Local television said one policeman died from head injuries after clashes in the capital Dakar. Reuters reporters saw youths set fire to tires and overturn cars after a ruling of the West African country’s Constitutional Council late on Friday night.Rivals to 85-year-old Wade say the constitution sets an upper limit of two terms on the president. Wade, who came to power in 2000 and was re-elected in 2007, has argued his first term pre-dated the 2001 amendment establishing the limit.Senegal’s Constitutional Council validated his candidacy and that of 13 rivals for the February 26 vote but turned down the presidential bid of world music star Youssou N’Dour, saying he had not gathered the required 10,000 signatures of support.N’Dour called on his supporters to prevent the elections from going ahead.We will never allow Abdoulaye Wade to take part in the election, he said, speaking on his own TFM television channel.The decision to keep me out had nothing to do with the law. It was a political decision and we will reply with a political decision, he said, without giving further details.Senegal is the only country in mainland West Africa to have not had a coup since the end of the colonial era. February’s poll, and a possible run-off a few weeks later, are seen as major test of social peace in the predominantly Muslim country.WADE URGES CALMOne witness said a police station in the central town of Kaolack had been ransacked, while state radio said the local headquarters of Wade’s liberal PDS had been burned down. Street protests were also reported in the towns of Thies and Mbour. Wade has no right to a third term and the people will resist this, Moustapha Niasse, a former prime minister for Wade who is now challenging him for the presidency, said. Wade appeared on state television and made an appeal for calm, promising that the elections would be free and fair. Stop these displays of petulance which will lead to nothing, he said. The electoral campaign will be open. There will be no restrictions on freedom. The Council validated 13 other candidates including Socialist Party leader Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Niasse and two other ex-prime ministers – Idrissa Seck and Macky Sall. Its five judges, all selected by Wade, said authorities had been unable to identify around 4,000 of some 12,000 signatures gathered by N’Dour, meaning his candidacy was invalid. We are here to protest against Wade, Yero Toure, a 26-year-old student at an opposition rally of a couple of thousand people in central Dakar before the ruling. If they don’t reject him the people will rise up against him.Critics say that Wade, who spent 26 years in opposition to Socialist rule, has done nothing during his 12 years in power to alleviate poverty in a country where formal employment is scarce, and has dragged his heels on tackling official graft.Wade points to spending on education and infrastructure projects such as roadbuilding as proof of progress towards turning Senegal into an emerging market country and a trade hub.His candidacy has raised eyebrows abroad. The senior U.S. State Department official for Africa, William Fitzgerald, told French RFI radio this month Washington viewed it as a bit regrettable.From our point of view it was the right moment to go into retirement, to protect and support a good transition – democratically, peacefully, safely, Fitzgerald said.
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The revelations surfaced as the older of the two Roy High School students arrested on Wednesday, Dallin Morgan, 18, was charged by Weber County prosecutors with possession or use of a weapon of mass destruction.Morgan posted $10,000 bail on Friday and was released from the Weber County jail, Utah State Courts spokeswoman Nancy Volmer said.The 16-year-old boy arrested with him, Joshua Hoggan, remained held at a juvenile detention center, where he was booked on suspicion of conspiracy, Volmer said. It was unclear if he had been formally charged.Police in Roy, 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, have said the two students were not found to have any explosives in their possession after they were pulled out of classes and arrested on Wednesday following a tip from another student.But authorities said investigators had found evidence that the two youths had plotted to set off explosives during a school assembly and make their getaway in a stolen airplane.Charging documents filed against Morgan said that he did conspire to use a weapon of mass destruction.The arrest affidavit said that one of the students, whose name was blacked out on the document, had told investigators he was fascinated by the Columbine High School shooting spree.Two Columbine students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot 12 classmates and a teacher to death before killing themselves on April 20, 1999, in what then ranked as the deadliest outburst of school gun violence in U.S. history. Harris and Klebold also set off makeshift bombs fashioned from propane canisters.The accused Roy High School student said to have been inspired by the Columbine massacre also told investigators he had flown to Denver and paid a visit to Columbine High to interview the principal there. It was confirmed by Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis that (the unnamed student) arrived on December 12, 2011, at 11 a.m. to interview him about Columbine’s mass killing, the affidavit said. It also revealed that at least one of the two accused students sent text messages to a third pupil before their arrest. One of those messages said, Dallin is in on it. Another said, He wants revenge on the world, too. Police have said the two accused students had planned to escape after attacking their school by commandeering a plane from nearby Ogden-Hinckley Airport, a general aviation airfield. They trained for that plan with the aid of a computer flight simulator, police said. The text messages cited in the affidavit also pointed to the possibility of a plane being used. We ain’t gonna crash it, we’re just gonna kill and fly our way to a country that won’t send us back to the U.S., the affidavit quoted one of the students as writing in a text message. Police have not disclosed the date that they suspect the two students were planning to strike.
