, 7,796,000 of

From subprime mortgage Continued from page 4 cally, at a time when unemployment figures in the African American community are in the double-digits (a staggering 41.6 percnet among African American teens, as compared to 24.2 percent of teens overall) and when, according to the College Board, just 26 percent of African Americans have at least an associate degree, it is our most vulnerable students who will be most hurt by this ruling – not helped.

Congress needs to stop this rule and go back to the drawing board.

The fact that the department created this harmful rule is harmful enough, but how they went about doing it deserves close scrutiny and thorough investigations.

Good government groups such as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have repeatedly uncovered a rulemaking process that was inappropriately guided by Wall Street short-sellers.

Growing evidence shows an “inside job” of sorts, involving Wall Street

financier, Steven Eisman, and Education Department executives, such as Deputy Undersecretary Robert Shireman, throughout the rule-making process. In Congressional testimony and in highly publicized presentations to the investment community, Eisman browbeat the for-profit college sector, “predicted” its collapse, and then handily profited on short selling the colleges’ stocks.

The entire shady process was discovered through Freedom of Information Act requests and reported in the media.

The Department of Education has still not explained why it has unfairly made a scapegoat out of for-profit career colleges, on which minorities and low-income students heavily

those jobs or 92 percent were lost on the Republican watch or under their policies. Some 671,000 additional jobs were lost as the stimulus and other moves by the administration kicked in, but 630,000 jobs came back in the following six months. The tally, to date: Mr. Obama can be held accountable for the net loss of 41,000 jobs (671,000-630,000), while the Republicans should be held responsible for the net losses of 7,796,000 jobs.”

BACHMANN [Tea Party State of the Union response]: But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.

Deficits were unacceptably high under President Bush, but they exploded under President Obama’s direction, growing the national debt by an astounding $3.1 trillion dollars.

FACTS: The rising debt can be attributed to Bush-era policies and the recession that began before Obama took office. As the conservative Washington Times observed, “The Congressional Budget Office announced a projected fiscal 2009 deficit of $1.2 trillion even if Congress doesn’t enact any new programs…About the only person who was silent on the deficit projection was Mr. Bush, who took office facing a surplus but who saw spending balloon and the country notch the highest deficits on record.”

BACHMANN [Tea Party response]: We need to start making things again in this country. And we can do that by reducing the tax and regulatory depend. The only rationale has been a discredited study by the Government Accountability Office. The Senate’s Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee staff pressured the Government Accountability Office at the eleventh hour to produce an investigative report on for-profit-colleges. The hastily produced report was later revised to correct at least 16 “errors” that prejudiced the findings against career colleges. Why has the Department of Education continued to rely on that discredited report to justify passage of the new rules? And, why do Senators continue to use inaccurate data on the Senate floor?

In the wake of ongoing requests by leadership in the Congressional Black Caucus and others, such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Urban League’s Mark Morial, Congress must draft comprehensive legislation that addresses the issue of

burden on job creators. America will have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Think about that.

FACTS: Researchers at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities have thought about it and what they realize is that to grasp the corporate tax burden, one needs to look beyond statutory tax rates to the effective tax rate, which takes into account tax deductions. Judging by that standard, the Center notes, “The U.S. corporate tax burden is smaller than average for developed countries. Corporations in 19 of the member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development paid 16.1 percent of their profits in taxes between 2000 and 2005, on average, while corporations in the United States paid 13.4 percent.”

Appearing on Fox News after officially declaring her candidacy for president, Bachmann said on June 27: “What I want them to know is, just like John Wayne is from Waterloo, Iowa, that’s the kind of spirit that I have too.”

John Wayne wasn’t from Waterloo.

He was born in Winterset, Iowa and grew up in California. Bachmann apparently got John Wayne mixed up with another John Wayne – John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who was from Waterloo.

— George E. Curry, former editorin-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. He can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.

America’s student debt across-theboard. It must create reform that is fair and effective and a remedy for colleges across the board — not just the career college sector.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce calls upon Congress to conduct a thorough investigation into the improprieties in the rulemaking process, including the suspicious role of Education Department officials, such as Robert Shireman.

A biased process produced a misguided and harmful rule and must be reversed by the Congressional Review Act or other means. Let us all rise to meet and defeat this challenge to the future of our children.

— Mr. Alford is the President/CEO and co-founder of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. Website: www.nationalbcc.org. Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.

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Teenager says was beaten after family shot in post-Katrina chaos

By KATHY FINN NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans teenager whose family members were wounded by police in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina testified on Tuesday that officers punched and kicked him before arresting him at the scene.

One officer who struck Leonard Bartholomew IV, then 14, as he lay on the ground blamed “the heat of the moment” for his actions as he testified in the second week of a federal trial that could send five police officers to prison for life.

The officers are charged in connection with the

killing of two civilians, 17year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, on September 4, 2005. Four others were wounded, including Bartholomew’s mother, who lost an arm.

New Orleans police officers Kenneth Bowen, Robert Faulcon, Robert Gisevius, Anthony Villavaso and Arthur Kaufman face 25 counts of depriving citizens of civil rights, using a weapon in committing a crime, or obstruction of justice.

A sixth is scheduled for trial in the fall. Five other officers have pleaded guilty to a role in the incident on the Danziger Bridge.

Kevin Bryan, now a

deputy sheriff in a neighboring parish, was one of a dozen New Orleans police officers who responded that day to a police radio call indicating officers were under fire near the bridge.

As the truck arrived at the bridge, gunfire erupted outside and officers in the back of the truck saw a “skinny Black male” run past, Bryan testified.

Bryan saw an officer shoot at the runner and miss, so he began chasing the running man. By the time he reached him, Bryan testified, another officer had intervened and the runner was lying on the ground.

But Bryan “slapped him with an open hand” anyway,

he told jurors.

Asked by prosecutor Barbara Bernstein why he did that, Bryan blamed “the heat of the moment” and said he felt horrible that he had hit “a kid” who was not armed.

Defense attorneys argue that in the hysteria and trauma following the hurricane and flooding, police were doing their best to keep the peace that day and believed they were being fired upon.

The “kid” Bryan struck was Bartholomew, who told jurors police struck him in the face and kicked him that day. He said he saw his family taken from the bridge in an ambulance as police arrested him.

They later released him in

Father of alleged serial killer victim waited for call

By KIM PALMER CLEVELAND — The father of one of alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell’s victims testified at Sowell’s trial on Tuesday that he knew something was wrong when he did not get a call for days, and then months, from his troubled daughter.

But Donald Smith, the father of Kim “Candy” Smith, said police ignored his concerns.

“I knew something was wrong and they just blew it off,” Smith said.

Sowell, 51 is charged with the aggravated murder of 11 women whose bodies were found in and around his house. Two women who said they were raped by Sowell but

survived also testified on Tuesday.

Sowell was arrested on October 29, 2009, two days after the initial discovery of the bodies. The decomposing bodies were found by police responding to a report by a woman who said she had been attacked in the home. If convicted, he could be given the death penalty.

Witnesses were asked by prosecutors if missing persons reports were filed with the police or if fliers were posted after their family member’s disappearance.

Prosecutors also asked when the victims were last seen and how often they would checkin with family and friends.

Smith said that while his daughter, who had trouble with drugs from her last year

Cost of playing Powerball to double MIAMI — The price of a Powerball ticket will double in 2012 when the multistate lottery marks its 20th anniversary. The jackpots also will get bigger, officials say.

Beginning in January, a Powerball ticket will cost $2, while the basic jackpot will go to $40 million, The Miami Herald reported June 28. Matching five numbers without the Powerball number will get you $1 million instead of $200,000.

Players in 42 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands will have a slightly better

chance of winning the jackpot, too, with odds falling from 195 million to 1 to 175 million to 1, the newspaper said. The chance of winning at least some cash will improve from 1 in 35 to about 1 in 32.

The pool of possible numbers is being reduced from 39 to 35, as well.

“We’re excited to deliver the opportunity to create more millionaires and also provide more opportunities to raise additional revenues for the respected causes benefited by lotteries,” Powerball Chairman Alan Yandow said.

in high school, would sometimes disappear for a week or two, she would always call.

He worried when he had not heard from her for days after she left his house January 17, 2009, because the family had been planning a birthday party for her.

“Every hour seemed like a day, every day seemed like a month,” Smith said.

He said he distributed fliers through some of her daughter’s friends and offered a $500 reward for information, but heard nothing.

Smith is one of the family members who have sued the city of Cleveland over their handling of the Sowell case.

One woman whose report of being attacked in Sowell’s home helped lead to the discovery of the first two bodies there testified she met him in 2007 and did drugs with him and his then-girlfriend several times before she was attacked in 2009.

Latundra Billups, 37, described meeting Sowell, buying crack and going with him alone to the uninhabited second floor of his home

where she questioned him about a rumor that he attacked a woman, which he denied.

After smoking crack and drinking, Billups said Sowell asked her to turn around, then put his hands on her neck when she complained.

“He hit me and hit me hard,” she said, adding he told her to take off her clothes.

Billups said Sowell raped her while choking her with an extension cord until she blacked out. When she woke up, Sowell looked surprised she was alive, she said.

According to her testimony, Sowell then said: “I’m going to kill you because I know I’m going to jail.”

Billups said she promised she wouldn’t send him to jail, and then he offered her a change of clothes and told her to come back for $50 for her ripped sweater.

Billups went to the hospital the next day where she waited 6 hours to see a nurse and eventually file a police report.

Richard Durst, a Cleveland sex crime detective, testified his attempts to reach Billups

downtown New Orleans, miles from where he had been staying.

“I didn’t know what to do,” he said.

A stranger befriended Bartholomew and took him to her home in Baton Rouge.

He stayed with her for 10 days before connecting with an uncle who finally took him to see his family in the hospital.

Bartholomew said that as he looked at a cousin who had taken several gunshots, he was wracked with guilt at having dodged the bullets.

“I should have been shot too. It wasn’t right that everybody else had to go through all that pain and I was all right,” he told jurors. after her rape report were unsuccessful at first. But eventually a warrant was issued that would lead police to find the first two bodies in Sowell’s third floor.

Another woman, Shawn Morris, testified Sowell raped her in October of 2009 when, after spending some time with him in his house without incident, she returned to get her ID. “He came behind me and put me into a military chokehold,” Morris explained. “He told me I wasn’t going home until he said ... (and) I would do everything he said to do or he was going to kill me,” she added.

Morris’ testimony was similar to Billups. She said Sowell demanded she take off her clothes and lie on her stomach. Her screams caused Sowell to get up to close the windows, and Morris said she decided to jump from an open window.

She said she didn’t remember anything until waking up in the hospital three days later with two broken hands, eight broken ribs, a skull fracture and an aneurysm.

She told the hospital staff and her husband she was in a car accident because she feared Sowell would kill her.

Kilpatrick’s parole release postponed DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s release from prison has been put off until August as Michigan authorities transfer his parole to Texas.

The parole board voted in June to free the disgraced politician within weeks, when he will have completed the minimum of his sentence for violating probation.

Michigan has granted Kilpatrick’s request to join his

wife and children in Grand Prairie, Texas, but the details of the transfer of his supervision must be worked out. He still owes Detroit more than $861,000 in restitution.

“Right now, the first week of August is the most likely time,” Michigan corrections spokesman John Cordell said.

Federal authorities, who indicted Kilpatrick in December on charges of running a criminal enterprise that stole

millions of taxpayer dollars, have agreed to let him move to Texas while he awaits trial in Detroit.

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DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011

Opposition wants Chavez to get better, lose vote

By BRIAN ELLSWORTH CARACAS Venezuela’s opposition front-runner to face President Hugo Chavez in an election next year said yesterday he hopes Chavez recovers quickly from cancer so he could be beaten in the 2012 vote.

Henrique Capriles Radonski, governor of Venezuela’s second most populous state Miranda, said the nation should focus on resolving problems such as high crime and soaring prices rather than fixate on the president’s health.

“Government spokespeople say the president is in a process of recovery — God willing, that’s the case,” Capriles told a media conference in Caracas.

“The best thing that can happen for Venezuela, the best thing that can happen for the region, is for President Chavez to be the candidate and for him to lose the elections.”

Chavez, 56, returned from Cuba this week after undergoing sur-

Venezuelan opposition governor from the state of Miranda Henrique Capriles Radonski talks to the media during a news conference in Caracas. gery to remove a cancerous tumor, receiving adoration from his supporters and a warm welcome from government allies who appeared relieved he was home.

Though doubts remain about the severity of his condition and his capacity to govern, Chavez’s health had not altered the day-to-day functioning of the government, Capriles said.

“The government is profoundly inefficient, but it is functioning,” he said. “Venezuela’s problems have nothing to do with the president’s health.”

