Daily News Record (Newspaper) - December 18, 2007, Harrisonburg, Virginia MONDAY Virginia Night Drawing 444 Pick 4 6232 Cash 5 218282934 Virginia Midday Drawing Pick 3 418 Pick 4 2175 Cash 5 2122232531 Drawing Lucky Numbers 339 4 0222 Rolling Cosh 5 819202234 6 258102129 Bonus 19 Midday Drawing Lucky Numbers 781 4 1914 West Virginia Daily 3 190 Daily 4 3354 Cash 25 129141724 These unofficial results were provided by the Associated Virginia results can be verified by calling 540 Markets MONDAY Dow Jones Industrials Nasdaq Composite Index Full business report is on Page Dl Quote This is a day of progress for us and for the millions of who reject the death NEW JERSEY JON CORZINE ON HIS STATES DEATH PENALTY BAN Find todays quote on Page B7 New Jersey Scraps Death Penalty Tlis Day IB History ON DECEMBER 18 1865 The 13th Amendment to the abolishing was de clared in 1940 Adolf Hitler signed a secret di rective ordering preparations for a Nazi in vasion of the Soviet Operation Bar barossa was launched in June 1944 In a pair of the Supreme Court upheld the wartime tion of Korematsu United but also said undeniably loy al Americans of Japanese ancestry could not continue to be detained Ex parte 1957 The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in the first nuclear fa to generate electricity in the United went on It was taken out of service in 1969 Britains Parliament permanently abolished the death penalty for 1972 The United States began heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets dur ing the Vietnam The bombardment ended 11 days Want Reprints For color prints and enlargements of Daily see the link at the top left of or visit and click on the dated link under the gallery POSTAL INFORMATION USPS 144520 Published daily except Sundays and major holidays by Rockingham Publishing 231 South Liberty Street 22801 Periodicals postage paid at Harrisonburg post Todays Daily consists of 4 28 Postmaster Send address change to Daily Box 193 22803 TUESDAY MORNING Snapshot Of The Day Michael Reilly DNR of Fort gets in on some fun at Resorts Snow Tubing Park while vacationing with her family on The weekends ice storm had both good and bad effects on the resorts operations see story on Page WEATHER Slow Recovery As much of the nation digs out from a weekend snowstorm on more than homes and businesses remained without power from the previous an ice monster that bat tered its way through the Plains Page A6 A Closer Look NATION Growing Promise Gap The government is promising trillion more than it can de liver on Social Medicare and other benefit programs over the next seven the Bush administration estimated Mon The report spurred new calls for urgent entitlement Page B7 BUSINESS Going With The Flow David and Terry of Rainbow Hill Farm in Rocking ham are among farmers recognized by the Virginia Poul try Federation for their commit ment to water The Bruces are returning 85 percent of their farm to natural Page D1 Authorities Assault On Student Was Fabricated MOUNT AP A Princeton University student who ar gued that his conservative views were not accepted on the campus confessed to fabricating an assault and sending threatening email messages to him self and some friends who shared his authorities said Princeton Township police said that Francisco Nava was not immedi ately charged with any but that the investigation was Nava claimed to have been as Friday by two men off cam police But he later con fessed that scrapes and scratches on his face were and that the threats were his said Detective Ernie A spokeswoman for the Ivy League university said which could range from a warning to was pending a 23yearold junior politics major from found himself at the center of one campus controversy recently when he wrote a column for the student newspaper criticizing the school for giving out free which he said aged a dangerous hookup A short time Nava made his first report to the university public safety office that he was receiving threatening messages in his campus Other members of the Anscombe a conservative student orga who have spoken out against premarital sex and said they received similar So did Robert a pro fessor in the politics Coroner Slain Men Lived Sent Money Home Associated Press CINCINNATI Four men who were beaten and me stabbed in the heart had lived in a sparse ly furnished sleeping on mattresses on the floor while sending thousands of dollars to relatives in a coroner said Two of the four were related and all were from the same town in Hamilton County Coroner Odell Owens He wouldnt release their names and said he did not know the name of the There is some