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A Yuma County judge disqualified Alejandrina Cabrera, a U.S. citizen born in Yuma, from running for a seat on the city council in the town of San Luis this week for what he called a large gap between her English proficiency and that required to serve on the council.It was clear to the court that she was stymied by many questions, did not understand many questions, failed to comprehend what was being asked, and guessed at answers, the court ruling said.The judge, in a move that sparked a debate over language in often bilingual U.S.-Mexican border communities, said Cabrera’s English was not of the level needed to carry out the professional duties required of a representative of the public.A notice of appeal was filed with the court late on Friday afternoon, according to Brandon Kinsey, one of Cabrera’s attorneys.Kinsey said the vast majority of his own conversations with Cabrera have been conducted in English and that she meets the baseline requirement for reading, writing, and speaking in the language.Whether or not she is the best candidate is a decision left up to the voters, he said. It should not be left up to a judge.Immigrant rights activists said the initial court decision misunderstood a community that spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. The San Luis on the U.S. side is a town of roughly 25,000 people 200 miles southwest of Phoenix.Immediately across the border, is another San Luis, population roughly 175,000. The two municipalities are considered by many residents as one and the same community.A lot of those people from San Luis have family members on the other side, go shopping on the other side, go out at night on the other side, said Luis Avila, president of the Arizona-based immigrant rights coalition Somos America. This is how people live in the border area, he added. Supporters of the judge’s decision said there were certain basic requirements set in law to be eligible for elected office, including a clear requirement for English proficiency. We favor English as the official language for government,3said Robert Vandervoort, executive director of advocacy group ProEnglish. We realize America is a melting pot, he said, But in terms of how we communicate through government, we believe it should be in English. Both English and Spanish are spoken during city council meetings in San Luis, Kinsey said.Supporters of Cabrera complain that public servants have increasingly come under scrutiny for heavy accents or an incomplete command of the English language in Yuma County and throughout the state.People feel afraid of the browning of the state of Arizona, said Avila, himself an immigrant from Mexico. Immigrant bashing has become a political point.
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Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals scheduled the trial of Scott Evans Dekraai, 42, to begin on October 15, almost exactly a year after the October 12, 2011, shooting rampage.Prosecutors, however, expressed doubt that the trial would begin on time.Prosecutors said Dekraai, who has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of murder, was locked in a bitter child custody battle with his ex-wife Michelle Fournier when he walked into Salon Meritage in Seal Beach carrying three guns and opened fire.Fournier, 48, was killed, along with salon owner Randy Fannin, 62, and five other people inside the salon. Prosecutors said Dekraai shot his victims at close range, several of them multiple times as they lay dying.Harriet Stretz, 73, who was in a chair having her hair styled by her daughter, Laura Lee Elody, at the time of the shooting, survived her wounds. Elody, 46, was among the dead.After leaving the salon, Dekraai shot dead 64-year-old David Caouette, who was sitting in his sport utility vehicle parked outside the salon, prosecutors said.Dekraai was arrested just blocks from the bloody scene in Seal Beach, a bucolic beachside community about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles that had experienced only four homicides in the past decade.
