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Page 3 Western Carolinian WORLD NEWS April 1, 2008 World News Top 10 Countdown The Top Ten Current News By: Amanda Peralta Editor In Chief Nias 10. IOWA CITY, Towa (AP) Autopsies show that five members of an Iowa City family found dead in their home were beaten to death. A mother and her five children were found dead in their lowa home on Monday March 17. Officials say the suspect was their father, former bank ex- ecutive Steven Sueppel. Investigators say he tried killing himself and the five children by asphyxiating them with carbon monoxide in the garage. He then failed and killed the children one by one by beating them to death. Later he was found dead in the family van on interstate 80 and could only be idenfited by dental records. Integrators say Sueppel made the 911 call then later killed himself. 9. INDIANAPOLIS A high school teacher was suspended for the using a book in her class without permission. The book is known as the Freedom Writers Diary. The school board decided to resign her without pay until 2009 instead of fire her. The price that she will pay will be to lose a year and a half salary. 8. JUAREZ, Mexico (CNN) A deadly trade is occurring along the U.S. border with Mexico, federal officials say -- a flood of guns, heading south, used by drug thugs to kill Mexi- can cops. : These guns are difficult to get in Mexico legally, so smugglers bring them from U.S. to be purchased. Mexican officials say they fear their life when five high-ranking police officials have been killed by these guns. The guns are illegal to purchase in Mexico but can be obtained just north of the border a cracking down on illegal surcha at gun. shows and pup. shops in the Latied Stalgs Chat ERASER ADE 9 Sa help Mexican p munition. Operatiot Ls es 0 Ins, and am- authorities say. 7. GALVESTON, Texas (AP) A jury has sentenced a young father to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant daughter when he put her in a microwave and turned it on for up to 20 seconds. Joshua Mauldin, 20, put his two month old child in the microwave of a Galveston hotel. Prosecutors asked for life but Mauldin was given 25 years in prison and was fined $10,000. Mauldin had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The conviction came after about four hours of deliberations, which began March 24. ; 6. WASHINGTON (CNN) Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency footed the bill for a U.S. con- gressional delegation's trip during a buildup to the Irag war, according to a federal indictment unsealed March 26 in the case of an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen charged with spying for the Iraqi government. Muthanna al-Hanooti, a former official with an Islamic charity in De- troit, Michigan, was taken into custody March 25. Hussein's spy agency se- cretly paid al-Hanooti 2 million barrels of oil, during the time the U.N. Oil for Food program was in place, for services rendered, the indictment states. Those services included providing the Iraqi government with the names of U.S. members of Congress believed to favor the lifting of sanctions against Iraq, ar- ranging for delegations of those members to visit Iraq and traveling with those delegations. According to Congress, they know of no such accusations but they are familiar with the case. In September 2002, al-Hanooti traveled to Iraq with three members of Congress whom he believed to be sympathetic to lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq. The U.S. went to war March 2003. 5. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Clashes between Iraqi security forces and militia fighters spread across. southern Iraq's Shiite heartland March 26, with the death toll rising past 100 . after two days of fighting. Two wars are breaking out in Iraq between the two forces making it more dangerous for anyone to live there. The fighting as spread to Basra and parts of Baghdad to other Shittle cites. Officials say 40 and 50 people have died in the southern city of Basra and at least 22 people have died in Baghdad. A few hindered people have been wounded in the fight. Fighting also broke out in Diwaniya and Kut, predominantly Shiite provincial capitals south of Baghdad. At least 35 people have died in Kut, an official with the Interior Ministry told CNN, and one person was killed and four were wounded in Diwaniya. Police and militia fighters clashed in three neighborhoods in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad! At least three Iraqi police officers were wounded and 30 "outlaws" arrested, a Karbala police official told CNN. the presidents health. ) Nene it Male | SOP Dre An nner has led to several artests ahd seizures of guns | nection with the kilfin and ammo. But the operation has mainly shown just how big a problem exists, 4. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) An outspoken Egyptian tabloid news. editor has been sentenced to six months in prison for reporting on the president's health problems, which the judge said caused panic among foreign investors and threatened Egypt's econ- omy. Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the daily Al-Dustour, will post the 200 Egyptian pounds bail ($40) to avoid serving his sentence while he appeals, a court of- ficial said on March 26, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't not authorized to speak to the media. It was told that he spoke false news about eee me 3. CNN WSO LO SIQGoU) Us Latiioro 4k One stispect has beet charged and police are hunting for another in con- & of Universitywof North Carolina student Eve Cathon, police said March 12. Demario James Atwater, 21, was arrested early March 12 at a residence in Durham, North Carolina. He was charged with first-degree murder in Car- son's death. Atwater is believed to be the man in a convenience-store photo- graph released by police. ' A second suspect, Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., 17, is being sought in Carson's death, police said. He also faces a first-degree murder charge. Lovett could be armed and dangerous, police told CNN affiliate WRAL. Police believe Lovett was the man seen in a surveillance-camera photo possibly using Carson's card at an ATM, Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said. Carson, 22, was found shot to death on March 5. She was the class president of Chapel Hill. This sent many colleges in an uproar asking what can we do to protect our students from this crime? On March 9 Carsons funeral was held in Athens Georgia and was told 1,000s of people attended the remembrance. 2. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) The federal government is keeping Bear Stearns out of bankruptcy. Mo- mentum for federal assistance to struggling homeowners, a non-starter with the Republican administration and many members of Congress only a few months ago, has picked up steam in Washington. The tipping point came March 16, when the Federal Reserve agreed to back up to $30 billion in Bear Stearns (BSC, Fortune 500) losses as part of JPMorgan Chase's (JPM, Fortune 500) fire sale purchase of Bear Stearns. (The Fed cut its guarantee by $1 billion earlier this week when JPMorgan boosted its offer for Bear.) 1. NEW YORK (CNN) As the stock market was tumbling early this year, 40-year-old Eric Horowitz decided he could handle only so much pain. His daughter Elizabeth attends private high school and a year from September she'll be a freshman in college. So Horowitz chopped his exposure to stocks to about 60 percent of his portfolio down from 85 percent. Parents are spending record amounts for their children's education. The _ average cost for tuition, fees, room and board at a four-year private college is $32,307 this year, as calculated by the College Board. That's up 6 percent from the prior academic year. Mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price says parents have been pulling back on investing in 529 college savings plans, which accumulate tax-free as long as the account is spent on a child's college education. New ac- counts this year are down about 20 percent, according to T. Rowe Price, while existing customers are contributing 10 percent less to 529s. Financial advisors say to start saving now so students are able to go to college without high loan rates after they graduate. It is now best for parents and children to start saving as soon as they can so this will not happen to you. Editors Note: All information was found at CNN.com. If you would like to hear more about these stories please visit the CNN website for more information.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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