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4B Daily News– Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Penn State review of Sandusky sex-abuse scandal to be The report, commis- sioned by school trustees following the former assistant football coach's arrest last year, is expect- ed to reveal how the uni- versity treated Sandusky after fielding complaints about his encounters with young boys in 1998 and 2001. It is also expected to cast additional light on how Paterno exerted con- trol over the football pro- gram while Sandusky worked under him and after Sandusky retired from coaching. Pa. (AP) — An internal investigation into whether football coach Joe Pater- no and other Penn State officials helped cover up reports that Jerry San- dusky was molesting chil- dren in the school's locker rooms will be released Thursday, officials said Tuesday. released STATE COLLEGE, needs. Industry watchers now say that only a hand- ful will be built this decade. ''People are looking at these things very careful- ly,'' said Richard Lester, head of the department of nuclear science and engi- neering at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technol- ogy. Inexpensive gas alone, he said, ''is casting a pretty long shadow over the prospects'' for con- struction of new nuclear plants. Not only could the report shape how Paterno is remembered, but it also could affect an ongoing NCAA probe into the school's conduct and criminal cases against two Penn State administrators. The report is being issued by former FBI director Louis Freeh, who was hired by the universi- ty to find out what school officials, including Pater- no, knew about the child molester in their midst. It will be published online at 9 a.m. Thursday. Inves- tigators will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. in Philadelphia to discuss the findings and recom- mendations in the report. The announcement came the same day that ex-Penn State president Graham Spanier's lawyers said he told Freeh's investigators last week that he was never informed that Sandusky was spotted molesting a boy in a school shower. The lawyers were rebut- ting reports that indicate Spanier could have tried to cover up the abuse that ultimately led to Paterno's firing. Costs rising, schedules slipping at new US nuclear plant projects ATLANTA (AP) — America's first new nuclear plants in more than a decade are costing billions more to build and sometimes taking longer to deliver than planned, problems that could chill the industry's hopes for a jumpstart to the nation's new nuclear age. charges, soaring construc- tion expenses and instal- lation glitches as mun- dane as misshapen metal bars have driven up the costs of three plants in Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina, from hun- dreds of millions to as much as $2 billion, according to an Associat- ed Press analysis of pub- lic records and regulatory filings. Licensing delay The AP's review of pending projects found: finances WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hid- ing? Obama campaign targeting foe's private transition period. It could point to a com- plicated and protracted shake-out between Morsi and Egypt's security and judicial power centers, as all sides test the limits of their powers while the country awaits its post- Arab Spring constitution — possibly by the end of the year. inside, he saw hundreds of baseball cards bundled with twine. They were smaller than the ones he was used to seeing. But some of the names were familiar: Hall of Famers Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Honus Wagn- er. In place of an all-out confrontation, Egypt may be witnessing the new rules of political engage- ment being defined in a time of highly unclear guidelines: tough state- ments, conflicting orders and attempts to push the envelope but not tear it up. ''One of them came through the ballot box and the other is trying to monopolize power,'' said Gamal Eid, a prominent rights lawyer. Not a thing, Romney says. The Democrats are just trying to change the subject from the weak economy. It's a newly intense back-and-forth as Presi- dent Barack Obama's campaign team tries to cast his Republican oppo- nent as a secretive rich guy who keeps his money in offshore accounts and refuses to release more of his tax returns. Health care options for those with lots of health, Then he put the box on a dresser and went back to digging through the attic. It wasn't until two weeks later that he learned that his family had come across what experts say is one of the biggest, most exciting finds in the history of sports card collecting, a discovery worth perhaps millions. extremely rare series issued around 1910. Up to now, the few known to exist were in so-so condi- tion at best, with faded images and worn edges. But the ones from the attic in the town of Defi- ance are nearly pristine, untouched