question about the quality of the Owens noting that no ID card of any sort was found in the A message was left at the Mexican consulate in In asking if officials there had been Only one wallet was found in the suburban Sharonville and it contained Owens Thats a lot of money to leave he Receipts found in the apartment appeared to show that the men were sending money to relatives in Mex One receipt was for Owens You have four going to work every living in an apartment with no furniture and yet we found receipts from them sending thousands of dollars back to their he The cause of death was a combination of trauma and Owens A knife was used in the but Owens wouldnt identify what kind of knift or identify the object used to bludgeon the Three of the victims appeared to have been killed while in possibly while Owens Only two showed some sign of All had been dead a week to nine Toxicology results could take a couple Owens Police in Sharonville found the bodies Thursday after an owner of a construction Abe Precision Ma reported one of his usually reliable employees had not shown up for work in several HOW TO REACH US General Information Advertising Department 8 5 Classified 5746210 Display back page 5746220 Circulation Department 8 5 Call to subscribe 5746240 News Department 9 midnight Fax 4339112 News 5746280 Sporta 5746260 SUBSCRIPTION RATES in advance by carrier or mail Virginia and West Virginia one year six months three months All other states one year six months three months Postage and handling surcharge for subscribers vacationing out of state Two weeks or less no charge Three weeks or more 50 per week Parker left says her was trying to save me when she was shot six times in the face by angry ex I thought as the Id be saving my Parker AP Photo Parker family Mothers Angel 7YearOld Takes Six Bullets That Were Meant For Her Mom Associated Press DETROIT As the gunman was about to open 7yearold Alexis Goggins lunged from the back seat of the SUV and threw herself across her Dont hurt my mother Six bullets from the 9 mm handgun slammed into one piercing her right Two slugs hit her Alexis mother pulled But two weeks Alexis lies in critical blind in one And to her classmates and many people in this city so depressingly fa miliar with the little girl is a She was trying to save her told The Associated Press on My baby is just an angel to her I thought as the Id be saving my I never thought my daughter would be saving Alexis has undergone three operations since the and her mother sits by her bedside at Childrens Hospital of As for the she was seriously with one slug grazing her head and the other entering her chest and stopping just short of an But she was released from the hospital just a few days Parkers former Calvin a 29yearold arrested in the shoot ing and charged with two counts of assault with intent to commit along with oth er He could get life in Alexis is and lags be hind other youngsters her As a police say it never be known whether Alexis meant to shield her mother from the bullets with her But Parker said that if her daughter hadnt put herself in I really dont We might have been Parker said she met Tillie earlier this year and called off the relationship after three but he had other He was harass ing she He would constantly call my popping up in the middle of the Shortly after midnight on police Alexis and her mother climbed into their friend Aisha Fords vehicle for a latenight birthday for Fords The girl got into the back and her mother took the front passenger who had been standing outside the house in the shadows despite the jumped into the back of the next to Alex and forced Ford to drive at gunpoint for several harrowing minutes until the woman convinced him she needed to stop for ac cording to an account the women gave Ford told police she tried to stall for time while pumping As she and the station at tendant called several shots erupted from inside the Police say the girl had jumped toward her mother in the front Parker bolted from the Officers found Alexis curled beneath the steering wheel in a pool of Tillie was arrested at the His Kim Basen asked for a psychological evaluation for In addition to losing her right Alexis was shot in the chin and Several days af ter the the little her face horri bly swollen and wrapped in stirred and squeezed her mothers She is doing much Parker She opened up one Everything seems to be going In Alexis special education classroom at Campbell Elementary her classmates have named a stuffed toy with pink ears We didnt want Alexis spot to be so shes got a sweet bear to sit in her place un til she comes said her Angela
