European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 stars and stripes april 13 2007 Page 21 Blueberry growers to pay More for bees by growers will pay higher prices for Honey bees to pollinate their Fields this Spring following a die off of bees nationwide to an unidentified Dis ease Maines Blueberry crop requires about 50000 beehives for pollination Spencer Allen of Allens wild Maine blueberries said prices have gone from about to about per hive More katrina woes airports unclaimed cars Kenner about two dozen vehicles have been languishing in the parking lots at Louis Armstrong new Orleans International Airport since Hurri Cane katrina hit More than Ivy years ago some of the vehicles have parking tabs approaching but Airport officials say Many of them Arent Worth that much Leav ing officials with the task of removing them billion Dollar real estate Deal blocked by state new York state hous ing authorities have stopped one of the richest real estate deals in the cites history housing commissioner Deborah Van Amerongen said her office rejected Clipper equity Lac partner David Bistricer second Bil lion attempt to buy Brooklyn Star rett City Complex in order to protect residents from Market rate rents for All units Mississippi faces major teacher shortage Hattiesburg the states school districts Are faced with filling about 2000 teach ing vacancies for the next school year universities of higher Educa Tio Only graduate about 1400 Edu cation majors each year in the state of those about 1100 get certified to teach and Only about 900 of those show up in the classroom group demands military remove waste in Ocean Waianae Community leaders in Waianae Are de manding the military clean up the tons of munitions it dumped into the Ocean about 60 years ago a motion approved unanimously by the Waianae coast neighbor Hood Board Calls on the army to Start removing the world War Cieera munitions on june 1 the Pentagon contends that the weapons about three Miles off the coast dont threaten people Man paralysed after ski jump awarded Kent a jury awarded million to a Man Para lazed in a fall from a jump at the Summit at Snoqualmie ski area East of Seattle the jury agreed with experts who said the jump maintained by ski lifts inc was improperly de signed with too Short a Landing area Kenny Salvini of Lake Tapps fell 37 feet after launching from american Roundup the jump in february 2004 school agrees to improve its women athletics Pittsburgh Slippery of Tel Rock University agreed to set aside to enhance Wom ens sports and be monitored Over three years to ensure if s comply ing with Federal Law requiring equal opportunities for female ath letes the agreement helped Settle a lawsuit brought last year by 12 ath letes the school reversed a Deci Sion to drop women Field hockey and reinstated women water Polo and swimming at a judges order it plans to unveil statue of hispanic Leader Austin the University of Texas said it will unveil a statue i october of the late civil rights Leader Cesar Chavez he will be the first hispanic with a statue on the Austin Campus it also plans a statue honouring the late us rep Barbara Jordan of Houston the first Black woman from the South to serve in the us Congress workers comp Agency removes party fund Dako tas workers compensation Agency no longer has a partying fund legislative negotiators what a Brave Pansy a Raindrop hangs from a Pansy rising through fresh fallen Snow in Blue Island ill freezing tempera Tures sleet and Snow have blanketed much of the Midwest causing transportation problems and taking a toll on Early Blooming plants agreed to take the fund out of the Bud get Bill the fund had included up to for the Agency to pay for gifts parties and training for employees group rethinks rules for Bridge jump Charleston organizers have decided to consider recent experience when deciding who gets to jump from the new River Gorge Bridge after a Man plunged to his death during an annual parachuting Festi Val last october the previous such jump by Brian Schubert 66 of Alta Loma Calif had occurred More than 40 years earlier investigators determined Man who lost 700 pounds regains some Valentine a Man who made headlines for los ing More than 700 pounds has gained some Back Patrick Deuel weighed 1072 pounds before gastric bypass sur Gery in 2004 he was Down to 370 pounds last fall now he said Hes probably at 425 Deuel blamed the gain on to Stop smoking and Over indulging during the Christmas Holiday feds find wedding gowns stolen from Charity Nogales Federal agents working the Border crossing recovered a trailer with about 1000 wedding gowns stolen in november from a Charity group the making memories foundation Sells the gowns at events around the nation and uses the Money to Benefit cancer victims customs agents who inspected the trailer found tape covering the foundation name Sticky tactic used to fight underage drinking Logan health officials Are distributing thousands of Sticky notes to parents to put around the House and on liquor Bot ties to Tell youngsters that drinking alcohol before age 21 is dangerous the Sticky notes will Combine with bottleneck tags being placed on All stat purchased alcohol that read at your age drinking is dangerous so Are really angry parents Bathtub Falls from truck injures cyclist Covington a boxed Bathtub fell from the bed of a pickup truck and Slid into a motorcycles path critically injuring the 72yearold cyclist state police said Charles s Warren was travelling on interstate 12 when he was thrown from his motorcycle after hitting the Bathtub according to trooper Louis Calato Warren was being treated at St tammany Par ish Hospital he said Calato said the motorcycle the Box and the Bathtub All ended up in the grass median the pickups Driver 32yearold Shain autumn Springfield was booked with negligent injury and driving with an unsecured Load he said a fight for the Best nest a Rock Hopper Penguin swims beneath a Colony of penguins As the Battle of rocks begins at the Shedd aquarium in Chicago the we Klong Battle begins when Marine mammal trainers Deposit dozens of Small nesting