The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT City council holds off on financial package from state The Detroit City Council has deferred a vote on a consent agreement between Detroit and Gov. Rick Snyder. Council's decision yester- day means members could still return today to vote on whether to authorize a revamped finan- cial stabilization agreement that could stave off state receivership. The agreement would have to be authorized by a financial review team that's been ordered by an Ingham County judge not to meet. State officials filed a challenge yesterday to that order with the Michigan Court of Appeals.. But time may be running out for Detroit's elected leaders to retain any control over the city's finances. Snyder has until Thurs- day to decide if Detroit will get an emergency manager. DALLAS Tornadoes tear through Texas Several reported tornadoes tore through the Dallas area yes- terday, tossing semis in the air and leaving crumpled tractor trailers strewn along highways and in truck stop parking lots. The National Weather Service reported at least two separate "large and extremely dangerous" tornadoes south of Dallas and Fort Worth. Dallas Police spokes- woman Sherri Jeffrey said an apparent twister touched down and caused damage within the city's southern limits. Officials had no immediate information about injuries. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Cholera a concern in Haiti as rainy season begins Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency said yesterday. The U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a monthly bulletin that the new cholera cases were found in the western and north- ern parts of the country and that Haitian health officials recorded 77 new cases a day for the whole country in early March, when the rains began. Medical teams have been deployed to stem the spread of cholera but their effectiveness has been hampered in part by lit- tle coordination and an absence of salaries paid to people work- ing in cholera treatment centers run by Haitian authorities, the U.N. bulletin said. 0 PARIS Islamist group planned to kidnap French judge Preliminary charges are being filed against 13 Islamist radicals in France, a prosecu- tor announced yesterday, saying some had been calling for Mus- lim Shariah law in the country, stashing weapons and hatching plots, one to kidnap a judge. Prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference that members of the Forsane Alizza group received physical train- ing in parks and forests around Paris and religious indoctrina- tion "in order to take part in a jihad," or holy war. The group preached hate and violence on their Internet site which "called for an Islamic caliphate in France, the application of the Shariah and incited Muslims to unite to prepare for civil war," Molins said. The site, which also showed clips of late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, was shut down after authorities banned Forsane Alizza in March. -Compiled from Daily wire reports STEVEN SENNE/AP Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Ronney speaks at a primary election night rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin yesterday. Romney sweeps Wisconsin, n ,Marylad, .ri ries C. pr -m c S to for Ml Romt the nomi prim land time with "F asked dent in Mi He out four trapp sided as we home debt, Th ney t egate Rick defia to aba the n W conte place wher nifica Re the Romr vote t 11 pe perce Re Mary Romr vote t 11 pe >antorum vows percent for Ron Paul. With 43 percent precincts continue fight counted in Washington, Rom- ney had 68 percent of the vote the Republican to 13 percent for Paul and 11 per- cent for Gingrich. Santorum was nomination not on the ballot. "'We won 'em all," he ILWAUKEE (AP) - Mitt declared. ney tightened his grip on Romney won at least 74 del- Republican presidential egates in the three races, with 21 nation yesterday, sweeping yet tobe allocated. aries in Wisconsin, Mary- That pushed his total to 646 and Washington D.C., with of the 1,144 needed to clinch the left over to swap charges nomination. Santorum has 272 President Barack Obama. delegates, Gingrich 135 and Paul our more years?" Romney 51. I sarcastically of the presi- Interviews with voters leav- as supporters cheered him ing Republican polling places lwaukee. in Maryland and Wisconsin said Obama was "a little showed an electorate more con- of touch" after spending cerned with a candidate's ability years surrounded by the to ability to defeat Obama than ings of power and had pre- with the strength of his conser- over near-record job losses vatism, his moral character or ell as increases in poverty, his stand on the issues. Similar foreclosures, government soundings in earlier states have and gasoline prices.. consistently worked to Rom- e victories enabled Rom- ney's advantage. o pad his already-wide del- Voters in both states were less lead over Republican rival apt to be born again or evan- Santorum, who flashed gelical Christians than in most nce in the face of pressure previous contests - 34 percent andon his own candidacy in in Wisconsin and 32 percent ame of partyunity. in Maryland. Based on earlier isconsin was the marquee contests, that, too, suggested an st of the night, the only advantage for Romney. of the three on the ballot Increasingly, Romney and e Santorum mounted a sig- many senior figures in his party nt effort. have begun behaving as if the turns from 15 percent of primaries are an afterthought, state's precincts showed hoping to pivot to the fall cam- ney with 43 percent of the paign and criticism of Obama. o 38 percent for Santorum, "He gets full credit or blame rcent for Ron Paul and 6 for what's happened in this nt for Newt Gingrich. economy and what's happened turns from 25 percent of to gasoline prices under his 'land's precincts showed watch and what's happened ney with 48 percent of the to our