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Cops log several thefts on week of Christmas BY THOMAS MORIARTY The World
A map shows locations of reported burglaries (blue) and vehicle break-ins (red) for Dec. 20-26. For an interactive map, visit http://bit.ly/Map-12-20.
Police file on Newtown yields chilling portrait
SOUTH COAST — While Oregon’s highways were unusually safe this year, there was still plenty of crime on the South Coast over the Christmas holiday week. According to the Oregon State Police, there were no known traffic fatalities in the state during the
30-hour holiday reporting period from Dec. 24 to Dec. 25. According to the press logs for the Coos County Sheriff’s Office and the Coos Bay, North Bend and Coquille police departments, law enforcement officers took 15 reports of burglary and unlawful entry to motor vehicles between Dec. 20 and Dec. 26. Of those cases, several of the
suspects were arrested at the scene of the crimes. One of them was Janet M. LaGasse, who was arrested shortly after 9 p.m. on Christmas on charges of second-degree burglary and second-degree criminal mischief at the City Center Motel. According to the department’s SEE CRIME | A8
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Connecticut police released thousands of pages Friday from their investigation into the Newtown massacre, providing the most detailed and disturbing picture yet of the rampage and Adam Lanza’s fascination with murder, while also depicting school employees’ brave and clearheaded attempts to protect the children. Among the details: More than a dozen bodies, mostly children, were discovered packed “like sardines” in a bathroom where they had hidden. And the horrors encounThe Associated Press tered inside the school A photo released by the were so great that Connecticut State Police on when police sent in Friday shows a shattered window paramedics, they tried
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By Alysha Beck, The World
Four-year-old Kenzie Prince, left, and Jordyn Prince, 7, order blue slushies Friday from concession stand helpers Rylan Young, 2, and Hunter Myers while watching the high school basketball action at Marshfield High School in Coos Bay during the Les Schwab South Coast Holiday Tournament. See more photos online at http://theworldlink.com/galleries/.
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Okinawa base faces continued opposition
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“Residents who are opposed will surely resort to the use of force, such as blocking roads, to stop this from happening,” Higa said. Hiroshi Ashitomi, head of a Nago group opposing the base, said his organization would file a lawsuit challenging the governor’s decision. Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima on Friday approved the Japanese Defense Ministry’s application to reclaim land for the proposed American base on Okinawa’s coast. It would replace the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma base in Ginowan city. But he later told a news conference that he would continue pressing to move the Futenma
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troops off Okinawa entirely, noting estimates that it would take 1 9 ⁄2 years to build the base. “My thinking remains it would be fastest to relocate outside (Okinawa) prefecture to a place where there is already an airport,” he said. The new base is part of a U.S.Japan agreement that would also move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa, including transferring 5,000 to Guam. Hagel said the effort to realign American troops in Okinawa was “absolutely critical to the United States’ ongoing rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific region. SEE OKINAWA | A8
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A slogan against the base is displayed Nov. 30, 2012, on the fence enclosed U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Ginowan on southern Japanese islands of Okinawa. Okinawan Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima signed off Friday on the long-awaited relocation of the U.S. military base, a major step toward allowing the U.S. to move forward with plans to consolidate its troops in Okinawa and move some to Guam.
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TOKYO — Threatening lawsuits and protests, opponents are gearing up to fight a decision by Okinawa’s governor that could pave the way for a new U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed Friday’s decision, calling it “the most significant milestone” so far in a long-running battle to realign U.S. forces in Okinawa. The new base is designed to reduce the impact of the heavy U.S. military presence in Okinawa by replacing another base in a more congested area, but opponents want the operations moved off Okinawa completely. “What the governor has done is unforgivable,” Yuichi Higa, the head of the assembly in Nago city, said in a phone interview. Nago would house the new base.
VIENNA — Iran is taking steps to improve its ability to speed up uranium enrichment that could delay implementation of a nuclear deal with six world powers because Tehran’s moves are opposed by the United States and its allies. Iran’s nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said late Thursday that his country is building a new generation of centrifuges for uranium enrichment but they need further tests before they can be mass produced. His comments appeared aimed at countering criticism from Iranian hardliners by showing their country’s nuclear program is moving ahead and has not been halted by the accord. But two officials familiar with Iran’s nuclear activities said Tehran has gone even further by interpreting a provision of the interim Geneva nuclear deal in a way rejected by many, if not all, of the six powers that sealed the Geneva deal with Iran.
They told The Associated Press on Friday that Iranian technical experts told counterparts from the six powers last week that some of the cutting-edge machines have been installed at a research tract of one of Iran’s enriching sites. They gave no numbers. Iran argued that it had a right to do so under the research and development provisions of the Nov. 24 Geneva accord, said the officials, who represent countries that are members of the Viennabased U.N. nuclear agency monitoring Tehran’s atomic activities. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the closed meetings. Iran’s approach is being hotly disputed by the United States and other representatives of the six powers — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — said the officials. They said they have argued that installing any centrifuge that increases overall numbers,
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