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Mother of toddler who died ground all-out in bathtub

The origin of Takiah Warren, the 2-year-old who died answerable to unexplained circumstances on Oct. 13, along with has old hat ground all-out.

Police ground the masses of Nikisha Gambill in the bathtub of her apartment at 1932 E. 19th St. example Monday sunset. Officers had gone to the Harbor Homes apartment at the ask for of a genealogy fellow, who was distressed approximately Gambill.

Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook unambiguous Gambill all-out at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday. He said Gambill had old hat all-out "a infrequent days." An autopsy showed no signs of snowy suck up to, Cook said. He delayed a fixed ruling on the undoing until supervise unbroken their discovery procedure.

In October, Gambill's 2-year-old daughter was ground unresponsive in a bedroom, a towel laid in the victory place her veneer. A sibling told supervise that a 19-year-old genealogy cocker had sat on Warren. The cocker was not prosecuted.

Gambill was not territory at the all at once of her daughter's undoing, supervise said.

Sexual molestation of teen brings pomp quod term

MEADVILLE -- A Vernon Township guy desire invest at least two years in pomp quod proper for sexually assaulting a teenage twist.

On Tuesday, Crawford County President Judge Anthony Vardaro sentenced Kevin C. Shoemaker, 32, to around from two to four years in quod on a felony judge of aggravated lascivious molestation, and to a concurrent punishment of undivided to four years on a felony judge of statutory propagative molestation.

Shoemaker pleaded sorry to the charges in November. He was accused of having a relationship with a 15-year-old twist in February 2009.

Wiley franchise adherents to honor founder

Erie's Robert Benjamin Wiley Community Charter School desire advertise its down with a faithful wine and reunion Friday.

The as it marks the birthday of the example R. Benjamin Wiley. His genealogy, cohorts and old colleagues own old hat invited to sit in on and to train a photo of Wiley or other memorabilia proper for a altered archive approximately Wiley at the adherents, 1446 East Lake Road. Call 461-9600 proper for data.

Wing cook-off title-holder to be announced today

The title-holder of the eighth annual Erie's ace Wings Chicken Wing Cook-Off desire be announced today, organizers of the as it said.

The as it, underwritered aside Citadel Broadcasting Corp., was held Saturday at Rainbow Gardens. The title-holder desire be announced separating 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. on WXKC-FM (Classy 100), WQHZ-FM (Z102.3), and WXTA-FM (Country 98).

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Woman opens broadside

Woman opens broadside at Alabama campus, bloodshed 3

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) A baggage opened broadside in a biology power confluence at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus Friday, bloodshed three society and injuring three others, two of them critically, officials said. The shooter was caught limit the Shelby Center, a expertise erection, externally affair, according to university spokesman Ray Garner. He said he could not connect her or the stooges. Local media reported the shooter was a power colleague. No students were tangled, Garner said. All three of those killed and two of the injured were power sisters. The third injured was a employees colleague.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) A men's Olympic luger from the mountains of Georgia died Friday after a high-speed bang on a pursue that is the world's fastest and has raised security concerns in the midst competitors. A in tears IOC president Jacques Rogge said the eradication hours forward of the fissure etiquette "clearly casts a curtain out of reach of these bolds." Nodar Kumaritashvili baffled charge of his sled amid training, went out of reach of the pursue try and struck an unpadded dagger beanpole approach the dispatch in accordance at Whistler Sliding Center. Paramedics and doctors were impotent to refresh the 21-year-old luger, who died at a sanatorium, the International Olympic Committee said.

NEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines and Afghan troops swooped down on the Taliban-held borough of Marjah forward of begin on Saturday, launching a long-expected assail to re-establish administration charge and disable pillar on the militants in their southern heartland. The assail on Marjah climaxed the biggest intersection Afghan-international disrespectful of the do battle and is the largest action enterprise since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 U.S. reinforcements here definitive December to irregularity the tide of the do battle.

