European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 Google helps states get Public records online Washington by provid ing free consulting and some soft Google is helping state governments make reams of pub Lic records that Are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to web the internet search company Hopes to eventually persuade fed eral agencies to employ the same tools an Effort that excites advocates of open government but Wor Ries some consumer privacy sex Google announced monday that it has already partnered with four states Utah and Virginia to remove technical barriers that had pre vented its search As Well As those of Microsoft and Yahoo from accessing tens of thousands of Public records dealing with real is health care and the Environ prepares Case against terror suspect Ohio the fed eral government intends to use evidence gathered from secretly is sued search warrants to prose cute an Ohio Man accused of join ing al Aida and plotting to bomb european a newspaper re ported Christopher was arrested april 11 outside his Colum bus he has pleaded not guilty to charges of providing material support to conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass which carries the most serious penalty of up to life in crack sentences to become More lenient Washington a firs time crack cocaine conviction should mean a lower Federal minimum sentence than under current according to a judicial Agency that has raised concerns about a disparity in punishment for people caught with crack or powder the sentencing commis Sion voted to lower the recommended sentencing Range for those caught with 5 Grams or More of crack cocaine from a Range of 63 months to 78 months to a Range of 51 months to 63 those with at least 50 Grams should serve 97 months to 121 months in not 121 months to 151 As the guidelines now the commis Sion said late from the associated press 3 dead in shooting at mall by Heather Hollingsworth the associated press Kansas the chaos began with police finding an elderly woman dead and her car it ended when officers fatally shot the Man driving the car but Only after he fired on a police officer and later people at a shopping killing two of police trying to make sense of the four deaths were reviewing Security footage and interviewing hundreds of witnesses to the shoot ing sunday outside a target store inside Ward Parkway Center in South Kansas police spokes Man Tony Sanders target employee Cassie Brad of Kansas was in a break room with two other people when they first heard her coworkers saw a Man in his 50s with a Rifle shooting every she it sounded like maybe fire crackers at first but then they got louder and louder and and it sounded like someone shooting a she police found the elderly woman sunday afternoon after they went to a Home because relatives haunt seen her for her car was spotted later in the Day at a Gas Sta Orlin an unidentified Kansas police officer guards an Entrance to Ward Parkway shopping Center sunday in Kansas the shoot ing at the mall left at least three people including the Tion by an who pulled the Driver Over and was shot in the police the whose wound was not returned fire and shattered the window of the gunman the car took off and reports began arriving about 10 to 15 min utes later of shots fired at the shop Ping the Man pulled into a parking space and fired at the cars on either Side of killing two authorities he fired More wounding at least two then went inside the Sanders everybody was leaving the mall when the officers ran Sanders they confronted the Man and after confronting shot and killed Sanders said he could not con firm witnesses accounts of hear Ings shots inside the police did not say How the elderly woman or if the gunman was a suspect in her but Kansas Ward Parkway Center Kansas City Missouri mall shooting a Mem Nebraska Kansas Iowa Missouri 100kmoklai 7 source sri a they did say they believed the events were the one of the cites Busi est shopping was shut Down and officers went through each store to see if anyone else might have been Sand ers the gunman and victims names were not immediately re and conditions of the wounded were not dems attach minimum wage boost to Iraq funding by Jesse Holland the associated press Washington increasing the mini mum wage should be easy for a Congress con trolled by especially with presi Dent Bush pledge of but a boost for americas lowest paid workers is again being de this time in a Tus sle Over whether to pull troops out of its been 10 years since the last minimum wage and boosting it from to per hour Over the next two years was a key element of democrats midterm election they even added a sweetener for republicans billion in tax cuts for Small businesses Over 10 but Senate majority Leader Harry and House speaker Nancy Reid decided to attach the minimum wage provisions to the Iraq War spending nor Mally that mus pass now its cer Tain to be the subject of Bush second veto after democrats loaded it up with a timetable for withdrawing that just a temporary said Alan a scholar at the american Enterprise he said democrats will find a Way to quickly move the minimum wage Legisla Tion Back to the White republicans say democrats could have had a minimum wage Bill passed and signed by now if they haunt added it to the Iraq War this int about getting a minimum wage in crease its another political stunt that Only further delays said White House spokesman Tony democrats declined to say How they plan to get the Bill Back to the White House As a Sepa rate Bill More As an attachment to the next Iraq War spending Bill they intend to get to Bush by memorial the they would give them a Little More leverage by forcing republicans to vote against Money for american troops to Block the minimum wage the White House has complained the tax cuts Are too Small in the minimum wage Mea sure As now Fratto said Bush advis ers might recommend he veto a veto May be More difficult if other measures in the Iraq spending Bill Are to the presidents increases in the minimum wage Are often leveraged against or used As lever age for something for democrats last year killed a proposed minimum wage increase after re publicans paired it with a Cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion Dollar republicans easily muscled the legislation through the House but Senate democrats refused to allow it to go to the White House for the last minimum wage increase was in this has been the longest stretch with out the Federal pay floor rising since the mini mum wage was established in a person working 40 hours per week at the current minimum wage of makes about a an increase to would boost that to just Over a archivists assemble anything and everything from attacks by Amy Westfelt the associated press new York it started with a clogged dust mask that fell onto the desk of Jan Ramirez on the afternoon of a Friend had used the paper mask to breathe while fleeing downtown manhat Tan As the air was filled with grit and smoke from the world Trade Center Tow that dust mask is going to be an important artefact some Ramirez recalled the Friend telling the mask has become a museum one Small part of the largest records trove Ever assembled to document a single event millions of pieces of paper documenting government Blackberry Mes sages written by survivors As they Chil Drens Finger paintings and family photo graphs Are also part of the pre served in Many different places including state museums and on the internet saving All things 11 was a Mission embraced from the time of the attacks by professional archivists and grassroots col Pearl there Are Only so Many pictures said Nancy regional and maj Strator in new York for the National Aras we was captured in so Many archivists immediately set out to compile the most Complete picture Ever of one historic and already Are planning for de Cades they shared data with museum officials and individual collectors at a symposium last our goal is to make sure we All know who got what said Kathleen a new York state archivist who is storing More than boxes of government records such As the commission re port boxes in Roe said she and other major archivists met in new York two weeks after the terrorist attack to ensure that no piece of paper was discard edit was the first toe archivists had met so Early to beam collecting Arah Mary Fetchet saved a 43second Tele phone message left on the morning of the attacks by her who later died in the South Brad called his Mother after the first hijacked Airliner but before the second plane crashed into his Mary Fetchet founding director of the voices of 11 family says i want people 100 years from now to be Able to listen to that the group is developing an internet a chive she Calls a owing memorial that will eventually hold commemorative information about All the As Well As survivors and so it has web pages that pay tribute to about 300