for more than a century. The colors are vibrant, the borders crisp and white. The cards are from an The coordinated push, which includes stinging criticism from Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, web videos and television advertisements, comes as the Democrats grasp for ways to gain an advantage in a closely contested election and overcome a steady stream of lacklus- ter economic news. Getting personal, Biden declared Tuesday that Romney was ''mak- ing a lie of the old adage, like father, like son'' by not meeting the standards his father, George Rom- ney, set when he released 12 years of tax returns during his 1968 presiden- tial bid. Egypt's president flexes power but yields to — They're young, healthy and flat broke — and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars' worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twentysome- things do? Well, some may just do nothing. The annual fine for shrugging off the new federal insurance require- ment, which is to begin in 2014, starts out at a rela- tively low $95, depending on income. That would be far cheaper than paying premiums. little wealth WASHINGTON (AP) But that doesn't neces- sarily make blowing off the mandate a good idea for the fit and frugal. Mil- lions of young people will qualify for good deals on health care if they take time to sort through the complicated law. Many will get Medic- Kofi Annan presses his peace plan the most serious charges in a high-profile corruption case on Tuesday set off a fierce debate about how the peace process might have proceeded differently had the former leader not been driven from office three years ago. was on the brink of a his- toric agreement with the Palestinians when he was forced to resign in early 2009. His departure cleared the way for hard- liner Benjamin Netanyahu's election, and peace efforts have been at a standstill ever since. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Olmert on Tuesday after- noon to congratulate him on the acquittal, said Nimr Hamad, an Abbas adviser. ''There is no doubt that a great opportunity was wasted with the absence of Olmert. There had been huge progress on all core issues ... and the Palestin- ian and Israeli positions were getting very close on all issues. Unfortunately, that's all gone now,'' Hamad said. Olmert has claimed he WORLD BRIEFING Officials 'mansions' DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Some Minnesota hunters are upgrading their deer stands, trading the tradition- al nailed-together hunks of wood for what one official calls ''mansions'' in trees on public property. bemoan deer stand St. Louis County offi- cials are seeing deer stands — platforms perched in trees to help hunters more easily spot deer — with stairways, decks, shingled roofs, commercial win- dows, insulation, propane heaters, carpeting, lounge chairs, tables and even the occasional generator, the Duluth News Tribune reported Sunday. Some hunters have even planted crops near their stands in hopes of attracting deer, said St. Louis County Land Commissioner Bob Krepps. He said hunters have also cut down trees near their stand to improve sight lines. ''We're getting over- Those problems, along with jangled nerves from last year's meltdown in Japan and the lure of cheap natural gas, could discourage utilities from sinking cash into new reactors, experts said. The building slowdown would be another blow to the so- called nuclear renais- sance, a drive over the past decade to build 30 new reactors to meet the country's growing power faceoff between Egypt's new Islamist president and the old guard military sharpened Tuesday with parliament defying orders to disband and the highest court slapping back at Mohammed Morsi in what has become an early glimpse into how he may flex his power. Morsi's rapid-fire gam- bits against Egypt's entrenched institutions show he is willing to push against the establishment left from the era of deposed President Hosni Mubarak. But — so far at least — he and his Mus- lim Brotherhood allies also have displayed some restraint and pragmatism to avoid setting a collision course during a sensitive caution CAIRO (AP) — The aid coverage at virtually no cost. Others will quali- fy for private insurance at a fraction of the full pre- miums. And health plans offered under the law will limit individuals' out-of- pocket expenses to about $6,250 per year or less — a bulwark against gigan- tic, unexpected medical bills. ''It doesn't have to be cancer or a heart attack or even a bad car accident,'' said Karen Pollitz, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation whose own son needed $15,000 worth of surgery after he broke his wrist while skateboarding at age 20. ''Once you show up in the ER, it starts to cost you some money.'' Baseball cards discovered in Ohio attic may be worth millions DEFIANCE, Ohio (AP) — Karl