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8A Daily News – Wednesday, January 18, 2012 WORLD BRIEFING Jailed captain is being placed under house arrest ROME (AP) — An Italian coast guard official vehemently demanded that the captain go back to his crippled cruise ship to oversee its evacuation, but the captain repeatedly resisted, according to a shocking audiotape made public Tuesday. Prosecutors have accused Capt. Francesco Schettino of manslaugh- ter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his vessel before all passengers were evacuated during the grounding of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Tuscan coast on Fri- day night. After Schettino was interrogated by prosecu- tors for three hours Tues- day, a judge in Grosseto, Tuscany, ruled that the captain, who had been detained a few hours after he allegedly abandoned the Concordia, should be released from jail and confined to his home near Naples under house arrest, his lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, told reporters outside the courthouse. Prosecutors wanted him kept in Grosseto's prison, and Leporatti had asked that he be freed. The death toll from the tragedy nearly doubled to 11 on Tuesday when divers extracted the bod- ies of four men and one woman from the ship's wreckage. The victims were in their 50s or 60s and each wore the orange vest that passengers use, indicating they were apparently passengers and not crew members, said a Coast Guard spokesman, Cmdr. Filippo Marini. Their nationalities were not immediately deter- mined. Romney says he'll release tax return FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — After weeks of stalling, Mitt Romney did an about-face on Tuesday and said he will release his tax returns in April and that they will show he pays close to 15 percent of his income in taxes. Romney, a multimil- lionaire, has been under pressure from his rivals for the Republican presi- dential nomination and others to release the infor- mation. He'd previously said he wouldn't release it. He suggested Tuesday that he would make public only one year's worth of information, for 2011. Speaking to reporters after a campaign stop in South Carolina, Romney said most of his income comes from investments, not regular wages and salary. The tax rate on investment income is 15 percent, much lower than the 35 percent rate applied to wages for those in the highest tax bracket. ''What's the effective rate I've been paying? It's probably closer to the 15 percent rate than any- thing,'' Romney said. ''Because my last 10 years, I've ... my income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past, rather than ordi- nary income or rather than earned annual. I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away. And then I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very neon vests who were turn- ing in the petitions Tues- day surrounded a U-Haul truck filled with boxes of documents. The group held hands and formed a line leading toward the office of the Government Accountability Board, as some protesters yelled anti-Walker chants. The boxes inside the office full of petitions targeting Walker were stacked five high and 11 rows deep. Navy honors family of Marine killed much.'' Romney has resisted calls to release his tax returns, insisting that he and his wife, Ann, have complied with federal law that requires them to dis- close information about their financial holdings. Santorum returns criticism from rivals AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — Rick Santorum on Tues- day branded Mitt Romney a liberal, said Newt Gin- grich's policy positions have been ''all over the place'' and laughed that Ron Paul has been run- ning for president ''since 1938,'' looking to capture the GOP presidential nomination even if takes harsh words for fellow Republicans. Santorum, a long-time footnote in the GOP con- test now attracting scruti- ny, tried to punch his way to the top of the pack with scathing critiques of his rivals ahead of Saturday's South Carolina primary. In campaign speeches and a new TV ad, the former senator from Pennsylva- nia sharpened his criti- cism and urged conserva- tives to coalesce around one of their own or face Romney as the GOP's nominee. ''He's got a lot of money, but he doesn't have the convictions, the authenticity nor the record that is necessary to win this election,'' Santo- rum told voters about Romney. ''Please consoli- date.'' At the same time, he sought to cast Gingrich, the former House speaker, as an insufficiently con- servative option. ''Speaker Gingrich is not nearly as conservative as I am on most issues,'' Santorum said. Opponents of governor file petitions to spur recall MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Opponents of Wiscon- sin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker submitted nearly twice as many sig- natures Tuesday as required to force a recall election, but still face the challenge of transforming public outrage over his moves against unions into actual votes to oust him from office. If Walker is worried, he's not showing it: As the petitions were delivered to election officials, Walker was out of state raising money to defend himself and the agenda that has made him a national con- servative hero. The 1 million signa- tures that United Wiscon- sin, the coalition that spearheaded the effort along with the Democratic Party, said were collected far exceeds the 540,208 needed and amounts to 23 percent of the state's eligi- ble voters. Walker was elected in 2010 as part of a national Republican tide, and quickly angered unions and others with aggressive moves that included effec- tively ending collective bargaining rights for near- ly all public workers. Recall circulators in CAMP PENDLETON (AP) — A Marine who died from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was award- ed the highest honor given to members of the Corps for his heroic actions as he hurled his body into a fel- low serviceman and warned the rest of the his squad of the blast. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Tuesday that 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Donald Hogan is ''now part of Marine lore along with the great heroes of the Corps'' as he present- ed the fallen hero's par- ents with the Navy Cross. He said his actions placed him among the ''bravest and finest'' in the Marines. Mabus spoke in front of new barracks at Camp Pendleton that will be named after Hogan, who was from nearby San Clemente, Calif. The bar- racks will house troops wounded in the war and those resting. There will be enough rooms to house more than 1,000 Marines. Hogan was killed in 2009 in Helmand province in Afghanistan while on patrol. 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