Traverse City Record Eagle (Newspaper) - April 13, 2007, Traverse City, Michigan High 37 Low 25 BARBERSHOP SINGERS CONVERGE PAGE 1C TRAVERSE CITY GTE NORTHERN MI C H I G A NS NEWSPAPER April 2007 FRIDAY 50 CENTS SUNDAY I 8 dead in Green Zone bombing BAGHDAD AP A suicide bomber slipped through the tight est security net in Baghdad and blew himself up in the midst of lawmakers having lunch in the parliament dining hall officials said eight including parliament were killed in the attack in the The stunning breach of on the same day that a massive bombing destroyed one of Bagh heavy doubt about progress in the latest bid to clamp off violence in the The drive has put thousands of troops on to round up militants and their A news video camera captured dads main laid a cloud of the streets in a massive operation PLEASE SEE PAGE 2A AIRPORT No injuries reported Plane skids off snowy runway BY VICTOR SKINNER TRAVERSE CITY Fed eral investigators will spend the next several days collecting information and interviewing witnesses to determine what caused a jet to overrun a Cherry Capital Airport runway by 255 The Northwest Airlines jet remained at the end of the runway visible to passing motorists on Gar field as authorities with the National Transpor tation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Adminis tration gathered to investi The Pinnacle Airlines owned jet carried 46 pas sengers when it The jet i and overshot the runway by about 255 said Stephen airport We do have a paved blast pad that extends about 200 feet past the designated end of the The plane came to rest about 55 feet off the Stump A Northwest jet owned and operated by Pinnacle Airlines awaits mechanics and inspectors Thursday PLEASE SEr morning at Cherry Capital Airport after sliding off the runway while landing about FIRED PROSECUTORS Senate Democrats challenge lost email claim Those emails are they just dont want to produce Its like the infamous 18mlnute gap in the Nixon White House Patrick Leahy WASHINGTON The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee ac the Bush administra tion Thursday of trying to bury potentially damaging Republican Party emails about eight fired at and compared the situation to They say they have not been I dont believe that said Patrick of e mails that the White House had said a day earlier might be You cant erase not Theyve gone through too many Those emails are they just dont want to produce Its like the infamous 18minute gap in the Nixon White House Leahy said the idea of lost emails was like say ing the dog ate my home His tirade on floor blindsided the White House and intensified the confrontation between Congress and the presi dency over the fired White House an Dana Perino responded that the administration is working in good faith with the Republican National Committee and computer experts to retrieve any relevant nongovernment emails and turn them over to I dont know how he could possibly say that when what weve done is endeavored to be very forthcoming and Perino We screwed and were trying to fix The White House ac knowledged that some RNC emails might be relevant to the congres investigation into the attorneys but it said they may be lost because they were neither sent nor saved on govern ment We dont have all of the answers but we are working with the commit I can assure you that we are working very hard to make sure that we PLEASE SEE PAGE 8A WHATS COMING Coming Saturday In an area thrift shop turns to the Inter net to make the most of Coming Sunday Parades an salary roundup peeks into the pockets of people across the LOTTERY 15262834 Th 79 Classic Lotto 47 WHATS INSIDE Sports The Detroit Red Wings put a Calgary player op his back and had the Flames on their heels with a crushing check and two goals ip the first minutes Valtteri FilppU la and Nicklas t scored in the first helping Detroit to a 41 rout in Game 1 of their playoff Page 1R Nation CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nations most prominent Page 6A PETOSKEY Polluted park to remain closed East Park near Bay Harbor resort may not reopen until 09 BY CRAIG McCOOL PETOSKEY Lake Michigan park near the Bay Harbor resort will remain at through two more summer Environmental regula tors told Resort Township officials this week that East Park will not reopen this year or though they cautiously allowed that resi dents may have their parky back in Thats assuming that everything goes that theres no said Diana federal Environmental Protection Agency official overseeing the shoreline cleanup at the Bay Harbor resort arid the adjacent I would say thats on the optimistic Township board members were but I wasnt totally said township vi supervisor Robert The last thing we heard was in It keeps going out and out T CMS Energy a initial financing partner in the posh is charged with addressing tion leftover from the lands former use as a cement quarry and East Park is the only public property involved in the now projected to cost the PLEASE SEE PAGE 8A INDEX 16D 69C 45A TV I Traverse Copyright 2007 MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER