:6 I FRIDA)r, March 18, 2005
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Police arrest teen for slaying a boy, 9
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Police believe that a teenager in a
rowhouse window fired the shot that killed a 9-year-old boy sitting
in an idling van. A bullet pierced the passenger side window of the
van and then the chest of Wander DeJesus, who was with his 14-
year-old sister in the vehicle Saturday while an adult relative
closed up a corner market.
' Police arrested Maurice Stevens, 18, of North Philadelphia, yes
terday and charged him with the boy's death. "I would like to
think that they weren't firing at this 9-year-old boy and sister, but
candidly speaking, I don't know that," said Homicide Capt.
Richard Ross, whose department has been taxed by a wave of
gun violence that left 23 people dead in 10 days this month.
Police made the arrest after firearms experts tracked the path
' of the bullet with a laser. They believe Stevens fired more than
once, Ross said.
Man facing charges in strangling case
LANGHORNE (AP) A man accused of strangling a sleeping
woman for a thrill almost 2 1/2 years ago has been returned from
Colorado to face homicide charges.
Jonathan R. Miller Jr, 24. formerly of Lower Makefield, was
arraigned in Bucks County Court on Wednesday in the October
2002 death of Kristen Longhitano, 33, of Bristol, whose body was
found beside railroad tracks in Middletown, Bucks County.
According to the county indictment, Gerald Darnell told author
ities the three were smoking crack cocaine at Miller's Philadel
phia apartment when Longhitano took some pills and fell asleep.
Darnell alleged that Miller said he wondered what it would be like
to kill someone, then put on rubber gloves and strangled her, the
indictment said. The two men then wrapped her body in a blanket
before disposing of it, prosecutors said. Miller fled to Mexico,
. Seattle, and then Colorado, where county detectives caught up
with him on Jan. 11 at an apartment where he lived with a girl
friend, with whom he has a 5-month-old child, authorities said.
Miller was held without bail pending a preliminary hearing
scheduled for next week.
Board revises corporal punishment ban
HARRISBURG (AP) The state Board of Education revised a
proposed ban on corporal punishment to define the term yester
day, hoping the change would win the approval of state lawmak
. ers. The revision specifies that corporal punishment is physical
p discipline intended "to cause pain and fear and in which a student
is spanked, paddled or hit on any part of the body with a hand or
• instrument." The original ban did not define corporal punish
ment, which prompted criticism from state Rep. Ronald E. Miller,
RAbrk, during a Feb. 23 House Education Committee hearing.
;The board subsequently withdrew the regulations that included
;the ban in order to revise them.
' Twenty-eight states ban corporal punishment. Pennsylvania
• currently allows local school districts to decide whether to admin
.;
inter it, but the state keeps no statistics on how many districts
allow it. The regulations must now undergo scrutiny by lawmak
ers, the state attorney general's office, and an independent review
board, a process that is expected to take several months.
Students turn food waste into compost
RIDGWAY (AP) Students at an Elk County high school are
turning cafeteria food waste into compost. in what is believed to
be the first such program in the commonwealth. The Department
of Environmental Protection provided students on Ridgway Area
High School's Environmental Awareness Team the composting
equipment for the pilot program. The process speeds up the corn
. posting from six months to approximately four weeks.
Amnesty: Death penalty unnecessary
EASTON (AP) The international human rights group
Amnesty International is urging members to write to prosecutors
!opposing the death penalty for a 70-year-old Moore Township
:woman accused of killing her 84-year-old neighbor. Though
expressing sympathy for the family of the victim, Marguerite
•"Tutti" Eyer, the group said seeking the death penalty against a
'defendant who was at least 70 years old at the time of the crime
'would violate international law. Northampton County District
Attorney John Morganelli has filed papers indicating that the
killing was potentially a capital case, but said he won't make a
• final decision on whether to seek the death penalty until closer to
the trial. A trial date hasn't been set.
HIGHER EDUCATION & STATE
Kent State student found dead
By Sean Joseph
DAILY KENT STATER (KENT STATE U.)
KENT, Ohio (U-WIRE) An
Engleman Hall resident was
found dead by her roommate in
their apartment Wednesday
morning.
Melanie Scheinberg was found
at approximately 10 a.m. in her
third-story room, said Scott
Rainone, assistant director of
University Media Relations.
Scheinberg, 20, was a junior
early childhood education major
from Monroeville, Pa.
