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STATE
Doberman attacks
would-be carjacker
A dog took a bite out of crime to
stop a would-be carjacker Thursday
night, police say.
The 3-year-old Rottweiler
Doberman pinscher mix named
Diablo bit the suspect after he
opened the passenger door of a car
stopped at a stoplight and grabbed
the driver by the neck.
The woman, who asked The
State not to identify her, said she
had to pry the dog’s jaws open to
get him to let go.
The dog lost its four bottom
teeth in the incident, but the
woman said a veterinarian told her
those were the dog’s puppy teeth.
The carjacker has not been
caught, Richland County sheriff’s
spokesman Joseph Pellicci said.
Off-road driver finds
skeleton in Greenville
GREENVILLE — A man riding a
four-wheeler through some woods
in Greenville County has found a
car with skeletal remains inside,
authorities say.
i ne car was rouna aaturaay
afternoon about 200 yards from the
road and couldn’t be seen by
passing motorists, Master Deputy
Chris Taylor said.
Authorities were checking
missing persons reports, and could
not immediately determine the sex
or identity of the body, how long
the body had been there or how the
person died, deputy coroner Linda
Holbrook said.
No identification was found on
the body or in the car, Taylor said.
NATION
Lawmakers slam new
drinking technology
NEW YORK — A machine that lets
drinkers inhale shots of alcohol
went on display Friday night, even
as one local lawmaker warned the
device was “a disaster waiting to
happen.”
The Alcohol Without Liquid
vaporizer mixes the alcohol with
pressurized oxygen. Makers say it
takes about 20 minutes to breathe
in one shot, giving drinkers the
effect of alcohol without the
drunkenness, or hangover.
Kevin Morse, president of
Greensboro, N.C.-based Spirit
Partners, which distributes the
machine, debuted AWOL Friday
evening at the Manhattan nightspot
Trust. He poured fruit juice into the
inhaler because he said state law
doesn’t allow liquor to be stored in
anything but its original container.
“I do think the public is ready for
this,” Morse said. “Alcohol has
been consumed for two or three
thousand years. This is just a new
way to try it.”
WORLD
News of terror plan
prompts lockdown
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras —
Honduras tightened security at
foreign embassies and declared a
national terror alert after receiving
information that al Qaeda was
trying to recruit Hondurans to
attack embassies of the United
States, Britain, Spain and El
Salvador, a government official said
Sunday.
The heightened security was
implemented three days ago after
Honduras’ intelligence services
received reports of a plan allegedly
targeting those countries’ embassies
here and abroad, Security Minister
Oscar Alvarez said.
Protestors confront
nuclear-powered ship
TOKYO — Boatloads of Japanese
protesters met the nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis
as it pulled into port in southern
Japan on Saturday.
About a dozen boats were filled
with demonstrators at Sasebo port,
while others on the dock punched
their fists into the air and chanted,
“Keep out nuclear-powered aircraft
carriers!”
Japan is the only country ever to
have suffered an atomic attack _ the
World War II bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki _ and
there are strong concerns about the
military use of atomic energy, and
port calls by U.S. nuclear-powered
vessels.
Piscopo '
may run
for No. 1
N.J. job
TRENTON, N.J. — Comedian
and New Jersey native Joe
Piscopo says he’s being urged to
make a run for the Statehouse in
the wake of Gov. James E.
McGreevey’s resignation and
acknowledgment of a sex
scandal.
The actor and one-time
“Saturday Night Live” star, who
describes himself as a lifelong
Democrat, told CNN that
“young, very concerned New
Jersey citizens” suggested the
idea to him.
Piscopo, 53, declined to
identify those who approached
Tiim, saying Friday that they
wished to remain “in the
background.” He made no
reference to whether he would
run in a gubernatorial race.
A telephone message left by
The Associated Press with
Garden State Entertainment, a
contact agency listed on
Piscopo’s Web site, was not
returned.
