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8A Daily News – Thursday, May 10, 2012 Obama voices his support for gay marriage WASHINGTON (AP) Wednesday repeated his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman, high- lighting a sharp contrast with President Barack Obama. — Equivocal no longer, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday in a historic announcement that instantly elevated a polarizing social issue to a more prominent role in the 2012 race for the White House. the first by a sitting presi- dent, and Obama's Republi- can rival, Mitt Romney, swiftly disagreed with it. ''I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman,'' Romney said from Oklahoma. Gay rights advocates cheered Obama's declara- tion, which they had long urged him to make. Joe Solomonese, president of the Human Rights Cam- paign, said it ''extends that message of hope'' to gays and lesbians. The announcement was Obama announced his shift — he had said for years that his views on gay marriage were ''evolving'' — in an interview with ABC in which he cited a blend of the personal and the presidential. He said ''it wouldn't unequivocal personal sup- port for same-sex mar- riage during an interview with ABC News. Reporters asked Romney about the issue after a campaign event in Okla- homa City. ''My view is that mar- riage itself is between a man and a woman,'' the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told reporters. He said he believes that states should be able to make decisions about whether to offer certain legal rights to same-sex couples. ''This is a very tender and sensitive topic, as are many social issues, but I have the same view that I've had since — since running for office,'' Rom- ney said. He first ran for political office in 1994, when he challenged Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- Mass., and was elected governor of Massachu- setts in 2002. Obama is the first pres- ident in history to support gay marriage. Polls show the country is evenly divided on the issue. Obama declared his dawn'' on his daughters, Sasha and Malia, that some of their friends' parents would be treated differently than others, and added that he had thought of aides ''who are in incredibly committed monogamous same-sex relationships who are raising kids together.'' Romney opposes gay marriage OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney on key US ally WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade after hijack- ers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the Unit- ed States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the U.S. against al- Qaida's spinoff group in Yemen and at least twice have disrupted plots to explode sophisticated bombs aboard airlines. Saudis emerge as WORLD BRIEFING Details emerging about the latest unraveled plot revealed that a Saudi dou- ble agent fooled the terror group, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, passing himself off as an eager would-be suicide bomber. Instead, he secretly turned over the group's most up-to-date underwear bomb to Saudi Arabia, which gave it to the CIA. Before he was whisked to safety, the spy provided intelligence that helped the CIA kill al- Qaida's senior operations leader, Fahd al-Quso, who died in a drone strike last weekend. Yemen in 2000 and Hezbollah's bombing of the Khobar Towers hous- ing complex, which killed 19 U.S. servicemen in 1996. The role of Saudi Ara- bia disrupting the plot fol- lows warnings in 2010 from the oil-rich kingdom about a plot to blow up cargo planes inside the U.S., either on runways or over American cities. That plot involved a fran- tic chase across five coun- tries of two packages con- taining bombs powerful enough to down an air- plane. Twice, a bomb was aboard a passenger plane. Once, authorities were just minutes too late to stop a cargo jet with a bomb from departing for its next destination. Ulti- mately, no one died and the packages never exploded. It hasn't always been this way. Saudi Arabia, the one- time home of Osama bin Laden, failed to spot and stop the 15 Saudi-born hijackers of the 19 who carried out the September 2001 terror attacks. Ques- tions remain whether two Saudi citizens who had at least indirect links with two of the hijackers were reporting to Saudi govern- ment officials. U.S. law enforcement officials accused the Saudi govern- ment of failing to help adequately in investiga- tions of the al-Qaida attack on the USS Cole in like Obama WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's popularity among women, minorities and independents is giv- ing him an early edge over his likely GOP rival, Mitt Romney, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Voters tend to trust and ulations in which test pilots and trainer pilots tried to land similarly stricken air- craft. The Democratic presi- dent also earns strong marks on empathy, sincer- ity, likeability and social issues. But Americans are split over which candidate can best handle the econ- omy, which might open pathways for Romney six months before the November election. Half of registered vot- ers say they would back Obama in November, while 42 percent favor Romney, the AP-GfK poll found. About a quarter of voters indicated they are persuadable, meaning they are undecided or could change their minds before Election Day. Forty-one percent of voters say they are certain to vote for Obama, and 32 percent say they are locked in for Romney. The nationwide poll of 1,004 adults comes as Romney is focusing heav- ily on fundraising after gaining endorsements from of all but one of his GOP rivals, and conserva- tive voters are reminding politicians of their mus- cle. 