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Romney rivals seek S.C. theme Paterno speaks out after firing 4th homeless man killed in month
With a week left to halt Mitt Romney Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno Police detained a man in connection
from sweeping to a third straight victory, said he “didn’t know which way to go” with the latest stabbing death of a home-
his GOP rivals are struggling in South Car- after an assistant coach came to him in less man in Orange County as a task
olina for a theme, momentum and most 2002 saying he had seen retired defen- forced investigated if there were any links
crucially, one strong challenger to consoli- sive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually to the slayings of three other homeless
date conservatives’ misgivings about the abusing a boy. men, believed to be the work of a serial
front-runner. In his first public comments since be- killer.
The dynamics that lifted Romney to wins ing fired two months ago, Paterno told The dead man was found between 8
in Iowa and New Hampshire seem to be The Washington Post that assistant Mike p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday near a fast-food
working for him here, even though South McQueary “didn’t want to get specific” restaurant at the intersection of La Palma
Carolina is often described as too evangelical about details in his 2002 allegation in- Avenue and Imperial Highway in Ana-
and culturally southern for his background. volving Sandusky, who he claimed was heim, police said.
In some ways, the former Massachusetts showering with a boy in the Penn State Witnesses followed a man who ran from
governor is lucky, benefitting from a frac- football facility. the restaurant parking lot and led police to
tured opposition that has divided the anti- The Post reported Saturday that Paterno him, Anaheim police Deputy Chief Craig
Romney vote for months. In other ways, he was hesitant to make follow-up calls be- Hunter told the Orange County Register.
is benefiting from shrewd and well-orga- cause he didn’t want to be seen as trying to He was taken to the Anaheim Police De- the associated press
nized supporters. He uses TV ads to shore exert influence for or against Sandusky. partment for questioning. anaheIM PolIce investigate the scene
up his weaknesses and to batter the rivals Paterno reported the allegation to his where a homeless man was found stabbed
he sees as most threatening. superiors. From Associated Press reports to death behind a carl’s Jr. restaurant.
Seeking revenue, U.S. states turn to gambling
■ Casino plans are the site in October. a promise of a rich new reve-
sprouting all over the The proposal came less nue source, plus the possibil-
country as a growing than two months after once- ity of stimulating tourism.
puritanical Massachusetts “They are faced with tough
number of eastern passed a law allowing up to decisions. They are in reces-
states are embracing three resort casinos, plus a sion ... And we pay taxes far
gambling as a way to slot machine parlor, at loca- over and above normal tax-
tions around the state. es,” said Frank Fahrenkopf,
lure visitors and drum Ohio is poised to see its president of the American
up revenue. first commercial casinos Gaming Association.
open this year, after voters Last week alone,
By DaVID B. carUso approved up to four gam- Genting’s new gambling
the associated press bling halls in 2009. Mary- parlor at Aqueduct, now
land’s first casino opened limited to 4,500 video slot
NEW YORK — A Ma- last year, with more on the machines and another 500
laysian company’s plan to way. Pennsylvania’s first ca- electronic table games,
build a $4 billion conven- sinos opened in 2006, and made nearly $13 million
tion center and big-time already the state is threat- — putting the “racino” on
casino on the outskirts of ening to surpass Atlantic pace to make $676 million
New York City could be the City as the nation’s second- per year, with 44 percent the associated press
biggest shot fired yet in a largest gambling market. of that take going to a state thIs artIst renDerInG provided by the Genting Group shows a $4 billion convention
tourism arms race that has And in Florida, lawmak- education fund. center and casino planned for the aqueduct racetrack in the Queens borough of New York.