schools and what's hap-. o 30 percent for Santorum, pened to our military forces," rcent for Gingrich and 9 Romney said of the president while campaigning in Wauke- sha, Wis. Obama said things could be worse - and predicted they would be if Romney and Repub- licans got their way. In a speech to the annual meeting of The Associated Press, he said a House-passed budget written by Republicans was "antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for every- body who's willing to work for it Itis aprescription for decline." When he wasn't focusing his rhetoric on Obama, Romney prodded Santorum to quit the race, suggesting a refusal to do so could cost the party the elec- tion in November. "The rightnthing for us, I think, is to get a nominee as soon as we can and be able to focus on Barack Obama," Romney said in an interview with Fox News. "You have to remember that it was Ross Perot that allowed Bill Clinton to win"in 1992, he added, a reference to the Texan who ran as an independent that year. Santorum, in his home state of Pennsylvania, took note of the calls for him to exit the race. "Ladies and gentleman, Penn- sylvania and half the other peo- ple in this country have yet tobe heard, and we're going to go out and campaign here and across this nation to make sure that their voices are heard in the next few months." For Romney, the end of the contested primary campaign could hardly come soon enough. Obama has gained in the polls in recent months, particularly among women, as Republicans vie among themselves for sup- port from a conservative party electorate. Shooter at school in California was student at college One L. Goh kills he approached her, she said, "I'm shot" and showed him her seven, injures three arm. "She had a piece of her arm in rampage hanging out," Richards said, noting that she was wounded OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A near the elbow. 43-year-old former student of As police arrived, Richards a small Christian university in said he heard 10 gunshots com- California opened fire at the ing from inside the building. school Monday, killing at least The female victim told him that seven people and setting off she saw the gunman shoot one an intense, chaotic manhunt person point-blank in the chest that ended with his capture at a and one in the head. nearby shoppingcenter, author- Tashi Wangchuk, whose wife ities said. attended the school and wit- Police Chief Howard Jordan nessed the shooting, said he was said One L. Goh surrendered told by police that the gunman about an hour after the shoot- first shot a woman at the front ing at Oikos University. Jordan desk, then continued shooting initially reported that authori- randomly in classrooms. ties recovered the weapon Wangchuk said his wife, used during the rampage, but Dechen Wangzom, was in later clarified that police only her vocational nursing class recovered enough ballistics when she heard gunshots. She evidence to determine that a locked the door and turned off handgun was used in the ram- the lights, Wangchuk said he page. was told by his wife, who was "It's going to take us a few still being questioned by police days to put the pieces together," Monday afternoon. Jordan said. "We do not have a The gunman "banged on the motive." door several times and started Police first received a 911 shooting outside and left," he call at 10:33 a.m. reporting a said. Wangchuk said no one woman on the ground bleed- was hurt inside his wife's class- ing. As more calls came in from room, but that the gunman shot the school, the first arriving out the glass in the door. He officer found a victim suffering said she did not know the man. from a life-threatening gunshot "She's a hero," he said. wound, he said. Television footage showed It was an "extremely chaotic bloodied victims on stretchers scen," Jordan said. being loaded into ambulanc- More officers arrived and es. Several bodies covered in formed a perimeter around the sheets were laid out on a patch school on the belief that the of grass at the school. One body suspect was still inside, he said. could be seen being loaded into "Potential victims remained a van. inside the building either Myung Soon Ma, the school's trapped by a locked door which secretary, said she could not officers were unable to open," provide any details about what Jordan said. Others were happened at the private school, unable to flee because they which serves the Korean com- were injured, he said. munity with courses from the- Jordan said there were about ology to Asian medicine. S people xocnear the build- "I feel reallysad, so I cannot ing when gunfire broke out. Of talk right now," she said, speak- the seven fatalities, five died ing from her home. at the scene and another two Those connected to the at the hospital. The wounded school, including the founder victims are in stable condition, and several students, described and at least one person has been the gunman as a former nursing released from the hospital. student. The chief said Goh is a "This unprecedented tragedy South Korean national who's a was shocking and senseless," former student of the university. Jordan said. A call to the Korean consul- Soon after the shooting, heav- ate in San Francisco went unan- ily armed officers swarmed the swered Monday. school in a large industrial park The suspect's brother was near the Oakland airport and, killed in a car accident last year for at least an hour, believed the in Virginia while on active duty gunman could still be inside. in the U.S. Army, according Art Richards said he was to Stars and Stripes newspa- driving by the university on his per. The suspect attended the way to pick up a friend when he funeral of Sgt. Su Wan Ko in spotted a woman hiding in the Centreville, Va. after the March bushes and pulled over. When 8,2011, accident. N7RFAI c- AKES C6fiik ilORSifRG A I A l l M N( COMPANY ")t.l1 I i't 1 t_'d 1. C.?fl C