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6C Daily News– Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Brothers, 15 and 17, charged with — Two teenage brothers were charged Tuesday with murdering a 12-year- old girl who had been missing since the week- end, prompting a frantic search by her small home- town until her body was found stuffed into a home recycling bin. The boys' mother played a part in cracking the case involving Autumn Pasquale, Gloucester County prose- cutor Sean Dalton said at a news conference. She came forward with infor- mation about a posting on a son's Facebook account, leading police to the boys, Dalton said. strangling CLAYTON, N.J. (AP) have been strangled, he said. She had been riding her bicycle before she dis- appeared and was lured to the boys' house, where belongings including the bike were found, Dalton said. The girl appeared to WORLD BRIEFING CERA, an energy consult- ing firm. The Energy Depart- ment forecasts that U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocar- bons, which includes bio- fuels, will average 11.4 million barrels per day next year. That would be a record for the U.S. and just below Saudi Arabia's output of 11.6 million barrels. Citibank forecasts U.S. production could reach 13 million to 15 million barrels per day by 2020, helping to make North America ''the new Middle East.'' Santa Barbara authorities say surfer killed by Authorities did not dis- cuss a motive. There were no signs of sexual assault, Dalton said. The boys' names were not released because they are juveniles, but Dalton said his office is consider- ing trying to have it trans- ferred to adult court. The boys will have public defenders, but it wasn't clear yet who they were. Romney moves from foreign policy hawk to centrist WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney abruptly moderated his foreign policy positions in this week's debate on issues like ending the war in Afghanistan and averting another conflict in Iran, hoping to neutralize one of President Barack Obama's main strengths with the election only two weeks away. But the move toward the political center comes with poten- tial pitfalls. ers, particularly women, the impression that he would lead a war-weary America into another con- flict only reluctantly. Romney aides said both the tone and sub- stance of their boss' argu- ments were intentional and that he carried with him into the debate a key piece of advice: Talk about peace. The overarching goal, Rahman recalled the police telling him. ''It's street theater.'' they said, was for Rom- ney to look like a suitable commander. After adopt- ing a more assertively militaristic tone to win the GOP nomination amid challenges from more conservative candidates, he sought at all costs to avoid appearing as a war- monger. Informant says NYPD paid him to 'bait' By abandoning several of his sharpest criticisms of Obama from the past several months, Romney risks upsetting some con- servatives and reinforcing the allegation — levied repeatedly by the presi- dent on Monday night — that his positions lack conviction and leadership. His aim was to appear sober and serious, a plau- sible commander in chief, by not engaging in saber- rattling for political points. By narrowing the gap between his positions and those of Obama, he also may have succeeded in giving undecided vot- Muslims NEW YORK (AP) — A paid informant for the New York Police Depart- ment's intelligence unit was under orders to ''bait'' Muslims into say- ing inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press. Shamiur Rahman, a believes his work as an informant against Mus- lims in New York was ''detrimental to the Con- stitution.'' After he dis- closed to friends details about his work for the police — and after he told the police that he had been contacted by the AP — he stopped receiving text messages from his NYPD handler, ''Steve,'' and his handler's NYPD phone number was dis- connected. Rahman's account Rahman said he now shows how the NYPD unleashed informants on Muslim neighborhoods, often without specific tar- gets or criminal leads. Much of what Rahman said represents a tactic the NYPD has denied using. US could overtake Saudi Arabia as world's biggest oil producer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon over- take Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer. Driven by high prices 19-year-old American of Bangladeshi descent who has now denounced his work as an informant, said police told him to embrace a strategy called ''create and capture.'' He said it involved creating a conversation about jihad or terrorism, then captur- ing the response to send to the NYPD. For his work, he earned as much as $1,000 a month and goodwill from the police after a string of minor marijuana arrests. ''We need you to pre- tend to be one of them,'' shark VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A California surfer was killed Tuesday by a shark off a beach at coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base, authorities said. same as the iPad 2 and a quarter of the resolution of the third-generation iPad. ''It's not just a shrunk- en down iPad, it's an entirely new design,'' Schiller said. Venezuelans celebrate record 9 players in World Series CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans are celebrating their home- grown baseball heroes as a record contingent of players from the country heads into the World Series with the Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants. strafing