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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 2006
Page
6
On the fourth anniversary of her brother's slaying a woman lighting candles at a makeshift shrine was gunned down in Roxbury near a mass transit station close to police headquarters. Police said they do not know who shot her or why.
The Coast Guard and Alaska Air National Guard are sending aircraft to rescue 22 crew members aboard the 654 foot Asian cargo ship Cougar Ace, reported to be taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands. A Coast Guard plane dropped three life rafts earlier, but rough seas left rafts tucked under the vessel about 230 miles from Adak.
Scorching heat pushed California’s electricity demand to a record 50,270 megawatts while investigators probed at least 29 possible heat related deaths, many in the Central Valley where temperatures neared 115 degrees. Utilities in St Louis and New York City worked to restore outages caused by storms and equipment failures.
Donna Moonda, 47, wife of a Pennsylvania doctor, surrendered in Youngstown Ohio to federal charges including interstate stalking resulting in death and using a firearm in a violent crime. A man romantically linked to her pleaded guilty earlier, tied to the case about the millionaire husband shot on the Ohio Turnpike last year.
A man hijacked an 18 wheeler and held the driver and her dog for about four hours. After a police chase through three counties, a trooper shot the vehicle’s radiator, tear gas was fired into the cab, and the suspect surrendered. The driver, Cristie Bundren, 51, of Allen, and the dog escaped to safety. Samuel Scott Jones, 32, of Dallas, was arraigned on kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon charges with bonds set at 250000 each. He remained in jail.
Israeli forces push deeper into south Lebanon seizing a hilltop near a Hezbollah stronghold. U S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels to Beirut seeking a cease-fire as negotiations stall and Hezbollah rockets continue. U N and Lebanese officials clash over war aims amid heavy fighting and civilian toll.
The European Union will fund human embryonic stem cell research using its 65 billion euro research budget for 2007 to 2013. New rules ban human cloning and embryo destruction, amid votes from Poland Austria Malta Slovakia and Lithuania against the updated ethics standards while Germany and Italy supported the plan.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a sharp critic of the United States, arrives in Belarus for the first leg of a tour that also includes Russia, Iran and Vietnam. He is welcomed at the Minsk presidential palace with an honor guard and warm embraces from Alexander Lukashenko, known in Europe and Washington as Europe’s last dictator.
Taliban militants struck a district police headquarters in Kabul and killed three officers. Four suspected bombers died by their own action, while two coalition soldiers were seriously wounded near Kandahar. Two Afghan aid workers were shot in Ghor province amid ongoing clashes as NATO readiness to assume security command looms.
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