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AUBURN HILLS, Mich.
Michigan Court of
Appeals upholds
2004 NBA brawl
decision
The Michigan Court of Appeals
has upheld a decision dismissing a
lawsuit by a Palace of Auburn Hills
employee against two Indiana Pac-
ers players over her injuries in a
2004 brawl.
The court released a decision
yesterday sustaining an Oakland
County judge's decision to throw
out the case against then-Pacers
players Jermaine O'Neal and David
Harrison and the team itself.
The Nov.19, 2004,brawl involved
players and fans at a game between
the Pacers and the Detroit Pistons.
Palace worker Julie Socia was
hurt when a spectator threw a
chair as she was clearing a tunnel
so players could leave. She said the
defendants had a duty not to endan-
ger her, while the defendants say a
third party was responsible.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Cause of pelican
deaths in California

Contrac'tors
ordered to leave
by Iraqi official

NYPD, VIA ABC NEWS, DET. GREG SEMENDINGER/AP
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News, smoke and ash engulf
lower Manhattan after terrorists flew two airliners into the World trade Center towers. The photo was taken in restricted
airspace from a police helicopter.
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iterior M inister workers. Iraqi security forces have
routinely stopped security'details
[ers 250 security at checkpoints to conduct search-
es and question guards.
ntractors out of Securityguards willberequired
within the next 10 days to register
the country their weapons with the Ministry
of Interior, al-Bolani said. Failure
GHDAD (AP) - Iraq has to do so could result in arrest, he
ed hundreds of private added.
ity guards linked to Black- Based in Moyock, North Caro-
Worldwide to leave the lina, Blackwater is now known as
ry within seven days or Xe Services, a name change that
ossible arrest on visa viola- happened after six of the security
the interior minister said firm's guards were charged in the
'day. Nisoor Square shooting. At the
order comes in the wake of time, Blackwater was the largest
judge's dismissal of criminal of the State Department's three
es against five Blackwater security contractors working in
s who were accused in the Iraq.
mber 2007 shooting deaths Xe Services said the company
raqis in Baghdad. had no employees currently in
applies to about 250 secu- Iraq, including with its subsidiary,
ontractors who worked for Presidential Airways.
water in Iraq at the-time of "Xe does not have one, single
ncident, Interior Minister person in Iraq," said Xe spokes-
i al-Bolani told The Associ- woman Stacy DeLuke.
ress. The U.S. Embassy in Bagh-
ne of the guards now work dad declined comment. The
her security firms in Iraq, State Department in Washington
others work for a Blackwa- did not immediately respond to
bsidiary, al-Bolani said. He requests seeking comment.
ll "concerned parties" were The Blackwater guards
rd of the order three days ago involved in the incident said they
ow have four days left before were ambushed, but U.S. prosecu-
oust leave. He did not name tors and many Iraqis said they let
mpanies. loose an unprovoked attack on
ckwater security contrac- civilians using machine guns and
were protecting U.S. diplo- grenades.
when the guards opened fire one of the accused guards
oor Square, a busy Baghdad pleaded guilty in the case, but
ection, on Sept. 16, 2007. a federal judge in Washington
teen people were killed, threw out charges against the
ling women and children, other five in December, rulingthat
hooting that inflamed anti- the Justice Department for mis-
can sentiment in Iraq. handling the evidence.
e want to turn the page," The legal ruling infuriated
ani said. "It was a painful Iraqis and Prime Minister Nouri
ience, and we would like to al-Maliki vowed to seek punish-
ward." ment for the guards.
klash from the Blackwa- * Last month, U.S. Vice Presi-
ooting has been felt hardest dent Joe Biden flew to Baghdad to
ivate security contractors, assure Iraqis the Obama admin-
ypically provide protection istration to appeal the case and
plomats, journalists and aid bring the guards back to trial.

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causing no major
ries but startling
away as Michigan
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said. "It's downs
expect the larg
where the larger
pened historically
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magnitude as 4.3
graded it. Vaugha
shaking as light to
Residents in
Wisconsin and
reported feeling
said.
In Pingree Gr
artist Dan Erman
moved his bed an
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The bed headboa
the back of the wa