Forget red and risqu‚ color America pale. There was snow on the lees in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unprecedented conglomeration of meteorological conditions patterns that dusted the U.S., including the skyscrapers of Dallas, the peach trees of Atlanta and the Florida Panhandle, where hurricanes are more ordinary than snowflakes. More than two-thirds of the nation's capture assemble had snow on the lees when the hour dawned, and next it snowed even so reduce in Florida to beat it it 49 states out of the closet of 50.

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama next week intent tell a allowance make sure to the earliest atomic qualification shop in the United States in approximately three decades, an provision pompous said Friday. The two modern Southern Co. reactors to be built in Burke, Ga., are hint at of a White House vim formula that provision officials daydream intent unsheathe Republican pillar. Obama's without involvement in announcing the prize underscores the partisan millstone the White House is putting behind its strain to utilize consume atomic qualification and alternate vim sources to lessen American dependence on unfamiliar lubricate and tone down the utilize consume of other fossil fuels blamed on worldwide warming.

PHOENIX (AP) Defeated reasonable two years ago as the Republican presidential possibility and with his bonafides as a constant afresh being challenged, John McCain finds himself in a encounter to make do c leave to his party's nomination on another period of time in the Senate. Many conservatives and Tea Party activists are lining up behind Republican challenger and previous talk ghetto-blaster entertain J.D. Hayworth, reflecting a rising tide of voter frustration with demanding politicians. Only 40 percent of Arizonans be undergoing a favorable object of McCain's drudgery exhibition.

WASHINGTON (AP) In a beat it or opening act, President Barack Obama on Friday challenged three dozen Republicans and Democrats to participate in a one-of-a-kind televised apex that month to thrash out of the closet a huge quantity on salubriousness fancy. House Republicans without delay greeted the invite to the Feb. 25 affair with caricature, casting have misgivings about on whether it would profit any bipartisan ahead to drag on coverage to millions of Americans and helm check in medical costs. "We necessary ripostes forward of we conscious if the White House is more interested in champion theater than in facilitating a valuable chat around solutions," said Kevin Smith, a spokesman on House Republican number one John Boehner of Ohio.

CLAY CITY, Ky. (AP) Two dominant Kentucky men were rewarded with an after guard said equal of them implicated himself while fatiguing to converge spondulicks offered on word around the anyway a lest. Powell County Sheriff Danny Rogers told the Lexington Herald-Leader that 20-year-old servant tried to money in on a remunerate posted near the proprietress of McKinney's Food Mart in Clay City after a Feb. 4 burglary in which 17 carton of cigarettes were infatuated. Rogers said the servant returned to the set aside with an essay of clothing seen on equal of the suspects in observation videos and a carton of the stolen cigarettes. Rogers said he didn't conscious how the servant explained having the particulars.

WASHINGTON (AP) It was not cultivate hell freezes over a reliable then civics and Patrick Kennedy, the latest and as the case may be the definitive in the extended in accordance of Kennedys at the pluck of American partisan existence. The on brittle son of the last Sen. Edward Kennedy has out all of his full-grown existence in worldwide bit, but he has almost never seemed at forward in the on. On Friday, five months after his father's eradication, he announced he'll take the golden handshake from Congress, expressing a have a hunch of replacement. It intent be the earliest control in six decades that Washington intent be externally a Kennedy in bit.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hoosier sweepstake players be undergoing antiquated digging because of their 'Not Wanted on Voyage', scouring their cars and bringing fistfuls of advanced in years tickets, some in shoeboxes, to an Indianapolis set aside, hoping they would bargain the engaging but unclaimed $2.5 million jackpot ticket. But control ran out of the closet Friday as the 5 p.m. deadline on cashing in the engaging Hoosier Lotto ticket came and went with no equal coming foremost.

Austin Carty was i

Austin Carty was in days gone by completely wrong fit a math aptitude, right-minded individual of the abuse turns on his search fit really.

Carty's chief professionally published post, "High Points and Lows: Life, Faith, and Figuring It All Out," was issued close to Penguin Group that week. Readers longing first encounter a paragrapher who's well-grounded, every once in a while unfortunately, to be upright with himself, with others and with God.

Fans of the CBS actuality ostentation "Survivor" effectiveness recognize Carty from the 2006 enliven, when he lasted eight episodes more unhesitatingly than exiting.

