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Fire victims’ families
sue hotel managers
GREENVILLE( - The lack of a
sprinkler system at a motel that
caught fire and killed six people
earlier this year created a death
trap, a lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit was filed Monday
by the father of a 16-month-old boy
killed in the blaze. Several guests
who were injured in the motel fire,
which authorities said was inten
tionally set, also sued, accusing
motel management of providing
inadequate security.
Attorneys for defendants R.G.
Hospitality LLC, Greenville Hotel
Partners Inc. and Choice Hotels
International Inc. could not be
reached for comment.
DH EC vaccine recall
starts patient search
The state Department of Health
and Environmental Control is
searching for patients who might
have received doses of a recalled
human rabies vaccine.
Officials need to determine if
those vaccinated'meed an addi
tional vaccine.They recalled lots
of vaccines might have been re
leased in South Carolina as early
as Sept. 23,2003.
Nation
Blackout study asks
for better power grid
WASHINGTON - A seven-month
investigation into the nation's
worst blackout is putting new
pressure on Congress to boost the
reliability of power grids — but
legislation addressing the problem
remains in limbo.
Nearly eight months after all or
parts of eight states and sections of
Canada went dark, a U.S.-Canadian
task force on Monday called for ur
gent approval of mandatory relia
bility rules to govern the electric
transmission industry.
Provisions to establish manda
tory rules on the electricity in
dustry have beep caught up in a
partisan fight over broader ener
gy legislation, though.
NASA’s Mars mission
finishes successfully
PASADENA, CALIF. - NASA's
Spirit rover has completed its pri
mary mission to Mars yet contin
ues to roll along, moving toward
a cluster of hills that could yield
more evidence that the planet had
a wet past.
The unmanned robot and its
twin, Opportunity, have accom
plished nearly all the assigned
tasks that would make their joint
mission a full success.
NASA already has extended
the joint mission through
September.
8 al-Qaida militants
sentenced to death
AMMAN, JORDAN - Eight al
Qaida-linked militants were con
victed and sentenced to death
Tuesday in the murder of a U.S.
aid employee in 2002.
The slaying of Laurence Foley
in 2002 stunned Jordan, a close
U.S. ally and peace partner with
Israel. A subsequent police crack
down exposed a terrorist cell that
had allegedly planned Foley's as
sassination as the first of several
attacks inside the Arab country.
Foley, a 60-year-old Amman
based administrator for the U.S.
Agency for International
Development, was gunned down
outside his Amman home on Oct.
28,2002.
Haitian official jailed
in charges of killings
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -
Ousted President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide's interior minister was
arrested Tuesday on suspicion of
orchestrating the killings of sev
eral people presumed to be
Aristide opponents, officials said.
The arrest of Jocelerme Privert
comes as former government lead
ers and members of Aristide's po
litical party have complained that
Haiti's interim leaders are target
ing them.
Privert was accused in the mid
February killings of several sus
pected Aristide opponents in St.
Marc, a northern port city where
violence flared before the armed
rebellion that pushed Aristide
from power.
BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE
Today
GRADUATE STUDENT DAY 2004:
Russell House, second and third
floors, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING FAIR:
1400 Greene St., 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
CAROLINA DINING FOOD
COMMITTEE SJGN-UP BOOTH:
Greene Street, 11:30 a.m.-2:30
p.m.
JEWELRY SHOW: South Tower,
11:30 a.m.-6p.m.
EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR:
“EXPOSURE BIOMARKERS IN
EPIDEMIOLOGY: THE CASE OF
PCB CONGENER PROFILES”:
Health Sciences Building 103,
. 12:30 p.m.
LECTURE: “WHAT’S MORE
IMPORTANT: FAT OR FIT?”: Dr.
Tim Church of Centers for
Integrated Health Research at
The Cooper Institute in Dallas,
Texas, Harper College, Gressette
Room, 12:30 p.m.-l:30 p.m.
SEMINAR: "TRYING TO
UNDERSTAND ZINC-CATALYZED
INTERCONVERSIONS OF CARBON
DIOXIDE”: Jones Physical
Science Center 104, refreshments
3:45 p.m., seminar 4 p.m.
STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION
SESSION: Business
Administration Building, sixth
floor, 4 p.m.
FULBRIGHT GRANTS
WORKSHOP: Harper College,
College Conference Room, 4 p.m.
ADAM HARMON SAXOPHONE
RECITAL: School of Music 206,6
p.m.
ECSTASY SPEAKER: Paul Chabot,
Russell House Ballroom, 7 p.m.