Opposition leaders have struggled to take advantage of Chavez’s illness to advance their campaign. They want to avoid appearing to relish his misfortune.

Polls show Capriles leading a clutch of opposition figures who will compete in a primary scheduled for February that will decide who will be the opposition unity candidate in 2012.

Chavez’s mix of statecentric economic policies, heavy social spending and aggressive rhetoric against the United States has sustained his populari-

ty for more than a decade and help him win a string of elections and referendums.

Appearing pale but defiant, the president saluted his people on Tuesday on their 200th anniversary of independence, but he did so from inside the presidential palace instead of attending the celebrations in person.

RUMORS OF RESHUFFLE But the inability to resolve intractable problems such as the lack of affordable housing, chronic electricity outages and periodic shortages of staple

foods have weakened his support base among Venezuela’s poor majority and made the 2012 race appear to be his most challenging yet.

Markets had interpreted the socialist leader’s sickness as positive news for investors, hoping it meant a change to more business-friendly leadership in the OPEC nation. His return from Havana curbed sharp gains by its debt.

Wall Street is focused on rumors of a forthcoming cabinet reshuffle that could give clues as to who might be the ruling Socialist Party’s candidate at next year’s presidential election in the event that Chavez could not run. Allies have said they are confident he will be the ruling party candidate.

A reshuffle might suggest Chavez recognizes his illness will limit his government role or crimp his energetic, hands-on style, RBS Emerging Markets Strategy said in a note, but also indicated some paralysis or status quo on policy management.

“Perhaps the replacement of some key managers (namely the vice president) could show President Chavez wants to surround himself with closer confidantes

that would better reflect his ideology and public image with the voters,” it said.

Following big gains last week after Chavez said he had undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, the benchmark dollardenominated 2027 global bond rallied to bid up 0.125 point at 75.500 with a 12.885 percent yield.

The charismatic but authoritarian former soldier needs “strict” medical treatment but has vowed to win his health battle.

One source close to the president’s medical team told Reuters Chavez could have colon cancer in an advanced condition that would require chemotherapy for several months.

His doctors recommend that he be treated in Venezuela, the source said, where a wing of the Military Hospital has been prepared for him. The chemotherapy would start once Chavez was fully recovered from the operations, the source added.

There was no official confirmation of that, and the only official details of his condition have been given by Chavez.

Greek premier warns against descent into lawlessness

By HARRY PAPACHRISTOU ATHENS - Prime Minister George Papandreou warned yesterday that violent protests against spending cuts to satisfy international lenders threatened to lead to the kind of barbarism that in the past had derailed democracy in Greece.

The austerity required in exchange for a bailout for debtridden Greece has sparked attacks on politicians and bloody demonstrations on the streets of Athens, where hooded youths have fought running battles with riot police.

In a reference to the installation of the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974, Papandreou told a cabinet meeting that undermining democrat-

ic institutions in the past had led to a “derailment of democracy.”

“We must all learn from history,” he said.

A government official made clear Papandreou did not mean there was a risk the military would take over.

“The prime minister did not say democracy was in danger. He meant that violence would open the way to anti-democratic behaviors and reminded peo-

ple of history,” said the official who requested anonymity.

The austerity package, that included wage cuts and tax rises, was imposed amid the deepest recession since the restoration of democracy and has been deeply unpopular.

Clearly worried about law and order, the prime minister called for an inter-party parliamentary committee to be set up to decide on new measures, within the framework of existing law, “to protect and better manage public gatherings and policing.”

In comments to the cabinet meeting, which were televised nationally, Papandreou said: “A state ruled by law can-

not tolerate any spontaneous or organised violence. Everybody must realize that the attacks against parliament, MPs and other citizens are mutilating democracy and undermining civil rights.

“They are creating conditions for even more lawlessness, more insecurity, finally hurting the weak and the nation.”

RIOTS, ATTACKS, ABUSE OF LAWMAKERS Papandreou said there were extremist political groups seeking to exploit Greece’s crisis which were encouraging “riots, attacks, the abuse against MPs and political parties ...

“Blockades, violence and the attempt at ideo-

logical terrorism have no place in a democracy, in public spaces, in universities, squares, neighborhoods and the media.”

Protesters have marched through the capital shouting slogans, banging drums and carrying banners attacking the terms of the bailout many Greeks feel imposes harsh penalties on ordinary pensioners and workers while sparing the rich.

Ordinary Greeks also want to hold politicians accountable for the state of the nation’s finances and protesters who gather every night before parliament chant: “Thieves, Thieves!”

There have been a

series of attacks on and threats to members of the ruling PASOK socialist party and some politicians have been forced to cancel engagements including Papandreou.

Protesters threw eggs and yoghurt at one PASOK lawmaker in the central city of Lamia while others threw bottles and a chair at a PASOK deputy as he left parliament.

Riot police are now stationed in the streets surrounding Syntagma Square in central Athens which became the epicenter of protest where violent clashes have taken place and where activists camp out maintaining a 24hour vigil.

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Triangle of hunger batters millions Africa’s Horn

By JOE MWIHIA WAJIR, Kenya Thousands of families are walking for days in search of food in a triangle of hunger where the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet. Hundreds already have died, and images of children with skinny, malnourished bodies are becoming commonplace in this corner of Africa.

Even Somalia’s top militant group is asking the aid agencies it once banned from its territories to return.

Thirsty livestock are dying by the thousands, and food prices have risen beyond what many families can afford.

Hawo Ibrahim said she and her seven children trekked 15 days from a town in southern Somalia before reaching a refugee camp in northeast Kenya.

“We have seen misery and hunger on our way,” said Ibrahim, 32, who said her husband went mad after the family lost its livestock to drought. “The most painful thing was when you don’t get anything for your thirsty and hungry children.”

Aid agencies are appealing for tens of millions of dollars in emergency funding.

Oxfam - which hopes to raise $80 million, its largest ever appeal for Africa - says 12 million

A carcass of an animal lies on an empty road, near Lagbogal, 56 kilometers from Wajir town, yesterday. The worst drought in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations has said. More than 10 million people are now affected in droughtstricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the situation is deteriorating, Photo/ Sayyid Azim people are affected by humanitarian director.

Somalis desperate for hunger. At least 500 Somalis are known to food are overrunning have died from the world’s largest drought-related dis- refugee camp in neigheases, though Oxfam boring Kenya, which is says the actual number seeing some 10,000 new arrivals each week, six is likely higher.

“Two successive poor times the average at rains, entrenched this time last year. poverty and lack of Caught between vioinvestment in affected lence and hunger, a areas have pushed 12 U.N. official said Somali million people into a refugees are suffering fight for survival,” said “a human tragedy of Jane Cocking, Oxfam’s unimaginable propor-

A malnourished child lies on the floor of Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh tions.” three camps now host The epicenter of the more than 382,000 peodrought lies on the ple, while thousands three-way border more are waiting at shared by Kenya, reception centers outEthiopia and Somalia, a side the camp. More nomadic region where than 135,000 people families heavily depend have fled Somalia this on the health of their year - including 54,000 livestock. Uganda and in June, three times as Djibouti have also been many as in May, said hit. ActionAid says Melissa Fleming, a some areas in the Horn spokeswoman for are experiencing their UNHCR. driest conditions in 60 Many Somali chilyears. dren are arriving at “We only ran away refugee camps so weak from hunger - nothing that they are dying else,” said Halimo within 24 hours despite Farah, a mother of emergency care and three who fled Somalia feeding, she said. and is now in Dadaab.

In the hospital in “We had farms and got Wajir, an ethnically no rains for six sea- Somali area in northsons.” east Kenya, Dr. Food prices have also Mohamed Hassan said risen. The U.N. says in that most children in the last year the price of the ward are suffering sorghum in Somalia’s from severe malnutriBaidoa jumped 240 per- tion. cent, while yellow maize “You will find severerose 117 percent rise in ly wasted children,” he Jiiga, Ethiopia. White said. maize jumped nearly 60 The European percent in the Kenyan Commission said yestown of Mandera. terday it is sending $8 The U.N.’s refugee million in emergency agency says Dadaab’s funding to Dadaab to

help deal with the crisis. The EC has contributed nearly $100 million to the drought crisis this year.

A spokesman for Somalia’s most dangerous militant group, alShabab, said Tuesday that the group is willing to allow aid agencies to negotiate their return. Al-Shabab in 2009 began to ban aid agencies, fearing the groups could host spies or promote an unIslamic way of life.

Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage said non-Muslims who want to help must contact al-Shabab’s drought committee for permission.

Nicholas Wasunna, an adviser to the aid group World Vision, said the drought is hitting children and elderly hard in northeast Kenya. Wasunna, echoing other aid agencies, said governments needed to have acted quicker to prevent the crisis.

“We need to make disaster risk reduction a political priority and invest accordingly because these scenes we should never see again.

The reality is drought will continue to be with us but we need to do much more, much sooner,” he said.

Save the Children said more than a quarter of children in the worst-hit parts of Kenya are now dangerously malnourished, while malnutrition rates in Somalia have reached 30 percent in some areas.

Chad r ebel hails France’s r eadiness to withdraw tr oops

By PASCAL GUYOT N’DJAMENA, Chad - A key Chadian rebel leader yesterday welcomed comments by French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe suggesting that Paris was mulling a withdrawal of its troops from Chad.

“We are very pleased with Mr. Juppe’s

remarks. It’s a very good thing,” General Mahamat Nouri, head of the National Alliance for Change and Democracy (ANCD) said from Doha.

“France (Chad’s former colonial ruler) must abandon (Chadian President Idriss) Deby,” he added.

Tuesday, Juppe said Paris was in talks with Chad over a new cooperation agreement and said the presence of around 1,000 French troops under Operation E p e r v i e r

(Sparrowhawk) was no longer justified and that they should be repatriated.

Yesterday, the French foreign ministry however would only say that a “discussion was under way” with Chad on the future of the French military force, which was first deployed in 1986 to deter a Libyan military offensive.

Last August, Deby called for a revision of the military agreement between Chad and

France, accusing Paris of paying nothing for its troop presence.

Nouri said his group had no hard feelings toward the French military contingent, which he said had always backed Deby.

“We (the rebels) would probably be in power were it not for the French troops,” he added.

In February 2008, Chadian insurgents reached the gates of the presidential palace in Ndjamena but the tide

turned when France provided key intelligence and ammunition to government forces who were able to beat back the divided rebellion.

Nouri also described as a “good thing” France’s help in the fight against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the extremist network’s north African offshoot, in the Sahel but made it clear that French soldiers “must not remain in Chad.”

AQIM has bases in

northern Mali from where it carries out armed attacks and kidnappings for ransom in the Sahel desert region, where the group is also tied to arms and drugs trafficking.

“France is today writing a new chapter of its bilateral relations with Chad. This chapter can only lead to the establishment of a genuine democracy where justice, freedom, political change and good governance will not remain empty words,” he added.

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Tunisian commission delays text on party financing

By FETHI BELAID TUNIS, Tunisia commission A tasked with drafting a law on the financing of political parties in Tunisia’s nascent democracy postponed a decision yesterday, because of a dispute among its members over its contents.

The panel failed to agree on a text after five hours of talks Tuesday.

President of the commission Yadh Ben Achour said it was better to put off the talks for a week so as to have everybody present and thus ensure a degree of consensus.

“We are trying to overcome the crisis at the heart” of the committee, he said.

Differences were to be expected given the diverse nature of its membership, he added.

The committee had been due to debate the text again yesterday.

Proposals include a ban on any foreign financing of political

By CHRISTOPHE DE ROQUEFEUIL

Tunisian students shout slogans during a demonstration in Tunis, January 2011. A commission tasked with drafting a law on the financing of political parties in Tunisia's nascent democracy postponed a decision, because of a dispute among its members over its contents parties and a limit to how much private individuals can contribute.

But the main political parties, concerned at the effect such restrictions might have on them, have fiercely criticised such measures.

One of the parties most hostile to the proposals is the Islamist movement Ennahda

(Renaissance), which in June was among a number of political groups to pull out of the national commission, questioning its legitimacy.

Ennahda is considered to be one of the front-runners in elections for the constituent assembly scheduled for October.

The leader of the

UN: Congo rape victims suffer reprisal attacks JOHANNESBURG Survivors of a horrific mass rape attack in eastern Congo last year have suffered reprisals and a judicial inquiry into the violence has been suspended, the United Nations said yesterday.

At least 387 people were raped in the Walikale territory in late July and early August last year, including men, children and a month-old baby boy.

While investigators said that the rapes could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, yesterday’s report also noted that only one person has been indicted on any criminal charges in connection with the violence.