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The German-born executive, who took over from two longstanding co-CEOs on Saturday, said his plans for RIM would be significant though he did not divulge details in an interview with Reuters.I will have time with the board in two weeks to present my ideas and changes, Heins said.But the executive, who was promoted from the role of chief operating officer, said he has already done groundwork to tackle his company’s most pressing problem – persuading the U.S. market to covet the BlackBerry again.While RIM is growing in other countries, Heins conceded that its U.S. business is in need of a major revival after losing out to rivals like Apple Inc’s iPhone at U.S. service providers and corporations, where it once had a clear advantage among employees heavily dependent on its email service.In general I wouldn’t consider RIM as a turnaround candidate. It is a turnaround candidate in the U.S., he said. We lost market share in this market quite substantially. That is something that we have to address.While U.S. operators such as Verizon Wireless and AT-T Inc have helped BlackBerry with heavy advertising and promotions in the past, these operators have been much more focused in the last few years on devices like iPhone and smartphones based on the Google Inc operating system.Heins’ quest to regain ground with these operators has been complicated by the fact that RIM had to announce in December that it is delaying the launch of phones based on BlackBerry 10 – its next-generation software – until the later part of 2012 as it is awaiting the availability of a high-powered chip.The executive would not say when exactly these phones would hit the market but implied that they would arrive in time for the year-end holiday-shopping season in the fourth quarter.So in the meantime, Heins will concentrate on getting the most current BlackBerrys into more consumers hands. He noted that only 20 percent of U.S. BlackBerry users have the company’s latest phones, which he says are competitive with rival smartphones. The rest of RIM’s U.S. customers have devices with older RIM software, some of which are two generations behind, he said. To overcome this, RIM has devised a new upgrade plan with U.S. operators to promote phones with the BlackBerry 7 system, which was launched in August last year. All the plans are ready. The carrier agreements are all ready. Now we have to get off the starting grid. Now we need to execute that upgrade program, Heins said. While he did not want to disclose specifics about the new agreements, Heins said RIM could look at new ways of bundling different devices together or offering carriers smartphones with a package of pre-loaded applications. He is also betting on the company’s PlayBook tablet to compete with the Apple iPad tablet. This spring, Heins said that RIM will launch a version of the Playbook, with a high-speed wireless connection based on LTE – a technology that the top three U.S. operators are building into their networks. Verizon Wireless and AT-T are already promoting LTE devices including smartphones and tablets from RIM’s rivals. RIM’s first smartphones with LTE connections will be in the company’s BlackBerry 10 line-up, Heins said.MOMENT OF SURPRISEIn his first presentation to Wall Street as CEO earlier this week, Heins said he did not think the company needed drastic change, causing some analysts to worry that the executive would not do enough to reverse the company’s fortunes.But the executive said on Friday that he was merely telling Wall Street that he does not want to change the core of RIM.Is RIM up for sale, is RIM up for a split-up? He rejected those possibilities as a drastic, seismic change because it would tear the company apart.Heins, who has been with RIM for four years after spending over two decades at German engineering group Siemens, was became COO responsible for software and products seven months ago.He explained that RIM had succession plans for co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in place for some time and that he had an inkling that he was being groomed to follow in their footsteps when he was named COO.The moment they tell you it’s still a surprise, Heins said, smiling broadly and adding that he immediately said yes.Lazaridis and Balsillie, who turned the BlackBerry maker into a global company and a household name, stepped down last week but will remain on the board.Some analysts have worried whether these executives would have too much of a say in the future strategy of the company because of their position on the board.Heins said, it would be an advantage to be able to tap into the experience and company knowledge of RIM founder Lazaridis, but he made it clear that he would be the one calling the shots. What I do with the company is my decision. The CEO runs the company.
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Gerard Dugue was accused of plotting to conceal wrongdoing in the 2005 fatal shooting of two unarmed civilians by police on the Danziger Bridge as much of the city remained underwater from flooding in the chaotic days following the storm. Dugue was not directly involved in the shootings.
