Romney and Gingrich are locked in a tight race heading into South Carolina's primary election. Romney urged Gingrich to provide more details about his past ethics issues as House Speaker. Gingrich's campaign accused Romney of panicking due to recent polls showing Gingrich gaining ground. Santorum and Paul argued they remain viable candidates as well. In other news, a fast-moving wildfire near Reno, Nevada destroyed 26 homes and forced thousands to evacuate.

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Child porn charge recanted PSU installs new leadership Girl escapes apparent kidnapper
A professor arrested after firefighters A banking executive has been selected Police said a missing 9-year-old girl es-
battling a blaze at his New Jersey home to guide Penn State’s Board of Trustees caped an apparent kidnapper and called
found a 1970s magazine depicting naked through the aftermath of the Jerry San- 911 herself from a convenience store in
prepubescent girls plans to seek to get the dusky scandal. Colorado Springs.
charge dismissed through a pretrial inter- Trustees elected Karen Peetz as president The Pueblo girl was reported missing
vention program. of the 32-member board. Peetz is a vice Thursday when she failed to return home
His lawyer told The Associated Press chairman of The Bank of New York Mellon. from school.
on Friday that Gamal El-Zoghby ac- Peetz said the board will focus on themes The car of the man she was with
knowledges ownership of the magazine of change, reform and transparency. broke down Friday in Colorado Springs
found Tuesday by firefighters but said he The trustees also elected farm owner and a passerby gave them a ride to a
bought it decades ago and hasn’t looked Keith Masser as the vice chair. Circle K.
at it since. They’re replacing Steve Garban and John Police said that the girl ran into the
Attorney Hal Haveson said the 76-year- Surma, respectively, as trustee leaders. store and asked to use the phone to call
old Pratt Institute professor had wanted Garban and Surma decided not to run her uncle.
to get rid of the magazine for years but for again. They and other trustees have been She called 911 instead.
some reason never did. criticized by some alumni and former the associated press One witness said the girl had two black
It was part of a larger collection of por- players for their actions after former assis- OCCuPy PrOTESTErS chain themselves eyes and refused to leave with the man,
nography found by firefighters hidden tant football coach Sandusky was charged across an entrance to Wells Fargo’s saying she was going to wait for her moth-
behind wall boards at his home in Eagles- with dozens of counts of child sex abuse corporate headquarters on Friday in san er.
wood Township. last November. Francisco. From Associated Press reports
On primary eve, Romney says S.C. race is ‘neck-and-neck’
By THOMAS BEAuMONT tion into his ethical prob- appearance on CNN, said
the associated press “Frankly to be in lems, saying, “You know “a little bit of drama” was
it’s going to get out ahead good for the GOP as it sorts
NORTH CHARLES- a neck-and-neck of the general election.” It out the strongest challenger
TON, S.C. — Mitt Romney race at this last was a sharp rejoinder to to President Barack Obama,
pronounced himself in a Gingrich’s calls for Rom- and that the tone wasn’t all
neck-and-neck race with moment is kind ney to quickly release his that negative.
Newt Gingrich on the eve of exciting.” tax records. Santorum, who opened
of South Carolina’s pivotal But Gingrich’s cam- his day on C-SPAN, said the
presidential primary and Mitt Romney paign countered that a vast GOP presidential race “has
pressed his chief rival Fri- Gop candidate amount of information just transformed itself in the
day to release more details from the ethics investiga- last 24 hours” and that he’s
about his ethical problems problems was a sure sign of tion had been public for still very much a contender.
as House speaker. Gin- the momentum behind the more than a decade and The former Pennsylvania
grich’s camp countered former speaker’s rise-and- said in a statement that senator said he was finally
that Romney’s campaign fall-and-rise candidacy. But Romney’s campaign was drawing enough campaign
was “on a panic-attack” af- the former Massachusetts “on a panic-attack.” contributions to compete
ter losing ground in recent governor tried to frame a Rick Perry’s depar- aggressively in next-up
polls. tight South Carolina race ture from the race, a rau- Florida and beyond, even if
Rick Santorum and Ron as progress in the state he’d cous Charleston debate he finishes poorly in South the associated press
Paul argued they were still lost soundly before. on Thursday and fresh Carolina. MITT rOMNEy pronounced himself in a neck-and-neck race
in the mix as South Caro- “Frankly to be in a neck- reminders of Gingrich’s At an appearance in Lex- with Newt Gingrich on the eve of south carolina’s pivotal
lina’s Sen. Jim DeMint de- and-neck race at this last tumultuous personal life ington, he offered himself as presidential primary.
clared the state a “two-man moment is kind of excit- promised to make the dash a just-right “Goldilocks” can-
race.” Little more than a ing,” he said to Saturday’s voting frenetic didate, positioned between to Gingrich. “There’s too “And we have another can-
week ago, DeMint had been Campaigning in Gilbert, and the intra-party attacks Gingrich and Romney. much about that candidate didate who is just too darn
predicting a Romney win. Romney urged Gingrich to increasingly sharp. “One candidate is too ra- that we don’t want to have” cold, who doesn’t have bold
Romney’s new focus release a more detailed ac- Republican Party Chair- dioactive, a little too hot,” in a race that must focus on plans,” Santorum said, al-
on Gingrich’s past ethics counting of the investiga- man Reince Preibus, in an Santorum said, referring Obama’s record, he said. luding to Romney.