More than 150 victims and witnesses have been interviewed, but the report by the

Frustration with army has Egyptians back onto streets

U.N. Joint Human Rights Office in Congo yesterday said a judicial inquiry had to be suspended because of the reprisal attacks.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the Congolese government to do more to stop the violence and called on the international community to better equip the U.N. mission in Congo.

“The government should pursue its efforts to bring perpetrators to justice and ensure that victims and witnesses are protected, given the high risk of reprisals,” she said.

Luzolo Bambi, Congo’s minister of justice and human rights, said the government was determined to fight impunity. He said he has given orders for criminal

proceedings into the rapes, that investigations have opened and that there will be a trial.

“There are people in custody including an officer general of the army for rapes and other crimes, proof we are fighting against humanity,” Bambi said.

The U.N. mission in Congo came under scathing criticism following the Walikale attacks because the rapes occurred within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of a U.N. peacekeeping base. The $1 billion-a-year mission’s primary mandate is to protect civilians.

It took days for help to arrive, even though a peacekeeping patrol escorted commercial trucks through one of the villages, Luvungi, while it was held by the fighters.

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Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, which seeks to be an alternative to the Islamists,

has also been critical of the reform panel, because its members are not elected.

Al -Q aida m ili tants attac k M au ri tania n ar my bas e NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mauritania’s army says al-Qaida militants have attacked a military base in the West African nation.

A statement says Mauritanian forces pursued the militants as they fled toward neighboring Mali after Tuesday’s attack in the town of Bassiknou.

There were no immediate casualty figures available.

Al-Qaida’s North African affiliate has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Mauritanian military installations and government buildings.

They also have kidnapped dozens of foreigners across the Sahel region.

The militants said late Tuesday that they had killed 20 soldiers in an ambush late last month in the Wagadou region of Mali. Mauritanian officials said 15 militants and two soldiers were killed.

Zimbabwe officials say polls are a year away HARARE, Zimbabwe - Officials in Zimbabwe’s coalition government say elections may be held by the end of next year.

Patrick Chinamasa, chief negotiator for President Robert Mugabe, told state media that party negotiators are set to agree yesterday on a timetable toward elections after months of dispute.

CAIRO, Egypt Five months after the ouster of president Hosni M u b a r a k , Egyptians are being asked to return to the streets for new mass protests amid frustration over the military rulers’ handling of a promised transition to democracy.

Hailed as heroes for not siding with Mubarak during the January 25 uprising, the ruling military council has increasingly become the target of protesters’ anger.

Pro-democracy activists have expressed their fury over continued military trials of civilians.

They say police officials responsible for repression before and during the revolt are still showing up for work.

And some take issue with the military’s timetable for elections and the drafting of a new constitution.

“We want real cleansing, real trials, real government,” said the Coalition of Revolution Youth, a grouping of pro-democracy movements that helped launch the revolt.

“I want to see real change,” said Mustafa Shawki, one of the coalition members in a video posted on their Facebook page. “We must be clear, politics is not for the army.”

Another Facebook group “We are all Khaled Said” — named after a man who died after being beaten by police last year and has become a symbol of the fight against police brutality — insisted that “this country must change.”

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OAS to observe Nevis elections WASHINGTON — The secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the interim representative of St Kitts and Nevis to the Organization, Kemoy Liburd Chow, on Tuesday signed the agreement on privileges and immunities for the electoral observation mission that will be present for the 2011 Nevis Island Assembly Elections on July 11.

Caribbean leaders concerned about Turks and Caicos Islands

During the signing ceremony, Liburd Chow expressed her country’s appreciation for the OAS by affirming that “we commend the OAS for its continued service and efforts to promote democracy in the hemisphere.”

Insulza, who recently visited the country, explained that the observation missions “have become a very good practice at the OAS, and we are very thankful with the government for extending an invitation to observe these elections.”

Insulza designated Paul Spencer as the chief of mission. Spencer is an advisor to the OAS Secretary General from Antigua and Barbuda.

New breed of criminal in Bahamas, says police chief

By CHESTER ROBARDS NASSAU, Bahamas — There is a new breed of criminal in The Bahamas that “just does not care,” Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade said on Monday, insisting that the “carnage” persisting in the country recently cannot continue.

Speaking to the press after the launch of the police’s summer camp, Greenslade commented on the demeanour of the criminals in The Bahamas, which he said is different from criminals of the past.

He said many of the murders — which have hit 67 for the year — have been the result of arguments. And he said that robbers are committing murder for no reason other than they “just don’t care.”

Some of the CARICOM leaders present at the recent summit in St Kitts.

BASSETERRE, Government in St Kitts ed the legislature after while the rest of the Commission of world was not watchSt. Kitts — The on Monday noted that a “the constitutional Inquiry said it found ing.

C a r i b b e a n reform process had widespread corruption its communiqué, Community (CARI- been completed though under the administra- theIn regional leaders COM) heads of gov- not to the full satisfac- tion of former premier said that the citizens ernment have tion of the Islanders.”

Michael Misick. are expecting that elecexpressed concern The TCI has associMisick, who resigned tions will be held in the on the situation in ate membership within in March 2009, after shortest timeframe posthe Turks and the 15-member regional the commission made sible, “in order to lead Caicos Islands (TCI) grouping, and citizens its findings public, has to a return to self rule have been called on all Turks and and democratic and where Britain there demanding an end to Caicos Islanders, representative goverresumed direct British rule and a churches and political nance’. administration of return to parliamen- parties to put differThe leaders said that its overseas territo- tary democracy. ences aside and “unite have requested the London resumed to fight the common Council for Foreign and ry in August 2009.

Community Relations The communiqué direct administration of enemy — the British.”

Misick accused (COFCOR) “to continue issued at the end of the the affairs of the Overseas London of staging what to monitor the situation 32nd regular meeting British of the Conference of Territory, disbanded he termed a “modern- closely, in order to keep Caribbean Heads of the locally elected gov- day coup” in the Turks them informed.” ernment and suspend- and Caicos Islands

P M says REDjet inter ested in flying into St Kitts BASSETERRE, St Kitts — As the REDjet issue simmers in the Caribbean, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas said the new low-fare airline will be welcome to operate into and out of the twin-island Federation.

Douglas, the current chairman of the regional integration movement CARICOM, disclosed Sunday night in an interview that the government is looking at an application from REDjet to operate on the route, Barbados-St Kitts-St Maarten and to another Caribbean island.

He told the media at an end of conference press briefing on Monday that, although it is important to have a more affordable and reliable air transportation within the

CARICOM Community, “we obviously must be concerned about the sensitivities in preserving those regional airlines that are plying the same route within the Community.”

“It is not a case of trying at all to prevent competition, but ensuring that the sensitivities surrounding this issue are also completely understood,” Douglas told reporters.

A CMC report said Barbados has indicated it will not be a mortician and fight over “a corpse called regional integration” as the war of words continues over the licensing requirement for the region’s first ever low budget airline, REDjet.

Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told reporters that his administra-

tion wanted to know how the game is being played with regards to Caribbean countries providing licences to airlines to operate within the region.

“I say this...I do not intend that Barbados should be in the position of any mortician fighting a corpse called regional integration movement. I know what happened with the West Indian Federation. I know how the mortician works and Barbados has always stoutly defended the regional integration, has been a leader in the regional integration movement and that will not change under my leadership.

“We in Barbados certified REDjet in Barbados as safe.

We are being second-guessed

on that. Other people certify their aircraft and we don’t second-guess them.

“I made that point at the meeting (CARICOM Summit) but if this is the way these issues are going to be handled, I only want to know the rules. I just want to know how people are playing the game; I can play the game as well as they can play it,” a visibly upset Stuart told reporters.

But his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Kamla Persad Bissessar told reporters later that her country has raised safety concerns about the airline that has been seeking to enter the Trinidad and Tobago market.

“We are of the view that the safety of our nationals is

paramount and, therefore, given the flags that we raised, complications of the aircraft, we are of the view that those should first be dealt with before we can go forward with the matter,” she said, noting that a suggestion was made for the civil aviation authorities from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to look into her government’s safety concerns.

Stuart accused Port of Spain of conducting a smear campaign against REDjet, noting that at a meeting held in Trinidad last month with the relevant ministers of civil aviation, Barbados Minister of International Transport George Hutson was shown apparently questionable photographs about the airline.

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Syrian forces round up dozens in Hama

By DOMINIC EVANS BEIRUT - Syrian forces rounded up dozens of people around Hama yesterday, a day after shooting dead 22 people, activists said, and Amnesty International said Syria may have committed crimes against humanity in an earlier crackdown.

Tanks were still stationed outside Hama, which has seen some of the biggest protests against President Bashar al-Assad and was the site of a bloody crackdown against Islamist insurgents nearly 30 years ago.

But some of the tanks were redeployed away from the city and a resident said security forces were concentrated around the headquarters of the ruling Baath Party, the police headquarters and a state security compound. Most arrests took place in the outskirts of the city.

Ammar Qurabi, Cairo-based head of the Syrian National Human Rights Organization, said the death toll from Tuesday, when gunmen loyal to Assad swept through the city, had risen to 22.

He said hundreds of people had been arrested.

Rami Adbelrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 23 people had died in Hama in the last 24 hours, and that an opposition figure in the city had reported water and electricity supplies were cut to the city yesterday morning.

State news agency SANA said one policeman had been killed in a clash with armed groups who opened fire on security forces and threw petrol and nail bombs at them. It made no mention of civilian deaths but said some “armed men” were injured.

Syria has prevented most independent media from operating inside the country, making it difficult to verify accounts from activists and authorities.

Hama was emptied of security forces for nearly a month after at least 60 protesters were shot dead

on June 3, but the security vacuum emboldened demonstrators and on Friday activists said at least 150,000 people rallied to demand Assad’s downfall.

The next day Assad sacked the provincial governor and sent tanks and troops to surround the city, signaling a military assault similar to those carried out in other protest centers.

In a report released yesterday, Amnesty International said the crackdown two months ago against one of those protest centers — the town of Tel Kelakh near the border with Lebanon — may have constituted a crime against humanity.

Urging the United Nations to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court, it said nine people died in custody after being captured during the operation in the town, close to the Lebanese border.

“CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY” Describing a “devastating security operation”, it said scores of men were rounded up, and most of them were tortured.

Some detainees told Amnesty they were beaten and tied by the wrists to a bar high enough off the ground to force them to stand on the tip of their toes for long periods — known as the shabah, meaning ghost, position.

A 22-year-old man told Amnesty he was tied up in the shabah position had electric shocks applied to his body and testicles during five days of detention in the provincial capital Homs.

“Amnesty International considers that crimes committed in Tel Kelakh amount to crimes against humanity as they appear to be part of a widespread, as well as systematic, attack against the civilian population,” it said.

Syrian activists say security forces have killed more than 1,300 civilians since the unrest erupted 14 weeks ago. Authorities say 500 soldiers and police have been killed by armed gangs who they also blame for most of the civilian deaths.

Assad has responded to the protests with a mixture of repression and concessions, promising a

Taliban again refute claims of peace talks with West

By JONATHON BURCH KABUL - The Afghan Taliban again refuted yesterday claims they had entered into talks with the West to try and find an end to the war, saying any contacts with foreign countries had only been to negotiate prisoner exchanges.

In a statement emailed to media, the Taliban also repeated their long-standing position of rejecting any negotiations for peace as long as foreign troops were in Afghanistan.

“The rumor about negotiation with America is not more than the talks aimed at the exchange of prisoners. Some circles call these contacts as comprehensive talks about the current imbroglio of Afghanistan,” the Taliban said.

“However, this shows their ... lack of knowledge about the reality. It is clear as the broad daylight that we consider negotia-

tion in condition of presence of foreign forces as a war stratagem of the Americans and their futile efforts.”

Last month, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the United States was in direct talks with the insurgents but that talks were not at a stage where the Afghan government was sitting down with the militants.

Washington and London have both acknowledged there have been recent contacts with insurgents although former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he expected it could take months before any headway could be made.

But so little is known about these contacts that they have been open to widely different interpretations and any discussions that may be taking place are still not at a stage where they can be a deciding factor.

Despite trumpeting military gains, particularly in southern Afghanistan, foreign leaders and military commanders have long recognized the need for a political solution to a war that has now

dragged on for almost 10 years.

In yesterday’s statement, the Taliban said they had been in contact with “some” countries to arrange prisoner exchanges, including most recently with France for the release of two French journalists and their Afghan translator last month.

The men were seized outside Kabul on December 30, 2009 and held captive for 18 months.

France has denied any ransom was paid to secure the release of the two men, and their Afghan interpreter Reza Din. Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said revealing details of the negotiations could damage efforts to free other French hostages in Africa.

The Taliban said they were also continuing “direct and indirect” contacts to secure the release of U.S. and Canadian prisoners.