photos of attacks e
released yesterday s
wn pelicans have t.
ng in large num- NEW YORK, New York (AP) - d
wildlife officials Newlyreleased aerial photosofthe a
derstand. World Trade Center terror attack
like the Interna- capture the towers' dramatic col- t
e Research Cen- lapse, from just after the first fiery n
ut, with no more plane strike to the apocalyptic s
oney left to help, dust clouds that spread over lower tc
Kelway said. Manhattan and its harbor. -r
ually about 400 The images were taken from
the more than a police helicopter - the only r
San Pedro cen- photographers allowed in the air s
y year, but it has space near the towers on Sept. 11, e
icans in the last 2001. They were obtained by ABC ti
bout a third of News after it filed a Freedom of
leaving the cen- Information Act request last year n
vering birds. with the National Institute of C
m were severely Standards and Technology, which g
ypothermic, and investigated the collapse. b
o them in time," The chief curator of the planned
eleasd as many
yesterday after-
om for new peli- l locke
.e bathroom a
r coat Fourteen-year-old's a
father and
'man said a mug- f
ie coat right off stepmother were a
mild-mannered
McPherson said arrested on Feb. 4 a
ie, her 10-year- v
de a Park Slope PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - A mal- g
r two minutes" nourished Phoenix girl was locked w
milk. She heard in a bathroom without running u
rhen McPherson water for two months, beaten with g.
found the little metal rods, and forced to exer-
ring. His green cise until exhaustion because her f
leather trim and father said she had stolen food
re in sight. and cheated on a home-school -
said the dog test, police said yesterday.
$25. She said Scott and Andrea Bass, the
, Lexie wasn't 14-year-old girl's father and step-
'icier Burberry. mother, were arrested Feb. 4 for
investigation of child abuse, kid-
napping and unlawful imprison-
hquake ment.I
thquake m"No one on this earth needs to
be treated the way this child was
'thern treated," Phoenix. police officer
Luis Samudio said.
Andrea Bass, 31, who was
released from custody Tuesday
uake woke resi- after posting a $36,000 bond, did
k furniture in not immediately return a mes-
early yesterday, sage left at her home yesterday
damage or inju- morning. The Maricopa County
g people as far Sheriff's Office did not immedi-
and Iowa. ately respond to a request yes-
of the 3.8-mag- terday to interview Scott Bass,
ke was near the 33, who remained jailed on a
rts and Pingree $45,000 bond.
County, about The girl escaped from the
'est of Chicago, bathroom through therattic on
a U.S. Geologi- eb. 4 and rode her bike to a
quake hit at 4 nearby movie heater, where a
patchers and the concerned couple gave her $50.
ded with calls She then rode about 13 miles to
esidents. a Phoenix strip mall and bought
'rthern Illinois," water, food, a backpack and
st Amy Vaughan clothes because she hadn't been
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ept. 11 museum, which is compil-
Mg a digital archive of attack cov-
rage, said the still images are "a
henomenal body of work" that
how a new, wide-angle look at
fhe towers' collapse and the gray
ust clouds that shrouded the city
fterward.
The photos are "absolutely core
o understanding the visual phe-
omena of what was happening,"
aid Jan Ramirez, chief curator at
he National September 11 Memo-
ial & Museum.
The images of the dust clouds
ising as high as some downtown
kyscrapers "are some of the most
xceptional images in the world, I
hink, of this event," Ramirez said.
ABC said the NIST gave the
etwork 2,779 pictures on nine
Ds, saying some of the photo-
raphs had never been released
efore.
The network posted 12 photos

this week on its Web site, all taken
by ex-NYPD Aviation Unit Detec-
tive Greg Semendinger, who was
first in the air in a search for sur-
vivors on the rooftop. He said he
and his pilot watched the second
plane hit the south tower from the
helicopter.
"We didn't find one single per-
son. It was surreal," he told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.
"There was no sound. No sound
whatsoever, but the noise of the
radio and the helicopter. I just
kept taking pictures."
He took three rolls of film with
his Minolta camera, plus 245
digital shots. Semendinger said
he gave the digital images to the
9/11 Commission and believes
those images were released by the
NSIT. In the days after the attack,
he e-mailed some of the photos to
friends and several were posted on
the Internet.

for two months in
after cheating on test

llowed to change for weeks,
amudio said.
The girl then rode to a cof-
ee shop in Scottsdale, where she
sked an employee to call police.
Samudio said when police
rrived at the girl's home to inter-
iew Scott Bass, he thought the
irl was still in the bathroom and
'as "visibly surprised" when he
nlocked the door and she was
,one.
Inside the bathroom, police
ound a 5-gallon bucket contain-

ing human waste'afnd tblanket
on the floor that served as the
girl's bed, according to a proba-
ble-cause statement released yes-
terday.
Scott Bass told investigators
that he locked his daughter in the
bathroom because she stole food
from the kitchen and cheated on
a home-school test, according to
the document.
The document . said Andrea
Bass said she didn't know that the
girl was locked in the bathroom.

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