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10A Daily News – Saturday, August 4, 2012 Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthens ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto is dumping heavy rain across the eastern Caribbean as it heads west toward Jamaica and Mexico. prising gains weren't enough to drive down the unemployment rate, which ticked up to 8.3 percent last month from 8.2 percent in June — the 42nd straight month the jobless rate has exceeded 8 percent. The United States remains stuck with the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Dominica closed its international airport for a second day on Friday, while St. Lucia ordered businesses to close for half the day. A ferry that travels to Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique and St. Lucia also has temporarily suspended service. No damage or flooding has been reported on islands affected by the storm. Gusts of up to 63 mph (101 kph) were reported in some areas. The National Hurri- cane Center said Ernesto was located about 210 miles (335 kilometers) west of St. Lucia by late afternoon with top sus- tained winds of 50 mph (85 kph). It is moving at 21 mph (33 kph) and is expected to strengthen into a hurri- cane by Monday. jobs in July WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy generated jobs last month at the fastest pace since February, a sign it is resilient enough to pull out of a midyear slump and grow modestly as the rest of the world slows down. US economy adds 163,000 employers added in July ended three months of weak hiring. But the sur- The latest job numbers, released Friday by the Labor Department, pro- vided fodder both for President Barack Obama, who highlighted improved hiring in the private sector, and Repub- lican challenger Mitt Romney, toward higher unemploy- ment. ''It's not especially who pointed weak, but it's not espe- cially strong,'' said Scott Brown, chief economist at the investment firm Ray- mond James. Investors focused on the positive. The Dow Jones industrials surged 217 points. The 163,000 jobs crackdown UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Gener- al Assembly overwhelm- ingly denounced Syria's crackdown on dissent Fri- day in a symbolic effort meant to push the dead- locked Security Council and the world at large into action on stopping the country's civil war. Before the vote, Secre- tary-General Ban Ki- Moon reminded the Assembly of the fresh violence in the city of Aleppo and drew compar- isons between the failure to act in Syria with the UN General Assembly denounces Syrian WORLD BRIEFING international communi- ty's failure to protect peo- ple from past genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia, and Rwanda. ''The conflict in Syria is a test of everything this organization stands for,'' Ban said. ''I do not want today's United Nations to fail that test.'' The vote came after the more powerful Security Council was stopped by a series of Russian and Chi- nese vetoes on resolutions that would have opened the door to sanctions on Syria. building. It's not clear, the report said, whether the dog problems were limited to military handlers, but offi- cials said those issues were corrected right away. Singer released on bail after arrest in vote was 133 in support of the resolution and 12 against, with 31 abstain- ing. Syria's ambassador angrily called the vote ''a piece of theater.'' The General Assembly Gay rights activists kissing to protest God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a mar- riage.''' Chick-fil-A ATLANTA (AP) — Gay rights activists were kissing at Chick-fil-A stores across the country Friday, just days after the company set a sales record when customers flocked to the restaurants to show support for the fast-food chain president's opposi- tion to gay marriage. Meanwhile, police The statement infuriat- ed gay marriage support- ers, who planned the so- called kiss-in protests. To counter that demonstra- tion, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and Fox News talk show host, declared Wednesday a Chick-fil-A appreciation day. never hid its Southern Baptist faith, even closing its restaurants on Sundays. were investigating graffiti at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Southern California. The graffiti on the side of a restaurant in Torrance said ''Tastes like hate'' and had a picture of a cow. No one has been arrested. The flap began last month when Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told a religious publication that the company backed ''the biblical definition of a family'' and later said: ''''I think we are inviting Report says military brought prostitutes to The Cathy family has lowed the announcement of punishments for the men. The report provided to The Associated Press on Friday revealed new details about the conduct of the ser- vice members in the prosti- tution scandal that engulfed both military and Secret Service personnel. Seven Army soldiers and 2010 death PRAGUE (AP) — The frontman of the U.S. heavy metal band Lamb of God has been released from a Czech prison on $400,000 bail as police investigate him for allegedly pushing a fan off a stage who later died of his injuries, an offi- cial said Friday. Prague over two Marines have received administrative punishments for what the report described as misconduct consisting ''almost exclu- sively of patronizing prosti- tutes and adultery.'' Three of the service members have requested courts mar- tial, which would give them a public trial to contest the punishments. One Air Force member Colo. hotel WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen U.S. service members brought women, likely prostitutes, to their hotel rooms in Colombia and also allowed dogs to soil bed linens and building grounds shortly before Pres- ident Barack Obama arrived in the country for an April summit, according to a mil- itary investigation that fol- was reprimanded but cleared of any violations of the U.S. military code of justice, and final decisions are pending on two Navy sailors, whose cases remain under legal review. According to the investi- A Prague court on Thursday dismissed a pros- ecution request that Randy Blythe be banned from leaving the country. Blythe's lawyer, Martin Radvan, said the singer had flown out of the Czech cap- ital for the United States on Friday. The band is based in Richmond, Virginia. ''I'm relieved to be out of Pankrac jail,'' Blythe told the private Czech Nova television at Prague's inter- national airport. ''It wasn't bad but it wasn't exactly fun.'' gator's report, the problems involving the servicemen came to light when hotel staff complained to U.S. officials that military mem- bers had female guests in their rooms after 6 a.m., a violation of hotel policy. They also complained that dog handlers allowed their dogs to sleep in beds, soil hotel linens and soil other public areas around the The 41-year-old was arrested on June 27 when he returned to the Czech Republic for another gig, not realizing that he was being investigated for bodi- ly harm resulting in death during a concert he gave in Prague in 2010, said Rad- van. it was ''very tragic'' the young man had died. ''I feel very bad that a fan of my band is dead, that his family has to go through it. That's terrible. I feel awful for them,'' he said. 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