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LOCAL NEWS
The death penalty case
against Willie R. Baker will
end in a plea immediately
followed by sentencing, ac
cording to GoErie.com.
Baker is scheduled to ap
pear in Judge John J. Tru
cilla's courtroom on Friday,
Feb. 5.
Records do not outline the
details of Baker's plea
agreement.
Baker is facing charges for
fatally stabbing Anne Ro
pelewski 22 times on Sept.
13, 2008 in her Erie home.
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A tractor-trailer truck
rolled over and is leaking
fuel into a ditch off 1-90.
The truck rolled off an
eastbound lane around 2:37
p.m. Thursday, dispatchers
said. The highway is open
and no injuries have been
reported.
ERIE
Erie police are still search
ing for Jarron Jackson, a 26-
year-old Erie man wanted
for sexual assault and a high
speed chase.
Jackson sped off from a
traffic stop at 3 a.m. on the
morning of Jan. 20. He re
portedly rolled down his
window, handed the officer
his driver's license, and
drove off.
Police say that they
chased Jackson to East 20th
and Buffalo Road, where he
struck a police car, nearly
injuring two officers.
Jackson was wanted for
statutory sex assault and
corruption of minors previ
ous to the traffic incident.
Police say that he had sex
with a 15-year-old girl and
that he fathered three chil
dren with her.
Republican Senator Scott Brown
was recently elected to the
classically Democratic seat in
Massachusetts
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Online ARG perplexes
Vigilant users of the Internet have
been following a so-called supernatu
ral experience via You Tube and Twit
ter in an alternate reality game--an
ARG--that's to say, the equivalent of
an immersive Internet mystery novel.
Followers track subtle clues and hints
around the internet.
Since early this summer, a You Tube
account named Marble Hornets has
regularly been posting tapes a:
tweets that outline a paranorrnm
story: the user, Jay, worked ol
film called Marble Hornets wi
his friend Alex a couple ye
ago. Throughout the productit
Alex, the director/writer, becai
progressively more neuroi
eventually taking to filming hi
self at all hours of the day, evi
off-set. He then gave Jay "bal
and bags of tapes" and skippf
town.
Jay started out posting clips
Alex's self-documentation to
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1. Iran
maps
Guyana's uranium
deposits
GUYANA -- Opposition
leaders said Wednesday that
Iran and Guyana have struck a
deal to have the former map the
South American country's min
eral deposits and resources.
Guyanese President Bharrat
Jagdeo announced the upcom
ing visit of a team of scientists
from Iran.
Iran has faced heavy criti
cism from the United States
and other countries for its nu-
US POLITICS
Mass. Sen. Scott Brown vocalizes
thoughts on Obama's stimulus bill
Republican Massachusetts representative Scott Brown
of speaking his thoughts on the United States economy
SHAWN ANNARELLI
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On the same day that
Scott Brown was sworn into
late Massachusetts Sen. Ed
ward Kennedy's seat, he
claimed that the stimulus
bill did not "create one job."
If taking Kennedy's seat
from the Democratic Party
was not enough, he has
taken Ted Kennedy's office
suite, too.
Brown is also clear in his
position that the United
States' economy is not any
better off than it was a year
ago.
"We lost another 85,000
jobs, again," Brown said. "It
may have retained some,
but it hasn't created any new
jobs."
President Barack Obama
signed the $787 billion stim
ulus bill on Feb. 17, 2009.
White House officials would
disagree with Brown's claim.
The White House released
reports in late October of
You Tube as he watched through them.
At Entry #9 (the ninth video up
loaded), an anonymous user named
totheark (to the ark) started posting
cryptic responses, and at the time of
Entry #l4, another related Twitter ac
count was opened.
As the story unfolds, viewers slowly
learn that something was following
Alex, something literally created on an
A brief screencap of Slender Man in Entry #23
World News
clear enrichment program.
Iran offered last year to help
Venezuela map their uranium
deposits as well.
2. Ten Americans
charged with child
kidnapping in
rirrn
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI --
Ten American Baptists were ar
rested and detained after trying
to enter the Dominican Repub
lic with a bus full of 33 children
who didn't have their proper
2009 that nearly 650,000
jobs were created as a result
of the stimulus bill.
"Every dollar being spent
is helping put someone back
to work," said Vice Presi-
dent Joe
Biden in late
October. "My
message
today is we
are on our
way."