Kissner picked up a soot-covered cardboard box that had been under a wooden dollhouse in his grandfa- ther's attic. Taking a look The U.N.'s special envoy on the Syrian crisis sought to build support for his peace efforts Tuesday with the leaders of Iran and Iraq, say- ing President Bashar Assad has agreed to a plan to quell the bloodshed in the most violent areas of Syria and then expand the operation to the whole country. Top diplomat Kofi Annan said at a news con- ference in Iran that the plan still must be presented to the Syrian opposition. But he said his talks with Assad a day earlier focused on a new approach to ending the vio- lence, which activists say has killed more than 17,000 people since March 2011. ''(Assad) made a sug- gestion of building an approach from the ground up in some of the districts where we have extreme vio- lence — to try and contain the violence in those dis- tricts and, step by step, build up and end the violence across the country,'' Annan told reporters in Tehran, his first step on a tour of Syria's allies. He did not elaborate on the plan. for Syria BAGHDAD (AP) — Olmert, who headed the centrist Kadima Party, stepped down after he was charged with a series of crimes that included accepting cash-stuffed envelopes from an Ameri- can supporter and double billing Jewish organiza- tions to cover overseas travel. The alleged crimes took place while Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem and a Cabinet minister, before he became prime minister. USADA issues lifetime bans for three Armstrong associates AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With Lance Armstrong dig- ging in for a legal fight, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued lifetime sports bans Tuesday to three former staff members and consul- tants on the cyclist's win- ning Tour de France teams for drug violations. Annan later visited Iraq and met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss ways to end the fighting. ''I think we've watched the tragic situation in Syria, the killings, the suffering of the people,'' Annan said in Baghdad. ''And everyone I've spoken to shares the concerns and the needs for us to stop the killing.'' all Olmert's acquittal sets off debate over effect of his ouster on was a team doctor; Michele Ferrari was a consulting doctor; and Jose ''Pepe'' Marti (team trainer) worked for Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel squads. All had been accused by USADA of participating in a vast doping conspiracy on those teams during part or all of Armstrong's seven Tour victories from 1999-2005. Armstrong also has been Luis Garcia del Moral charged and has declared his innocence. Several hours after USADA announced its sanctions against the others, Armstrong's attorneys refiled a lawsuit asking a federal judge in Austin to prevent the case against from going forward. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's acquittal of peace process JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks had thrown out Armstrong's initial 80-page complaint Monday, but invited him to submit a new one that was shorter, more to the point and less about his career and personal bat- tles with anti-doping offi- cials. built,'' Krepps said. ''We're seeing mansions out there — basically hunting shacks on stilts.'' Private landowners can do what they want, Krepps said, but tax-forfeited land makes up nearly 1 million acres of county forest, and is supposedly open to all hunters. Hunters who cus- tomize stands in these areas are inappropriately claiming public land as their own, he said. ''A lot of these cross the line of what's appropriate,'' Krepps said. ''If I'm out walking and come across one of these buildings on posts, am I going to feel welcome to hunt there? Probably not. And if I do, there's likely to be a fight. That shouldn't happen on land that belongs to every- one.'' One deer stand was 18 feet wide and 20 feet long. Hug triggers officer's gun, woman celebrating the weekend before her 25th birthday was fatally shot Sunday when she hugged an off-duty police officer while dancing at a party, causing the officer's ser- vice weapon to fire, according to police and her mother. kills woman DETROIT (AP) — A have turned 25 on Mon- day, according to her mother, Yolanda McNair. The shooting happened at an outdoor social gath- ering about 12:30 a.m., said police Sgt. Eren Stephens. It happened on the city's west side. According to Stephens, Adaisha Miller would the woman ''embraced the officer from behind, causing the holstered weapon to accidently dis- charge.'' The bullet punc- tured Miller's lung and hit her heart, and she died at a hospital. Stephens said the Detroit officer will remain on administrative duties while authorities investi- gate the shooting and report their findings to the Wayne County prosecu- tor. The officer's name was not released.