I Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 z. t> •*' Clinton pays back school district ALLENTOWN An eastern Pennsylvania school district says Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has paid a bill stemming from an April 2008 appearance at a Bethlehem school. Officials say the $15,082 check from the Hillary for President organization was presented to the Bethlehem Area School District on Tuesday while Bill Clinton was campaign ing in the area. Board members, especially Republican Irene Fbllweiler, have publicly chided the former presidential candidate for not paying the bill. Fbllweiler last month asked business manag er Stacy Gober to seek out someone in the Democratic party to seek payment during Bill Clinton’s visit to the Lehigh Valley. Gober said in an e-mail to board members Tuesday that Bethlehem business administrator Dennis Reichard helped put officials in touch with Hillary Clinton’s campaign treasur er, who had been “unaware there was an outstanding bal ance.” Pa. corrections secretary to retire HARRISBURG Pennsylvania Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard will retire next week after nearly four decades working for the department, his office said Ibesday. Press secretary Sue McNaughton said Beard does not have immediate plans for his life after leaving the agency he has run since 2001. His last day will be Aug. 20. Gov. Ed Rendell’s office said a successor has not been named. Beard began working for the prison system as a counselor at the Rockview State Prison and moved up the ranks there to eventually become superintendent. He later headed up Camp Hill State Prison after two major riots there did widespread damage to the facility. Pennsylvania Prison Society executive director Bill DiMascio credited him for efforts to improve visitation and to reduce the number of nonviolent offenders inside prison walls, but gave him mixed marks overall. The Pennsylvania prison system currently has more than 51,000 inmates and a budget of $l.B billion. Two men charged with murder ALLENTOWN —Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania have charged two men with robbing and killing a woman outside a nightclub almost three years ago. Lehigh County prosecutors say 30-year-old Christian Bueno of Brooklyn, N.Y and 27-year-old Dennis Velez of Allentown are charged with homicide, robbery and conspira cy in the September 2007 shooting death of 45-year-old Debra Robberson of Hereford. Robberson’s body was found inside her minivan in the park ing lot of the Diamonz Night Club and Restaurant in Bethlehem. District Attorney James Martin said Itiesday that the murder was a crime of opportunity and there is no evidence that the victim, who was gay, was targeted because of her sexuality. Velez is in Lehigh County Prison on unrelated charges and Bueno is in state prison in New York on assault charges; it was unclear whether they have attorneys. Police: Man believed to have taken son WILKINSBURG Wilkinsburg police say a man in a cus tody dispute over his 5-month-old son has disappeared with the boy. Authorities say 39-year-old Radford Pope never returned the infant to his mother after a scheduled visitation with the boy earlier this month. Police believe Pope may be traveling to California with his son. An Allegheny County judge has issued a warrant for Pope and the infant has been listed as missing. Police say Pope is also known as Arthur Lee Pope and drives a silver Chrysler minivan. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is encouraged to call police. Firefighter gets probation after joyride PITTSBURGH A Pittsburgh firefighter will spend six months on probation and pay a $l,OOO fine for taking a drunk en joyride in a casino security truck. Fifty-one-year-old William White was sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to drunken driving and a reduced charged of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He was originally charged with stealing the truck during the December incident at the Rivers Casino. Police say a security guard saw White urinating in a park ing lot, before White said he was a firefighter and needed help getting home. That’s when he jumped in the truck and drove away. Police stopped him for driving the wrong way on a near by street. White’s attorney says he has served an unpaid suspension and is back on the job. He must also undergo an alcohol evaluation and attending safe driving school. Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-moment news. |L3j www.twitter.com/dailycollegian ✓”■>4 \\ The Daily Collegian Collegian Inc. 