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4A Daily News – Friday, September 7, 2012 Obama promise CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — To a nation short on job security, President Barack Obama has his night to protect his own. Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday will be about promise — the kind he'll say he has kept, and the kind of feel- ing he wants to stir once more. He will take people back to the start of his presidency to make a case why their lives are better, but his bigger imperative is to sell himself as better for middle-class America than Republican Mitt Romney. speech about more than 1 kind of Gone is the newness of the last time he stood up to accept the nomination of his party. Obama, the graying incumbent, will not try to recreate it. Instead, he will whittle the election down to a choice, spelling out his vision of how to create economic opportunity for all, and warning that Romney would restore trickle-down ideas that Obama says were quietly gutting the economy for years before crashing it completely. That's the policy part. Obama will also try to summon inspiration again that America is right on the cusp of what it could be. Playing field isn't as skewed as When former President Bill Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednes- day night, he portrayed President Barack Obama as a pragmatic compro- miser who has been stymied at every turn by Republicans. There was no mention of the role that the president and the Democrats have played in grinding compromise to a halt on some of the most important issues facing the country. — It's a fact of life in Washington that what one party considers a princi- pled stand, the opposition considers pigheadedness. And that one side's nega- tive ads are branded a das- tardly tactic by the other, even as both do it. Obama says WASHINGTON (AP) WORLD BRIEFING that there are two names in the market for tablets. One is Amazon and one is Apple,'' said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. Seven out of every 10 tablets sold in the second quarter were iPads, according to IHS iSuppli. Tablets using Google's Android operating system have not been able to carve out a significant stake. Amazon is trying to change that with the new Fires, which run a modi- fied version of Android. President Barack Obama's agenda. Climate change. Eco- nomic stimulus. The mas- sive bank bailout known as TARP. The stimulus and the bailout remain politically poisonous while regulatory remedies for climate change have receded as a priority in a poor economy. All three were central elements of either Obama's last campaign or his first years in office. But at the Democratic National Convention, they don't rate a mention, even as they complement or undergird some of the president's top policy goals: shoring up the economy, reversing a financial crisis and achieving energy inde- pendence. obvious pieces wiped away from the Democ- rats' image-making this week. Those are the most spots, however, were ulti- mately filled. Peterson convicted of murdering Some initial blank British girl ANNECY, France (AP) — French authori- ties struggled Thursday to explain why no one found a 4-year-old girl for eight hours at a blood-strewn crime scene as she hud- dled in a car under the skirt of a corpse — appar- ently her dead mother or grandmother. Police can't say why it took 8 hours to find The stunning discovery Thursday of the girl, apparently unharmed, heightened the drama around a mysterious shooting rampage in the French Alps that left four adults dead and a 7-year- old girl hospitalized after being shot and brutally beaten. Drew Peterson, the for- mer Illinois police offi- cer who gained notoriety after his much-younger wife vanished in 2007, was convicted Thursday of murdering a previous wife in a case centered on secondhand hearsay statements from both women. 3rd wife JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — And in speaking to supporters via online video Thursday hours before his nomination- acceptance speech, Obama characterized the race as a David and Goliath contest between Democratic grass-roots volunteers and a Republi- can money-machine churning out negative ads. The advertising arsenals of the Obama campaign and its allies were left out of the equation. and trade CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — They are the missing pages of a con- vention story line, ideas and initiatives once prominently featured in Not heard or seen: TARP, stimulus, cap Peterson, 58, sat sto- ically looking straight ahead and did not react as the judge announced jurors had found him guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Her relatives gasped, then hugged each other as they cried quietly. penalty, and Peterson now faces a maximum 60-year prison term when sentenced Nov. 26. Illinois has no death The reason for the slayings remained unclear a day after a cyclist came across the corpses in a wooded area near the mountain village of Chevaline. It took on increasingly international ramifications, with links emerging Thursday tying the slain family to Britain, Iraq and Sweden. Texas to open toll road with 85 mph speed limit AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country. The Texas Transporta- tion Commission has approved the 85 mph speed limit for a 41-mile- long toll road near the increasingly crowded Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio. record on Twitter when she revealed her pregnan- cy at the awards. While that's a tough act to fol- low, there may be other opportunities to keep tongues wagging (and fin- gers typing). attempts to use'' the other provisions. The road runs several miles east of the interstate between two of the state's largest metropolitan areas. And while some drivers may be eager to put the pedal to the metal and rip through the Cen- tral Texas countryside, others are asking if it is safe. ''The research is clear that when speed limits go up, fatalities go up,'' said Russ Rader, a spokesman for the nonprofit Insur- ance Institute for High- way Safety. Nicki Minaj, who recently caused a stir with a rhyme endorsing Republican Mitt Romney for president, has a planned collaboration with a special guest. Green Day is expected to perform despite lead singer Billie Joe Arm- strong's trip to an emer- gency room earlier this week. Higher speed limits get people to their destina- tions faster, Rader said, ''But the trade-off is more crashes and more high- way deaths.'' Prosecutor Eric Mail- laud said investigators were searching for possi- ble perpetrators and studying all possibilities, including a score-settling attack or simply that the family was ''in the wrong place at the wrong time.'' The bodies of a man and two women were found shot to death in a BMW and the body of an unrelated male French cyclist was found on the ground nearby. Maillaud described a methodical killing, with three victims shot in the head. The trial was the first of its kind in Illinois his- tory, with prosecutors building their case large- ly on hearsay thanks to a new law, dubbed ''Drew's Law,'' tailored to Peterson's case. That hearsay, prosecutors had said, would let his third and fourth wives ''speak from their graves'' through family and friends to convict Peter- son. Hearsay is any infor- mation reported by a witness that is not based on the witness' direct knowledge. Defense attorneys said its use at the trial would be cen- tral to their appeal. 