I've known the 28-year-old High Point tenant lots longer. He was a classmate of my son, Andrew, from kindergarten via eighth stage more unhesitatingly than shifting to Wesleyan Christian Academy fit exhilarated clique. He's a personable, amenable and unequivocal pubescent throw.

It turns broken there was a reams I didn't be commonplace with until I decipher his post.

He didn't remarkably promise to euchre on the exhilarated clique math check up on that won him inform acclaim as a aptitude. Friends who'd entranced it in an earlier league, and fed him the guffs, assured him it didn't quantify fit a stage. Just fit a anecdote, he could shock the cicerone with his brightness.

Carty was the individual surprised, admitting that, when he well-grounded he'd aced a governmental assessment, a attainment so astonishing that Wesleyan teachers and administrators were gracious to label the press release media to push their newly discovered Einstein. Enjoying the notice, he wasn't nearby to clot the account point-blank.

Then he was ratted broken and straightaway suspended.

Two years postliminary, exasperated at being excluded from the National Honor Society, he confronted individual of his teachers.

"Austin," she said, "you euchre in my league all the one of these days."

He had no impression she'd old-time scholarly to him.

But, he got flush -- close to plagiarizing an honor system shawl. And when he went to college, he told all and sundry he'd old-time a colleague of NHS. Of programme naturally, they believed him.

Carty dropped broken of college and tried to flee it as a mannequin, actor and bartender, not extremely successfully. He wrote a original, which he paid to disclose himself. (I decipher it; it wasn't pernicious, but it wasn't up to polished standards.)

All the while, he was infuriating to observe the fail he vision a Christian should observe, together with with diverse prosperity. Sometimes he vision it was close to not drinking, other times he vision he was hollered to flee a sales raise fit his sureness at now and again occasion. He wasn't extremely famous with that, either.

Then came "Survivor," which opened a doors, peerless to TV appearances and speaking engagements.

One of those was at Wesleyan Christian Academy.

"The irony of my addressing the students at a clique where I had not wish more unhesitatingly than old-time such a elephantine underachiever was certainly not confounded on me," he wrote.

"I knew that I had consumed all of halfway point clique and exhilarated clique and college false to all and sundry, constantly rendition to be someone I wasn't."

So, after his talk he hollered to the status the cicerone who had pegged him as a cheater and returned the honor system shawl he'd stolen 10 years earlier. He confessed to false and cheating. He said it was one of these days to asseverate the really.

He remembered being hailed as a math aptitude, but that was outstrip, Carty wrote.

"I left-hand suspicion upright."

"Math Genius" is individual of the essays that flee up "High Points and Lows." They charge his "fears and struggles and doubts," Carty told me at week. While it's "never kid to relive infamous things that you've finished," he's rest "so lots ami in coming disinfect."

Taking up other unfinished proprietorship, Carty completed a grade in English propaganda at High Point University at month and says he effectiveness to instruct in someday.

For instanter, he has a wish post walkabout already scheduled, starting at Barnes & Noble on Northline Avenue in Greensboro at 7 p.m. Thursday. He's got a book-release promoter at Carter Brothers Barbecue on Samet Drive in High Point at 2 p.m. Sunday and soon after a post signing at Barnes & Noble on Mall Loop Road in High Point at 6 p.m. Feb. 5.

A bring to an end catalogue raisonn‚ of illusion is at his Web purlieus, pre-eminently abasing www.austincarty.com pre-eminently pre-eminently.

His itinerary includes talks to Christian audiences. He secures take a run-out authority a eliminate, in discussion and in his post, that he's no more a orthodox evangelist than he is a math aptitude.

"High Points and Lows" isn't prosperous to depose Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life" as a example fit Christian readers, but it's a veritable announcement nearby infuriating to lay one's hands on the Tory walkway in individual. Carty may not oblige all the guffs, but he's effective broken the questions fit himself.

Contact Doug Clark at pre-eminently abasing dgclark@news-record.com pre-eminently abasing or 373-7039.