In June 2009, insurgents captured U.S. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in southeastern Afghanistan and have released videos showing him in captivity dressed in both Afghan clothing and in military uniform.

political dialogue with the opposition. Preliminary talks on the dialogue are due to be held on Sunday.

But opposition figures refuse to sit down and talk while the killings and arrests continue, and diplomats say events in Hama will be a litmus test for whether Assad chooses to focus on a political or a military solution to the unrest.

Some residents sought to halt any military advance earlier this week by blocking roads between neighborhoods with rubbish containers, burning tyres, wood and metal.

The New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had been told by an official at Hama’s Hourani hospital that security forces surrounded the hospital on Tuesday, although they did not enter it, as it received the bodies of four people and treated 60 others with gunshot wounds.

Pakistan panel says bin Laden family won’t be repatriated

By ZEESHAN HAIDER ISLAMABAD - Osama bin Laden’s family, detained in Pakistan, will only be repatriated once a government-appointed commission investigating the al Qaeda leader’s killing allows them to leave, the panel said, a move that could set it on a collision course with the army.

Sixteen people, including bin Laden’s three wives and several children, were detained by Pakistani security forces after U.S. special forces killed bin Laden in the northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad on May 2.

Pakistan’s foreign office said in May that bin Laden’s wives, one from Yemen and two from Saudi Arabia, would be repatriated.

However, the commission blocked the ministry of interior and the powerful spy agency InterServices Intelligence (ISI) from allowing the family to leave Pakistan, it said in a statement issued late on Tuesday after its first meeting.

“The family can provide vital information about the presence of bin Laden in Abbottabad or elsewhere which could help the commission and that’s why it has asked the government not to repatriate them to their countries,” said Asad Munir, a retired ISI officer.

Bin Laden’s youngest wife, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, told Pakistani investigators in May that bin Laden and his family lived for five years in the compound in Abbottabad where he was killed.

The government set up the commission, headed by a senior judge, last month amid mounting public fury over the U.S. raid that killed bin Laden which many Pakistanis see as a breach of their sovereignty.

Its mandate is to look into how bin Laden could have lived in Pakistan for so long and how the United States was able to conduct the raid without the military’s knowledge.

The decision to block the repatriation of the family could set it on a collision course with the country’s security establishment if the commission says the military was complicit in hiding bin Laden, analysts said.

But the commission, which also includes a retired army general and a former Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations, cannot accomplish much without cooperation from the army and its intelligence services, analysts say.

Pakistan has a history of probes that never yield results because of army interference.

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For the conclusions of these stories check out the July 7th - July 13th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Don’t call it a comeback… they been here for years. The highly anticipated Destiny’s Child Reunion you’ve been waiting for is on its way. While in New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival, Beyonce’s dad Mathew Knowles revealed that the group is currently working on a new album. Is anybody shocked by this? Not us… But we are kind of surprised that Matthew is still being allowed to make announcements on behalf of the group.

Shannon Brown has opted out of the final year of his contract with the LA Lakers, making him a free agent. But Lakers fans should not put those old jerseys on Ebay just yet, as Shannon opted out of his last contract but then resigned to the LA Laker a few years ago. So maybe its a tactic for more money....or time on the court. Shannon recently said “I haven’t ruled out the Lakers,” said Brown. “I don’t know if they will rule me out.

I’m staying open.” So we guess his free agent status isn’t cut and dry....

Janelle Monae wants to deliver a different “perspective” but says it’s hard for new artists. “I think there’s a lack of diversity,” Monae tells UK’s Evening Standard.

“People think that we’re all monolithic and it’s hard for young aspiring girls, who don’t necessarily want to sell sex and strictly sing crappy R&B songs. They need to understand there’s a different blueprint that you can create.” The “Tight Rope” hitmaker eyes starting a new trend, adding “I think it’s absolutely necessary for the balance of the universe that there are other representations and a different perspective of the

woman.”

Outkast plans to release a new album by early next year. Additionally we have confirmation that both Andre 3000 and Big Boi will drop solo projects, both before the end of 2011.

A rock solid industry source tells HipHopWired, “Outkast is on track to release a new album by early next year. Both Dre and Big are working on solo projects; they want those out by the end of 2011.”

Rihanna has sparked rumors she has revived her shortlived romance with Drake after she was photographed cuddling the rapper at a nightclub in Canada.

The pair briefly dated following Rihanna’s split from Chris Brown in 2009, but the beauty subsequently admitted she put a stop to the budding relationship because she was not ready for another boyfriend. She went on to date Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp, but remained friends with Drake and they are now rumored to be giving their romance a second try after they were pictured together during a night out at the Buonanotte Supperclub in Montreal, Canada, last month. The photograph, obtained by TMZ.com, shows the stars sitting close together, with Drake’s arm wrapped around Rihanna’s shoulders, while a source tells the website they were “all over each other” throughout the evening.

Philly-bred radio personality, Star of the “Star and Buc Wild” morning show on 100.3 The Beat, hopes to help reduce the crime numbers within the city and surrounding areas by launching his “Start Snitching”

campaign, which he previously started back in in New York with its struggle with violence back in 2002. “The ‘Start Snitching’ campaign is more than just words being spoken on the microphone, it’s a commitment I’ve taken on personally!” Star told NBC. “Even if ridicule is being pointed at me, I have been an individual all my life. I don’t like to lay in a nice, comfortable and peaceful life,” he explained. “I don’t want animals on two legs violating my rights based upon some silly ass codes. So whether or not they are codes or something they feel that have to oblige by, it doesn’t have any say on the barring of my existence, as a rational man. It’s very asinine the amounts, not just homicides, but the shootings, that are taking place down here.

This is literally the O.K. Corral. So codes don’t apply here. There is a much deeper need for peace amongst this particular community.”

Have you seen Jill Scott lately? She is looking better than ever. The bold singer dropped 63 pounds, but she warns there won’t be much change in her frame. With her latest album, “Light of the Sun” which debuted at no.1 on Billboard 200 this week, Jill is saying she made the transformation by simple diet and exercise. It only took eating three lowfat meals a day and working out with her trainer Scott Parker who had her doing 60 minutes of cardio and strength training sessions every meeting.

She said her health was on the line and she knew it was time for a change when she’d “walk up nine steps and be out of breath!”

Man connected to the Notorious B.I.G.’s murder comes forward: Report

By ERIKA RAMIREZ Just weeks after a New York based inmate allegedly confessed to robbing Tupac Shakur in 1994, a man named Clayton Hill has reportedly come forward to confess who allegedly murdered The Notorious B.I.G. and speaks on his own involvement.

On June 8, former Nation of Islam member, Hill, contacted HipHopDX and confessed to being handed a semi-automatic handgun that was could have been a .9 millimeter or a allegedly used in the shooting of .40 caliber,” without hesitation. In “Diary of an Ex-Terrorist,” Hills B.I.G. on March, 1997.

According to a reported email includes quotes from Dawoud in exchange between Hills, 41, and which he brags about getting paid HipHopDX, via CorrLinks, in mid- “twenty-five ‘g’s’” for the murder.

Hill was then instructed by May 1997 Western Regional Minister from the Nation of Islam, Tony Melvin Muhammad to deliver the Muhammad, with the approval of “property” to Emile Muhammad, the Supreme Captain of the Southern personal driver of Minister Louis Region, Abdul Sharrieff Muham- Farrakhan, in Louisville, Kentucky. mad, via Account Executive Brother The gun was then taken to it’s “final Melvin Muhammad, ordered Hill to destination within the headquarters pick up Dawoud Muhammad from of the Nation of Islam,” according to the Greyhound Bus Station in down- HipHopDX. “I doubt if Minister Fartown Atlanta. Dawoud’s name was rakhan knew anything… he would kept from Hill till Dawoud intro- have been insulated from that,” Hill duced himself as such when meet- wrote.

Hill claims he disclosed all of this ing. “[Dawoud Muhammad] stated to information with Assistant U.S. me that he was on the run for the Attorney Nancy DePodesta and the murder [of The Notorious B.I.G.],” F.B.I’s Domestic Terrorism Unit on Hill told HipHopDx. “He disclosed October, 2010. HipHopDX could not that he was the shooter of The Noto- locate any published reports conrious B.I.G. because he [Dawoud] necting the Nation of Islam with the was a former Blood gang member murder of of B.I.G. Hill also couldn’t confirm with “absolute certainty” and was paid to do so.”

As he states in his upcoming e- that Amir Muhammad, suspected book, “Diary of an Ex-Terrorist” gunman in the East Coast rapper’s (July 15), Dawoud handed Hill a death, was the man who went by the wrapped up semi-automatic “that name, Dawould.

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Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins calls on African Americans to step up and donate bone marrow MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins rose to fame as an actress, singer and member of the popular 90s musical group TLC - all while quietly battling sickle cell disease. Now, she is lending her famous voice to encourage people, especially those in the African American community, to join the Be The Match Registry as potential bone marrow donors and help others - like 11-year-old Imani Cornelius fight similar life-threatening diseases.

Watkins has partnered with Be The Match® on two public service announcements. The PSAs will hit the airwaves and the Internet in July, which is African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month. Donor registry drives will also take place nationwide throughout the month.

“As a person with sickle cell disease and an advocate for everyone fighting this

disease, I was naturally drawn to Be The Match,” Watkins said. “Unfortunately, myths about bone marrow donation keep many people from joining the Be The Match Registry and potentially saving a life. That is why I am passionate about encouraging everyone to learn the facts about bone marrow donation through these PSAs. We need more African Americans to step up.”

A bone marrow transplant can be a cure for someone with sickle cell disease or other illnesses like leukemia and lymphoma.

Most patients who need transplants do not have a match in their family and depend on the Be The Match Registry to find a match.

But many African Americans and other minorities can’t find marrow donors like Imani Cornelius, of Minneapolis. Imani was recently diagnosed with myelodys-

plastic syndrome (MDS) and her only hope for a cure is a bone marrow transplant. Her doctors continue to search the Be The Match Registry for a matching donor, but that search has not been easy as Imani is biracial.

Right now, the chance of finding a match on the Be The Match Registry is close to 93 percent for Caucasians, but for African Americans

and other minorities, the chances can be as low as 66 percent.

The tissue types used for matching patients with donors are inherited, so patients are most likely to find a match within their own racial or ethnic heritage. There are 9 million people on the Be The Match Registry, but only 7 percent are African American.

Jonathan Nazeer, of Greensboro, N.C., saw firsthand the need for more African American donors when his friend was searching for a match. Jonathan joined the registry in 2006 on her behalf. Just a few years later he was called to donate to a 52-year-old woman battling a rare disease.

“Donating is life-changing, not only for the individual who is receiving the transplant, but even for you.

To know that you may have played a small part in actual-

ly saving someone’s life is extremely fulfilling,” said Nazeer, who was recently contacted again as a match for an 18-year-old boy.

While the number of transplants that the NMDP facilitates for African American patients has doubled since 2004, more people of African American descent are urgently needed on the Be The Match Registry so that more lives can be saved.

“We have made great strides in expanding the number of patients and the range of diseases that can be treated with bone marrow transplants,” said Jeffrey W. Chell, M.D., chief executive officer of the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP), which operates the Be The Match Registry. “But we need more volunteers from every ethnic and racial background - to meet the ultimate challenge of helping every patient find a lifesaving donor.”

Review raises questions over benefits of cutting salt

By KATE KELLAND LONDON — In an analysis likely to fuel a long-running debate over the health impacts of too much salt, researchers have found no evidence that moderate cuts to salt intake reduce the risk of developing heart disease or dying prematurely.

In a systematic review published by The Cochrane Library, British scientists found that while cutting salt consumption did appear to lead to slight reductions in blood pressure, that was not translated into lower death or heart disease risk.

The researchers said they suspected that trials conducted so far were not big enough to show any benefits to heart health, and called for largescale studies to be carried out soon.

“With governments setting ever lower targets for salt intake and food manufacturers working to remove it from their products, it’s really important that we do some large research trials to get a full understanding of the benefits and risks of reducing salt intake,” said Rod Taylor of the Peninsula College of

Medicine and Dentistry at Exeter University, who led the review.

Most experts are agreed that consuming too much salt is not good for you and that cutting salt intake can reduce hypertension in people with normal and high blood pressure.

But while previous trials have suggested there is a blood pressure benefit from lower salt intake, research has yet to show whether that translates into better overall heart health in the wider population.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure, heart attacks and stroke, which are the world’s number one killers.

Taylor said he thought it did not find any evidence of big benefits because the numbers of people studied and the salt intake reductions were relatively small.

“The people in the trials we analyzed only reduced their salt intake by a moderate amount, so the effect on blood pressure and heart disease was not large,” he said.