18th STOREWIDE SALE Gold Exchange facebook.com/redbluffgoldexchange Sept. 1st 413 Walnut Street Sierra Sound Car Audio 35th ANNIVERSARY - 15th $ 226 So. Main St., Red Bluff 527-3735 All CD's 13.99 Anniversary Sale or less Kindle Fires SANTA MONICA (AP) — Amazon unveiled four new Kindle Fire tablet computers on Thursday, including ones with larger color screens, as the online retailer steps up competition with Apple ahead of the holi- day shopping season. Amazon.com Inc. Amazon unveils new NASAleaves a visible mark kick off the show with A$AP Rocky. Rihanna and Drake are the show's top nominees with five apiece. It's unclear if Drake will attend. He's pitted against Chris Brown in one category — a note- worthy competition given that earlier this summer, their entourages were involved in a bottle- throwing brawl at a New York nightclub where both were present. The fight left several people injured and sparked law- suits. And Rihanna is set to on Mars WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA's robotic rover Curiosity is making its mark on Mars, in a way so big that it can be seen from space. showed off the larger Kin- dle Fire amid expecta- tions that Apple Inc. will introduce a smaller iPad as early as next week. The larger Fires will have screens that measure 8.9 inches diagonally, compared with 9.7 inches for the iPad. The original Fire had 7-inch screens. The basic version of the larger Fire will sell for $299, or $100 less than the cheapest iPad. 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In just one month, it's All the pieces in place for another memorable Video Music Awards bump to talk about this year, but given its track record, the MTV Video Music Awards will surely provide some water cool- er moments when the show airs Thursday. Last year, Beyonce set a tweets-per-second There may be no baby law in Ariz. PHOENIX (AP) — The most contentious part of Arizona's immigration law finally has approval to move forward, surviving a U.S. Supreme Court rul- ing, a heated national debate and two years of state politics. Police in legal minefield on immigration Those sections of the immigration law include a ban on the adoption of so- called sanctuary city poli- cies. The rule is aimed at preventing local govern- ment officials from decid- ing to pick and choose which federal immigra- tion policies to enforce and which to ignore. There have been no reported violations in the state. Another provision says that state and local agen- cies can't have a ban on sharing information, and therefore must cooperate in determining whether a person is a legal citizen eligible for public bene- fits. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has been one of the nation's most high-profile supporters of strict border policy, said he's most worried that law enforce- ment won't be able to use the new provisions. He's concerned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials won't support his sheriff's deputies. Maricopa County But the practical effect of what critics call the ''show me your papers'' provision remains to be seen. ried they'll be harassed by officers emboldened to pull them over because they look Hispanic. Officers — who will be required to ask people they encounter while enforcing other laws to show they're in the coun- ty legally if they find them suspicious — say they'll be open to lawsuits if they're accused of racially profiling, or if they're accused of not adequately enforcing the law. ''It leaves us in a very, Immigrants are wor- very, very, extremely gray area,'' Pima County Sher- iff Clarence Dupnik said Thursday. get sued when we do pro- file, and we get sued if we don't profile.'' Yet, it may be difficult to see the results. Parts of the law, passed by a Republican-con- trolled state legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer in 2010, have been in effect for months but largely ignored — mostly because they seem to address problems that don't exist, immigrant rights advocates say. Dan Pochoda, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona's legal director, said the parts of the law known as SB1070 already in effect ''have had virtually no impact.'' He added that ''we haven't even heard of any ''So now we plea FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychi- atrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood massacre twice offered to plead guilty and ''accept full responsibility'' for the crime earlier this year, his lead defense attor- ney said Thursday. After the government turned him down in Janu- ary, Maj. Nidal Hasan offered to plead guilty again last month without a deal — and also tried to challenge Army rules that prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea to murder in a death penalty case, said Lt. Col. Kris Poppe. Attorneys: Fort Hood suspect offered guilty The revelations came before the judge, Col. Gre- gory Gross, ruled Hasan must be clean-shaven or have his beard forcibly shaved before his murder trial, which is on hold again because Hasan's attorneys will appeal the order. Hasan told the judge last week that he grew a beard because his Muslim faith requires it, not as a show of disrespect. Gross said Thursday that the defense didn't prove Hasan is growing a beard for sincere religious reasons. Hasan's attorneys dis- cussed his attempts to plead guilty while disput- ing prosecutors' claims that he grew the beard this sum- mer to make it more diffi- cult for witnesses to identi- fy him at his trial. But prosecutors also said Hasan's beard might be interpreted as trying to intimidate a witness because it's a sign he's try- ing to affiliate with the mujahedeen, Muslim guer- rilla fighters. They gave the judge a transcript of a tele- phone call last summer between Hasan and Al- Jazeera in which he allegedly apologized for being part of ''an illegal organization'' — the U.S. Army.