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6A Daily News – Friday, August 5, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Reid announces deal to end shutdown WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has reached a bipartisan compromise to end the two-week partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration that has idled 74,000 federal employees and construction workers and cost the gov- ernment about $30 million a day in uncollected airline ticket taxes, Senate Democ- ratic leader Harry Reid said Thursday. The deal would allow the Senate to approve a House bill extending the FAA’s operating authority through mid-September, including a provision that eliminates $16.5 million in air service subsidies to 13 rural com- munities. A vote on the bill is expected Friday. Republi- cans had insisted on the sub- sidy cuts as their price for restoring the FAA to full operation. But the cuts may become moot. The bill includes lan- guage that gives the Obama administration’s transporta- tion secretary the authority to continue subsidized ser- vice to the 13 communities if he decides it’s necessary. Democrats said they expect the White House to effectively waive or negate the cuts. Warren Jeffs convicted of child sexual assault charges SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury con- victed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault Thursday in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls ‘‘spiritual marriages.’’ The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood stone- faced as the verdict was read. Jeffs, who acted as his own attorney, faces up to life in prison. The jury went immedi- ately into sentencing pro- ceedings. They had deliberated on a verdict for more than three hours. Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with a 15- year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. They also played audio recordings in which Jeffs was heard instructing young women on how to please him sexually. Jeffs has claimed he was the victim of religious per- secution. The FLDS, which has at least 10,000 members nationwide, is a radical off- shoot of mainstream Mor- monism. The church believes polygamy brings exaltation in heaven and that Jeffs is God’s spokesman on earth. Va. Tech searched for 5 hours after report of gunman BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A report of a pos- sible gunman at Virginia Tech on Thursday set off the longest, most exten- sive lockdown and search on campus since the bloodbath four years ago that led the university to overhaul its emergency procedures. No gunman was found, and the school gave the all-clear just before 3 p.m., about five hours after sirens began wailing and students and staff members started receiv- ing warnings by phone, email and text message to lock themselves indoors. Alerts were also posted on the university’s web- site and Twitter accounts. Maddie Potter, a 19- year-old from Virginia Beach, holed up inside a campus wood shop, where she had been work- ing on a class project. Staff members locked the doors and turned off the lights. ‘‘I was pretty anxious. We had family friends who were up here when the shooting took place in 2007, so it was kind of surreal,’’ she said. ‘‘I had my phone with me and I called both my parents.’’ The emergency was St. Elizabeth Community Hospital Sports Medicine Program A member of CHW redbluff.mercy.org/sports Tehama County Coaches Clinic Friday, August 12, 2011 8am-4pm Red Bluff High School Library Conference Room No Cost to Attend! Lunch will be provided for all participants! 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But they quickly warned that more than doubling those cuts along the lines of the ‘‘dooms- day mechanism’’ spelled out in the new debt-limit law would undermine the military. ‘‘If it happened — and, God willing, that would not be the case — but if it did happen, it would result in a further round of very dangerous cuts across the board, defense cuts that I believe would do real damage to our security, our troops and their families, and our military’s ability to pro- tect the nation,’’ Panetta told reporters at his first Pentagon news confer- ence. Mullen, who has said repeatedly that the debt is the greatest national secu- rity threat, said any cut on that order ‘‘jeopardizes our ability to deal with the other very real and very serious threats we face around the world.’’ Reflecting the wide- spread demand for fiscal austerity, the compromise debt deal struck by Presi- dent Barack Obama and congressional leaders this week will slice $350 bil- lion from projected mili- tary spending over the next 10 years, and it leaves open the possibility of more than $500 billion in additional reductions. 2,000 killed in Syria WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday accused the Syrian government of killing more than 2,000 of its own citizens during its ongoing brutal crackdown against opposition pro- testers as the Obama administration moved to further isolate President Bashar Assad and his inner circle. 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