McGreevey stunned the
nation with his announcement
that he is gay and had an
extramarital affair with another
man, whom sources in his
administration identified as a
former aide.
McGreevey said he would
resign effective Nov. 15,
touching off a tug-of-war
between the lame-duck governor
and factions on both sides of the
political divide who demanded
he step down immediately so a
special election could be held to
replace him.
“1 don’t mind him on a
personal level hanging in until
November, because he’s got to
do what he’s got to do,” said
Piscopo, who counts McGreevey
among his friends.
Romano sells meat
in new production
LOS ANGELES — Actor Ray
Romano learned about meat then
took the heat.
The “Everybody Loves
Raymond” star plays a meat
salesman in the San Fernando
Valley in his next film,
“Grilled.”
“There’s a great guy named
Sonny who is the best salesman
in California,” Romano said.
“We had a meat-ology class with
him, and 1 kind of took things
from him for my character.”
In the movie, due out next
summer, Romano and co-star
Kevin James of CBS’s “The King
of Queens” are desperately
trying to meet a sales quota on
the hottest day of the year.
The shooting schedule runs
just 30 days in one pf the
region’s steamiest locations.
“In Encino, where I live, it’s
supposed to be 15 degrees hotter
than over the hill,” Romano
said, referring to West Los
Angeles. “I thought it couldn’t
get any hotter than where I live.
Here in Chatsworth, you can
bump it up 10 more degrees.
But it’s good for what we’re
doing.”
Shields to perform
in Broadway revival
NEW YORK — Brooke Shields
will soon be joining the cast of
the Broadway revival of
“Wonderful Town.”
Shields will replace Donna
Murphy on Sept. 28 as writer
Ruth Sherwood, a young
woman from Ohio determined
to make it big in New York in
the 1930s.
The musical, which has a
score by Leonard Bernstein, Betty
Comden and Adolph Green, was
first done on Broadway in 1953
with Rosalind Russell in the
leading role. The revival opened
last November and won a 2004
Tony Award for best
choreography for its director
choreographer Kathleen
Marshall.
Shields has worked on
Broadway before, taking over
for Rosie O'Oonnell as Rizzo in
the long-running revival of
“Grease”" and she later played
Sally Bowles in the Roundabout
Theatre Company production
of “Cabaret.”
The actress has appeared in
such movies as “Pretty Baby,”'
“The Blue Lagoon” and “King
of the Gypsies” and starred in
the NBC sitcom “Suddenly
Susan” for four seasons.
Clinton, Dole push
for nonpartisanship
LITTLE ROCK — Once leaders
of opposing parties, Bob Oole
and Bill Clinton will continue
their unlikely partnership for
nonpartisan government at the
first official public event of the
Clinton School for Public
Service.
Dole, who lost the 1996
presidential election to Clinton,
will be the inaugural speaker in
a series of seminars sponsored
by the new University of
Arkansas school.
“This is a unique story of two
political giants, each
representing (different) points
of view, who have come
together in friendship and can
speak to the need of the country
coming together and healing
some old wounds,” former Sen.
David Pryor, dean of the new
school, said Saturday. “This is a
wonderful step in that
direction.”
In May, Clinton gave the
inaugural lecture in a series that
bears Dole’s name at the official
opening of the Robert Dole
Institute at the University of
Kansas in Lawrence.
In a news release from the
Clinton school, the former
president said he was honored
that Dole had agreed to return
the gesture with his Sept. 18
lecture titled “Public Service in
the New Century.”
“I was always profoundly
grateful for his years of service
in war and, later on, even more
years of service in peace,”
Clinton said. “It is my hope that
those who come to this school
seeking to build a career in
public service are guided by his
example.”
Clinton and Dole also faced
off on “60 Minutes” last year,
giving political commentaries. j
Hip-hop stars meet
for political summit
ST. LOUIS — It had all the
hallmarks of a concert —
screaming fans, an emcee
warming up the crowd, a DJ
breaking beats.
