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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING Jury deciding polygamist leader’s sentence SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Softly telling five girls to ‘‘set aside all your inhibitions,’’ convicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was heard Monday giving his child brides instructions on how to please him sexually during a graphic 10-minute tape played for a Texas jury. An FBI agent testified that the 2004 audiotape, in which Jeffs is heard breath- ing heavily, preceded Jeffs having sex at the same time with all the girls, who were 15 and younger. Several jurors squirmed or wiped away tears during the some- times-scratchy recording. Jeffs faces life in prison after being convicted by the same jury last week of sexu- ally assaulting two of his ‘‘brides,’’ who were 12 and 15. The sentencing phase of his trial is expected to finish early this week. Prosecutors showed a page from one of Jeffs’ jour- nals. ‘‘If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree,’’ Jeffs wrote in 2005, according to one of thou- sands of pages of notes seized from his Texas ranch. Strauss-Kahn lawyers: maid’s lawsuit will be fought NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for ex-International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn say a New York City hotel maid’s lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault is meritless. Attorneys William W. Taylor and Benjamin Braf- man say their client will fight the lawsuit vigorously. Lawyers for Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo (na-fee-SAH’-too dee-AH’- loh) filed the lawsuit Mon- day in state court in the Bronx. They seek unspeci- fied damages. They say Diallo faces a difficult recovery from an encounter with Strauss-Kahn that left her violated, humiliated and degraded. Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted rape and other crimes after his May 14 arrest. The former French presidential candidate was freed from house arrest last month after prosecutors said they’d discovered facts cast- ing doubt on his accuser’s credibility. Fourth hottest July on record sets record WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweltering may have reached a new record last month, as Oklahoma racked up the country’s highest monthly average tempera- ture ever. That’s the highest aver- age temperature, for any month, for any state, associ- ate Oklahoma state clima- tologist Gary McManus said. According to automated weather recording instru- ments, the state’s average for July was 89.1 degrees. That tops an average of 88.1 set in July 1954, McManus said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration on Monday reported that last month was the fourth hottest July on record for the U.S. and that Texas and Oklahoma had their warmest months on record. ‘‘We’ve been beating temperature records left and right, from the 1930s Dust Bowl drought and the 1950s drought,’’ said McManus, who admitted that’s not the kind of record you put on a Chamber of Commerce pro- motion. ‘Apes’ prequel brings in $54.8 million LOS ANGELES (AP) — ‘‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’’ evolved into Holly- wood’s top weekend earner, debuting as the No. 1 film with $54.8 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, fol- lowed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are: 1. ‘‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes,’’ Fox, $54,806,191, 3,648 loca- tions, $15,024 average, $54,806,191, one week. 2. ‘‘The Smurfs,’’ Sony, $20,702,415, 3,395 loca- tions, $6,098 average, $75,904,246, two weeks. 3. ‘‘Cowboys & Aliens,’’ Universal, $15,729,455, 3,754 locations, $4,190 average, $67,349,520, two weeks. Ohio gunman was in property dispute COPLEY, Ohio (AP) — A gunman who killed seven people during a weekend rampage in his Ohio neigh- borhood cornered one of his victims, his girlfriend’s 11- year-old nephew, in the basement of a house, ordered out the family shel- tering the boy and then shot him, police said Monday. Michael Hance’s cold- blooded killing of such a young victim after stalking seven other people on a tidy suburban Akron street named Goodenough Avenue was, neighbors said, the culmination of a dispute over a home that once belonged to his girlfriend’s parents. Hance, 51, had no previ- ous criminal record before the outburst late Sunday morning and his death in a shootout with police in Cop- ley, where a flag flew at half- mast Monday outside the home where the carnage began. Hance had recently grown angry over residents’ comments about the proper- ty where he lived with his girlfriend, Becky Dieter, neighbor Carol Eshleman said. About a month ago, Hance’s next-door neighbor Gudrun ‘‘Gerdie’’ Johnson had asked Hance to clean up the property, which included a broken-down car on blocks. Johnson related the encounter to Eshleman, explaining that she’d never seen Hance so upset. ‘‘He said, ‘Get off my property and don’t come back,’’’ Esh- leman said. Johnson, 64, was killed in the attack, along with her husband, 67-year-old Rus- sell Johnson; their 44-year- old son Bryan Johnson and his daughter Autumn, 16; Becky Dieter’s brother, Craig Dieter, and his 11- year-old son, Scott; and an unidentified girl who was slain while in a parked car with Autumn outside the Johnsons’ home. St. Elizabeth Community Hospital Sports Medicine Program A member of CHW redbluff.mercy.org/sports Free Haircuts for Kids Live Music Kids games Free Food provided by: Cornerstone Community Bank and Iglesia Nueva Vida Kids receive free professional photographs provided by: “We Shoot Ya Photography” Informational booths 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! Presenters: Ed Stroman PT, ATC, CSCS • Dr. Riico Dotson, M.D. Lonnie Scott, MA, ATC. •Stephanie Hartman, MS, ATC Our mission is to present coaches with an opportunity to learn about injury prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and life-threatening injuries and illnesses. All levels and ages are welcome. Tehama County Department of Education Working in Partnership with St. Elizabeth Community Hospital’s Sports Medicine Program 2nd Annual