Many developed nations have government-sanctioned guidelines calling on people

to cut their salt or sodium intake for the sake of their longer-term health. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists reducing salt intake among its top 10 “best buys” for reducing rates of chronic disease.

In Britain, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Guidance (NICE) has called for an acceleration of the reduction in salt in the general population from a maximum intake of 6 grams(g) a day for adults by 2015 to 3g by 2025.

U.S. guidelines recommend Americans consume less than 2.3g of salt daily, or 1.5g for certain people who are more at risk for high blood pressure or heart disease.

An earlier Cochrane review of dietary advice published in 2004 could not find enough evidence to draw any conclusions about the effects of reducing salt intake on death rates or on rates of heart disease.

In this latest review, Taylor’s team found seven studies that together included 6,489

participants. This gave the researchers enough data to be able to start drawing conclusions, they said, but even so, the scientists think they would need to have data from at least 18,000 people before they could expect to identify any clear health benefits.

A leading WHO nutrition adviser told Reuters in an interview last year that governments around the world could save huge health costs and avert millions of early deaths if they introduced laws to cut salt levels in food.

Some drinkers say benefits outweigh harm SEATTLE — Some heavy drinkers continue to drink because they associate it with courage, chattiness, joketelling, sex and more energy, U.S. researchers found.

Study co-author Kevin King, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington, said some heavy drinkers see the social benefits of drinking outweigh its harms.

“This study suggests why some people can experience a lot of bad consequences of drinking but not change their behavior,” King says in

a statement. “They do not seem to associate their own heavy drinking with negative consequences.”

King says the study involved nearly 500 college students who completed an online survey measuring their drinking habits during the previous year.

The survey assessed how often the participants had experienced 35 different negative consequences of drinking, such as blackouts, fights, hangovers, missed classes and lost or stolen belongings, as well as 14 positive effects

of drinking, including better conversational abilities, improved sexual encounters and more energy to stay up late partying and dancing.

The study said participants rated the upsides to drinking as more positive and likely to happen in the future — finding the researchers call “rosecolored beer goggles.”

“It’s as though they think that the good effects of drinking keep getting better and more likely to happen again,” lead author Diane Logan, a clinical psychology graduate student, adds.

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Trenton residents rally against alleged police brutality after shootings involving officers

By ALEX ZDAN TRENTON Doubting the official accounts of two police-involved shootings from the last three months, a small group of city residents picketed outside police headquarters yesterday morning.

Led by New Black Panther Party youth minister Divine Allah, the residents demanded an end to what they see as police abuse and misconduct.

“Police brutality and murder is wrong, across the board,” Allah said.

Some of the demonstrators, like Faith Carter, have family ties to the two men who have been shot by city officers. Carter’s husband, Aaron, was shot three times June 25 as he fled from police on a North Trenton side street. Police say he went for a weapon and pointed it at a detective.

Faith Carter says something else.

“He went to pull his pants up because his pants fell to his knees,” Carter said.

She says she has not been able to see her husband, who remains at the Mercer County Correction Center on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer, but she has talked to him on the phone. He told her he wasn’t armed, and she believes him.

“Because, in my heart, I know my husband didn’t have a gun,” she said. “No way, no form, no fashion.”

But police yesterday afternoon released a surveillance camera image that shows Carter with a revolver tucked into his waistband. The image, which police say was taken approximately 30 minutes before the shooting, shows one of the two guns police say they recovered from Carter’s person.

“He had the gun in his possession before the officers arrived,” acting Police Director Joseph Juniak said.

Based on the circumstances, Juniak says the officers “took appropriate and justified action” in Carter’s case.

But he acknowledged that not every story about the shooting will be identical.

“Everyone has a difference of belief in what occurs in these incidents,” Juniak said.

For Allah and the New Black Panthers, the shootings are part of a pattern of behavior by city officers who unfairly target minority males, even if the officer grew up in the city.

“They forget about their young cousin on the Boulevard they now have to go and harass,” Allah said.

He would like outside monitoring by the American Civil Liberties Union and NAACP, along with a state or federal probe like the one the U.S. Department of Justice is undertaking in Newark.

The New Black Panther Party may also host seminars on proper behavior for when a person is

stopped by the police.

Juniak pointed out that state authorities are already involved in shooting investigations.

“Any kind of policeinvolved shooting, the Attorney General’s Office is notified immediately,” he said.

Allah said he knows many good members of the Trenton Police Department, but they are overshadowed by the negative activities of others.

“If they’re good cops, what are they doing to expose what’s going on?” he said during the demonstration yesterday.

Attrell Johnson stood alongside Allah in the blazing morning sun. Her daughter’s father is Korey Brown, who was shot dead on Frazier Street April 25.

Police were told he had a gun and fired as he approached them, but Brown was found to be unarmed. Aaron Carter is Johnson’s cousin.

She said the route of the violence leads from the police officers’ attitude toward city residents.

The Trenton Police Department recovered area video surveillance that depicts Aaron Carter in possession of a handgun tucked in his waistband approximately 30 minutes prior to his encounter with the Trenton Police. On Saturday June 25th, 2011 Carter was observed in what was believed to be a narcotics transaction by TAC Detectives which resulted in Carter fleeing from the officers and raising a loaded handgun at the pursuing officer who fired his department issued weapon in self defense, striking Carter.

“They think they got a badge and gun, they just over us,” she said.

“They say you got to give respect to get respect,” a woman who identified herself as Carter’s stepdaughter said.

Police say they

believe Brown’s shooting was justified.

“It’s unfortunate someone lost his life in what we are trained to do, but the officers in my mind took the appropriate actions,” he said.

Ex-convict was romantically involved with married N.J. corrections officer he fatally shot, authorities say NEWARK - An exconvict who authorities say was romantically involved with a married corrections officer shot and killed the woman early Tuesday during an argument at a holiday barbecue in Newark before fleeing to Virginia where he killed himself as federal marshals closed in.

The shooting of the officer, Katrina Owens, was one of four that occurred during a 40minute spate of gunfire that began just after midnight. When it was over, three people were dead and two others were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. None of the attacks was related, Newark authorities said.

Owens, who lived with her husband and

three children in the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, was having an affair with 21-yearold Allen Barron, said Samuel DeMaio, Newark’s acting police director.

The two were attending a Fourth of July barbecue at 35 Columbia Ave. when they began to argue inside the house, DeMaio said. The argument spilled into street when, at around 12:30 a.m., Barron pulled out a gun and shot Owens, DeMaio said. Owens was pronounced dead at the scene.

Barron, whose last known address was in Pemberton, Burlington County, fled in Owens’ truck and drove 325 miles to Richmond, Va., said Anthony Ambrose,

chief of detectives for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Owens’ vehicle was recovered last night, Ambrose said.

Authorities did not say how or when Owens met Barron or when the affair began.

However, as a juvenile, Barron was incarcerated at the New Jersey Training School in Jamesburg at the same time Owens’ worked there as a guard, said two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

Owens’ husband, Marquis, is a sergeant at Northern State Prison in Newark, said

Matt Schuman, a Department of C o r r e c t i o n s spokesman. He could not be reached for comment.

Once he arrived in Richmond, Barron ended up at the Greyhound bus terminal at around 10:30 a.m., authorities said.

The U.S. Marshal’s Service was already looking for him and tracked him to the station, said Kevin Connolly, a Marshal’s Office supervisor in Richmond. Officers in plain clothes approached Barron at 10:41 a.m., but he pulled out a gun before they could identify themselves, Connolly said.

After briefly aiming the weapon at a marshal, Barron turned it

Allen Barron, 21, right, shot himself at a Greyhound Bus Depot in Virginia after aiming a handgun at a U.S. marshal, according to authorities in Richmond. Barron was charged with killing 37-year-old Katrina Owens, left, of South Brunswick, on Tuesday morning. on himself, Connolly Jersey Training School said. in September 2007, Owens worked as a where she remained state probation officer until transferring to from 1998 until 2006, New Jersey State when she took a “break Prison in Trenton in in service,” Schuman 2010, according to a said, offering no spokesman for the details. She then began Attorney General’s working at the New office.

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Lenny Kravitz reveals inspiration for ‘Black and White America’

By JAMES MONTGOMERY Lenny Kravitz has never been one for boxes. When he broke onto the scene 22 years ago with Let Love Rule, his brand of psych-and-funktinged retro rock, coupled with his roots (his mother was Black, his father white, his religion a mixture of Christianity and Judaism), confounded critics and radio executives alike. And to an extent, that’s never really changed, though, with each successive hit — “Let Love Rule,” “Are You Gonna Go My Way,” “Fly Away,” “American Woman,” to name just a few — he’s become less of a curio case and more of a career artist.

But with his new album, Black and White America (due August 30), Kravitz is still dealing with boxes ... though, these days, they seem to have less to do with his background than they do with the music he makes.

“Now, it’s less about the color, but more about still not fitting in a box; and this radio station doesn’t play this or that,” he told MTV News.

“This is what always gets me,

[now it’s], ‘This radio station doesn’t play horns.’ Now we have racism against instruments. You know, ‘It’s rock, but it’s too funky.’ Or ‘It’s funky, but it’s got too much rock.’ People love their slots, their little boxes.”

For lack of a better term, there are plenty of slots on America, a far-ranging, lushly produced opus that seems destined to give radio programmers fits. Over the course of 16 tracks, it dabbles in whip-smart funk, crackling soul, classic pop and, of course, all-out rock, (to name just a few genres), and features guest appearances from Jay-Z and Drake. Not surprisingly, fitting in wasn’t what Kravitz had in mind when he was recording it. His only goal was “to make a double album ... a classic two-piecesof-vinyl, four-songs-per-side thing.” And America certainly plays that way.

But for all the genre-jumping, there’s one theme that keeps popping up throughout the album: the idea of unity.

It’s central to current single “Stand” and it’s the core idea behind the album’s title track too.

“The inspiration came from a documentary that I was

watching. ... It was about a group of Americans, I’m sure somewhere tucked away, and they were saying they were disgusted by what America had become, they were disgusted that there was an African American commander in chief; they’re not for racial equality, they would like America to be back to the way it was 100 years ago and, basically, they would do anything it took to make sure that their idea of America was restored, down to assassination, etc.,” Kravitz explained.

“And it was with such hatred and, obviously, we know that racism exists but somehow they threw me for a loop. I was like, Really? For real? So the chorus of the song ... I was just saying to them, This is what’s happening, you need to know what time it is. It’s how I was raised; I grew up between two cultures at a pivotal time after the civil rights movement, and [it’s] the story of my parents, and what they went through. It’s very natural for me to write about that sort of thing.”

Of course, America isn’t all heavy lifting. “Rock Star City Life” is a down-and-dirty ode to excess, “Superlove” is a sumptuously sexual exercise in viscous funk, and the rattling “Boongie Drop” is about,

well, ass. To a degree.

“Well, ‘boongie’ is a Bahamian word for ass. But it’s not just an ass-shaking song. There’s a place down the street from where I live, and on Sunday nights, people come down there and dance,” Kravitz said. “It’s like a red light-bulb, pool-table shack and this DJ, Military. And the thing I found beautiful was that you have these really fullfigured Bahamian women showing up there, they know they’re beautiful, and they’re not buying into the lie, the stereotype of what media says is beautiful. They exude this pride, and the song’s about that.”

If you couldn’t tell, there’s

nary a musical corner Kravitz didn’t explore on the album (he wrote some 30 songs for the project), which was his mission all along. He spent nearly two years making it in a studio down in the Bahamas, where, for the first time in his career, he was given the space he needed to let his ideas flower. In short, it’s the kind of album an artist has to earn the right to make and, if anything, Kravitz has definitely done that.

“It was the dream location, the dream studio,” he said. “I had time and, actually, perspective, having been doing this for 22 years. I feel like it’s the best record I’ve ever made.”

coming,” Scott gushed. “I’m still tripping off it.”

And while the sequin-clad songstress — in top form after shedding several lb’s — was savoring the moment, she wasn’t anticipating holding onto the peak position. A certain diva seemed poised to turn her 4 into a 1, Scott acknowledged with a smile.

“I know I only got a week!

You know, Beyoncé’s coming out,” she laughed, “and she’s amazing. And I know I got a week, but I’m so glad I got my week. I’m enjoying it, I’m lavishing in it.”

Like B’s album, Sun marks Scott’s fourth release, and she touched on its overarching themes. In recent years, the star of HBO’s “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” endured a divorce from longtime love Lyzel Williams (he inspired some of the material on her lauded ‘01 debut, Who Is Jill Scott?) and then found love again with her drummer Lil’ John Roberts only to have the curtains come down on that romance as well. Her personal ups and downs appear to have colored her latest disc.

“The Light of the Sun is really about growing up; it’s about facing yourself. It’s about passion, weaknesses, falling short from grace, getting lost in the flesh. ... It’s all about coming out of darkness and coming into light.”

