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STATE Sen. Giese might not seek re-election COLUMBIA (AP) - State Sen. Warren Giese is unlikely to run for re-election next year, his po litical consultant said Tuesday. Giese, a 79-year-old Columbia Republican and former University of South Carolina head football coach, is the upper chamber’s second-oldest mem ber. He has held the seat since 1985. Giese’s departure would be the second announced by a Republican since lawmakers went home in June. Sen. Arthur Ravenel of Mount Pleasant said in July he wouldn’t seek re-elec tion to the seat he’s held since 1997. At 76, Ravenel is the Senate’s fourth-oldest member. Several Republicans have ex pressed interest in Giese’s seat. The South Carolina Senate has 21 Democrats and 25 Republicans. The body went from a long-held practice of awarding committee chairman ships based on overall seniority to offering them based on senior ity within the majority party. Man tells police he killed his girlfriend COLUMBIA (AP) — A man who flagged down an officer out side police headquarters here told police he had killed his girl friend. Officers found a woman’s body in the back seat of the car Sunday night. Leo Lee Johnson, 48, is charged with murder, Capt. Steve Conley said. An autopsy showed .that Cathie D. Fowler, 45, was stran gled Saturday evening, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said. Johnson and Fowler lived in the car, Watts said. Johnson had asked the officer for directions to the county jail about 11 p.m., Conley said. The officer got out of his cruiser and told the man how to get to the jail. That’s when the man told the officer he had killed his girlfriend and that her body was in the back of the vehicle, Conley said. The officer put Johnson in the cruiser, found the body and called an ambulance. NATION Three students shot outside school LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three teenage students were critically injured in an apparent drive-by shooting across the street from a San Fernando Valley high school Tuesday afternoon, au thorities said. A 17-year-old girl and a 16 year-old boy were rushed to re gional trauma centers, and a 15 year-old boy was flown by heli copter to a hospital, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. All the victims were students at Taft High School in the Woodland Hills area, officials said. The victims had been stand ing at a bus stop across the street from the school, police said. Blood and book bags were left strewn on the sidewalk where paramedics treated the teens. Recording industry settles lawsuit WASHINGTON (AP) - A 12 year-old girl in New York who was among the first to be sued by the record industry for shar ing music over the Internet is off the hook after her mother agreed Tuesday to pay $2,000 to settle the lawsuit, apologizing and admitting that her daugh ter’s actions violated U.S. copy right laws. The hurried settlement involving Brianna LaHara, an honors student, was the first announced one day after the Recording Industry Association of America filed 261 such law suits across the country. Lawyers for the RI A A said Brianna’s mother, Sylvia Torres, contacted them early Tuesday to negotiate. The case against Brianna was a potential minefield for the mu sic industry from a public rela tions standpoint. The LaHaras live in a city housing project on New York’s Upper West Side, and they said they mistakenly believed they were entitled to download music over the Internet because they had paid $29.99 for software that gives them access to online file-shar ing services. WORLD Health officials find new case of SARS SINGAPORE (AP) Additional tests confirmed that a laboratory technician in Singapore has SARS, officials said Tuesday, the first reported new case of the illness since it was declared contained in June. The World Health Organization said more tests were needed. It still wasn’t clear how the 27 year-old Singaporean man,a postdoctoral student studying the West Nile virus, contracted severe acute respiratory syn drome, but it was an isolated case, a Ministry of Health state ment said. Twenty-five people who came in contact with the man have been ordered into home quaran tine, the statement said. WHO spokesman Dick Thompson described the labo ratory results as perplexing and said more tests were needed, preferably in another country according to standard practice. Thompson noted that the man was a virologist and may have been subjected to some occupa tional exposure. None of his con tacts have developed a fever so far. The case is Singapore’s first in four months. Iraqi leader calls for Turkish troops BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AP) - Iraq’s acting president on Tuesday called for Turkey to send up to 10,000 peacekeeping troops un der a U.N. mandate, providing they deploy far from Kurdish territory. The invitation con tradicts the foreign minister. Violence