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UN Aid Seized By Myanmar Rulers

  

 

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   YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - U.N. officials say Myanmar’s military
government has confiscated all cyclone relief supplies, including
food, that the U.N. has sent to the country.
     A U.N. spokesman says the seizure includes 38 tons of
high-energy biscuits. The U.N. has suspended the delivery of aid to
Myanmar until the aid is released.
     The regime has also refused to grant visas to foreign aid
workers to coordinate the relief effort. Myanmar turned back a
relief plane yesterday because a search-and-rescue team and
unauthorized media were aboard.
     Meanwhile, more than a million people who have been made
homeless from last weekend’s cyclone are awaiting food, shelter and
medicine.
     State media report at least 62,000 people are dead or missing.
And aid groups warn that thousands of children may have been
orphaned and the area is on the verge of a medical disaster.
 

Severe Storms In Southeast Claim One Life

 

AP Photo -A damaged vehicle sits in the Mississippi Department of Transportation parking lot surrounded by twisted metal.

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     GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Authorities in central North Carolina
are searching the wreckage caused by a reported tornado that killed
one person and injured three others.
     A possible tornado touched down on the outskirts of Greensboro
late yesterday as severe storms swept across the Southeast,
damaging homes and businesses in at least four other states.
     Officials say one person in a small truck was killed after the
vehicle was overturned in a parking lot west of Greensboro.
     Yesterday, an apparent tornado also wrecked a shopping area in
Mississippi and strong winds flipped a mobile home in Alabama. In
south-central Tennessee, at least four homes and a few barns were
damaged.
     Up to 60 homes were damaged in northeastern Virginia from what
may have been a tornado. Portions of Virginia and Maryland are
under a flood warning this morning.

CA Gov says Auto Industry Pressure Won’t Deter Emission Rules

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says pressure from the auto industry will not deter California from attempting to impose strict emission rules for vehicles sold in the state.  The Republican governor made the comments after a private meeting Thursday with board members of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.  The trade group is pushing back against California rules intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of the state’s wider effort to address global warming. The state wants emissions to be cut by nearly one-third for all vehicles sold here by 2016. That’s four years earlier than similar emission rules proposed by the federal government. Car manufacturers say the California benchmark can’t be met on time.

Investigation Continues at Death Valley Ranch where Charles Manson Hid

INDEPENDENCE, Calif. (AP) - National Park Service officials say the Death Valley ranch where Charles Manson was arrested will be closed for a second time this year to search for possible human remains.
A press release Thursday said that Barker Ranch will be closed for up to 4 days later this month. A team of forensic researchers found possible unmarked graves at the site in February that they believe could be the bodies of additional Manson victims. The park was briefly closed in April, but a decision to dig was put off because a piece of high-tech soil testing equipment was damaged en route to the site. Authorities said they wanted to conduct tests using lasers before disturbing the soil. Manson and his followers hid out in the park after the 1969 killing spree that set Los Angeles on edge.

Fatal Drive By Shooting in Yuba County

A man shot in Yuba County has died at a Sacramento hospital. According to the Appeal-Democrat, gunfire was reported in East Linda Thursday afternoon. Witnesses say the shooter allegedly fired from a vehicle and hit a man in another car. The unidentified victim was air-lifted to UC Davis Medical Center. At last report, two 16 year old boys have been arrested in the case.

Fire Continues to Burn west of Red Bluff…Blaze 80% Contained

Fire officials have a new estimate of how many acres have been burned by the Colyear Fire near Red Bluff.  As of Thursday night, the blaze had scorched just over 13 hundred acres and was 80 percent contained. Full containment is expected around 6 PM tonight. Fire officials say the blaze began Tuesday, when a control burn escaped from a landowner trying to clear brush.

Bush To Veto House Passed Housing Aid Plan

     WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has passed a housing aid plan to
provide $300 billion in refinanced mortgages for struggling
homeowners.
     President Bush says he’ll veto the bill. It passed 266-154 with
support from 39 Republicans.
     The measure would let debt-ridden homeowners refinance into
fixed-rate, government-backed mortgages they could afford.
     Congressional analysts say it could help as many as 500,000
borrowers and cost $2.7 billion over the next five years.
     The White House calls it a burdensome bailout that would open
taxpayers to inappropriate risk and reward those who helped cause
the housing crisis.

Nephew Arrested For Stabbing Uncle

    Chico Police say a family feud escalated into a stabbing early Thursday morning.  Police were called to Enloe Hospital just after 4am where 44-year old Lance Watkins was receiving treatment after being stabbed four times in the chest. Watkins told police it was his nephew, 18-year old Jeremiah Hayes, who stabbed him.  Police took Hayes into custody and are still investigating a motive, but they believe the two got into an argument outside of the Columbus Avenue apartment before the assault.

Feinstein Wants to Know Clinton’s Strategy

WASHINGTON (AP) - California Senator Dianne Feinstein says she has concerns about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s path to the Democratic presidential nomination and wants to know what the former first
lady’s strategy is. Feinstein was an early and enthusiastic Clinton supporter and says she remains firmly behind her. But after Senator Barack Obama padded his delegate lead in Tuesday’s primaries, Feinstein tells the Associated Press she wants to hear from Clinton how getting the nomination is “doable.”  Feinstein said she had a call in to Clinton early in the day but the two hadn’t yet spoken. California’s other senator, Democrat Barbara Boxer, hasn’t endorsed either candidate.