Macy’s fireworks blows up the competition on TV Jill Scott ‘still tripping’ off #1 album

By REBECCA THOMAS

By TIM KENNEALLY LOS ANGELES — Americans must have felt patriotic Monday because “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular” took the night’s top television ratings and showed a dramatic increase over last year, according to preliminary viewership numbers.

The fireworks show on NBC at 9 p.m. received a 2.1 rating/7 share in the adults 18-49 audience, a 50 percent increase over last year’s fireworks show and a four-year high in the demographic group. It drew 8.6

million total viewers, which represented an 11-year high in total viewership.

An encore presentation the following hour took the evening’s second-highest ratings, garnering a 1.4 rating/5 share in the same demographic group and 5.1 million total viewers. A repeat of “America’s Got Talent” began the network’s primetime slate at 8 p.m.

CBS aired the Boston Pops Fireworks show at 10 p.m., following a roster of repeats. The Pops had a 1.1 rating/4 share in the demographic group, up 22 percent over last year.

ABC and Fox ran repeats Monday.

NEW ORLEANS — Jill Scott was still catching her breath when we caught up with her after a jubilant show at the 2011 Essence Music Festival. But from what we could gather, she may well have been having her best week ever.

Not only was she coming off of a “sick” Saturday night lineup that included crooner El DeBarge, the legendary Chaka Khan and Kanye West, Jilly from Philly was also celebrating her brandnew disc, The Light of the Sun, which entered the Billboard albums chart at #1, the first of her career. MTV News asked the “Golden” singer how she reacted to the feat.

“I didn’t see that coming,” she admitted. “I guess every artist hopes people will appreciate what they do and enjoy them, but I didn’t see it

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Man claims to be accessory in Notorious B.I.G.’s murder Reports: Mariah Carey to join ‘X Factor’ as a mentor A new development has come to fruition regarding the murder of rapper the Notorious B.I.G. just weeks after a New York man confessed to robbing Tupac Shakur in 1994.

A new man and former member of the Nation of Islam, named Clayton Hill reportedly confessed to being an accessory to the murder, explaining he was handed the gun that was used to kill the rapper.

Hill contacted HipHopDX.com and shared his story.

Billboard reports that an email exchange between the two parties said in mid-May 1997 Western Regional Minister from the Nation of Islam, Tony Muhammad, with the approval of Supreme Captain of the Southern Region, Abdul Sharrieff Muhammad, via Account Executive Brother Melvin Muhammad, ordered

Hill to pick up Dawoud Muhammad from the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Atlanta. Dawoud’s name was kept from Hill till Dawoud introduced himself as such when meeting. “[Dawoud Muhammad] stated to me that he was on the run for the murder [of The Notorious B.I.G.],” Hill told HipHopDx. “He disclosed that he was the

shooter of The Notorious B.I.G. because he [Dawoud] was a former Blood gang member and was paid to do so.”

As it states in his soon-tobe released e-book, “Diary of an Ex-Terroist,” Dawoud handed Hill a wrapped up semi-automatic of which the caliber was unknown. The book also reveals that Dawoud bragged about the

murder and getting paid $25,000 for the assassination.

Hill further described the scenario saying he was then instructed by Melvin Muhammad to have the “property” delivered to Emile Muhammad, the personal driver of Minister Louis Farrakhan in Kentucky. The gun was then delivered to its resting place at the NOI headquarters.

“I doubt if Minister Farrakhan knew anything… he would have been insulated from that,” Hill wrote.

Finally, Hill said he disclosed all of the information divulged to the media outlet to Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy DePodesta and the F.B.I.’s Domestic Terrorism Unit last year.

Hill is currently serving time in prison in downtown Chicago for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and identity theft.

Common and Nas’ ‘Ghetto Dreams’ recalls ‘raw’ ‘90s sound

By ALVIN BLANCO Common just inked a new recording deal with Warner Bros. last month, and he’s already whetting appetites for his forthcoming album, The Dreamer, The Believer. A new single called “Ghetto Dreams,” featuring Nas, hit the Internet over the weekend.

About a month ago, a snippet of the No ID-produced “Ghetto Dreams” appeared on Amazon, with the song being credited to Think Common Entertainment and the full version thought to be dropping June 23. That date came and went without a release from Common as he announced his new record deal.

But over the weekend, Nas

took it upon himself to leak the song via Twitter. “I’m giving @common 15 minutes or I’m putting this sh— out myself! #GhettoDreams,” tweeted Nas, who kept his word and liberated the track when the deadline passed.

According to Common, No ID has produced all of the music on The Dreamer, The Believer.

“That was the first song we did for the album,” Common told MTV News. “No ID said, ‘I got something for you.’ He played that beat, I was like, ‘Oh, sh—.’ I kind of hopped into it, like a zone, a character almost [while] writing it. It was just so raw, something like ‘95, but new sounding.

Then he put up this Nas vocal [sample] going, ‘Ghetto dreams,’ and then I was like, ‘Oh sh—.’ “

“My ghetto housewife watch reality shows/ She might get to snapping if the cabinets ain’t closed/ When the cameras start snapping she ready to pose,” raps Common over the tracks shimmering synth and rumbling drums. The Chicago MC and actor excitedly described how he was so inspired when writing the song’s lyrics.

“I decided to write about ghetto dreams just in a way that was raw,” Common said.

“I almost approached it like I was a character because I don’t smoke cigarettes and blah, blah, blah. But I still was talking abut those things ‘cause it’s like, if I step in the shoes of myself and my other friends and people that just dream about higher things coming from a tougher place.

I told it in respect to the rela-

USA Network to practice ‘Common Law’

By TIM KENNEALLY LOS ANGELES — USA Network has picked up the series “Common Law,” which will begin shooting in New Orleans next month, the cable channel said.

Michael Ealy (right) and Warren Kole star as cops whose superior sends them to couples therapy so that

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Nas heard an early version of the track and immediately wanted to jump on the song.

According to Common, No ID and Nas were in the studio recording together when the producer played the Queensbridge MC the record. “Once Nas heard that — No ID played it for them ‘cause they was working — and Nas was like, ‘I’ll get on that,’ “ Common said. “And Nas is my favorite MC, so that was a blessing.”

The artwork for “Ghetto Dreams” features a photo of a youthful looking Nas and Common that was taken sometime in the mid ‘90s.

“We was at a Fat Joe video, I think,” Common recalled.

“Two young MCs, young dudes, just real young cats, one from Chicago, one from Queens that just ended up reconnecting and connecting and always being cool. I ain’t going to say ‘reconnected,’ ‘cause every time me and Nas always would chop it up, I felt like we was two musicians that really just loved and respected each other, two voices that really mean something to the culture and respect the culture. So, we always had on a personal level just a respect for each other.”

Now that British pop star Cheryl Cole is out at Simon Cowell’s forthcoming U.S. version of “X Factor,” there are reports today that Mariah Carey is back in the mix – but not as a judge, as had been rumored last spring before Cole became involved.

According to WENN, Carey will join the reality show as a mentor – much like Simon Cowell’s ex-girlfriend Sinitta is on the UK version.

Although nothing has been officially announced or confirmed, the news has reportedly stunned Sinitta, who has worked on the UK version for the last seven years and was expecting to get the same gig in America.

“Well, let’s just say feathers will fly if Mariah takes my spot,” Sinitta told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper. “Although she is a mega diva vocally, you can expect another XF USA drama. I won’t just roll over and take it. I hope she can run in high heels.”

Mariah is set to join Cowell for the “judges home” stage of the competition, where potential finalists are invited to their mentor’s luxury pads to perform a song of their choosing.

Last April, the then-pregnant Carey was rumored to be considering a judging role on the “X Factor” but L.A Reid, Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul have already begun work on the show.

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Lagarde vows more clout for emerging markets at IMF

By LESLEY WROUGHTON WASHINGTON — Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s new chief, pledged to push ahead with reforms to give fast-growing emerging markets greater sway at the global lender.

At a news conference on her second day as International Monetary Fund managing director, Lagarde acknowledged an array of immediate issues confronting the Fund, including Europe’s debt crisis, but she also said she was focused on the need for the IMF to change with the times.

Institutions like the

IMF must better reflect the shifting balance of power in the global economy, she said, adding the idea of creating a top-ranking post at the IMF to give a higher profile to emerging markets was “not a bad idea.”

“The world is going to continue to change,” she said. “We have these tectonic plates that are moving at the moment, and that needs to be reflected in the composition of governance and employment at the Fund.”

Lagarde won the top spot at the IMF after her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, resigned in May to face charges of sexual assault

against a hotel maid in New York. StraussKahn has denied the charges and the case appears to be unraveling over questions about the credibility of his accuser.

Lagarde declined to comment on StraussKahn’s situation despite repeated questions.

Questioning was occasionally tough at the heavily attended event, partly because of the drama surrounding her accession to the IMF leadership.

Some emerging markets wanted the job to go to one of their members rather than carrying on a tradition of having a European head the global lender.

Lagarde, a former French finance minister who has training as a corporate lawyer but not an economist, was asked directly whether she was qualified to hold the job, which among other things involves deciding the disbursement of tens of billions of dollars to needy countries.

“I’m not going to brag about my qualifications or lack of qualifications. I think the truth of the pudding is in the eating as you say,” Lagarde said.

“We’ll see how it goes.”

She said IMF member nations needed to complete reforms agreed to in 2010 to give developing countries more

power within the institution.

“But that should also reflect in our employment policies, in our training policies, in the way in which we build teams, in the way in which we organize recruitment so that people are not clones of each other,” Lagarde said.

Lagarde acknowledged that among the most pressing issues she faces is dealing with a European debt crisis that has required bailouts for Ireland, Portugal and Greece.

She confirmed that the IMF board would meet on Friday to consider a disbursement of funds for Greece.

She said another sensitive issue was how to deal with surging capital flows into emerging markets that were creating the risk of asset bubbles and disrupting foreign exchange markets.

While noting the global recovery was unbalanced, she tried to sound a note of reassurance that it was firmly in place.

“When we look at our growth forecasts for 2011, 2012, we are clearly on the rebound and things are improving and are getting better when compared with the situation as it was in 2009 at the height of the crisis,” Lagarde said.

Wall Street bounces off session highs, transports jump

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services sector growth, which slowed slightly in June, gave investors little reason to make big bets after last week’s 5.6 percent rally.

Banks were among the worst performers on concerns about their exposure to euro-zone debt and sluggish U.S. growth. The KBW Bank Index fell 0.8 percent, with JPMorgan Chase & Co off 1.2 percent to $40.52.

“Any time you are dealing with banking issues, there seems to be domino effect,” said Steve Goldman, market strategist at Weeden & Co. Goldman said he is

expecting last week’s rally to be supported after a period of consolidation.

The S&P 500 has been fluctuating in a range from about 1,250 to 1,350 for the last several months, with flareups in the euro-zone debt crisis often serving as a catalyst for profit-taking in a shortterm trader’s market.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 55.13 points, or 0.44 percent, to 12,625.19. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index added 1.01 points, or 0.08 percent, to 1,338.89. The Nasdaq Composite Index

rose 8.14 points, or 0.29 percent, to 2,833.91.

In early afternoon trading, all three major U.S. stock indexes briefly touched session highs.

Moody’s downgrade of Portugal’s credit rating on Tuesday to “junk” cast new doubt on European efforts to rescue distressed eurozone states without debt restructuring.

Reflecting concerns about the euro-zone debt crisis, the iShares MSCI Italy index fell 3 percent and the iShares MSCI Spain index lost 2 percent.

China’s central bank

increased interest rates for the third time this year yesterday, making clear that taming inflation is a top priority as its economy slows gently.

The Institute for Supply Management services index showed the pace of growth in the U.S. services sector dipped modestly in June, while prices paid fell sharply to the lowest level since August 2010.

Volume has been light, a trend expected to continue in the holiday-shortened week, and could keep trading choppy.

Twitter seeking another round of funding Microblogging service Twitter is seeking to raise “hundreds of millions of dollars” in a new funding round.

The new round values the company at as much as $7 billion, the newspaper reported, around the same as recent transactions in Twitter stock on the secondary market.

“We don’t comment on our finances or speculation about our finances,” said a spokesman for Twitter.

In December, the company raised $200 million in a round led

by venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins that valued the firm at $3.7 billion. In February,

venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested $80 million in Twitter through pur-

chases on the secondary market that valued the company at about $4 billion.

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Services growth slows, but silver lining in jobs

By LEAH SCHNURR Growth in the U.S. economy’s vast services sector remained sluggish in June as new orders fell, but economists said a steady employment reading pointed to job growth later in the year.