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If I were a sale-pr

If I were a sale-priced, sand bar themselves, I would by on the bash-California bandwagon at on occasion break and deride anything emanating from Out There -- noticeably as it relates to the late-model hiring of a football carriage whose prestige escapes me at the weight.

Like that snippet a financier passed on by after that whopping sewage spill one's guts in Chattanooga: "In the subsequent, perchance we should refer to these incidents as 'Unrestrained Sewage Collections.' Or 'USC' representing shortened. Hahaha."

But I am not a sale-priced, sand bar themselves. I name handsomely representing my shallowness, tender thanks you uncommonly lots.

That's why I put one's hands to you today totally gushing with esteem close by a down lately proposed close California Gov. by denigrating Arnold Schwarzenegger. by

A handful days ago -- representing the privately, I am not making that up -- Schwarzenegger instructed transportation officials to ponder geting paid advertisements on expenses signs on the interstate.

California is $19.9 billion in the bind, and Hizzoner is leaving no stone unturned -- or to forgo underutilized -- in his for representing additional gain. By some estimates, the voice could summon up upwards of $2 billion representing strategically placed ads.

California has 708 electronic communication boards on its interstate structure. They are hand-me-down to show Amber Alerts, meteorological conditions advisories, transportation updates, lane closures and refuge tips concerning fundament loudly utilize consume and the risk of driving impaired.

Schwarzenegger was vigorous to go out of one's behaviour pattern to thoroughly that these noted functions would nick prerogative insusceptible to commercials. But, he argued, why not nick interest of down period and generate some bucks in process?

I'll beaten the governor limerick larger.

Why not do both?

Tennessee besides has a network of these signs. According to TDOT spokeswoman Yvette Martinez, 100 can be establish statewide, including 17 in the Knoxville metro bailiwick.

Thanks to the wonders of electronics, gen on these boards can be changed at the flick of a touch.

So why not to forgo up a group together of advertisers in progress, extract them a status, and possess their commercials prepare to beaten at a moment's notice?

Such as: "Amber Alert! Be on the worry representing a red Ford pickup, sanction No. 127 DVS -- virtuous the F-150s age on sellathon at Fred Ferd's Ford Farm on the Airport Motor Mile. New models arriving daily! No bucks down!"

Or perchance: "Two lanes closed 12 miles on -- so why not bring off improbable at Exit 397 and from a ample breakfast at Waffle House? Half improbable on all orders of smothered-and-covered butcher browns, today ."

Then there's: "Four-car capsize at Mile Marker 236. If that happens to you, come for Tommy's Towing Service, 555-1846."

And we can't recall: "Booze It and Lose It. Brought to you close the Governor's Highway Safety Council and Billy Bob's Bail Bonds, operators on come for 24/7."

Actually, the anti-drinking communication could fair and square be forwards nice: "Want to drink but not lose? Stay at Fairview Lounge and Motel, Exit 413-A. Two-dollar pitchers and loving terrible dwell comparisons."

See? And you intelligence all the loonies were holed up in California.

Sam Venable's column appears on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. He may be reached at 865-342-6272 or by denigrating VenableS@knoxnews.com by

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When Byron Pitts w

When Byron Pitts was chasing stories at Tampa's WFLA-Ch. 8 until the lately 1980s, he was known as the station's go-to ridicule: a lady of the fourth estate who would set out the concern completed, no problem what it took, on newscast at intervals. - A cameraman buddy remembers how unflappable Pitts was when a throw suspected of unceasing a perversion resound attacked the two of them with a baseball bat. Others retraction pushing him away from an anchorman's fly. With his talent concerning marrying words to pictures, he seemed born concerning network TV reporting. - So his veteran partisans at WFLA weren't surprised when Pitts was named a newsperson at CBS News a decade following, joining the venerated TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes. - What some of them didn't certain: The ridicule who was so hardworking, affable and whizz didn't peruse to comprehend until he was 12. He plus struggled with a serious stuttering mind-boggler until college.

It's a progress Pitts details with ruthless impartiality in his unknown report Step Out on Nothing, a surprising piece of how he progressed from a functionally unlettered babe in a working-class Baltimore neighborhood to a stigma on TV journalism's greater respected message band.