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With a tough political climate looming for Democrats in this fall s elections, Clinton told the audience to spread the message that it makes no sense to defeat Sestak because Crash From Page 1 a teaching position at Penn State in 1992, Susman said. Susman described O’Keefe as friendly and easygoing during his tenure at Penn State. “I can’t remember a terse word that we exchanged in the four years we worked together,” Susman said. O’Keefe taught a graduate class with Susman called “Corporate Innovation Strategies," before O’Keefe left Penn State for a teach ing position at Syracuse University Corbett From Pa&e 1 s °ld on the candidate's pitch. cal during election year. ° ' Tioga County Commissioner Sue "Both focus on bringing business unfunded mandates and keeping Vogler said she saw both Onorato and jobs here, and on keeping young youth in Pennsylvania. and Corbett speak at the confer- people in Pennsylvania —so in that “I was happy to hear that he want- ence, and Onorato seemed to be respect they were pretty similar,” ed to keep our young people in “more in with the people" at the Vogler said. “I was glad to get the Pennsylvania,” Keefer said. “I know event, participating in the candidate opportunity to hear them, but I think we’ve had an exodus of our educat- question-and-answer session. a debate might have been more ed students.” Still, she said she would have liked informative." And 'Corbett said he saw many to see both of them in a format that other in the room nodding in allowed for more comparison To e-mail reporter: cmms773@psu.edu Pipe From Page' 1. The questions asked Tuesday night covered a broad spectrum of topics. Everything from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, education, healthcare, economic recovery and even Pipe’s plans to debate and interact with incumbent candidate Congressman Glenn Thompson. R sth District, were discussed. Through the entire town hall meeting, Pipe addressed the ques tions but also interacted with the audience in attendance to see what information they had about each topic. Richard Shreve, a Bellefonte area resident, attended Tuesday's town hall meeting in an effort to learn more about Pipe. Representing the sth Congressional District in a way that Council From Page 1, and criticism I was looking for so I can go back to UPUA and say, OK, we know what we need, now let's get working on it’,” Ragland said. “I am excited to see the next step." Ragland said his goal at Monday’s meeting was to meet with council and introduce the idea of a non-vot ing student member on the council. The next step, he said, is to talk with student leaders at other Big Ten p.suco!legian.com Plan From Page 1. “Any entity should be doing long range planning,” Corman said. “If it's not costly and still effective, more power to them.” The of the plan that require money are funded by private donations, Moun. Each strategy lie mecific implementation plan wiu. ’atne attached to label responsibilu, for that part, Mountz said. “We have accountability and wt have actionable items and a .Elizabeth Murphy Alex Weisler —lared Shanker Katie Sullivan Edgar Ramirez Kevin Cirilli Laura Nichols Chris Zook DplciV couldn’t do what we do without the event from noon to 3 p.m. JVCldj' teams like Restak.” A raffle will be held with prizes Kauffman said the Restek team ranging from a flat-screen television From Page 1. has raised more than $15,000 from Best Buy to Penn State income development specialist for through various events this year Football tickets. .Bill Landis the American Cancer Society in alone. The American Cancer Society The day will also include a meal of State College, said the money raised at State College relies on the help of pork sandwiches from Clem’s BBQ. by the Restek team helps hind can- volunteers to meet many of their Meal tickets are $lO each, cer research and cancer patient pro- needs, Kauffman said. T-shirts will be sold at $lO each at grams like Road to Recovery. While the main fundraising comes the event to hel raise further mo» ey “We are extremely thankful for from the motorcycle ride, the event as is done each year, everything the Restek team has also provides fun and entertainment Registration for the event is $25 done for us,” Kauffman said. “We for people who won’t be riding. for riders and $l5 for passengers, are realty grateful to have the cal- Bands such as the classic rock ....Andrew Robinson .Heather Schmelzlen Jenna Ekdahl Steph Witt .Kelsey Thompson Alissa Nemzer lulia Brondanl ....Brittany Thrush ...Danielle Meyers iber of volunteers that we have. We and roll band Seven2Ten will per- By Marc Levy ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Today: Tonight: " S~\ Tomorrow: Extended forecast at ' -(_ W • -,f uirf*» ©* dmksr campusweatherservfce.com High 87 Low 63 High 83 Courtesy of Campus Weather Service President Barack Obama and Democrats who control Congress haven't pulled the nation out of the worst economic crisis since the Depression. “You ought to say to people, ‘Sestak's the best candidate give this deal two more years.’" Clinton told the crowd. "We were in a deep hole, a year and a half wasn’t enough to dig us out of it." Sestak, a second-term congress man from a Philadelphia suburb, missed the event at the Scranton High School gymnasium because he was in Washington for an emer gency session vote on a bill extend ing recession-related aid to states and public schools. Without mentioning Sestak’s opponent, former Republican Congressman Pat Toomev, Clinton suggested that the alternative to Sestak is a candidate who adheres to trickle-down economic theories that benefit the wealthy but dig deeper deficits. "if you vote for these people that in New York, Susman said. In his time at Penn State. O'Keefe was popular among his students. Susman said. "He was admirable and he was engaging with students." Susman said. "They always liked him." O'Keefe, his son and two others survived the crash, but Stevens and four others did not. Stevens