But the head of the
organization holding Friday’s
Hip-Hop Summit, mogul
Russell Simmons, wasn’t there
to play around. “This is serious
business,” Simmons said.
“These people sit here for three
hours and learn.”
More than 5,000 people
came to the city’s convention
center to hear a panel of hip
hop stars — including rappers
Nelly and iadakiss — discuss I
why registering to vote has an
impact on their communities.
The event was organized by the
non-partisan, non-profit Hip
Hop Summit Action Network,
led by Simmons and former
NAACP president Ben Chavis.
The purpose was to draw on
the collective voting power of
millions of young people.
Volunteers at the America’s
Center convention center
registered people to vote and
showed attendees how to use
the punch-card system used in
most parts of Missouri. They
could sign up to receive mobile
phone text messages, pages, e
mails or phone calls reminding
them to go to polling stations
on Nov. 2.
Rapper Jadakiss said he only |
registered recently, after being
encouraged by Simmons,
because he didn’t feel he was
part of the process. “I never
was really focused on, never
really targeted,” Jadakiss said.
Monday, August 23, 2004
“The rewards for
those who persevere
far exceed the pain
that must precede the
victory.”
— TED W. ENGSTROM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Comic Joe Piscopo attends the premiere of “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.” New Jersey
Democrats are urging the Saturday Night Live alum to run for governor after the sex scandal.
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POLICE REPORT
These reports are taken directly from the USC
Rplice Department.
V
Each number on
the map stands
for a crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6 a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
% Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
0 Violent
© Nonviolent
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20
©SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, WEST
QUAD C, MAIN AND WHEAT
STREETS Reporting officer D.
Pardue responded concerning the
activation of a fire alarm and
found that the second and third
floors were filled With dust from
the fire extinguishers. The
elevator was also filled with dust
and the empty fire extinguisher
was on the floor.
0 DISORDERLY CONDUCT,
UNDERAGE POSSESSION OF BEER,
USE OF ANOTHER'S DRIVER’S
LICENSE, THE FIVE POINTS AREA,
2107 GREENE STREET Subject No.
1 was observed consuming a beer.
Officer Hare asked the subject for
her ID. She stated she didn’t have
one. She then produced her ID
showing her to be under the age
of 21. She gave the officer
another ID showing her age to be
at least 21. She said she had
borrowed her friend’s ID. She
was unsteady on her feet and had
very slurred speech and became
loud and boisterous, using
profanity even after being warned
by officers. Subject was arrested
and searched by officer Dehaai.
Subject No. 2 was observed
drinking a beer. Sergeant
Harrelson asked her for her ID.
She produced an altered S.C.
driver’s license. Subject No. 2
insisted that she was over the age
of 21. Sgt. Harrelson then
observed another S.C. driver’s
license in the subject’s wallet.
Reporting officers: D. Hare and
J.M. Harrelson.
@ POSSESSION OF BEER BY A
MINOR, SIMPLE POSSESSION OF
MARIJUANA, ALTERED DRIVER’S
LICENSE, 2107 GREENE STREET
Reporting officer observed
subject in possession of alcoholic
beverage. Reporting officer had
prior knowledge of the subject
and knew he was underage.
Reporting officer i4ked the
subject for ID and was handed an
altered driver’s license. The
subject was placed under arrest.
During the search incident to
arrest the reporting officer found
a bag of a green leafy substance
believed to be marijuana. It was
found in the subject’s right side
cargo pocket. Subject was
transported to the detention
center. Reporting officer: J.M. |
Harrelson.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19
OGRAND LARCENY, BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 1705
COLLEGE STREET Unknown
persons removed from a booth
area the following items: a
Mackie Mixing Board (black and
gray in color) worth $2,000, and
a wireless receiver (black and gray
in color) worth $500.
Reporting officer: A. Mitchell.