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Thursday, June 25, 2009
COACH KILLED LAUNCHED NFL CAREERS
OUT OF THIS Former player
accused of murder
PARKERSBURG, IOWA (AP) — A former we’re looking
player gunned down a high school into,” Winker said.
coach who helped launch several School was
professional football careers not in session,
Wednesday morning in front of and Becker did
students taking part in an offsea- not threaten any
son workout, authorities said. of the students
Mark Becker, 24, who was sup- in the room, he
posed to have been taken to a hos- said.
pital psychiatric ward after THOMAS Thomas, 58,
allegedly leading police on a high- died at a Water-
speed chase Saturday night, loo hospital. His shooting stunned
unloaded several rounds into the rural community of 1,800 resi-
Aplington-Parkersburg High dents 80 miles northeast of Des
School football coach Ed Thomas Moines, and it reverberated
and was arrested at a nearby home through NFL circles, where he
soon afterward, said Kevin Winker, was remembered as much for his
assistant director of the Iowa Divi- faith as his winning record.
sion of Criminal Investigation. Named the NFL’s 2005 high
Winker said he couldn’t discuss school coach of the year, Thomas
what Becker’s motive for the slay- amassed a 292-84 record in 37 sea-
ing might have been, or what Beck- sons as a head coach — 34 of them
er might have been up to in the at Aplington-Parkersburg. He
days leading up to the shooting. coached several players who went
“Motive is one of those things on to the NFL.
WAT E R , WAT E R S O M E W H E R E
IRAN ELECTION PROTESTS
This Nov. 27, 2005, NASA photo shows Saturn’s moon Enceladus, as
seen from the Cassini orbiter. The blue color was added by NASA for
dramatic effect to show the plumes. Scientists found particles containing
U.S. rescinds invites
sodium salts, which indicates that the plumes arise from liquid water, WASHINGTON (AP) — An offer for embassy Fourth of July parties,
Iranian envoys to attend U.S. according to the State Department.
meaning this moon may have an ocean beneath its surface. That’s embassy Fourth of July parties Department spokesman Ian
has been rescinded as the violent Kelly told reporters that Secre-
important because liquid water is a key ingredient for life. But a second crackdown in Tehran continues, tary of State Hillary Rodham Clin-
the White House said Wednesday. ton had authorized U.S. envoys
team of scientists found no sign of sodium with a different sampling “Given the events of the past abroad some weeks ago to invite
method. Both papers are reported in today’s issue of the journal many days, those invitations will Iranian diplomats to attend the
no longer be extended,” presiden- annual celebration. Her authori-
Nature. — AP tial spokesman Robert Gibbs said. zation was required because
Postelection protests and vio- Washington has no formal diplo-
lence have rocked Iran since the matic relations with Iran.
contested re-election of President Kelly said no Iranians have accept-
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The past ed, and he indicated that the U.S. saw
10 days in Iran have posed the little reason for them
strongest challenge to that to, given the
WAT C H I N G T H E B L O B S G R O W nation’s clerical rule since the
system was established 30 years
ago in the 1979 Islamic revolution.
political cri-
sis over
their dis-
President Barack Obama con- puted pres-
This NASA handout image is a composite from a number of telescopes, demned the violence against protest- idential
ers Tuesday and lent his strongest election.
including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which shows a space blob support yet to their accusations the
hardline victory was a fraud.
in both optical and infrared light. The blob is the yellow mass of gas. No Iranian diplomat had accept-
ed an invitation from U.S. diplo-
Inside it is an adolescent galaxy in white. The red spots are galaxies matic posts abroad to attend
seen in the infrared spectrum. One theory was that these blobs were
PRESIDENT MAHMOUD
young galaxies cooling off. But new research says they are hot and AHMADINEJAD AP
chaotic with gas halos, growing supermassive black holes and about to
stabilize. The blobs are the adolescent galaxies and the hydrogen gas,
leftover from their creation. So, rather than cooling down, they’re heat- CONN. CHURCH P O S T E D O N Y O U T U B E
ing up in a sort of puberty. — AP
Gay exorcism video causes stir
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. (AP) — The video holding him under his arms, and
shows the 16-year-old boy lying on people shouting as organ music
the floor, his body convulsing, as plays.
elders of a small Connecticut “Come out of his belly,” some-
church cast a “homosexual one commands. “It’s in the belly
demon” from his body. — push.”
“Rip it from his throat!” a Later, the teenager is back on
woman yells. “Come on, you the floor, breathing heavily. Then
homosexual demon! You homo- he’s coughing and apparently
sexual spirit, we call you out right vomiting into a bag.
now! Loose your grip, Lucifer!” “Get another bag,” a partici-
Gay and youth advocates, who pant says. “Make sure you have
are demanding an investigation, your gloves.”
are calling the 20-minute video, As the youth lay back on the
posted on YouTube by Manifested ground, limp, church members
Glory Ministries, abuse. But a put a white sheet over him.
church official this week denied It’s nearly impossible to say
that the teenager was injured or how often similar exercises occur
that the church is prejudiced. in churches nationwide. But
“We believe a man should be Kamora Herrington, who runs a
with a woman and a woman mentoring program at True Colors
should be with a man,” the Rev. and has worked with the youth,
Patricia McKinney told AP. “We said she believes it’s fairly com-
have nothing against homosexu- mon.
als. I just don’t agree with their “This happens all the time,”
lifestyle.” she said. “This is not isolated.”
The church posted the video on Robin McHaelin, executive
YouTube but has since removed director of True Colors, an advo-
it; the video is still available on cacy group for gay youths, said her
some Web sites that copied it. organization is aware of five cases
It shows church members
standing the youth on his feet by See VIDEO, Page B2
WAR REPORT IRAQ 4,316 U.S. deaths, 3,454 from hostile action. AFGHANISTAN 637 U.S. deaths, 471 from hostile action.
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