26 homes lost, 2,000 evacuated in Reno DOW earnings
By SCOTT SONNEr
the associated press
spoke earlier Thursday.
Three nearby schools were
closed Friday and about
encourage stocks
RENO, Nev. — Firefight- 200 customers were with- By MATTHEW CrAfT
ers worked to hold the line out electricity. the associated press “Overall, we’re
Friday on a fast-moving The fire held steady at
brush fire that tore through about 3,900 acres and was NEW YORK — IBM moving in the
the Reno area, destroyed 50 percent contained. More and Microsoft drove the right direction
26 houses and forced thou- than 10,000 people were Dow Jones industrial av-
sands of residents to flee. told to leave their homes erage higher Friday after and it’s bolstered
The forecast of rain and during the height of the the tech giants reported the market.”
snow would help douse the blaze, and about 2,000 stronger earnings than
flames but also increase the of them remained under analysts expected. Frank Fantozzi
chance of flooding on the evacuation orders. Microsoft said sales of wealth manager
charred land, authorities At least 700 people were Xbox games and Office
said. expected to fight the blaze software helped push reve-
The blaze started shortly Friday, including law en- nue up in the last quarter of sales are steadily rising.
after noon Thursday and, forcement, crews from the 2011. IBM credited better And most companies are
fueled by wind gusts reach- National Guard and fire- sales of software and ser- reporting better profits.
ing 82 mph, mushroomed fighters from California. the associated press vices and raised its earn- “Overall, we’re moving
to more than 6 square miles By nightfall Thursday, WINDS GuSTING up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving brush ings outlook for the year. in the right direction and
before firefighters stopped the fire had burned to fire through a valley south of reno on thursday, burning Microsoft rose 6 percent it’s bolstered the market,”
its surge toward Reno. Reno’s southern outskirts. several homes, threatening hundreds of residents. and IBM rose 4 percent. Fantozzi said. “The SP
“The fire moved very, Flames were visible from The Dow rose 96.50 getting over 1,300 this
very fast,” Washoe County the downtown casino dis- this community has been homes in Pleasant Valley, points to close at 12,720.48. week is a nice sign.”
Sheriff Mike Haley said trict, about 10 miles away. struck by tragedy again,” Old Washoe Valley and That’s a gain of 0.8 per- Google lost 8.4 percent
Friday at a briefing. “Fire- Reno Fire Chief Michael said Gov. Brian Sandoval, Saint James Village, Wash- cent. Without the huge after its earnings per share
fighters did an enormously Hernandez said there was who declared a state of oe County sheriff’s Deputy gains in IBM and Micro- fell a dollar short of ana-
good job of holding the one fatality in the fire area emergency Thursday after- Armando Avina said. soft, the Dow would have lysts’ estimates. The misfire
number of structures down but declined to provide noon. Erika Minnberry, 28, risen just 24 points. stemmed from an 8 percent
to 26.” more details, saying an The flames, up to 40 feet said she didn’t become The SP 500 index drop in prices that the In-
The fire’s cause isn’t autopsy would be needed high, raced through sage concerned at first because inched up 0.88 to 1,315.38. ternet search giant charges
known. It started in a val- to determine the cause of brush, grass and pines in smoke from the fire ap- Both the Dow and SP advertisers for each click.
ley along U.S. Highway 395, death. an area where small neigh- peared far enough away. ended the week with gains Google’s drop tugged
which remained closed be- The blaze was “almost borhoods are dispersed “Probably 30 minutes of more than 2 percent. the Nasdaq composite
cause the heat destroyed a carbon copy” of a huge among an otherwise rural later, it was up to our house Plenty of things are index lower. It fell 1.63
some of the guardrails that wild fire on the edge of landscape. because of the high winds,” going right, said Frank points to 2,786.70.
will need to be replaced, the Sierra foothills that de- “The area burned is ab- she said. “I felt pure sur- Fantozzi, CEO of Planned Even though high-pro-
said Chris Perry, direc- stroyed 30 homes in south- solutely devastated,” Haley vival adrenaline. When we Financial Services, an in- file companies such as
tor, Department of Public west Reno in November, said. drove away, the smoke was dependent wealth manag- Google and JPMorgan
Safety. the fire chief said. It burned About 300 elementary so thick, we could barely er in Cleveland. Applica- Chase have posted disap-
At one point, the flames about 3 square miles and school students were taken see ahead of us. Now I feel tions for unemployment pointing earnings results
got within 100 yards of Ga- also forced the evacuation to an evacuation center, and anxiety. I couldn’t find my benefits dropped last in the past week, the trend
lena High School, where of 10,000 people. deputies went door to door two cats at the time and I week to the lowest level in is moving in the opposite
Vice President Joe Biden “It’s inconceivable that asking people to leave their hope they’re OK.” nearly four years. Housing direction.
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