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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 2007
Page
9
The House approved 367 to 58 a five year plan for federal grants to fix sewage systems. Republicans largely opposed citing cost though supporters cite EPA forecasts of a 300 to 400 billion funding gap over 20 years.
Citizens Against Government Waste hails the decline in pork barrel projects after seven straight record years of earmarks, attributing the drop to voter outrage and a one year moratorium by Democrats. The Pig Book notes no indoor rain forests or quirky grants remain in the spending measures.
Former Cheney aide Lewis Scooters Libby begins drafting a petition for a new trial after his perjury and obstruction convictions in the CIA leak case. Prosecutors led by Patrick Fitzgerald spent years investigating the matter with no charges against others. No pardon has been publicly discussed by the White House.
A 17 year old girl, Jessica Forsyth, was wounded outside Midland High School in Michigan and later died? No. The gunman killed himself after firing four times. In Texas, a 16 year old student shot himself in the Greenville High School band hall as police responded shortly before the first bell.
NASA dismisses astronaut Lisa Nowak after felony charges for attempted kidnapping and burglary with assault. Navy captain will return to military duty and be assigned to the Chief of Naval Air Training in Corpus Christi, while the fate of colleague Bill Oefelein remains undecided.
Immigrant labor shortages push Colorado officials to study a pilot program using prisoners on several farms by May. Farmer Phil Prutch fears a return to plantation labor but says he has little choice as 15 acres of peppers rot. Activists call it chain gangs, while officials warn of harvested crops and migrant declines by up to 40 percent.
More than 100 survive after a Boeing 737 400 crash lands at Yogyakarta airport on Java island. About 115 escape, two passengers missing, 21 killed, many with burns or broken bones. Survivors include Nuniek Sufithri and Sujithri. Indonesian cameraman Wayan Sukarda filmed the chaos.
A suicide bomber struck a cafe northeast of Baghdad killing thirty and injuring many as Shiite pilgrims head to Karbala. A separate blast on a highway killed three American soldiers clearing explosives.
The State Department hires DynCorp International to equip and logistically support the first Somali peacekeeping mission in over a decade. The contractor will be paid 10 million dollars and will operate without deploying U S combat forces. The firm also holds U S contracts in Iraq Bosnia and Afghanistan.
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