Brown's
made his top
priority to be
to "look at
the economy
first."
The coun-
try's unem
ployment
rate has in-
creased to 9.8
percent. It seems almost im
plausible that the stimulus
bill can be working despite
the unemployment rate ris
ing.
There are issues sur
rounding stimulus reports
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documentation
The ten arrived for their
hearing in high hopes with
their luggage already packed to
leave. Exiting the trial, one
journalist threw a rock before
being stopped by police.
The group's attourney in
Port-au-Prince, Edwin Coq,
says that nine of his 10 clients
had little idea of what they
were doing.
3. Pakistani author
ities round up ex
plosion suspects
that do not help either side.
The first stimulus report re
leased in September 2009
was quickly found to be
flawed.
State numbers would indi
cate that
the stimu
lus bill is
working.
As of De
cember
2009 Cali
fornia ex-
"The bottom line is
there needs to be
more communication
between both par
ties... The main thing
that I heard...is that
they are tired of the
bickering."
Senator Scott Brown
Internet forum called Something
Awful. The apparition is called Slen
der Man: a tall, skinny man in a suit
with white fabric for a face and long,
slithering arms.
Some followers of MarbleHornets'
You Tube account have bought into the
mystique, truly believing that Jay was
assaulted by a masked man in a
wrecked house, or that he found a
video tape at a mysterious, abandoned
climbing wall.
Many followers, however, are simply
Something Awful users, nicknamed
Goons, who don't believe it for
lth, but have been drawn into
compelling story by its
lazing immersion.
In Jan 28, Jay posted a video
)re over the top than any pre
lusly, followed by an admis
mof defeat. Following Jay's
b. 3 tweet, "I have felt corn
'tely functionless since quit
ig," all accounts have gone
tent, nobody has posted any
ing further, and the mystery
:mains: what happened to
Alex?
perienced
the largest
job in
crease with
110,000
created. No
state re
ported an
actual loss
of jobs.
Despite reprimanding the
stimulus plan, Brown claims
to be an independent voice
for the Senate.
"The bottom line is there
needs to be more communi
cation between both par-
PAKISTAN -- Pakistani au
thorities have interviewed sev
eral suspects in connection
with an explosion that killed
seven, including three U.S. sol
diers and three schoolgirls.
Most of the 130 injured were
students at an all-girls school
that was destroyed by the Tal
iban but recently rebuilt by U.S.
humanitarian efforts.
is not afraid
ties," Brown said. "The main
thing that I heard during my
election is that they are tired
of the bickering [between
parties]."
Brown went on to discuss
more current hot issues in
his press conference follow
ing his induction.
"We have terrorists that
are trying to kill us not only
in our airports but in our
shopping malls," Brown
said.
He made it clear that he is
looking out for his state of
Massachusetts first.
"I don't care where it [a
bill] comes from," Brown
said.
"If it's good for Massachu
setts first I'm going to look
at it and consider it."
Brown's new position has
taken away the Democratic
Party's supermajority in the
Senate, and he is making
himself at home and ruffling
feathers from day one.
US NEWS
Buzz Aldrin backs Obama's
scrapping of moon program
JEFF KRAMER
Cop' Editor
Buzz Aldrin wrote an edito
rial piece for the Huffington
Post that commemorated
Obama's Monday decision to
cancel the previous adminis
tration's plans to land on the
moon by 2020, calling it his
"JFK moment."
Obama's plans outlined
NASA's 2011 fiscal budget. It
relies on commercial compa
nies to ferry astronauts to and
from orbit.
With the United States hav
ing stepped down from the
moon race, the path is clear
for China and Russia.
Aldrin cited the Bush ad
ministration's plan to have a
man on the moon by 2020 as
the cause of Congress' hesi-
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path signifies that an animal
is going somewhere."
-Groucho Marx
FACT OF THE WEEK
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tence to fund the space prt
gram, leading to its recer
lack of capital.
"With his deeds, not onl
words, President Obama he
revitalized our strugglin
space program."
Aldrin calls for no more "g
it alone" space programs, ci
ing that in order to use th
moon as a stepping stone int
space in the future, it's nece:
nary that we cooporate wit
our international allies now.
Aldrin thinks that instead c
going to the moon, we shoul
focus on extending the life (
the space station and a mm
commercial way to bring a:
tronauts into space.