LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY
“One way or the other, we’re going to get it done.”
David Axelrod,
President Barack Obama’s top political aide, on extending middle-class tax cuts.
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Police seek help to find N.J. gunman
EAST ORANGE, N.J.
- Authorities on Sunday pleaded for the public’s help in finding a man who opened fire at an off-campus house party near Seton Hall University, killing a student and wounding four other people.
On Sunday, police had set up an electronic sign, the kind usually used to tell drivers of detours, to ask for help solving the house party shooting, which occurred just after midnight. The message advertised a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
East Orange police were following several leads but had not identified a suspect, spokesman Andrew Di Elmo said.
Students said the gunman was kicked out of the party when he refused to pay the cover charge, then returned with a handgun and started firing.
Psychology major and honors student Jessica Moore was killed. Moore, 19, was from Disputanta, Va.
Airliner wing drags tarmac; no injuries
NEW YORK - With a flight attendant yelling “heads down, stay down,” passengers cowered and prayed on a tense descent into John F. Kennedy International Airport as malfunctioning landing gear sent sparks flying and left one of the plane’s wings dragging along the tarmac.
No one was hurt Saturday evening when Delta Connection Flight 4951, operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, made its emergency landing on its way to White Plains, N.Y., from Atlanta, said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman.
The right gear of the plane was stuck and would not deploy, the pilot told air traffic control, according to a recording monitored by the newspaper and captured on the website LiveATC.net, which is devoted to controller talk.
All 60 passengers exited safely through the main door onto the tarmac and were bused to the terminal, said Atlantic Southeast Airlines spokesman Jarek Beem. The airline was working with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the landing-gear problem, he said.
Wisconsin levee woes cut off park
PORTAGE, Wis. - A levee along the Wisconsin River was failing Sunday, flooding the access road leading to a park area and cutting off any residents who did not heed day-long warnings to evacuate.
It wasn’t clear how many of the roughly 300 residents remained in Blackhawk Park around 4 p.m. Sunday when the road was closed after water started leaking from the Caledonia Levee south of Wisconsin 33. The levee had not collapsed, but officials said enough water was coming through that it wasn’t considered safe.
The Portage Daily Register reported that the water was about 6 inches deep on some roads Sunday afternoon.
The Columbia County Emergency Management Office wasn’t letting anybody in or out of Blackhawk Park and warned all morning that emergency vehicles would not be able to reach any residents who stayed behind.
Elsewhere, in the small South Dakota town of Renner, just north of Sioux Falls, sandbags were being filled to deal with any unexpected rise of the Big Sioux River.
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