4Behrend Beacon
September 18. 2009
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LOCAL NEWS
MEADVILLE
A Cambridge Springs woman
has been found guilt)' of invol
untary manslaughter and ag
gravated assault in the
February 2008 death of a 21-
month-old girl.
A Crawford County jury de
liberated for four and a half
hours before announcing their
verdict in the case of Melvnda
K. French. The jury found
French not guilty of the more
serious charge of third-degree
murder.
A jury of seven women and
five men began their delibera
tions shortly before 11 a.m. in
the trial of 25-year-old French,
who was accused of causing in
juries to toddler Kierstan A.
Bressette that led to the child’s
death in February 2008.
MILLCREEK
Millcreek township Police
received a report Thursday of a
strong-armed robbery in a
parking lot at Millcreek Mall.
The victim was knocked down
after getting out of her car in
the JCPennev parking lot on
Tuesday.
The victim, who wished to re
main anonymous, said that
money and credit cards were
taken from her purse, but she
could not identity' her attacker.
Police said they had not made
any arrests in the case.
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong
will get a new lawyer before
she heads to trial on charges
stemming from the August
2003 bombing death of pizza
deliveryman Brian Wells.
U.S. District Judge Sean J.
McLaughlin granted Diehl-
Armstrongs request to fire her
lawyer this afternoon in a hear
ing in U.S. District Court.
McLaughlin said Diehl-Arm
strong, 60, has a deep-seated
distrust and antipathy toward
her current lawyer, Tom Patton,
an assistant federal public de
fender.
Diehl-Armstrong claims Pat
ton makes her physically ill.
She said she does not believe
he is aggressive enough.
CORRY
The site tor Friday s football
game between Girard High
School and Cony High School
football game has been moved
to Cony's Howard Sheen Field.
The game was to have been
played at McDowell High
School s Gus Anderson Field.
Howard Sheen Field experi
enced construction delays with
its new turf, forcing Corry to
play its first home game at War
ren's War Memorial Stadium.
The field was completed this
week, however. Game time Fri
day is 7 p.m.
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WORLD NEWS
1. Tiny T-rex fossil
discovery startles
scientists
CHINA-A pint-sized version
of the Tyrannosaurus rex, with
similarly powerful legs, razor
sharp teeth and tiny arms,
roamed China some 125 million
years ago, said scientists star
tled by the discovery.
The predator, nicknamed
Raptorex, lived about 60 mil
lion years before the T. rex and
was slightly larger than the
human male, scientists said.
-CNN
2. Italian forces die
in Kabul blast
AFGHANISTAN-Six Italian
soldiers have been killed in a
bomb attack on a military con
voy in the Afghan capital,
Kabul.
Two military vehicles were
reported to have been hit by a
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suicide car bomb. At least 10
civilians were also killed and
dozens injured, officials said.
Following the blast, Italian
PM Silvio Berlusconi said it
would be best for international
troops to leave Afghanistan "as
soon as possible.”
3. Suicide blasts hit
Somalia base
SOMALIA—At least 16 people
have died following a double
suicide attack on peacekeepers
in the Somali capital, Mo
gadishu, claimed by Islamist in
surgents.
Among the dead is the
deputy commander of the
African Union force in Somalia,
along with four bombers, an
AU spokesman told the BBC.
This reportedly killed
Kenyan-born al-Qaeda suspect
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who
was wanted by the US for at
tacks in Kenya.
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NATIONAL NEWS
4. Co-worker: Ray
mond Clark 111 ’a
nice man, always'
CONNECTICUT-Raymond J.
Clark 111, charged with murder
in the death of Yale graduate
student Annie Le, was smart,
amiable and loved his dog, say
those who knew him.
One researcher said he often
went by the lab in the Yale
School of Medicine building
where Le was found strangled
and stuffed in a wall. Lufeng
Zhang worked with Clark, he
said, and thinks the police may
have the wrong man.
5. Florida school
officials in prayer
case could face jail
time
FLORIDA-Two Florida
school administrators were due
“Not really at all.”
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to appear in federal court
Thursday to face contempt
charges for saying a prayer at a
school luncheon.
Frank Lay, principal of Pace
High School in Pace, Florida,
and school athletic director
Robert Freeman are accused of
violating a consent decree ban
ning employees of Santa Rosa.
6. Man who set up
kids' home in Hanl
charged with sex
abuse
CONNECTICUT-An Ameri
can who founded a home for
needy children in Haiti more
than 10 years ago has been ac
cused of sexually abusing some
of the same boys he set out to
help.
Douglas Perlitz, 39, faces 10
counts related to allegations of
sexual abuse of nine boys over
the span of about a decade, the
Justice Department said.
Grace Dissell
Sophomore
Nutrition
“I’m a little concerned. We
talked about it in our nutri
tion class.”
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