served longer than any other Republican Senator but lost re-election in 2008 after he was con victed on seven counts of corruption charges. He was one of two survivors in a 1978 plane crash at Anchorage agreement while he was speaking. between the two candidates, such as But not everyone was completely that of a debate-style of format typi- is currently not happening was one of the major concerns going into the town hall meeting, Shreve said. Other residents asked pipe about his stance on issues of foreign policy and amending the Civil Rights movement to include sexual orienta tion, but one of the main issues con tinually discussed at the town hall meeting was the Marcellus Shale industry. Numerous residents voiced con cern over the proposed oil and natu ral gas drilling in the district. The Marcellus Shale industry is a gold rush scenario, Pipe said. Supporting the safe extraction of natural gas and oil from Marcellus Shale is one of the key aspects of the issue. Pipe he said. Pipe said that he supports strong regulation at the drill sites in order to prevent other disasters such as the Clearfield County blowout. Broader national issues were also universities - like lowa, Michigan State and Indiana that have non voting members in the local govern ment to show the borough council that the proposal has worked for other schools. Council member Peter Morris supported the idea of a student hold ing a non-voting position on council. “This is just a wav to have repre sentation." Morris said. “I really have trouble understanding where the opposition comes from." Morris said the council may talk to the town officials near the other timetable for when things need to be started," she said. One goal of the plan is to reduce costs of Penn States health care benefits. Penn State is currently self-insured, she said. Penn State currently spends more than $lBO million on health care benefits annually, Mountz said. “We've cut the fat out of the budg et, were into the bone,” she said. Another goal of the plan is to reshape the scheduling format to maximize the use of" facilities, according to a Penn State Live press release. This strategic plan will not create The Daily Collegian are running against guys like Joe Sestak, they’ll go up there and take the oath of office, they’ll have one hand on the Bible and they got a shovel in the other hand,” Clinton said. “They want to start digging again. ... Don’t elect the shovel brigade, keep electing the builders.” The Toomey campaign responded with a statement faulting Democrats’ handling of the econo my. “When President Clinton teamed up with Republican majorities in Congress, we had a balanced budg et," the Toomey statement said. “When President Obama teamed up with Nancy Pelosi and Joe Sestak, we got the largest deficits in American history” Sestak has provided a reliable vote for Obama’s priorities, support ing the new federal health care law, an overhaul of banking and financial sector regulations and the nearly $BOO billion stimulus, as well as the bailouts that began under President George W Bush in 2008. International Airport that killed his wife. Ann. Later in his career, Stevens became known for securing millions of dollars for a project that became known as the “Bridge to Nowhere.” The bridge became a symbol of wasteful government spending. At least three of the crash victims were airlifted to Anchorage, Alaska National Guard spokeswoman Kalei Brooks Rupp said. To e-mail reporter: bwmsl47@psu.edu - Associated Press writer Becky Bohrer contributed to this report. discussed at the town hall meeting such as the age of other congress men in relation to Pipe, who only recently graduated from Penn State in 2009. Encouraging the members in attendance to get involved and recruit others is a major part of the campaign, Pipe said. "I want you to be a part of the political process,” Pipe said. Tuesday night’s town hall meeting in State College was the tenth such meeting for Pipe in his campaign for the sth Congressional District of Pennsylvania. But even after ten town hall meet ings, the experience is always diffi cult to gauge and is almost always different, Pipe said. “There was a great range of things we talked about,” Pipe said. “I hope I kept people engaged.” To e-mail reporter: zjgsol2@psu.edu universities to discuss how the addi tion of a student has helped the council and to see if adding such a member will help. Morris said if the council sees how a non-voting student has worked in other places it may soften the council’s position to the propos al. “My suspicion is that it has worked out fine in those towns,” Morris said. ‘And therefore could work here." To e-mail reporter: prosoo4@psu.edu financial pressure on students, Mountz said. The plan will mostly work with what the university already has rather than spend money on more, she said. The new Knowledge Commons in the Pattee Library, funded by pri vate donations, will provide new technological resources to students, Mountz said. Despite other immediate issues the university faces, including a housing shortage and conflict over the West Campus Steam Plant, Mountz said the strategic plan is just as important as any other issue for the university to address. To e-mail reporter: prosoo4@psu.edu
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