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The Dodgers confirmed that a preliminary round of bidding had been completed, adding that all parties would be notified of the results. A spokesman for Major League Baseball did not respond to requests for comment.An estimated 12 parties submitted non-binding first-round bids for the storied baseball team, the stadium and related assets on Monday.Blackstone, which is handling the high-profile auction of one of baseball’s oldest franchises for the league, picked suitable suitors from among some of the biggest names in business and sports.Blackstone is notifying all of the bidders as to which ones will and which ones will not advance in the sales process, a statement from the Dodgers said.Sources familiar with the matter said billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen and ex-Yankees and Dodgers manager Joe Torre received the green light, while basketball great Magic Johnson was also in the running.Representatives for these bidders declined or were unavailable for comment.Those that did not make it into a second round will be notified promptly, one source said on condition of anonymity because the process was not public.This is very quick. The indication here is that there was lots of discussion with the prospective bidders before the bids were submitted, said Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp, a Chicago-based sports business consulting firm.The sales prices could reach $1. billion based on the incredible interest in the team and the media rights, he said. AND WE’RE OFF1The Dodgers landed on the auction block after owner Frank McCourt was forced to place the team under bankruptcy (http://bankruptcy.ieurope.net) protection last year. Other bidders include Internet entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and former Dodger greats Orel Hershiser and Steve Garvey. News Corp’s Fox group, the current broadcast partner of the Dodgers, has also received a nondisclosure agreement from bankers involved in the sale and has been talking with bidders about potentially buying a minority stake to help secure TV rights beyond 2013. The lucrative media rights beyond 2013 are at the center of the Dodgers’ sale. Banking and sporting experts also expect various groups could forge ties as the process rolls on, and note the potential for confusion as alliances are made and remade.The sale is being conducted by the Blackstone Group and is being overseen by the U.S. bankruptcy (http://bankruptcy.ieurope.net) Court in Wilmington, Delaware. McCourt bought the team in 2004 for $430 million, primarily financed with debt.Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said on January 14 he was counting on the bankrupt team to be sold by April 30. Under the terms of a settlement between the league and McCourt, the Los Angeles businessman must sell the Dodgers and the stadium within that time frame.Fox owned the Dodgers from 1998 to 2004. A spokesman said the company has no desire to own the team.
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In 2011, 11. percent of U.S. workers were represented by a union, the BLS said, down from 11. percent in 2010 and compared to a peak of 28. percent of the workforce in 1954.Strip out government workers, where 37 percent of the work force nationally is unionized, and union penetration of private industry was just 6. percent in 2011, unchanged from 2010.The total number of union members actually grew slightly last year, to 14,764,000 from 14,715,000 in 2010. But the number of workers represented by organized labor remained steady while the overall number of workers employed in the economy grew, the BLS said.The number of unionized workers in Wisconsin fell nearly 6 percent in Wisconsin last year, to 358,000 from 380,000, the BLS said, as Republicans passed controversial curbs on the bargaining rights of public sector workers. That bitter debate spurred the largest street marches in Madison since the Vietnam War and two rounds of recall elections so far.Only 14. percent of the state’s workers were unionized at the end of 2011, the BLS said, down from 15. percent in 2010.But in other Midwest states that have been battlegrounds for organized labor, the picture was more mixed, the BLS said.In Indiana, which is poised to enact a right-to-work law banning unions from collecting mandatory dues from workers, union representation actually grew last year, the BLS said.In 2011, 333,000 workers in the state were represented by a union, up from 313,000 workers in 2010. As a result, 12. percent of the state’s workforce was union represented in 2011, up from 12. percent in 2010.In Ohio, where an effort to impose union curbs on public workers similar to Wisconsin’s was overturned by voters in a November referendum, the percentage of workers represented by a union remained unchanged at 14. percent. The BLS said the highest union penetration rate in 2011 was in New York state, where 24. percent of workers were members of a union, followed by Alaska with 22. percent of the workforce unionized and Hawaii with 21. percent. The BLS said union presence was weakest in North Carolina, where just 2. percent of workers were union members, followed by South Carolina (3. percent) and Georgia (3. percent).
