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8A Daily News– Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Hitting hard on Medicare WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in person and in TV advertis- ing Tuesday of cutting Medicare ''to pay for Oba- macare,'' launching a strong counterattack to Democratic charges that he and running mate Paul Ryan would radically remake the popular health care program that serves tens of millions of seniors. The charge drew a blis- tering response from Obama's campaign, which labeled the ad dishonest and hypocritical. Obama ''has taken $716 billion out of the Medicare trust fund. He's raided that trust fund,'' Romney said at a campaign stop in Beallsville, Ohio, as he neared the end of a multi- state bus trip punctuated by his weekend selection of a ticket mate. ''And you know what he did with it? He's used it to pay for Obamacare, a risky, unproven, federal takeover of health care. And If I'm president of the United States, we're putting the $716 billion back,'' he said. Aides said a commercial containing the same allega- tion would begin airing immediately in several bat- tleground states, although they declined to provide details. Obama, Romney play to and into other folks' issues OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — The economy, economy, economy, right? Not always in this presidential election. pivotal states, issues such as wind energy tax cred- its or coal-industry jobs may win the day. Both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are talking local topics everywhere they go, showing how a fierce national race can lead the candidates to play to, and in some cases get dragged into, issues affecting voters right down to their doorsteps. During a three-day bus tour through Iowa, Obama has gone out of his way to highlight Romney's opposition to the renewal of wind pro- duction tax credits that have drawn support from Iowa Republicans includ- ing Gov. Terry Branstad and Sen. Charles Grass- ley. The credits have been in place for 20 years — Grassley authored the bill in the Senate — but are set to expire this year, threatening about 37,000 jobs nationally. ''My opponent wants to end tax credits for wind energy producers. He's said that new sources of energy like wind are 'imaginary,''' Obama said Tuesday. ''His running mate calls them a 'fad.''' Obama toured a wind farm in Haverhill, Iowa, inspect- ing several wind turbines on the property. Romney, in turn, has painted Obama as being hostile to coal producers, an important job provider in parts of Ohio, Pennsyl- vania and Virginia. ''If you don't believe in coal, if you don't believe in energy independence, then say it,'' Romney said Tuesday in Beallsville, Ohio, stand- ing near a bulldozer filled with coal and hung with a sign that read, ''Coal Country Stands with Mitt.'' For some voters in WORLD BRIEFING southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border Tuesday, killing dozens of people including shoppers buying sweets for a Mus- lim holiday and leaving charred and smoldering bits of cookies and dried fruit among the bodies on the ground. A separate market bombing, this one in northern Afghanistan, brought the overall death toll to 46, most of whom were civilians. It was the deadliest day for Afghan civilians this year. hepatitis scare CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Radiology tech- nician David Kwiatkowski was a few weeks into a temporary job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Cen- ter-Presbyterian in 2008 when a co-worker accused him of lifting a syringe containing an addictive Hospital tech's arrest sets off from an operating room and sticking it down his pants. painkiller More syringes were found in his pockets and locker. A drug test and you could help pets that have been abandoned in our community showed he had fentanyl and other opiates in his system. In what may be the scariest part of all, authorities say that when he swiped the fen- tanyl syringe, he left another one in its place, filled with a dummy fluid, ready to be used on a patient. But Kwiatkowski did not go to jail. No one in Pittsburgh even called the police. Neither the hospital nor the medical staffing agency that placed him in the job informed the national accreditation organiza- tion for radiological technicians. being fired, he was able to start a new job at a So just days after Baltimore hospital. And from there, he went from one hospital to another — 10 hospitals altogether in the four years after he was fired in Pittsburgh. All of them told The Associat- ed Press they had no knowledge of his disci- plinary history when they hired him for tem- porary jobs. Multiple suicide provinces on opposite ends of the country — Nimroz in the southwest and Kunduz in the north — come as Taliban insur- gents and their allies step up their assaults in a dis- play of force that often results in civilian carnage. Militants are especially trying to weaken the still- developing Afghan secu- rity forces, who are to assume control of security across their homeland in 28 months when most for- eign combat troops will have left. ''The Taliban ''want to The attacks in expand their influence — show that they are every- where,'' said Afghan political analyst Jawid Kohistani. ''They want to show that the Afghan police are not strong enough so they are target- ing the security forces and the government.'' Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of attackers in The scope of the attacks in Nimroz, which has seen relatively few insurgent attacks over the past year, was surprising. The bombings took place in the provincial capital, Zaranj, where militants wearing suicide vests det- onated their explosives in various neighborhoods, provincial police chief Musa Rasouli said. At least 25 civilians and 11 police were killed, he said. JUST MOVE IT Part of a national campaign to promote physical activity for American Indians and Alaskan Natives FRIDAY, AUGUST 17TH 11:30 AM Registration and Start Psycho Fitness & MMA 1450 Schwab St., Red Bluff make a $500 donation to Providing Essentials for the Tehama Shelter to benefit the Tehama County Animal Care Center If we receive 1,500 "likers" on Facebook by Sept. 15 we will non-competive walks and runs. Open to families, individuals of all ages and people of all cultures. 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