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Three charged in double homicide By CHAUNCEY ROSS
and Catherine Hullenbaugh, 21, of Saltsburg Road, Clarksburg, were lodged along with Exum at Indiana County Jail. Menta and Hullenbaugh sobbed and Menta pulled her hooded sweatshirt up over her face when police escorted them into the Indiana District Court for preliminary arraignment hearings just after 9 a.m. today. Exum, shirtless and wearing nylon shorts, mumbled responses to reporters’ questions as he was taken into court. A third woman identified in court papers as Morisha Moore Bey has not been charged in the case. Each suspect is charged with two counts of criminal homicide. Exum also is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a controlled substance. Additionally, police charged Menta and Hullen-
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Three suspects have been arrested in the shooting deaths of two men during an argument police said stemmed from a drug deal late Tuesday in the Essex House Apartments complex near the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus. Police said George Exum, 21, an IUP student from Norristown, Montgomery County, fatally shot Shawn Jaquet Richardson, whose address was not provided by police, and a man known only as “Menace” just before 11:45 p.m. in Exum’s apartment. Three women had accompanied Richardson and “Menace” to the apartment, and two of them have also been charged with homicide. Consetta Menta, 27, who gave an address in McKeesport at a preliminary arraignment this morning,
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HOMICIDE SUSPECT George Exum, of Norristown, was led into Magisterial District Judge Guy Haberl’s office this morning.
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Trump adds two states, Sanders one By STEVE PEOPLES and ERICA WERNER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and Republican Party leaders are confronting an uncomfortable new reality: They may not like each other, but they may need each other. That’s forcing an awkward reckoning on both sides as GOP lawmakers struggle to make peace with the divisive billionaire as their presidential standard-bearer, and Trump’s team seeks to bulk up its unconventional campaign with the party’s organizational prowess. The New York real estate mogul claimed two more Republican primary victories Tuesday, in West Virginia and Nebraska, contests where he was virtually unopposed given that his Republican rivals dropped out a week ago. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders also won in West Virginia. Democrats did not vote Tuesday in Nebraska. “As we turn our focus toward the general election, we want to make sure there’s the strongest partnership,” Republican National Committee chief strategist Sean Spicer said of Trump.
Obama visit to Hiroshima to stress future, not past By NANCY BENAC
BERNIE SANDERS
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DONALD TRUMP
WASHINGTON — Eager to heal old wounds and galvanize new generations, President Barack Obama this month will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, where seven decades ago the U.S. dropped the devastating atomic bomb that ushered in the nuclear age. By visiting the peace park near the epicenter of the 1945 attack, the president
Indeed, both sides say they will move forward in a “partnership,” even as some top Republican leaders and donors continue to resist Trump’s candidacy. The New York businessman has largely ignored collecting information on voters he needs to turn out in November, dispatched very few staff to battleground states and taken no steps to build a fundraising network. Trump told The Associated Press in a Tuesday interview he would not rely on public financing, a decision that forces him to quickly assemble a donor network capable of raising the estimated $1 billion needed to run a modern presidential campaign. It is a task that previous campaigns took several months to complete, likely pushing him to rely on the RNC’s extensive donor network. “There are many ways that they could work together,” said Alabama Sen. Jeff Continued on Page 14
hopes to reinvigorate efforts worldwide to eliminate nuclear weapons. But in a sign of the extraordinary political sensitivities attached to the gesture, the White House is going out of its way to stress Obama will not come bearing an apology. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said flatly: “He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II.” Instead, Rhodes said in a statement, Obama
will spotlight the toll of war and offer a “forward-looking vision” of a non-nuclear world. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will accompany Obama on the visit, said no apology is expected — or necessary. “The prime minister of the world’s only nation to have suffered atomic attacks, and the leader of the world’s only nation to have used the atomic weapons at war will together pay reContinued on Page 14
TRUE TO HIS WORDS
PAGE 23 • Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly hopes to call a truce with Donald Trump during a prime-time special set to air Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Winter death rate jumps for bees By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON — After two years of improvement, America’s honeybees had another tough and deadly winter, probably because of mites, according to a new federal survey released Tuesday. The annual survey of beekeepers showed the
winter colony loss rate was 28 percent, up from 22 percent. That’s about average over the past decade but higher than the 17 percent that beekeepers call acceptable. But it is still lower than the peak rate of 36 percent nine years ago. “They continue not to do well and we really need to double our efforts to figure
out why,” University of Maryland bee scientist and survey leader Dennis vanEngelsdorp said. “Now you’re losing well beyond what’s normal.” The figures come from a survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and others. It includes 5,756 beekeepers, which represent about 5 percent of the Continued on Page 14
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NYLE BAJWA, a sixth-grade student at Indiana Area Junior High School, took his turn at the annual Indiana County Principals’ Spelling Bee, held this year at Saltsburg Elementary School. Bajwa took first place. Students from Blairsville, Saltsburg, Homer-Center, Indiana, Marion Center, Penns Manor, United and Purchase Line participated in the event Tuesday. Bajwa is the son of Imran and Rabia Bajwa, of Shelocta.
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TAKING THE TITLE Homer-Center boys won on the final event, and the United girls won their first team title at the Heritage Conference track and field championships Tuesday. Page 15
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