LAST LECTURE SERIES: Faust
Pauluzzi of the Languages,
Literatures and Cultures
Department, Harper College,
Gressette Room, 7 p.m.
BRIAN HORN AND ZACH
ROGERS JUNIOR TRUMPET
RECITAL: School of Music 206,
7:30 p.m.
Thursday
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
ASSOCIATION'S CAREER FAIR:
Russell House Ballroom, 9 a.m.-l
p.m.
NATIONAL ALCOHOL SCREENING
DAY: Russell House 201,203 and
205,11 a.m.-3 p.m.
COLLOQUIUM: “MARGINAL
HAZARD MODELS WITH
VARYING-COEFFICIENTS FOR
MULTIVARIATE FAILURE TIME
DATA”: Jianwen Cai of the
University of North Carolina,
LeConte 210A, 2 p.m.
COLLOQUIUM: “LONG AGO
WHEN GALAXIES WERE YOUNG:
QUASAR ABSORBERS AS
PROBES OF GALAXY
EVOLUTION”: Jones Physical
Science Center 409,
refreshments 3:45 p.m.,
colloquium 4 p.m.
ERIC LAMPIN SENIOR CLARINET
RECITAL: School of Music 206,4
p.m.
STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION
SESSION: Business
Administration Building, sixth
floor, 4 p.m.
PALMETTO PANS: School of
Music 206,7:30 p.m.
Friday
JESSICA WALSH CLARINET
CONCERTO RECITAL: School of
Music 206,6 p.m.
SUN-YOO OH DMA VOICE
RECITAL: School of Music 206,
7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE
APPLICATION DUE
GOOD FRIDAY
Monday
STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION
SESSION: Business
Administration BUilding, sixth
floor, 4 p.m.
JOHN WILLIAMS PIANO RECITAL:
School of Music 206,7:30 p.m.
ROBERT SMALLS LECTURE: Dr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. of
Harvard University, Belk
Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Lopez’s mother wins Atlantic City jackpot
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Jennifer
Lopez’s mother won a $2.4 million
jackpot while playing $1 slots at
Atlantic City.
Guadalupe Lopez was playing
Wheel of Fortune at the Borgata
Hotel Casino & Spa when she hit
for $2,421,291.76 just before 8 p.m.
Saturday, according to the casi
no.
Casino spokesman Michael
Facenda denied knowing of any
relationship between the jackpot
winner and the singer-actress.
But Us Weekly and People
magazines report in upcoming is
sues that 58-year-old Guadalupe
Lopez of New York is Jennifer’s
mother.
Jennifer Lopez’s publicist, Rob
Shuter, declined to comment
Monday night.
Us Weekly reports that
Guadalupe Lopez plans to use a
portion of her winnings to start a
$100,000 college fund for her two
grandchildren.
Furtado writes song
for soccer tourney
CITY, STATE - Nelly Furtado is
going back to her roots.
The daughter of immigrant
parents from Portugal’s mid
Atlantic Azores Islands has writ
ten the official song for the
European soccer championship
being held in Portugal this sum
mer.
She’ll perform at a ceremony
before the tournament final in
Lisbon on July 4.
Furtado, 25, grew up in British
Columbia. She won a Grammy
Award for “I’m Like a Bird,” from
her album “Whoa, Nelly.”
Her song is called “Forca,” a
Portuguese word that means
“strength” or “let’s do it.”
“It’s about love of the game,
love of life, love of sport,” Furtado
said in prerecorded remarks
shown at a Lisbon news confer
ence.
Euro 2004 officials said the song,
in English, will be released as a
single.
Furtado also plans to produce a
USC. Briefly
Columbia holds call
for Work Initiative
The City of Columbia will be
holding an 8 a.m. open call
Tuesday at the Eau Claire Print
Building at 3907 Ensor Avenue for
any individuals who would like to
take part in the City's Work
Initiative Program.
Any city or Empowerment
Zone resident who is looking for
work in the construction industry
may participate.
The Work Initiative Program
classes begin on May 10 and end
July 30.
Through the program, students
will learn entry-level skills in
brick masonry and carpentry and
also gain transportation assis
tance and job placement assis
tance.
version in Portuguese, they said.
The three-week European
championship involves 16 na
tional teams and takes place ev
ery four years in a European
country.
Rooney gets award
for 2 years in service
BEDFORD, VA. — Mickey
Rooney received a special award
at the National D-Day Memorial
for his nearly two years of ser
vice in Europe during World War
ri.
