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Miss, governor
in 2008
Cmily Ulagster
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON, Miss. —
Mississippi Gov. Haley
Barbour on Tuesday
made his most definitive
public statements to date
about his political future,
saying he won’t run for
president in 2008 because
his time is occupied
with Hurricane Katrina
recovery.
The Republican said
he intends to seek a
second term as governor
in 2007.
He said he’ll make a
firm decision about the
governorship by this
summer or fall.
Barbour’s remarks
Tuesday came in response
to questions from The
Associated Press.
“There’s no way that I
can consider running for
president,” Barbour, 58,
said at the state Capitol.
“I’ve been flattered by
the people who have
encouraged me or said
they would support me.”
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Columbia Inferno forward Pat Noonan plays a puck along the boards during Monday’s
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State
FEMA to stop paying
evacuees’ hotel bills
CHARLESTON — Fewer than
100 Hurricane Katrina and
Rita evacuees remain in
South Carolina hotel rooms
as the federal government’s
short-term housing program
winds down.
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency was to
stop paying for hotel rooms
Tuesday unless evacuees
applied for a weeklong
extension.
Nationally, FEMA
will stop paying for an
estimated 11,500 evacuees
in 5,000 rooms today, said
Libby Turner, head of the
Hurricane Katrina/Rita
Transitional Housing Unit
at FEMA.
More than 80 percent of
evacuees living in 25,000
hotel rooms nationwide
have asked for the extension,
Turner said.
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Nation
Autopsy reveals teen
shot himself in head
BOSTON — The teenager
accused of two slayings and
going on a rampage at a gay
bar fatally shot himself in
the head in a gunfight with
Arkansas police, authorities
said Tuesday.
Jacob Robida, 18, of
New Bedford, turned the
gun on himself Saturday
after he fatally shot a West
Virginia woman who was in
his car, said Bristol District
Attorney Paul Walsh Jr.
Police originally said that
they shot Robida Saturday
after he fired at them at the
end of a high-speed chase in
rural Arkansas. Robida killed
Gassville, Ark., police officer
Jim Sell and led police on a
20-mile chase before being
stopped in nearby Norfork.
Police had searched
for Robida since early
Thursday.
World
Despite U.N. security,
skirmish delays polls
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
— Scuffles broke out and
polling stations opened hours
late Tuesday as masses of
Haitians waited, sometimes
in mile-long lines, to vote
under the protection of
U.N. peacekeepers.
Rene Preval, a 63-year
old former president backed
by many poor Haitians, is
the front-runner, according
to pre-election polls.
Among 33 other
presidential candidates
are a factory owner whose
slogan is “Order, Discipline,
Work,” and another former
president ousted in a coup.
Turnout for the vote,
called a key step toward
steering this bloodied,
impoverished nation away
from collapse, all but
overwhelmed electoral
officials.
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CRIME REPORT
FRIDAY, JAN. 3
Larceny of
MPy player, Noon
National Advocacy
Center, 1620
Pendleton St.
The complainant, 27,
said she placed a gray
MP3 player belonging
to another person in the
Lost and Found with the
intention of sending the
property to the owner
at a later date. When
the complainant went to
retrieve the item, it was
missing.
Estimated value: $300
Reporting Officer:
M.D. Evans
Petit Larceny,
7:yo p.m.
315 Main St.
The victim, 30, said
someone removed two
sets of Sony headphones
and one Aiwa CD player.
Estimated value: $70
Reporting officers:
M. Davis, C, Knoche
MONDAY, JAN. 6
Assistance rendered,
12:53 P-m
Gibbes Court,
900 Barnwell Sr.
Reporting officer M.
D. Evans was called
to the scene when _
the complainant, 41,
experienced shortness of
breath. First Responder
arrived, gave her oxygen
and took her to Baptist
Hospital.
Third
degree burglary,
Grand larceny
of laptop computer,
2:05 p.m.
Hamilton College,
1512 Pendleton St.
The victim, 39, said an
unknown person entered
his office and removed ^
his laptop computer ^
without his consent.
Estimated value:
$2,700
Reporting officers:
M. Davis, C. Knoche
Scientists discover \Lost World*
in remote Indonesian jungles
Robin ntcDouiell
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JAKARTA, Indonesia
— Soon after scientists
landed by helicopter in the
mist-shrouded mountains
of one of Indonesia’s most
remote provinces, they
stumbled on a primitive
egg-laying mammal that
simply allowed itself to be
picked up and brought to
their field camp.
Describing a “Lost
World” — apparently
never visited by humans
— members of the team
said Tuesday they also
saw large mammals that
have been hunted to
near-extinction elsewhere
and discovered dozens of
exotic new species of frogs,
butterflies and palms.
“We’ve only scratched
the surface,” said Bruce
Beehler, a co-leader of the
monthlong trip to the Foja
Mountains, an area in the
eastern province of Papua
with roughly 2 million
acres of pristine tropical
forest.
“There was not a single
trail, no sign of civilization,
no sign of even local
communities ever having
been there,” he told The
Associated Press in a
telephone interview from
Washington, D.C.
Two headmen from the
Kwerba and Papasena
tribes, the customary A
landowners of the mountain *
range, accompanied the
expedition, and “they were
as astounded as we were
at how isolated it was,”
Beehler said.
“As far as they knew,
neither of their clans had
ever been to the area.”
The December
expedition was
organized by U.S.
based Conservation
International and the
Indonesian Institute of
Sciences, and funded by
the National Geographic M
Society and several other ™
organizations.
Minutes after the
small team of American,
Indonesian and Australian
scientists were dropped
into a boggy lake bed
and set up camp near the
mountain range’s western
summit, they said they
encountered a new species
of bird — a red-faced and
wattled honeyeater.
The next day they saw
Berlepsch’s Six-wired Bird
of Paradise, described
by hunters in the 19th
century and named for the
wires that extend from its ^
head in place of a crest. V
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