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National Briefs (08/31/09)

National Briefs (08/31/09)

Search moves to next yard

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Armed with rakes, shovels and chain saws, about 20 officers yesterday combed the back yard of a couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard and used cadaver dogs to search an adjoining property where neighbors say one of the suspects once served as a caretaker.

"We do consider it a crime scene," said Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department.

"It looks like [suspect Phillip] Garrido lived on the property in a shed" when it was vacant three years ago, Mr. Lee said. A neighbor has also said Mr. Garrido would feed an elderly neighbor who once lived there.

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Police in Pittsburg, a Bay Area city near where the Garridos lived, have said they are investigating whether Mr. Garrido may be linked to several unsolved murders of prostitutes in the early 1990s.

Gadhafi visit slammed

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- More than 200 people gathered yesterday to tell Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi he's not welcome in their suburban New Jersey community, including several who lost relatives in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Gov. Jon Corzine was among those who attended the event in Englewood, where the Libyan government has been renovating a 5-acre estate ahead of Mr. Gadhafi's first U.S. visit, scheduled for next month. He had been expected to pitch a ceremonial Bedouin-style tent on the grounds, but his representatives announced Friday that he would remain in Manhattan where he's addressing the United Nations General Assembly, after rumors of his visit sparked an uproar.

WWII ship repairs

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The "Mighty Mo," the World War II battleship best known for hosting the formal surrender of Japan in 1945, is heading to the shipyard for repairs.

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The USS Missouri, now a decommissioned vessel called the Battleship Missouri Memorial, will leave its historic spot at Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor in October. The vessel on Wednesday will host a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of Japan's surrender.

Eighth victim dies

BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- An eighth person has died in an attack on a Georgia mobile home, police said yesterday.

Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering identified the victim as Michael Toler, 19, one of two people critically injured in the attacks in Brunswick along the Georgia coast. The man who reported the gruesome slayings, originally of seven people, faces charges of lying to police and tampering with evidence, and authorities said they haven't ruled him out as a suspect.

Air traffic ideas

NEW YORK -- Sen. Charles Schumer is proposing new measures he says would help prevent another crash over the Hudson River like the one that killed nine people this month.

Mr. Schumer wants more staffing and alarm systems installed grow progressively louder as aircraft get closer to each other, he said yesterday at a news conference in Manhattan.

Boy charged in dad's death

BELEN, N.M. -- Police in New Mexico say a 10-year-old boy will be charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his father.

Police say the boy used his own rifle to shoot his father, Byron Hilburn, 42, once in the head Thursday. The boy told them he thought his father was disciplining him too harshly and too often. Police believe the boy's 6-year-old sister witnessed the shooting.

First Published: August 31, 2009, 4:00 a.m.

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