She had been an active partic
ipant in Hillel Jewish Student
Center since the first week of
her freshmen year, said Jennifer
Chestnut, director of Hillel. She
was at the center Friday night
for a traditional Sabbath meal
Council delays vote on smoke ban
By The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA A vote on
a smoking ban that would apply
to all of the city's bars and
restaurants was postponed yes
terday by City Council and will
be addressed again. sometime
after the Easter break
The 17-member council one
member recovering from sur
gery was absent looked
poised for an 8-8 tie that would
defeat the bill, which would ban
smoking in all city workplaces.
The vote was 0-2 against the
ban when councilman Frank
Rizzo Jr. a supporter of the
measure asked the bill's spon
sor, councilman Michael Nutter,
to request the vote be postponed
so changes could be made to the
legislation that would allow for
its passage. "I've done the
math," Rizzo said. "The last
thing that I'd like to see happen
today is that this legislation fail."
Nutter asked for the vote to
be delayed and requested that
Pittsburgh names bridge for Warhol
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"Melanie was always friendly, funny, sweet
and nice. ... Not in a sticky sweet way, but in a
really genuine happy way."
and helped lead funny Jewish Scheinberg had taken her own
songs afterwards. life, Decker said. Foul play was
"Melanie was always friendly, ruled out immediately. No autop
funny, sweet and nice," Chestnut sy will be performed.
said. "Not in a sticky sweet way, Scheinberg had not
but in a really genuine happy approached Hillel to talk about
way" any current issues in her life,
Scheinberg's body was taken Chestnut said.
to Robinson Memorial Hospital A traditional Jewish funeral is
where she was declared dead, held within 24 hours after death
said Thomas Decker, chief inves- except in extreme circum
tigator of the Portage County stances, Chestnut said. No offi-
Coroner's Office. cial arrangements have been
At the scene it appeared that announced yet, but a funeral will
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Patrons smoke and drink at Kellian's Bar and Grill in Philadelphia.
the bill or a revised version be against it permitted the post
voted on soon. ponement and no council mem-
Council President Anna C. hers objected.
Verna a co-sponsor of the bill The bill is supported by public
who reportedly had changed her health groups but is opposed by
mind and was expected to vote the city's hospitality industry,
could signal an acceptance of
sorts by the sometimes staid
Steel City, which hasn't
embraced its perhaps best
known resident, who was
famous for his Campbell's soup
cans and silkscreens of Marilyn
Monroe but who also made
experimental films of people
sleeping and eating and so
called sexploitation films like
The Nude Restaurant.
Besides the culture clash,
some also didn't think the city
should celebrate a celebrity who
apparently concealed his roots.
Warhol was born in the city in
1928 and went to school in Pitts
burgh before moving to New
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York to become a commercial
artist.
He seldom came back and
often said, "I am from nowhere."
"What really hurts was he was
criticized for not coming to Pitts
burgh. He came back a couple of
times but there was nothing for
him to be coming back and forth
like that," said John Warhola, 79,
of McCandless, his older brother.
"I don't know where the rumor
came out that Andy didn't like
Pittsburgh."
Warhola said a bridge honor
ing his brother, who died in 1987
at 52 of complications from gall
bladder surgery, was overdue
but appreciated. He plans to
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burgh.
Last night the Hillel house
canceled a party that had been
scheduled and hosted a gather
ing for students to get out their
emotions, Chestnut said. The liv
ing room was crowded with stu
dents and sobbing could be
heard through the walls of the
house.
"Everyone right now is having
so many mixed emotions, and
we're trying to provide a place
for students to come when they
don't want to be alone," Chest
nut said. "Students' reactions
were a mix of shock, deep sad
ness and disbelief."
Hillel is not sure what it will do
as a group to commemorate
Scheinberg, but it invites anyone
to come to the house to talk
"The last thing that
I'd like to see ... is
that this legislation
fail."
Frank Rizzo Jr.
Philadelphia councilman
which fears a ban would drive
down business. Under the meas
ure, businesses that fail to com
ply with the ban would face a
$3OO fine.
A number of middle school
students and other supporters of
the smoking ban, many holding
signs and banners, filled the bal
cony and gallery of the Council's
chambers. They responded with
cries of disappointment at Nut
ter's postponement request.
Also yesterday, Council unani
mously approved a bill that
would require companies doing
business with the city to disclose
if they previously profited from
slavery.
attend the renaming with his
three sons and grandson.
While the bridge is the second
of the city's so-called "three sis
ters" bridges over the Allegheny
River to be renamed the first
was the former Sixth Street
Bridge named for former Pitts
burgh Pirate Roberto Clemente
it could be the first in the
country named for an artist,
although no one knows for sure.
There are bridges named for
musicians the Duke Ellington
Bridge in Washington, D.C., and
the James Taylor Bridge in
North Carolina.
There's one for poet Walt
Whitman in Camden, N.J.