rocks in the exhibit for the Gentoo and Rock Hopper penguins to fight Over and use for their nests Hap Birtman you old Monkey when his owner Dan Westfall brings out his birthday cake during his 75th birthday party in Paim Springs Calif Westfal is the operator of the Pri mate Sanctuary creative habitats and enrichment for endangered and threatened apes or cheeta ring around the umbrella Caitlin Janda 8 plays with an umbrella during soccer game Between Hutchinson High and Mcpherson High school in Hutchinson Kan Van Gogh would Jcj pleased making a pattern while searching for food along the Banks of the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin rapids wis ode to an underdog Tracy Livingston inspects the straps holding a sculpture of legendary race horse sea biscuit in the Back of a Vintage horse transport truck in Kearns Utah the statue is on a seven Stop tour bound for Willits Calif people gather As a hot air balloon inflates in the Early morning in Clinton no during cooler than average temperatures rising up tropical illusion the Concrete sculpture was the Only thing tropical about the Day in Pittsburgh where temperatures barely reached 40 degrees who steals from a Little league honestly Adelanto the mayor and his wife were arrested and charged with stealing More than from Little league coffers authorities said Jim and Kelly Nehmens were charged with three counts of grand theft by embezzlement if convicted they could each face up to nine years in prison they posted bail and were expected to be released prosecutors believe Between 2004 and 2006 the couple stole More than from Little league fundraisers mostly from the annual fireworks Sale other Money stolen by the couple came from registration and the snack bar prosecutor John Goritz said evasive Maneu vers we got balloons Here Pilot of a us Marine corps f5 fighter Jet had to take evasive action to avoid advertising balloons that broke free from a car Dealership the incident prompted officials at the Marine corps air Sta Tio Nyuma to ask the City to take immediate action to crack Down on the balloons which Are flown from several car lots doctor to police i killed husband after abuse Barnstable a Cape cod doctor told police she shot and killed her husband after years of physical and mental abuse according to court documents Ann Gryboski 51 was released on Cash bail after she pleaded not guilty in the murder of her husband Patrick Lancaster who was found dead in the Cou Ples Barnstable Home Gryboski who appeared in barn stable District court with swollen eyes and bruises around her Mouth told police her husband had hit her several times As she was driving with her 2yearold grandson in the Back seat Accord ing to court records in a videotaped interview she told police she shot her husband after she attempted to intervene in an argument Between him and one of their adult sons Sweikis were just too much for rowing team Lincoln rescuers were called when members of the University of Nebraska Lin Coln rowing team were forced Over Board in cold Choppy water during practice one woman was rescued while eight others swam to safety the Crew coach had ordered team members into Lincoln Lake because their Flimsy boat was Start ing to break up in 5foot swells caused by 30 Mph winds upset worker poisons meat to make her Point Charleston a former Kmart employee accused of putting rat Poison in pack Ages of ground beef told authorities she was upset about the Way the store treated its workers nobody bought the three packages of tainted meat which were Dis covered april 4 a spokeswoman for the state health department said no illnesses have been linked directly to the tampering Karen l Wyndham 45 was arrested and charged with tamper ing with consumer products the Fri said where did that wetland go it was right Here Muskegon state officials Are threatening to criminally prosecute a resort in Rothbury unless it restores a protected wetland it illegally filled to construct a bicycle path taxpayers May have to repay the million state Grant that paid for the path officials say the Dou ble Ujj resort dumped 13809 cubic Yards of fill dirt into the wooded wetland that feeds a Trout Stream fire at humane society kills dozens of animals Jacksonville a fire gutted the local humane society Headquarters killing dozens of animals including nearly All of the cats in the building authorities said up to 200 animals were in the facility but it could take Days to account for All the animals and tally the dead humane society executive director Leona Sheddan said the fire destroyed the main Shel Ter building valued at million which housed cats puppies and exotic animals most dogs escaped serious injury because the kennels Are in the Back but dozens of cats Likely died Sheddan said 3 arrested for protesting antiabortion display Durham three female students were arrested for disorderly conduct during a protest against an antiabortion Dis play on the University of new Hampshire Campus the women were part of a group of More than 50 students who were pushing up against a barricade at an outdoor antiabortion display called the genocide awareness project which placed photos of unborn babies that had been aborted alongside photos of victims of genocides such As the holocaust and the killing Fields of Cambodia protesters chanted comments such As get off our Campus and shame on you pathologist pays for stolen tissue samples los Alamos a former los Alamos medi Cal Center pathologist agreed to pay in a final settlement Over tissue samples taken in secret from hundreds of bodies in a cold War Era study of radiation or Michael w Stewart agreed to pay families of 304 people whose or Gans were taken said plaintiffs at Torney John Bienvenu state schools wont hike tuition despite Low funds Providence the states three Public colleges say they dont plan another tuition hike or program cuts even though gov Don Carcieri new spending plan Calls for them to receive million less than they requested higher education officials warn that the shortfall Means Many staff ing positions will go unfilled stories and photos from wire services