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Newsfeed LAS VEGAS Theshot- gun slaying of a hand- cuffed Nevada inmate by a corrections officer trainee is bringing to light accounts of more unreported shootings at a facility where guards have fired guns more than 200 times in a re- cent five-year period. Federal lawsuits have been filed by several in- mates who say they were shot by guards break- ing up mealtime scuffles in 2012 at High Desert State Prison. That's the facility out- side Las Vegas where inmate Carlos Manuel Perez Jr. was killed and inmate Andrew Jay Are- valo was wounded in a shower hallway shooting last November. At least three of six inmates who were wounded by shotgun blasts in a January 2012 incident are su- ing the state Depart- ment of Corrections, al- leging negligence and civil rights violations. A state lawsuit was filed on behalf of a fourth wounded inmate. NEVADA Prisonhasmore unreported shootings HOUSTON A Houston hospital says a woman has delivered five girls in what it believes is the first set of all-female quintuplets born in the U.S. The Woman's Hospi- tal of Texas say Danielle Busby had her babies by cesarean section April 8. Doctors say the children, born premature at 28 weeks, were doing well on Wednesday. Dr. Jayne Finkowski- Rivera says the babies are only requiring mod- est help breathing. Busby, her husband Adam and her eldest daughter, Blayke, wel- comed Olivia Marie, Ava Lane, Hazel Grace, Parker Kate and Ri- ley Paige. Their birth weights ranged from 2 pounds, to 2 pounds 6 ounces. The family already had one daughter. Danielle Busby says she never thought she would have six kids — much less six girls. She had intrauterine insem- ination for both preg- nancies. TEXAS Houston hospital says woman has given birth to 5 girls By Alan Fram TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON Police ar- rested a man who steered his tiny aircraft onto the West Lawn of the U.S. Cap- itol after flying through re- stricted airspace around the National Mall Wednes- day. One congressional offi- cial identified the pilot as Doug Hughes, a Florida Postal Service worker who took responsibility for the stunt on a website where he said he was delivering let- ters to all 535 members of Congress in order to draw attention to campaign fi- nance corruption. "As I have informed the authorities, I have no vio- lent inclinations or intent," Hughes wrote on his web- site, thedemocracyclub.org. "An ultralight aircraft poses no major physical threat — it may present a political threat to graft. I hope so. There's no need to worry — I'm just delivering the mail." The Senate aide said Cap- itol Police knew of the plan shortly before Hughes took off, and said he had previ- ously been interviewed by the U.S. Secret Service. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss de- tails of the investigation. Capitol Police declined to confirm the man's identity. Capitol Police identified the open-air aircraft, which sported the U.S. Postal Ser- vice logo and landed about half a city block from the Capitol building, as a "gy- rocopter with a single occu- pant." About two hours af- ter the device had landed, police announced that a bomb squad had cleared it and nothing hazardous had been found. The authorities then moved it off the Capi- tol lawn to a secure location. House Homeland Secu- rity panel Chairman Mi- chael McCaul, R-Texas, said the pilot landed on his own, but authorities were pre- pared to shoot him down if he had made it much closer to the Capitol. "Had it got- ten any closer to the speak- er's balcony they have long guns to take it down, but it didn't. It landed right in front," McCaul said. The Federal Aviation Ad- ministration said the pilot had not been in contact with air traffic controllers and the FAA didn't autho- rize him to enter restricted airspace. Airspace security rules that cover the Capitol and the District of Columbia prohibit private aircraft flights without prior coor- dination and permission. Violators can face civil and criminal penalties. The White House said President Barack Obama had been briefed on the sit- uation. Witnesses said the craft approached the Capitol from the west, flying low over the National Mall and the Capitol reflecting pool across the street from the building. It barely cleared a row of trees and a statue of Gen. Ulysses Grant. John Jewell, 72, a tourist from Statesville, North Car- olina, said the craft landed hard and bounced. An offi- cer was already there with a gun drawn. "He didn't get out until police officers told him to get out. He had his hands up" and was quickly led away by the police, Jew- ell said. "They snatched him pretty fast." WASHINGTON, D.C. Smallaircra landsonCapitollawn LAURENVICTORIABURKE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A police device rolls toward a copter device, right, that landed on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. By Stephen Ohlemacher The Associated Press WASHINGTON House lead- ers used Wednesday's tax filing deadline to vote on a package of bills designed to protect taxpayers from po- tential abuse by the IRS, a response to recent scandals at the agency. One bill would prevent IRS employees from using personal email accounts for official business. One would enact a taxpay- ers' bill of rights, and an- other would require the tax agency to fire employ- ees caught targeting indi- viduals or groups based on their politics. Two other bills would re- quire federal workers and contractors to be current in their federal taxes. Most of the bills had bi- partisan support. House Republicans said they were part of their efforts to "rein in the IRS." "On a bipartisan basis, now folks are saying 'this is too much, IRS. You've got too much power and the American people are going to push back against you,'" said Rep. Peter Roskam, R- Ill., chairman of Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Oversight. In 2013, the IRS ac- knowledged that agents had improperly singled out conservative groups for ex- tra scrutiny when they ap- plied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections. An inspector general's report cited poor management in allowing it to happen, and the Justice Department and several committees in Congress launched investigations. Much of the agency's leadership has since been replaced, including the commissioner. None of the investigations has publicly produced evidence that people outside the IRS di- rected the targeting of con- servative groups or knew about it. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the IRS has already addressed many of the issues raised by the bills. CONGRESS House leaders use Tax Day to pass bills to 'rein in the IRS' By Sam Hananel The Associated Press WASHINGTON The center- piece of the Obama admin- istration's effort to tackle climate change is facing a high-profile legal test as a federal appeals court con- siders a plan that has trig- gered furious opposition from Republicans, indus- try figures and coal-reli- ant states. The U.S. Court of Ap- peals for the D.C. Circuit hears arguments Thurs- day in two cases challeng- ing the Environmental Pro- tection Agency's ambitious proposal to slash carbon pollution from the nation's coal-fired power plants that is blamed for global warming. The lawsuits — one from a coalition of 15 states and another brought by Murray Energy Corp., the nation's largest privately held coal mining company — are part of a growing politi- cal attack from opponents who say the move is illegal and will kill jobs, cripple demand for coal and drive up electricity prices. The rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency last year requires states to cut carbon emis- sions by 30 percent by 2030. It gives customized targets to each state, leaving it up to them to draw up plans to meet the targets. EPA officials say the rule would protect public health, fight climate change and lower electricity costs by 8 percent by 2030. But a backlash has been building. Last month, Sen- ate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sent a letter urging the governors of all 50 states to defy the EPA by refusing to submit the compliance plans. Opponents also are get- ting support from an un- likely ally, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe, an Obama mentor who has infuriated liberals by de- nouncing the EPA rule as unconstitutional. "Burn- ing the Constitution should not become part of our na- tional energy policy," Tribe told a House committee last month, representing Peabody Energy Corp., the world's largest private-sec- tor coal company. At issue before the court is whether the EPA has le- gal authority for its plan under the Clean Air Act. The agency and environ- mental advocacy groups have urged the court to throw the cases out as pre- mature, since the agency won't issue a final rule un- til this summer. David Doniger, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program, called the lawsuits a ploy "to dress up the political attacks being led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate and others in the House." 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