Wednesday’s picture of labor market conditions in the Institute for Supply Management’s services sector data comes two days ahead of a key U.S. jobs report that is expected to show non-farm payrolls rose modestly last month after slumping in May.

Analysts are watching closely for signs the economy is gaining traction after growth slowed in the first six months of 2011, and many are looking for acceleration in the later part of the year.

John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo, said that while the services data was weaker than expected, it was still consistent with continued economic growth in the second half of the year.

“The silver lining is that the employment index remained in expansion territory,” Silvia wrote in a note.

“This reading suggests prospects for continued

payroll growth in the coming months.”

The ISM report’s services index fell to 53.3 last month from 54.6 in May. The reading was shy of economists’ forecasts for 54.0, according to a Reuters survey. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the sector.

The dip comes after a modest gain in May, and the index is still well off the peak seen at the beginning of the year.

The new orders component eased to 53.6 from 56.8, while the employment gauge improved slightly, edging up to 54.1 from

54.0.

Gains in employment are key to bolstering consumer confidence, and even though the employment gauge held up this month, it needs to be higher, said Anthony Nieves, chairman of the ISM nonmanufacturing business survey committee.

“People are still out of work. Companies are adding some positions back in, but overall, people are still trying to find their way,” Nieves told a teleconference.

Despite the bright spot on the jobs front, Chris Low, economist at FTN Financial, said the index did not yet

Verizon to eliminate unlimited data plans Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile provider, will stop offering customers unlimited data service plans today, meaning higher prices for heavy users of services such as mobile Web surfing.

Verizon Wireless plans to charge $5 more per month than its biggest rival, AT&T Inc, which stopped offering unlimited data services last year.

Unlike AT&T, Verizon is not offering any new cheaper option for low data users.

Under its new terms, customers who limit their data use to 2 gigabytes (GB) will pay $30 a month, according to the venture of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc, which currently charges its customers

$30 per month for unlimited data use.

To put this in perspective, 2 hours of streaming music to your cellphone every day would generate 9 GB of data downloads, according to the Verizon Wireless online data use calculator.

In comparison, AT&T charges $25 for 2 GB of data and also offers a $15 per month plan for customers who only use 200 megabytes of data.

AT&T has said the lower priced plan helped it add millions of new customers who might otherwise have not been willing to pay for wireless data services.

Customers who use more than their plan allows will have to pay $10 for every extra

Gigabyte of data they use, according to company spokeswoman Brenda Raney. This charge is in line with what AT&T offers today.

Verizon’s heavier data users will also be able sign up for a $50 per month plan for 5 GB or $80 a month for 10 GB, Raney said.

Since Verizon is not cutting its lowest monthly fee for data services, Pacific Crest analyst Steve Clement said the move would be “relatively neutral for (Verizon’s revenue), with the potential for upside as people take larger buckets of data or start paying the fee for going over their limit.”

Customers who view data fees as a key factor might move from Veri-

zon to rivals such as Sprint Nextel Corp, which still offers unlimited data services.

But Clement expects that might not be a huge bonus for Sprint.

“The risk you run, I guess, is that people balk at caps and move to carriers that don’t cap data,” Clement said.

“People make carrier decisions for lots of reasons. I don’t know if the amount of data is high on your list.”

Both Verizon and AT&T sell the Apple Inc iPhone, which created an explosion in demand for services such as mobile websurfing and downloading of mobile applications.

Telecom shares were basically flat after the news, which was widely expected.

Microsoft wants Samsung to pay smartphone license SEOUL — Microsoft Corp. has demanded that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd pay $15 for each smartphone handset it makes based on Google Inc’s Android operating system as the software giant has a wide range of patents used in the mobile platform, local media reported.

Samsung would likely seek to lower the payment to about $10 in exchange for a deep-

er alliance with Microsoft for the U.S. company’s Windows platform, the Maeil Business Newspaper quoted unnamed industry officials as saying.

Samsung had no immediate comment.

In April last year, Microsoft said it had reached a licensing deal with Taiwan’s HTC Corp., under which it would receive royalty payments on its handsets running Android.

The move comes as Android phones gain in popularity. Microsoft charges handset makers such as HTC and Samsung to use its Windows mobile software and has tied up with Nokia to challenge Google and Apple Inc in the smartphone market.

Analysts forecast Samsung, the world’s No.2 handset maker, to have sold about 19 million smartphones in the

April-June quarter, with the dominant position running on Android. It is widely expected to emerge as the No.1 smartphone maker, replacing Nokia’s more than 10-year reign.

Samsung’s Galaxy S II, successor to its flagship Galaxy S smartphone, which runs on the Android platform, has sold more than 3 million units since its debut in late April.

signal the economy has overcome recent weakness.

“The small decline in June is a reminder that while the economy may be stabilizing at a slower rate of growth, there is little evidence of reacceleration,” said Low. Treasuries prices rose after the data, and there was little move in U.S. stocks as investors focused on renewed worries over the euro zone’s sovereign debt crisis and an interest rate hike from China.

The ISM report echoed data from Europe on Tuesday that showed services growth slowed last month in the face of sluggish new orders and rising interest rates.

Friday’s key U.S. non-farm payrolls report is forecast to show the economy cre-

ated 90,000 jobs in June compared to a scant 54,000 the month before. For a preview, see A report on U.S. private sector employment on Thursday is also expected to show a gain of 68,000 jobs.

A separate report on Wednesday gave a cloudier picture of the labor market as the number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms increased for the second month in a row in June, though downsizing in the first half of the year was at the lowest level since 2000.

The latest data on the housing market was also mixed as purchase applications for U.S. home mortgages rose last week, but refinancing activity plunged as interest rates jumped, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 3, Subchapter 3 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, a public hearing will be held at 22 Reade Street, Borough of Manhattan on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, at 10:00 am on the following: REAL PROPERTY PUBLIC HEARING in the matter of the acquisition by the City of New York of fee simple interests on the following real estate in the County of Orange for the purposes of operating and maintaining the water supply of the City of New York: Municipality Tax Lot ID Acres (+/-) Town of Newburgh 8.-1-15.2 & 19.1 23.43 8.-1-16 & 17 7.50 A copy of the Mayor’s Preliminary Certificate of Adoption and maps of the real estate to be acquired are available for public inspection upon request. Please call (845) 340-7810.

Caswell F. Holloway Commissioner

Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor

Contractors will be required to comply with EEO, D/M/WBE and other federal and state procurement laws, regulations and Executive Orders.

MTA NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT (NYCT)

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MTA BUS COMPANY (MTABC) The MTA Bus Company (MTABC) is seeking a vendor(s) to furnish and deliver the various bus parts as listed below to any or all of the nine MTABC depots. The contract duration is 27months and is an estimated quantity contract. Terms and conditions are contained in bid documents. All prices quoted must be FOB delivered. Payment NET30 unless otherwise indicated. Bid No: PRB110971 - Manufacturer’s Part#: Feetguard # Q617917A; Orion # G0774507AJ. MTABC Stock #: 97-78-0794 Qty: 150 Description: Diesel Particulate Filter, Fleetguard, 2005, 2006 and 2007 Orion VII Hybrid Bus Fleets, Each filter shall have a unique serial number engraved on the filter. Bid Opens: 7/22/11 at 11:00am.

Bids received after 11:00am the Bid Opening Date will not be considered. For more information or to request a solicitation package, please contact Patricia Corrigan, Senior Contract Analyst, at MTA Bus Company, 128-15 28th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354, Tel. No: 718-888-6287 or email patricia.corrigan@mtabusco.com. All inquiries must include company name, contact name and title, address, telephone number and email address.

The MTA Bus Company (MTABC) and New York City Transit (NYCT) are seeking a vendor(s) to furnish and deliver the bus part listed below. The contract duration is twenty-seven (27) months and is an estimated quantity contract. Terms and conditions are contained in bid documents. All prices quoted must be FOB delivered. Payment NET 30 unless otherwise indicated. For delivery to any/all MTA Bus locations as listed in Schedule “O”. Bid No: PRB110978 – 1) MTABC Stock #: 80-75-0141 Qty: 1,000 Description: Seal, Oil, Front Wheel, with Q-Plus Brakes Manufacturer’s Part #: National SealPart #B-370048-BG Truck Trailer Transit-Part #T-A370048; 2) MTABC Stock #: 85-75-0161 Qty: 1,000 Description: Seal, Oil, Rear Tag Wheel, with Q-Plus Brakes Manufacturer’s Part #: National Seal-Part #370001A; Truck Trailer Transit-Part #T-A370001. Bid Opens: 7/26/11 at 11:00am. Bids received after 11:00am on the Bid Opening Date will not be considered. For more information or to request a solicitation package, please contact: Marsha Korotyk, Manager, Procurement c/o MTA Bus Company, 128-15 28th Avenue, Maintenance Building, 2nd Floor, Flushing, NY 11354, Tel. No: 718888-6278 or email marsha.korotyk@nyct.com. All inquiries must include company name, contact name and title, address, telephone number and email address.

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Cop in college athlete’s death sues liquor store

By JIM FITZGERALD WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The police officer who shot and killed a college football player during a disturbance outside a bar in the New York suburbs says the student got drunk on liquor he bought before going to the bar.

Pleasantville Officer Aaron Hess has filed a lawsuit claiming the liquor store is liable for the injuries he suffered while responding to the disturbance, which gained attention when some witnesses said police overreacted.

Amateur video of the chaos after the shooting was seen on national television and online.

“If you sell liquor to an underage person, you are responsible for what that underage person did,” Hess’ attorney, Mitchell Baker, said Monday.

Several calls to the liquor store, Briarcliff Wines & Liquors in Briarcliff Manor, were not answered Monday.

No individual is named as a defendant. Baker said he had received a call Monday from a lawyer denying that Briarcliff Wines & Liquors was involved in such a sale. Calls to that lawyer were not immediately returned.

The Journal News reported in March that Henry and some friends bought liquor that same night from a different store in Briarcliff Manor. Baker said he was confident he was suing the right store.

Danroy Henry Jr., 20, of Easton, Mass., was killed Oct. 17 as he drove away from a disturbance that spilled out of a bar in Thornwood, N.Y., after the Pace University game. homecoming Autopsy results found Henry’s blood-alcohol level above the legal driving limit, although his family insists he was not drunk.

Hess has said he was hit by the car, thrown onto the hood and had no choice but to fire to stop the driver. He was cleared by a grand jury but the Henry family is suing him.

Hess’ lawsuit, filed Friday in White Plains, alleges that Henry bought an unspecified type of liquor at the store before going to the bar. It says he did not drink at the bar but

returned to his car at least once to drink.

A disturbance at the bar spilled out into the parking lot and police were called. The lawsuit said that when patrons were told to leave, Henry drove off “at a high rate of speed” and hit Hess.

Baker said Hess suffered a broken kneecap and other injuries. He said the officer is in rehabilitation but it’s not clear if he can return to police work.

The Henrys’ lawsuit, filed in April, alleges that their son’s car was moving at a reasonable speed and that Hess jumped in front of it and fired for no good reason.

Baker said he learned of the liquor purchase through “an independent investigation.” The Westchester

Danroy Henry Jr. district attorney’s office Wines & Liquors, and would not comment on he got into this horrific whether grand jury evi- car accident with dence supported his Officer Hess,” Baker claim. said. “Mr. Henry was “Mr. Henry was clearly intoxicated. If underage, he obtained he were sober this never alcohol at Briarcliff would have happened.”

SKorea’s Pyeongchang awarded 2018 Winter Olympics

By STEPHEN WILSON DURBAN, South Africa - The South Korean city of Pyeongchang was awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics yesterday after failing in two previous attempts.

Pyeongchang defeated rivals Munich and Annecy, France, in the first round of a secret ballot of the International Olympic Committee.

Needing 48 votes for victory, Pyeongchang received 63 of the 95 votes cast. Munich received 25 and Annecy seven.

The Koreans had lost narrowly in previous bids for the 2010 and 2014 Olympics.

Pyeongchang will be the first city in Asia outside Japan to host the Winter Games.

Japan held the games in Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.

Korean delegates erupted in cheers in the conference hall after IOC President Jacques Rogge opened a sealed envelope and read the words: “The International Olympic Committee has the honor of announcing that the 23rd Olympic Winter Games in 2018 are awarded to the city of Pyeongchang.”

The vote totals weren’t immediately released.

A majority was required for victory, meaning Pyeongchang received at least 48 votes among the eligible 95 voters.

It was the first time an Olympic bid race with more than two finalists was decided in the first round since 1995, when Salt Lake City defeated three others to win the 2002 Winter Games.

Had no majority been reached in the opening round, the city with the fewest votes would have been eliminated and the two remaining cities

gone to a second and final ballot.

Pyeongchang had been determined to win in the first round after its previous two defeats.