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We accept EBT, Credit or Debit Honoring Outstanding Tehama County Students created in cooperation with the Tehama County Department of Education. Selections of students featured will be made by schools and Teachers. "Students of Distinction" from middle and high schools across the county. This project has been supplement of photos and write-ups on 84 The Daily News will feature a special www.redbluffdailynews.com through May of 2013; The supplement will be published as a special section of the newspaper and as a digital page-turn online edition on the front page of To sponsor a student's photo and accomplishments is just $59 for 1 sponsorship and $55 each for multiples. Local businesses, professionals, educators, local citizens: All are welcome to support Tehama County's most accomplished students, and demonstrate your support of local education in the process. Thursday, May 17 Deadline: Sponsors will be identified in a 3" tall by 1 column wide space at the bottom of each student salute. This special will appear in the full run of the Daily News on Thursday, May 31, 2012 representatatives can help you decide what to say. Limited opportunity to support students from individual schools. For further information, contact your Daily News advertising representative or Nadine Souza at Daily News advertising (530) 527-2151 advertise@ redbluffdailynews.com primary CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the coun- try? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential pri- mary. Texas prison inmate gets 4 in 10 votes in Democratic Hairstyling giant Sassoon dies at 84 — Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care. LOS ANGELES (AP) The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Feder- al Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, for mak- ing threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. Obama received 59 percent of the vote to Judd's 41 per- cent. For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes. ''I voted against When he came on the scene in the 1950s, hair was high and heavy — typically curled, teased, piled and shellacked into place. Then came the 1960s, and Sas- soon's creative cuts, which required little styling and fell into place perfectly every time, fit right in with the fledgling women's liber- ation movement. Sassoon died Wednes- day at age 84 at his home on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, police spokesman Kevin Maiberger said. Officers were sum- moned to the home at about 10:30 a.m. and found Sas- soon dead, Maiberger said. His family was with him. Officers determined Sas- soon died of natural causes, and there will be no further police investigation. ''My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was super- fluous,'' Sassoon said in 1993 in the Los Angeles Times, which first reported his death. ''Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer anymore.'' in 1989 dies CHICAGO (AP) — Air- line pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explosion somewhere in the back of the jet. He soon made his way to the cockpit to see if the crew needed help. Pilot who helped fly crippled jet Obama,'' said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old elec- trician from Cross Lanes who called himself a con- servative Democrat. ''I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again.'' When asked which pres- idential candidate he voted for, Brown said, ''That guy out of Texas.'' man's death SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two Southern Cal- ifornia police officers were ordered Wednesday to stand trial in the death of a men- tally ill homeless man fol- lowing a violent arrest last summer. Officers ordered to trial in homeless An Orange County Superior Court judge made the ruling after a hearing that included surveillance video of the confrontation between the officers and 37- year-old Kelly Thomas in the city of Fullerton. Officer Manuel Ramos is charged with second- degree murder and involun- tary manslaughter. Cpl. Jay Cicinelli is charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault or battery by a public officer. Both have pleaded not guilty. The officers confronted Thomas while responding to reports that a homeless man was looking into parked cars at a transit center. Inside, he found three men desperately trying to keep the giant plane in the air after losing all hydraulic power needed to control direction and altitude. Fitch took a seat in the only space available — the floor — and helped operate some of the only equipment still working — the wing engines — to try to land the aircraft carrying nearly 300 people. of Grey' ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Public libraries in several states are pulling the racy romance trilogy ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' from shelves or deciding not to order the best-seller at all, saying it's too steamy or too poorly written. Even in the age of e- books and tablets, banning a book from a public library still carries weight because libraries still play such a vital role in providing peo- ple access to books. ''When a book is Libraries in some states won't offer 'Fifty Shades Fitch, who died Monday at 69, used everything he knew about flying to con- front an emergency that engineers never imagined could happen to a modern jetliner. When the crippled plane crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, more than half of the passengers survived — one of the most admired life- saving efforts in aviation history. removed from the shelf, folks who can't Nook or a Kindle, the book is no longer available to them,'' said Deborah Cald- well Stone, the deputy director of the American Library Association's office for intellectual freedom. ''Fifty Shades of Grey,'' afford a After the accident, avia- tion experts conducted sim- a novel about bondage, wild sex and yes, love, has been called ''mommy porn'' because of its popularity among middle-aged women.