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Saturday, December 10, 2011 – Daily News WORLD BRIEFING European nations see a path out of debt crisis BRUSSELS (AP) — Working almost to exhaustion and persuad- ing countries one by one, European leaders agreed Friday to redefine their continent — hoping that by joining their fiscal for- tunes they might stop a crippling debt crisis, save the euro currency and pre- vent worldwide economic chaos. Only one country said no: Britain. It will risk isolation while the rest of the continent plots its future. The coalition came together in a marathon negotiating session among the 27 European Union heads of govern- ment — hard bargaining that began with dinner Thursday evening and ended after 4 a.m., when red-eyed officials appeared before weary journalists to explain their proposed treaty. It was a major step for- ward in the long, postwar march toward European integration. It was two decades ago, on Dec. 9 and 10, 1991, that Euro- pean negotiators drafted a treaty in Maastricht, Netherlands, to unite their politics, create a central bank and, one day, invent a common currency. The agreement — with 23 countries in favor and three more saying they are open to the idea — would force countries to submit their budgets for central review and limit the deficits they can run. Va. Tech gunman changed clothes after killing officer BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The man who killed a Virginia Tech police officer walked up to the patrolman he did not know and fired, then took off for the campus greenhouses, ditching his pullover, wool cap and backpack. He made his way to a nearby parking lot and when a deputy spotted him, he took his own life, leaving fresh questions on a campus still coping with the nation's worst mass slay- ing in recent memory. Why didn't he run or engage the deputy who closed in? Was he even aware that thousands of students had just been alerted by cell phone that a gunman was on the loose and the campus was locked down? And why did he shoot an officer at a school he never attended? ''That's very much the fundamental part of the investigation right now,'' state police spokeswoman Corrine Geller said Friday at a news conference. Authorities said they know who the gunman is, but they were waiting to publicly name him because they said his fam- ily didn't know yet. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity described the shooter as in his early 20s from Virginia. In Gingrich's rise, GOP voters seem to value ideas above fidelity WASHINGTON (AP) — Newt Gingrich's rapid rise in presidential polls has left veteran Republi- cans scratching their heads, and not just because he vaulted from big hydraulic ladders. Eventually, they smashed through a main gate to make way for the ladders. Six hospital directors surrendered to police and were charged with culpa- ble homicide, according to police who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Man to die far back to lead Mitt Romney in several key states. They're trying to figure out why the former House speaker is supported by GOP voters who think he's not particularly hon- est and doesn't share their values. They're puzzled that Iowa evangelical Christians are flocking to a man who was unfaithful to two wives, paid $300,000 in House ethics fines and converted to Roman Catholicism. They're surprised that Republican voters say they value Gingrich's experience far more than that of his rivals. Gin- grich's record of earning millions of dollars in the government influence business, after 20 years in Congress, seems to upend the notion that this elec- tion cycle is driven by tea partyers' hostility to Washington insiders. ''I can't decipher what's going on,'' said Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., one the tea party's best- known first-term lawmak- ers. ''I've had a little trou- ble figuring it out, too,'' said Rep. Steve King, R- Iowa, one of Congress' most conservative mem- bers. Ahostage video, then wife's plea for info WASHINGTON (AP) — Christine Levinson had endured nearly four years of despair since her hus- band, Robert, disappeared in Iran. Every glimmer of hope in the U.S. govern- ment's search for him had faded away, every opti- mistic lead had ended with disappointment. Pri- vately, some believed he was probably dead. Then, in November 2010, the mother of seven, who had never given up hope, received in an email from an unknown address. A file was attached. But it would not open. Frantically, she for- warded it to some com- puter savvy friends, peo- ple close to the family recalled. Can you open this, she asked? What is it? Finally, the file opened. Her friends held the phone to the comput- er. And though she could not see his face, she immediately recognized the voice. Fire at hospital in India kills at least 89 KOLKATA, India (AP) — Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as black smoke poured through the seven- story hospital in this city SAT., DEC. 10th Or by appointment • 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Rio Vista Mobile Estates #92 ON THE RIVER, 2/2 Doublewide 1300 sq ft $47,000 $39,500-obo. Financing available. Call 527-7297 3 bedroom 2 bath home. All new Interior, new roof, new Heat and Air, new windows. Central Red Bluff with Alley access ,detached garage. Large back yard. Owner will finance $114,900 North State Properties 445 Main Street, Red Bluff (530) 529-7622 jeff@redbluffhomes.com DRE# 014536347 JEFF MOYER Cell: 530-366-2149 in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested. Dwellers of a nearby slum who first noticed the smoke and fire rushed to the AMRI Hospital to raise the alarm, but secu- rity guards kept them back, saying it was only a small blaze, witnesses said. It took firefighters in the city formerly known as Calcutta more than an hour to respond, said Pradeep Sarkar, a witness whose uncle was hospital- ized but was among those safely evacuated from the private facility. Some of the slum dwellers helped with the rescue. The neighborhood's narrow streets apparently made it difficult for fire trucks to get close to the building and to bring in ' ' tab and scroll down to ' for killing 3 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A jury condemned a Connecticut man to death Friday for killing a woman and her two daughters dur- ing a night of terror in their suburban home, a gruesome crime that evoked compar- isons to Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' and halted momentum to abolish the death penalty in the state. The jury took five days to deliberate defense attor- neys' request to spare the life of Joshua Komisar- jevsky in light of abuse he suffered as a boy. Komisar- jevsky, who will join his accomplice Steven Hayes on Connecticut's death row, stood rigidly with his arms behind his back and had no visible reaction. The two paroled burglars tormented a family of four in the affluent New Haven suburb of Cheshire before killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and leaving her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11- year-old Michaela, to die in a fire. The only survivor, Dr. William Petit, was beaten with a baseball bat and tied up but managed to escape. He appeared calm as the verdict was pronounced, his eyes blinking rapidly and his hand clenched in a fist on the seat in front of him. He later bowed his head and closed his eyes. The sentencing verdict concluded two long trials that subjected jurors to grim evidence including charred beds, rope used to tie up the family and autopsy photos. The attack in 2007 led to the defeat of a bill to outlaw the death penalty in Connecti- cut, sparked tougher state laws for repeat offenders and home invasions, and drew comparisons the crime described in ''In Cold Blood,'' which documented the brutal murders of a Kansas farmer and his fam- ily. Nev. horse roundup included use of electric prods, whips RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada found some mustangs were whipped in the face, kicked in the head, dragged by a rope around the neck, and repeatedly shocked with electrical prods, but the agency concluded none of the mistreatment rose to the level of being inhumane. BLM Director Bob Abbey did, however, deter- mine additional training is needed for the workers and contractors involved. Abbey, the former BLM state director for Nevada, said the roundup this sum- mer near the Utah line was done correctly for the most part. 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