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June 7, 2013 It’s Where You Live! Volume 105, No. 135
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Who really is listening? Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare
Fire crews race to douse N.M. wildfires
WASHINGTON (AP) A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records hundreds of millions of calls in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks. At issue is a court order, first
disclosed Wednesday by The Guardian newspaper in Britain, that requires the communications company Verizon to turn over on an “ongoing, daily basis” the records of all landline and mobile telephone calls of its customers, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries. Intelligence experts said the government, though not listening
in on calls, would be looking for patterns that could lead to terrorists and that there was every reason to believe similar orders were in place for other phone companies. Some critics in Congress, as well as civil liberties advocates, declared that the sweeping nature of the National Security Agency program represented an unwar-
ranted intrusion into Americans’ private lives. But a number of lawmakers, including some Republicans who normally jump at the chance to criticize the Obama administration, lauded the program’s effectiveness. Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said the program had helped thwart at least one attempted terrorist attack in the United States,
With changes in the weather fast approaching, firefighters were racing Thursday to build bigger buffers around a pair of wildfires that have charred 34 square miles of tinder-dry forest in northern New Mexico. Forecasters are predicting hot, dry and windy weather to move into New Mexico by the end of the week. The conditions are expected to last a few days, meaning fire behavior will be intense. See Page 10.
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Arson suspect sought BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com
Oliver to fill in on ‘Daily Show’ Since 2006, John Oliver has proved his mettle as a phony journalist on “The Daily Show.” Serving in numerous “reporting” roles on the spoof newscast, but chiefly as senior British correspondent, the Birmingham, England-born Oliver is schoolboyish, pokerfaced and emphatic in explaining America to itself, satisfied that his accent from across the pond makes anything he says, however off-kilter, sound authoritative here in the New World. See Page 7.
I’m not kidding around when it comes to 4-H The more things stay the same, the more things change — and we learn how to deal with it. My twin sister and her family came down for a visit on the farm over Strawberry Festival weekend. Evan was excited to show off his newly acquired 4-H lambs to his city cousins one evening.
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OUTLOOK Today Clouds, rain High: 75° Low: 58° Saturday Partly cloudy High: 77° Low: 56°
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Robbie Wilson, Nick Sanders, Blake Guillozet, Nick Kleptz, Emma Brumfield and Emily Moser stand in front of a sculpture by J. Seward Johnson “God Bless America” Wednesday on Prouty Plaza while participating in a scavenger hunt for Teen Leadership Troy. Teams were asked to get photos of at least three sculptures during the event.
Teen Leadership Troy takes to the streets Summer program teaches students about their city BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com
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Hunting down famous names in graveyards, sprinting through the city streets, putting out fires and scaling city fire escapes sounds more like the work of a comic strip heroes, but it was all in a day’s work for a group of Troy teens. On Wednesday, Teen Leadership Troy ended up their eventful day learning about Troy’s civic history with its “Amazing Race” around town.
The “Amazing Race” sent the teenagers all over the city of Troy in search of Benjamin Overfield’s grave at Rose Hill Cemetery, making primitive fires at the Overfield Tavern (with help from local historian Terry Purke) and snapping pictures of various Sculptures on the Square with their iPhones Wednesday afternoon. For 17 year-old Brittney Sowers, the Teen Leadership Troy program was an opportunity to get a closer look at the city’s landscape.
“The Masonic Temple was pretty cool looking, especially the blue room,” Sowers said. “I didn’t even know that was all there.” Sowers said she took advantage of the Teen Leadership Troy program to learn more about the Troy community and was surprised how much she didn’t know about the town she calls home. Teen Leadership Troy is a weeklong program for the city of Troy’s incoming seniors. It focuses on civic practices at city hall, a visit to the Miami County Courthouse and the courtroom, Project G.I.F.T at the Troy Foundation and several site visits to local companies including, Thursday’s tour of UTC Aerospace. “It was cooler than I thought,”
Troy Police Department detectives have released the name a Troy man they believed purposely set fire to an apartment building located on Foss Way on May 22. After an investig a t i o n with Troy F i r e Department, the state fire m a r s h a l s LEGRANT and witnesses, Troy Police Department Detective Alex Hillman said police are looking for Michael Legrant, 25, of Troy. Officials believe Legrant is responsible for allegedly setting the fire, which caused three people to jump from a second story window and four others to be rescued by fire officials at the apartment located on Foss Way on May 22. Damage estimates from the fire were estimated at $250,00 for the building and $60,000 for its contents at the time of the initial investigation. The three people who jumped were hospitalized with numerous injuries — two were later transported to Miami Valley Hospital. Hillman said the fire was deliberately set and directed toward one resident of the apartment. An initial 24 hour search for Legrant was unsuccessful, Hillman said, and now Legrant has a warrant out for his arrest in connection to the Foss
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Garden show to feature more than 30 vendors BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@civitasmedia.com
A day before the start of the Lost Creek Garden and Antique Show, organizer Deb DeCurtins said she was Complete weather thankful to have a little rain. information on Page 10. “We need it, so this is kind of a christening,” said Home Delivery: DeCurtins, who spends a siz335-5634 able portion of the year in Classified Advertising: preparation. (877) 844-8385 The backyard of DeCurtins’ 19th century cottage is home to the 15th annual show, slated for 6-8:30 p.m. today and 10 6 74825 22406 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
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Deb DeCurtins finishes an arrangement Thursday in preparation of this weekend’s garden show near Troy. The 15th Annual Lost Creek Garden and Antique Show is located at 1058 Knoop Road.
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