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The White House contenders courted Florida’s sizable Hispanic vote, many of them Cubans, with appearances on Friday at the Hispanic Leadership Network, where Romney received an unusually warm reception and the reaction to Gingrich was more sedate.Bouncing back after losing the South Carolina primary to Gingrich on Saturday, Romney had an 8-percentage point lead over him in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. A Quinnipiac University poll gave him a 9-percentage point edge.The Reuters/Ipsos online poll gave Romney 41 percent and Gingrich 33 percent ahead of Saturday’s contest.That margin is similar to three polls released on Thursday that all showed Romney taking control of the battle in Florida, where the former Massachusetts governor enjoys a financial and organizational advantage over Gingrich.Romney battered the former House of Representatives speaker in two debates this week, wounding him in the same format that has helped fuel Gingrich’s campaign.With the debates now over, Gingrich will need some other way to reverse the tide that appears to be going against him, Quinnipiac University pollster Peter Brown said.Tuesday’s Florida primary is the fourth contest in the state-by-state battle for the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the November 6 U.S. election. Romney won in New Hampshire and former Senator Rick Santorum won the first contest in Iowa.Romney repeatedly attacked Gingrich at Thursday’s debate in Florida, scoring points on immigration, candidates’ finances and even lunar exploration.That was Romney on Red Bull, Republican strategist Ron Bonjean said. You could tell Newt was tired, he’s carrying a heavy load. He was counting on pure momentum to carry him through Florida, and that momentum has stopped. At a campaign event in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Romney reminded the crowd of his debate performance. How about that debate last night? Wasn’t that fun? Romney asked. I’ve had the fun of two debates where I had to stand up and battle, and battling was fun. ‘CUBA WILL BE FREE’3An energized Romney, whom Gingrich has described as the most anti-immigrant candidate in the Republican race, won several standing ovations from the Hispanic crowd in Miami earlier on Friday. There is a time coming soon when Cuba will be free, Romney told them, adding America can’t sit back in dealing with the island nation off the coast of Florida. Gingrich received a much quieter response, once again mocking Romney’s call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as a fantasy. It’s not a solution.Gingrich said the concept might work for younger illegal immigrants who had been in the United States a short time, but not for older immigrants with deep family ties. They should be allowed to apply for citizenship through local councils similar to draft boards, he said.A Florida win for Romney would put him in a strong position to capture the nomination as the primary map tilts in his favor in February with contests in seven states where he has the potential for strong showings.Next up on February 4 is Nevada, where Romney won with 51 percent of the vote during his failed 2008 presidential bid. On February 7 Minnesota and Colorado hold caucuses and Missouri holds a primary. Gingrich did not make the ballot in Missouri.Four of the states with February contests – Nevada, Maine, Colorado and Minnesota – use caucus systems, which often require greater organization to rally voter turnout. That could help Romney take advantage of his superior financial and staff resources.On February 28, Michigan and Arizona hold primaries. Romney was raised in Michigan, where his father was a governor and car executive.A new Gingrich television ad in Florida asked: What kind of man would mislead, distort and deceive just to win an election?This man would be Mitt Romney, the ad’s narrator said.Romney’s camp said the sharp tone from Gingrich was a sign he was desperate to distract from his own record as House speaker, where he faced an ethics probe, and as a consultant with mortgage giant Freddie Mac.It is laughable to see lectures on honesty coming from a paid influence peddler who suffered an unprecedented ethics reprimand, was forced to pay a $300,000 penalty, and resigned in disgrace at the hands of his own party, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said.
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Dr. Conrad Murray said in court papers filed in Los Angeles that he would agree to electronic monitoring or other conditions. But he asked to be set free while he appeals his conviction for involuntary manslaughter in the Thriller singer’s 2009 death.Murray, 58, was sentenced to four years in November after a six-week trial. Witnesses testified that he was guilty of gross negligence for giving Jackson regular doses of the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid, and failing to monitor him.According to his defense attorney on Friday, Murray is being held in a solitary cell and has his hands chained to his waist, or to a table, when he is allowed out.attorney J. Michael Flanagan wrote in a declaration to Los Angeles Superior Court that Murray’s sentence is very severe considering the circumstances of the case.Flanagan wrote that Murray’s conviction stemmed from an unusual situation, a close friendship with Michael Jackson and a desire to assist him through a difficult situation. Dr. Murray may have made wrong choices and not have exercised good medical judgment at times, but he never intended to injure anyone.Murray, who pleaded not guilty and did not testify at his trial, said in the court filing that he had been told his appeal will take well over a year before an opinion is rendered.He asked for his request for release be heard by the court on February 24.Murray last month asked for a publicly funded lawyer because he could not fund his appeal himself. He said in Friday’s papers that he would try and find work to support his children if he was allowed out.Jackson, 50, died in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009 of an overdose of propofol and sedatives just weeks before a series of planned comeback concerts.
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