run. The women on the bal- conies broke into tears, fearing for the children in the street. But the boys just pointed at the jet, shouting ''God is great'' in chal- lenge. ''God send you to hell, Bashar,'' one boy yelled as the jet flew away. With death lurking The attack was report- ed by another surfer about 11 a.m. off the coast of Surf Beach in Lompoc, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. The victim ''had a friend who he was surfing with who saw the shark bite or hit the man,'' said sheriff's Sgt. Mark A. Williams. ''His friend ended up swimming over and pulling him from the water where he received first aid.'' The friend started first aid while another surfer called for help, but the male victim was pro- nounced dead by para- medics at the scene. The Air Force said only that the victim was 38 years old and was not affiliated with the base, which allows public access to some of its beaches. Apple reveals iPad Mini and new drilling methods, U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocar- bons is on track to rise 7 percent this year to an average of 10.9 million barrels per day. This will be the fourth straight year of crude increases and the biggest single-year gain since 1951. prised even the experts. ''Five years ago, if I or The boom has sur- anyone had predicted today's production growth, people would have thought we were crazy,'' says Jim Burkhard, head of oil markets research at IHS SAN JOSE (AP) — Apple Inc. on Tuesday revealed a smaller version of its hit iPad tablet com- puter that will start at $329 and comes with a screen that's about two- thirds the size of the full- size model. Nine Venezuelans, including five with the Giants, will feature in the series starting on Wednes- day, the most ever. ''It's the first time, but it had to happen one day. All the time there are more and better Venezue- lan players in the major leagues,'' said Alberto Mendoza, who was among dozens of fans at a restaurant in Caracas cel- ebrating the Giants' clinching win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Champi- onship Series on Monday night. ''Venezuela is a power in baseball.'' Fans in Caracas cheered the Giants with shouts and toasting glass- es of beer, in large part because the game's star was one of their own, Marco Scutaro, the veter- an second baseman who was named the most valu- able player of the series. While the Giants embraced and jumped for joy on the rain-drenched infield, a Venezuelan flag was unfurled and held up by Scutaro's wife as he received his trophy. Aleppo residents strain for survival Apple starts taking orders for the new model on Friday Oct. 26 and will ship the Wi-Fi-only mod- els on Nov. 2, said mar- keting chief Phil Schiller at an event in San Jose, Calif. Later, the company will add models capable of accessing ''LTE'' wire- less data networks. The iPad mini weighs 0.68 pounds, half as much as the full-size iPad, and is as thin as a pencil, Schiller said. The screen resolution is 1024 by 768 pixels, the ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — The rumble of engines in the sky immediately set the Aleppo neighborhood below on edge. Men peeked from shops anx- iously at the Syrian war- plane circling slowly over- head. Housewives emerged on balconies to gauge whether they were about to be hit. But the kids hanging out on the street were unfazed. One kept dribbling his basket- ball. Finally, the jet struck. Engines revving louder, it dove and unleashed a burst of heavy machine-gunfire into a nearby part of the city. It soared back up under a hail of rebel anti- aircraft fire, then swooped back down for a second around every corner, the survival instincts of Alep- po's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Resi- dents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered fami- lies going. And while residents of the rebel-held areas express their hatred of Assad's regime and their dream of seeing him go, they also voice their wor- ries over the rebels and the destruction that their offensive has brought to their city. Graffiti on the shutter of a closed store declares the population's sense of resignation: ''God, you are all we've got.'' Unclean conditions at pharmacy tied to officials said Tuesday they found unclean conditions including visible black specks of fungus in steroids and a leaking boiler near what was supposed to be a clean room at a pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis. Gov. Deval Patrick said the state has moved to revoke the licenses of the New England Compound- ing Center and three phar- macists there. He also has ordered the state pharmacy board that oversees similar companies to conduct sur- prise inspections and take other steps to tighten over- sight. meningitis BOSTON (AP) — State The first such unan- nounced inspection was done at a compounding pharmacy on Tuesday, state health department spokesman Alec Loftus said. He would not reveal the name of the facility and said results of the inspection were being reviewed. State officials said a pre- liminary investigation found that the NECC shipped orders from the lots of steroid shots suspected in the meningitis outbreak before its own tests came back confirming the lots were sterile. In some cases, they said, drugs went out up to 11 days before test results came back. DAILYNEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY redbluffdailynews.com Subscribe Now! To get started, go to: www.redbluffdailynews.com/websubscribe