The Koreans had led in each of the first rounds in the votes for the

2010 and 2014 Games but then lost in the final ballots to Vancouver and Sochi.

Pyeongchang, whose slogan is “New Horizons,” campaigned on the theme that it deserved to win on a

third try and will spread the Olympics to a lucrative new market in Asia and become a hub for winter sports in the region.

The Korean victory followed the IOC’s trend in recent votes, having

taken the Winter Games to Russia (Sochi) for the first time in 2014 and giving South America its first Olympics with the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Roy Williams sues to recover ring

By CALVIN WATKINS While Dallas Cowboys players Tony Romo, Stephen McGee and Martellus Bennett got married this summer, wide receiver Roy Williams’ attempt to join the crowd didn’t work out.

Williams is suing a former girlfriend whom he proposed to this spring, according to a lawsuit obtained by the Odessa American on June 30.

The lawsuit says Williams, a native of Odessa, Texas, is trying to regain possession of a $76,000 engagement ring he sent — by mail — to Brooke Daniels, the 2009 Miss Texas USA, whom he dated for nearly

a year.

Williams also sent Daniels $5,000 for school and dental bills, a baseball for her brother and a taped marriage proposal in February.

When Daniels declined to marry Williams, the lawsuit says she didn’t return the ring when he asked for it back.

According to the lawsuit, Daniels said she lost the ring.

“I’m not going to talk about it,” Williams told ESPNDallas.com yesterday morning. “It’s a non-issue.”

Michael Daniels, Brooke Daniels’ father, told the Odessa American that Williams then filed a claim with his insurance company, State Farm, which investigated the lost ring.

It was determined by the insurance company, according

to Michael Daniels, that the ring was not lost and that the matter was whether it was a gift.

Michael Daniels, who also is listed as a defendant in the lawsuit, told the newspaper that he has possession of the ring and plans to return it to avoid further legal issues. He said he and his daughter never told Williams that the ring had been lost.

“He said to [Brooke], ‘I’m not like a lot of people, I don’t want the ring back. You’ll eventually come back to me,’ and she didn’t,” Michael Daniels said to the Odessa American.

Daniels added: “I want to wash my hands of it. It’s just a hassle. I’ll take care of my daughter. I don’t need him.”

An injunction hearing is set for Friday afternoon in Odessa.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Croatia hands US first loss in U19s

RIGA, Latvia - Toni Katic scored 21 points to lead Croatia to an 87-85 victory over the United States yesterday in the second round of FIBA’s Under 19 World Championship, the defending champion’s first loss in the tournament.

Jeremy Lamb of NCAA champ Connecticut had 25 points for the U.S. (5-1), which had already clinched a berth in the quarterfinals that start Friday.

The U.S. trailed 70-61 after three quarters but went on a 19-5 run over the first 7 minutes of the final period. Lamb hit a jumper with 24.9 seconds left to bring the U.S. within 86-85. Katic made one free throw with 20.4 seconds left to give Croatia (4-2) an 87-85 lead and Lamb missed a jumper in the final seconds.

Patric Young of Florida had 15 points and eight rebounds for the U.S.

Timberwolves F Beasley ticketed for marijuana MINNEAPOLIS - Police say Minnesota Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley was ticketed for possessing marijuana and speeding in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka last week.

Capt. Scott Boerboom said Thursday that an officer stopped Beasley around 3 a.m. on June 26 on Interstate 394 after clocking him going 84 mph in a 65 mph zone. He says the officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car.

The report says the officer found 16.2 grams of it under the front passenger seat of Beasley’s car. It says Beasley claimed the marijuana was not his, but belonged to a friend whom he had just dropped off.

The possession charge is a petty misdemeanor that carries a fine of $128. The Timberwolves say they can’t comment during the lockout.

NBA, college basketball player Armen Gilliam dies PITTSBURGH - Armen Gilliam, who was part of the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels basketball team that made a run to the Final Four in 1987 and played for several NBA teams, has died. He was 47.

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said yesterday that Gilliam died Tuesday night at the LA Fitness gym in Bridgeville while he was playing basketball.

The office said the cause of death has not yet been determined pending an autopsy which is likely to be completed yesterday.

After college, the Phoenix Suns drafted Gilliam as the No. 2 overall pick in the first round of the draft. Besides the Suns, Gilliam also played with the then-Charlotte Hornets, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks and Utah Jazz. He retired in 2000.

Nicknamed “The Hammer,” Gilliam was the leading scorer on the 1987 UNLV team coached

by Jerry Tarkanian.

In a statement released by UNLV, Tarkanian, who coached basketball there from 1973-1992, called him one of the best players the university ever had.

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Confident sprinter Bolt working on fluency

By FRANCK FIFE Reigning world and Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt says he is working on his fluency and technique ahead of the world championships in Daegu later this month.

Bolt, who races the 200m in the Diamond League meeting here tomorrow, is slowly working his back from injury, but despite winning all his races this season, expectations are proving to be too high, with detractors debating his seeming loss of form.

“I’m Olympic and world champion. My goal is to defend my titles. I want to be a legend of the sport and if I do that, it’ll make me one,” the 24-year-old Jamaican said of his season’s objectives.

“Training has been good, I went back to Jamaica after (the Diamond League meet in) Oslo.

Me and the coach sat down and watched a few tapes and we worked out what we need to work on.

“So I’m feeling much better and much more confident.”

Bolt added: “My techique, my fluency wasn’t there. I didn’t look as smooth as I used to be.

My style was OK, but my drive phase wasn’t as fluent as it used to be.

“It’s only my second 200m of

Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt gives a press conference during the AREVA meeting presentation in Paris. the season (in Paris), and I’m “It’s a massive part of the just working on technique. It’s budget, but he’s worth it,” said all about execution in this race, meet director Laurent Boquillet. and trying to get the perfect exeBolt added that he was not cution. concerned about who he raced “It should be a good time,” if against. the corner and drive phase go “The key thing is to get back well, Bolt said. to my best. I never want to take Bolt bypasses meets in Britain it lightly,” he said. “I never because of tax reasons but there think about one athlete. are seemingly no such concerns “I’m working hard to get back in France, where he will reap to my level. I won’t get complasome $300,000 for 20 seconds cent because it’s all about busion the track. ness.

Dr. Anthony Galea pleads guilty BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Canadian sports doctor whose high-profile clients have included Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to bringing unapproved drugs, including human growth hormone, into the United States to unlawfully treat pro athletes.

Dr. Anthony Galea, a healing specialist from Toronto who was sought out by the biggest names in sports, was indicted by a federal grand jury in

October on charges that he smuggled human growth hormone and other substances into the United States and lied to border agents to avoid getting caught. He faces similar charges in Canada.

Galea, who wasn’t licensed to work in the United States, was accused of treating 20 professional athletes at their homes, hotels and friends’ houses from October 2007 to September 2009.

The indictment did not identify any

clients, but prosecutors said they included golfers, professional baseball and football players and others.

Galea, 51, pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara, eliminating the need for a trial — along with the likelihood that evidence and witness statements could publicly reveal information about who he visited or billed.

Galea, who is married with seven children, agreed to forfeit $275,000 before sentencing Oct. 19. He was

released until sentencing, at which he could get up to two years in prison.

The doctor, who has a vocal cord disorder, answered the judge politely in a croaking voice and said he wouldn’t appeal.

Woods has said he’s been treated by Galea but didn’t receive performance-enhancing drugs. The New York Mets’ Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran also have acknowledged talking to federal authorities during the investigation.

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LeBron’s bike event stresses education LeBron James is spending part of his summer thinking about school.

The Miami Heat star is changing the scope of his annual bike-a-thon in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, scrubbing its former “King for Kids” moniker to now call the event “Wheels for Education” and building it around a two-week camp featuring reading and technology classes for 360 children about to enter third grade.

This year’s bike event, a 2.6-mile ride where James will be accompanied by 20 selected high-school students, is Aug. 8.

“We’re looking to continue to create awareness for these young kids,” James, who founded the bike event in 2005, told The Associated Press. “Not only in this community, but in the world. Me having an influence with my voice, I’m blessed. So the No. 1 thing is creating awareness and I think this gives us an opportunity to make sure these kids not only get educated but have fun and being around people that can have a positive influence in their life.”

James has said several times that ensuring children get through school is one of his biggest away-from-basketball priorities. He did not attend college,

jumping directly to the NBA after finishing high school in 2003. He has already partnered with State Farm on an initiative called “26 Seconds,” a nod to the statistic that, on average, one child drops out of school within that timeframe.

In a telephone interview from Akron, where he’s spending part of his summer, James cited research suggesting third-grade academic achievement can be an indicator of how students will fare through the remainder of their scholastic

careers. The “Wheels for Education” program will be concentrated on kids who were like James — hailing from single-parent homes and sometimes simply needing a bit of extra help.

“What helped me in school was sports,” James said. “When I was 8, 9, that was the first time I started playing organized sports and I had coaches around me that stressed education and not being allowed to play if we weren’t doing our schoolwork or being at school on time,

things like that.”

As for the questions that kids ask — and they do — about why they need college if James didn’t, he has a quick reply for them.

“I’m still learning,” James said. “Every day.

I’m learning business.

I’m learning finance.

I’m learning a lot of things that help me in everyday life. I’m doing a lot of reading and I’m still improving as a student, even though I am a professional athlete.”

Once a child completes the two-week camp this summer, he or she will receive a lap-

top, school supplies and a bike, made possible by HP, Nike and the LeBron James Family Foundation, among others. Plans call for the kids to continue getting support, in partnership with the Akron Public Schools, through their high school graduations.

“I’ve had the pleasure of watching LeBron grow as a player, and mature as a philanthropist,” Akron mayor Donald Plusquellic said in a news release. “His new commitment to the Akron After School program is an investment that will pay dividends years to come because there is no investment more important than in the children whose circumstances he knows so well. ... He continues to be a role model for our youth for his accomplishments on and off the court.”

James said one of the program’s goals for this year is to have the third-graders all reading at what would be at least a fourth-grade level. He’s also busy with a number of other initiatives with kids this summer, mainly revolving around basketball: The LeBron James Skills Academy, which brings the nation’s top 80 high school players, opened in Akron on Tuesday.

“I let them ask me whatever they want to,” James said.

“Everything. Using my influence, using my experience, I can help them. And it’s not always about basketball.”

Also on James’ docket this summer: His “King’s Academy” for kids age 7-17 starts in San Diego later this month, and he’ll be on a Nike trip to China in August.

It sounds busy, but after last summer’s whirlwind, this summer is downright breezy for James.

For one, the NBA just entered a lockout, meaning next season is officially in jeopardy. A deal between owners and players could not be reached before a June 30 expiration of the most recent labor deal, and the sides are billions apart in their financial proposals.

James averaged 26.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7.0 assists for the Heat during the regular season, and had the league’s hottest-selling jersey. When the NBA comes back, James said he will be rested and ready.

“If you compare this summer to last summer, it’s night and day,” James said. “I know I have a lot of work to do, on the court and off the court, this summer. I’m going on to another challenge, and I’m looking forward to it.”

NCAA eyes summer hoops in recruiting rules rewrite ST. LOUIS - It’s July, and for college basketball coaches and their assistants, that means a series of trips that makes the conference road schedule look like a drive to the gym.

There are more than 230 NCAA-approved events coming up around the country featuring high school stars - and potential recruits - from the Nike Peach Jam in South

Carolina to LeBron James’ skills academy in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, to any of the five youth tournaments slated for Las Vegas over a single summer weekend.

Even as it acts as a gatekeeper for the summer circuit, the NCAA is working to rewrite its men’s basketball recruiting rules to try and slim down the season, avoiding

potentially unsavory influences of AAU coaches, event operators and other hangerson who may be looking to ride the coattails of the next superstar.

The latest effort comes after conference commissioners asked the NCAA to entirely scrap the July recruiting period. An NCAA panel is instead expected to recommend a reduction in July

recruiting, but not its outright elimination.

DePaul assistant coach Billy Garrett knows the nuances of summer travel ball better than most: along with his job as a recruiter, his son Billy Jr. is a top prep prospect.

The younger Garrett, a 6-foot-3 inch point guard entering his junior year, has verbally committed to

stay in Chicago and play for his father’s school. Yet he’ll continue to crisscross the country over the next few months, attending events such as the recent Nike Elite 100 camp for top high school freshmen and sophomores.

“Anybody that’s good wants to play the best,” said the elder Garrett, a former college football player

whose previous coaching stops include Iowa, Seton Hall and Siena.

Current NCAA rules provide two 10-day windows for coaches to evaluate prospects: July 6-15 and July 2231. That means a midsummer schedule packed with events ranging from the Battle of The Ballerz in Tulsa to the L.A. LAST CHANCE College Coach View in Anaheim, Calif.

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