hit the Kurdish area of northern Iraq late Tuesday night when a car bomb explod ed, killing an Iraqi and wound ing dozens of other people, in cluding six Americans. He said that the military was investigating the bombing in Irbil. There were no claims of re sponsibility. A Turkish force in Iraq is an , extremely sensitive issue be cause of the large Kurdish pop ulation near the Turkish border, where some Kurdish rebels took refuge in the mountains after fighting a 15-year rebellion in Turkey. BY DEB RIECHMANN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA - President Bush raised $3 million on Tuesday in Florida - a state, flush with 27 electoral votes, that was in the middle of the 2000 re count debacle. The second of two fund-raisers was held here in Broward County, a heavily Democratic county in the south end of Florida, which Bush won by only 537 votes. "It's a big turnout," the presi dent said to the more than 700 supporters. "It makes me feel pretty spunky to see this many people out there." The president, who is making national security a key issue oL. his candidacy, rebutted criticism from Democrats who say his ad ministration does not have a strategy in Iraq. He urged other nations to join the U.S.-led coali tion working to stabilize Iraq and help the Iraqi people move to ward self-government. "We will finish what we have begun and we will win this es sential victory in the war on ter -rorism," Bush said. This was the president's 16th visit to Florida, third only to Texas and Pennsylvania as the most-visited state by the presi dent. Karl Rove, Bush’s top political adviser, has called Florida "ground zero" in next year's race. Scott Maddox, chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, agreed: 'Tm sure Florida will be a, repeat of the epic battle of 2000 and I look forward to the compe tition," he said. About 75 anti-Bush demon strators gathered outside the fund-raiser in Fort Lauderdale. They carried signs that said: "Re-elect Bush - four more wars" and "Farewell tour." Bush sup porters were sprinkled in the crowd. During his speech, Bush jabbed Cuban leader Fidel Castro. "I believe that freedom is the right of every person and the fu ture of every nation, including nations like Cuba," Bush said. That one sentence was aimed at Cuban-Americans who over whelmingly supported Bush in 2000 and helped ensure he won Florida. But some have had a change, of heart, saying they don't think his administration is doing enough to help the Cuban people and opponents of Castro's communist govern ment. Jeb Bush publicly ques tioned the administration’s de cision in July to return 12 al leged Cuban hijackers to face tri al at home. The trip to Florida began with an aborted landing in Jacksonville Air controllers waved off Air Force One when they became worried about a po lice car on a road near the run way, a vehicle that was properly stationed there to help lead the presidential motorcade. Bush’s first fund-raiser was at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, situated in Duval County, which leans Republican. Including the two events, the , Bush-Cheney re-election account now exceeds $62 million. Between the two fund-raisers, Bush spoke at Hyde Park Elementary School in Jacksonville, where he an nounced a new partnership be tween the Education Department and the Los Angeles-based Broad Foundation. The program will provide par ents with.Internet-based data on schools, allowing them to mea sure schools' performance and compare local schools with oth ers within a state. The initiative is paid for with $4.7 million in existing federal funds plus about $51 million in private donations. The Web site will contain data on a first wave of 10 states in January, with all •50 states up and running by sum mer 2004. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Law School CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 applications might decrease un der better economic conditions. The USC Law School received 1,715 applications last year and enrolled 243. Ninety percent of USC Law School students typically find em ployment within nine months af ter graduation. He said 85 percent of Carolina Law School gradu ates remain in state. However, Mood said a new school may pump more lawyers into a legal job market that isn’t growing very quickly. “There’s no doubt that there is a tight job market out there,” he said. And, according to Mood, USC is very capable of filling the demand for lawyers in South Carolina. Third-year law student Kelly Jolley said she didn’t think the new law school would hurt the university, even though it has al ready cost USC a staff member. “I think it’s good because com petition is a good thing,” Jolley said. She added, however, that she had heard that other law pro fessors were considering taking jobs in Charleston. The Associated Press contributed to this report. 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