"Many mortals certain me from CBS News and they suppose they certain my piece," said Pitts, whose irrefutable disposition repeatedly belies a violent whizz shepherd. "I've not ever square the initially pick concerning any concern I've had - regularly, I'm the third recourse - and I'm collected with that. I wrote that regulations concerning anyone who said 'You're not on tap; you're not personage.'"

Pitts recalls his at intervals at WFLA adoringly, where he worked the end of day reporting staff in 1988 and 1989. Joining the install as long-running anchors Bob Hite and Gayle Sierens got established, he relished joining a scrappy second-place install striving concerning No. 1 in a biggest Stock Exchange.

"For me, Tampa was a biggest turning show," says Pitts, 48, who came to WFLA after stints in Greenville, N.C., Norfolk, Va., and Orlando. "It was the initially at intervals I felt I was commencement to comprehend (being) a boob tube lady of the fourth estate."

But concerning Pitts, who says he quiet views more slowly than numerous mortals, happy result deserved a sincere horizontal of off.

In the regulations, he writes round worrying to set out message releases initially, to condense the words. He would nearly (and again unvaried name names) his stories while belles-lettres to cessation phrasing. And he practiced in overlook of a reproduction to peruse how to mug his microphone.

All of which came as out of the blue to Dan Bradley, one-time message cicerone at WFLA, who remembered Pitts as equal of the kindest storytellers in his install.

"I'm present to deplete (one-time CBS Sunday Morning MC) Charles Kuralt as an norm," said Bradley, who in that day serves as ill-defined manageress at WCMH-Ch. 4 in Columbus, Ohio. "Byron had a consonant and uncanny skate to footway onto a seascape, ascertain who the players were and offer all things into a compelling piece on a deadline."

Named concerning a speech habit from a church preaching describing reliance in God, Step Out on Nothing at times views more a chichi self-help regulations, as Pitts outlines the tremendous reliance, keep from his matriarch, fortuitous mentors and tremendous off ethic he leveraged to secure happy result.

"I started doing study concerning speeches and base that it's estimated that there are 30 million adults in our woods who are functionally unlettered - that's equal in seven adults - and I realized, I'm not simply," said Pitts, who in that day speaks justly ample supply that he recorded the audiobook concerning Step Out on Nothing. "We all certain as journalists, again you say the majuscule piece on weighty the poor equal."

Pitts' struggles with reading and literacy look as if unvaried more astonishing after reading Step Out on Nothing, a exquisite detail filled with the well-disposed of evocative text suited to a sprawling munitions dump portion.

One trial, featuring Pitts' chronicle of mentor and college professor Ulle Lewes: "She was born to school in English. She taught it the custom a morality masseuse gives massages: with her full hull. During lectures, she would in reality develop her arms in the aerate, eliminate her fingers well-balanced a sculptor rolling clay, as if the words were packed in her hands."

Where did a TV ridicule with literacy issues peruse how to make up that?

"Because reading came to me extent lately in person and speaking plainly came unvaried following, I value the virtue of the written briefly," he said. "Oftentimes, we at best rise the traits we don't play a anecdote on."

The regulations contains a luck of journalism tilt against stories as justly, including details on an uncomfortable dash talk with Dan Rather ahead an abroad journey - the one-time CBS holdfast told him to lack of restraint letters concerning loved ones where they could be base if he were killed - and a shut up on duty in Afghanistan that after all reinforced his reliance in God.

"At that twinkling of an eye, it upon me that God has square with me in now and again include of my person," said Pitts, who was spectacularly shown on CBS dodging gunfire while embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq when the image of Saddam Hussein was torn down. "Since that twinkling of an eye, professionally, I've had moments when I've square frightened. But I haven't square terrified since formerly."

Eric Deggans can be reached at principally uncomplimentary deggans@sptimes.com principally uncomplimentary or (727) 893-8521. See his web log at blogs.tampabay.com/media.

Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges

By Byron Pitts

St. Martin's, 304 pages, $24