“We’re very honored to be
here,” the 83-year-old actor said
Sunday after accepting the plaque
from another World War II veter
an.
“I’m very proud to have just
played a small part with what I
did.”
Rooney, who received a
Bronze Star during the war, was
in southwestern Virginia to at
tend the Blue-Ridge-Southwest
Classes will be held at Sarah
Nance Community Center, 2611
Grant St. For more information,
contact Felicia Maloney at 255
8906.
Students can apply
for USC committees
Students are invited to serve on
a university committee to be
made up of faculty, staff and stu
dents and designed to focus on is
sues such as parking, safety and
athletics.
Applications to participate in a
committee are available at
http://www.sg.sc.edu and are due
Friday.
For more information, contact
the Student Government office at
777-2654 or in Russell House 227.
Virginia Vision Film Festival,
which honors films made in the
state or by Virginians.
Rooney received the festival’s
John Payne Lifetime
Achievement Award.
The actor reached the peak of
his acting career before being
drafted during World War II to
fight in Europe.
He has appeared in more than
200 films and received an hon
orary Academy Award for lifetime
achievement in 1983.
No retirement plans
for singer Parton
SEVIERVILLE, TENN. - Dolly
Parton, hosting her amusement
park’s opening, says she has no
plans to retire after nearly four
decades in the country music busi
ness.
“I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring
when I’m 100,” said the 58-year-old
Sevierville native. “I love being
busy.”
Delta Upsilon raises
money for children
USC's Delta Upsilon fraternity
raised $950 for the Boys and Girls
Club of the Midlands Saturday
with a car wash at Wal-Mart on
Forest Drive.
Jeremy Tutt, a second-year
sport management and enter
tainment student and director of
public relations for the fraterni
ty, said the car wash raised $475
and Wal-mart matched that effort.
Tutt said several members tu
tor for the Boys and Girls club
weekly at Lorick Park
Annual Career Fair
planned for Tuesday
The Criminal Justice
Dollywood, set in the Smoky
Mountains town of Pigeon Forge,
is Tennessee’s top tourist attrac
tion.
Parton, who said she has no
plans to tour this year, wants to do
a musical about her life story for
Broadway.
The singer released an album
last year titled “For God and
Country.”
Parton said a tribute album she
did has prompted other singers to
call her and ask about another *
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“There are a lot of people*^
around who said they have grown”
up with my music,” Parton said,„,
“Shama (Twain) was One of the -
first people who called and said, ’1 -
want to do “Coat of Many Colors’
because that song has touched myli
life so much,’ and that was real*
nice to hear.” "Z
Parton said she likes being the;;
face and name of an amusement^
park and hopes to keep expanding^
the park.
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Association will hold its 13th an- *
nual Career Fair tomorrow 9 a.m^
to 1 p.m.
The event, co-sponsored by the"
National Association for Blacks'
in Criminal Justice, will take^;
place in the Russell House ball^j
room.
Attendees are invited to brings
canned goods to support Harvest’^
Hope Food Bank.
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J. Lo isn’t the only wealthy member of her family since her mother won a $2.4 million jackpot.
Police.Report
Each number on
the map stands
for a crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
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HOURS
0 Violent
© Nonviolent
Thursday, March 4
f§ LARCENY OF CELL PHONE,
AUTO BREAK-IN, ATO HOUSE,
814 MARK BUYCK ST. (OFF
MAP) The victim said that
between March 3 and March 4
someone took her Nokia cell
phone, which she had left in her
unsecured vehicle. Estimated
value: $100. Reporting officer:
W.R. Bond.
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Wednesday, March 17
f) GRAND LARCENY OF
COMPUTER TOWER, SUMWALT,
1212 GREENE ST. The
complainant said that between
Nov. 21,2003 and March 17
someone took an IBM PC tower.
Estimated value: $5,195.
Reporting officer: J.M.
Simmons.
Monday, April 5 -
® ILLEGAL USE OFTELEPHONE
(HARASSING), SOUTH QUAD, '
500 SUMTER ST. The victim ^
said that between 9:30 a m. and «
12:45 p.m. she received several ,2
phone calls from an unknown
male who said nothing but
breathed heavily. Reporting
officer: J.M. Simmons.
gi, BURGLARY 3RD, LARCENY
OF TOOLS, CLIFF
APARTMENTS, 1321 WHALEY
ST. The complainant said that
between March 31 and April 5
someone entered the secured
location and removed a
combination drill and two saw
blades. Reporting officer J.M.
Simmons could find no signs of
forced entry. Estimated value:
$415.
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