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8A Daily News – Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Cycling's governing body agrees to strip ing to court documents. Authorities say Rad- Seven lines of blanks. From 1999 to 2005. There will be no Tour de France winner in the record book for those years. Armstrong GENEVA (AP) — Once the toast of the Champs-Elysees, Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven Tour titles Monday and banned for life for doping. As far as the Tour is concerned, his victories never happened. He was never on the top step of the podium. The winner's yellow jersey was never on his back. cliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, killed three women, including his 42-year-old wife, Zina Haughton, and wounded four others Sun- day before turning the gun on himself. The Waukesha County medical examiner's office on Monday identified the dead as Zina Haughton; Cary L. Robuck, 35, of Racine; and Maelyn M. Lind, 38, of Oconomowoc. All were found in the spa. WORLD BRIEFING dead. And the Scouts, while apologizing for past mistakes, have signifi- cantly improved their youth protection program in recent years. The decision by the International Cycling Union marked an end to the saga that brought down the most decorated rider in Tour history and exposed widespread cheating in the sport. ''Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling, and he deserves to be forgot- ten in cycling,'' said Pat McQuaid, president of the governing body. ''Make no mistake, it's a catastro- phe for him, and he has to face up to that.'' Police: Man who shot 7 bought gun 2 days after order to turn In a written request for a restraining order filed Oct. 8, Zina Haughton said her hus- band was convinced she was cheating on him and that aside from the acid threat he also vowed to burn her and her family with gas. He said he would kill her if she ever left him or called the police, according to the court papers obtained Monday by The Associ- ated Press. ''His threats terrorize my every waking moment,'' she wrote. Release of files latest in challenges for Still, release of 14,500 pages on alleged abusers is an unwelcome develop- ment for an organization struggling to halt a decades-long membership drop while incurring relentless criticism for its policy of excluding gays. ''It does pose a chal- lenge for the Scouts, whether they're going to be able to win back the confidence of the public,'' said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hamp- shire. ''I'm sure for some period of time, there's going to be a concern.'' France to send ence,'' said seismologist Susan Hough, of the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, Calif. ''It's unsettling.'' That fellow seismic experts in Italy were sin- gled out in the case ''hits you in the gut,'' she said. surveillance drones to A Wisconsin woman whose husband killed her and two others at the spa where she worked said he threatened to throw acid in her face and jealously terrorized her ''every waking moment,'' accord- in firearms MILWAUKEE (AP) — Boys Scouts tried to be prepared. For months, they braced for the back- lash sure to follow the court-ordered release of voluminous confidential files detailing decades of alleged sex abuse by Scout leaders. Now the files are pub- Boy Scouts True to their motto, the lic, lawyers are calling for a congressional investiga- tion and the Boy Scouts of America — as so often in recent years — finds itself embattled. The files released last week are old — dating from 1959 to 1985. Many of the alleged abusers list- ed in the files may well be will move surveillance drones to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with U.S. officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international mili- tary action to help Mali's feeble government win back the northern part of the country from al- Qaida-linked rebels, The Associated Press has learned. West Africa PARIS (AP) — France Means dies SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Russell Means spent a lifetime as a modern American Indian warrior. He railed against broken treaties, fought for the return of stolen land and even took up arms against the federal government. A onetime leader of the American Indian Move- ment, he called national attention to the plight of impoverished tribes and often lamented the waning of Indian culture. After leaving the movement in the 1980s, the handsome, braid- ed activist was still a cultur- al presence, appearing in several movies. Longtime activist Russell France and the United Nations insist any inva- sion of Mali's north must be led by African troops. But France, which has six hostages in Mali and has citizens who have joined al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, is playing an increasing role behind the scenes. Many in the West fear that northeast Mali and the arid Sahel region could become the new Through the Newspapers in Education program, area classrooms receive the Red Bluff Daily News every day thanks to the generosity of these local businesses & individuals. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING NEWS DAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY E VOICE OF TEHA M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 NEWSPAPERS Book Your Holiday Party Now! • THE GOLD EXCHANGE • LUIGI'S PIZZA • RED BLUFF AUTO DISMANTLING • OLIVE CITY QUICK LUBE • WALMART • ADOBE ROAD CHEVRON • CORNING AUTO CENTER • DM TECH HIGH SPEED INTERNET • GARCIA CONSTRUCTION • INTER-CITY BODY & PAINT • NORTH MAIN AUTOMOTIVE • RANCHO GRANDE RESTAURANT • SCHOOL HOUSE MARKET • TEHAMA CO. 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And France, former colonial ruler to countries across the Sahel, is a prime tar- get. ''This is actually a major threat — to French interests in the region, and to France itself,'' said Francois Heisbourg, an expert at the Foundation for Strategic Research, a partially state-funded think tank in Paris. ''This is like Afghanistan 1996. This is like when Bin Laden found a place that was larger than France in which he could organize training camps, in which he could provide stable preparations for organiz- ing far-flung terror attacks.'' France is turning its attention to the Sahel just as it is accelerating its pullout of combat troops from Afghanistan ahead of other NATO allies. Paid Advertisement in Italy L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) — In a verdict that sent shock waves through the scientific community, an Italian court convicted seven experts of manslaughter on Monday for failing to adequately warn residents of the risk before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. 7 experts convicted of manslaughter The defendants, all prominent scientists or geological and disaster experts, were sentenced to six years in prison. Earthquake experts Means, who died Mon- day from throat cancer at age 72, helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee — a bloody confrontation that raised America's awareness about the strug- gles of Indians and gave rise to a wider protest move- ment that lasted for the rest of the decade. few national advocates for American Indians. Means was one of the first to emerge. He sought to restore Indians' pride in their culture and to chal- lenge a government that had paid little attention to tribes in generations. He was also one of the first to urge sports teams to do away with Indi- an names and mascots. ''No one except Holly- Before AIM, there were worldwide decried the trial as ridiculous, con- tending there was no way of knowing that a flurry of tremors would lead to a deadly quake. ''It's a sad day for sci- wood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewel- ry,'' Means said, recalling the early days of the move- ment. And there were dozens, if not hundreds, of athletic teams ''that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to col- lege. That's all changed.''