seen a growing number of ers are hotly debating a And that total is noth-
Eastern states embrace gam- whopper of a bill that would ing compared to the $1.4 to lost $4 billion in 2011, ac- phia, according to David locals taking revenue from
bling as a way to lure visitors allow up to three multibil- $2 billion per year Genting cording to a report released Schwartz, director of the other parts of the economy,
and drum up revenue. lion-dollar casinos, plus ad- predicts it would bring in at this month by the state’s Center for Gaming Re- rather than out-of-state visi-
New York Gov. Andrew ditional slot machines at dog the huge complex it is plan- Gaming Control Board, search at the University of tors bringing in new dollars,
Cuomo announced last and horse tracks. Genting ning in Miami. as the state continued to Nevada Las Vegas. said the Institute on Taxa-
week that he would work appears confident the law Some experts, however, feel the effects of the global That trend could deepen tion and Economic Policy,
with the Genting Group, will pass. It already has have questioned whether economic slump. with the introduction of a Washington D.C. research
one of the world’s largest spent about $450 million to revenue bonanzas that As gambling options big-time gambling in New group that advocates for
and most successful gam- acquire waterfront property large are realistic, and say have increased in the York and Massachusetts, progressive tax codes.
bling companies, to trans- in Miami, where it wants to states should be cautious East, revenue has slid and in the end result in a “Gambling may simply
form the storied, but sleepy, build a $3.8 billion complex about giving up too much substantially at the pair situation where few people shift money from one tax to
Aqueduct horse track into that would include a casino, to lure these projects. Com- of Indian tribe-owned ca- need to travel to gamble. another, limiting the net gain
a megaplex that eventually dozens of restaurants and a petition for a limited pool sinos in Connecticut and And that could mean to the state,” it said. “Con-
would include the nation’s shopping mall. of gambling and tourism declined by a dramatic 30 that the tourism promise sumers spend more money
largest convention center, States have embraced dollars already is fierce, percent in Atlantic City, of the casinos largely goes on gambling activities, they
3,000 hotel rooms, and a casinos, after years of trepi- and recent years haven’t which has lost customers unfulfilled, as the gambling will spend less money on
major expansion of a casi- dation about their societal been kind to casinos. in droves to the new ca- tables and slot machines are other items, such as recre-
no that began operating at costs, for two simple reasons: Nevada’s larger casinos sinos in nearby Philadel- played predominantly by ation and even basic needs.”
Bomb plot suspect was radical, loner
By taMara lUsh
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rapped about bombs and
killing in a song he made
Family members told
the press that Osmakac
lage next to Lubizde, Dedaj,
is comprised entirely of Ro-
We know
Heating.
the associated press with a friend. As he grew was born in the village of man Catholic ethnic Alba-
older, they said, he grew in- Lubizde in Kosovo, a tiny nians.
TAMPA, Fla. — The creasingly confrontational: hamlet of scattered houses Osmakac spent his early
Kosovo-born American One Tampa-area activist near the Cursed Moun- years in a home shared
citizen accused of plot- said Osmakac physically tains, a row of snowcapped among his father and two
ting bomb attacks around threatened him, and Os- peaks that divide Kosovo uncles, but difficult living
Tampa was a loner who had makac was jailed on charges from Albania. The area is conditions and simmer-
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grown increasingly radical that he head-butted a Chris- home to many adherents to ing ethnic intolerance sent
in his Muslim faith and tian preacher as the two ar- Sufism, a mystical Islamic the family searching for
publicly railed against Jews gued over religion outside a order whose members of- prosperity elsewhere. Os-
and Christians in videos Lady Gaga concert. ten pray over the tombs makac’s family, like many
he posted on the Internet, Osmakac, 25, is now of revered saints. The Os- who fled, brought their tra-
according to relatives and jailed on a federal charge of makacs are followers of a ditional trade of baking to
friends. attempting to use a weapon Sufi sect that has its own what are now Croatia and
Sami Osmakac’s life in of mass destruction and shrine just outside the vil- Bosnia, where they have re-
the United States began could face life in prison if lage. Kosovo’s tiny Roman mained since Yugoslavia’s
about a dozen years ago, convicted. U.S. authorities Catholic minority also re- break-up after a series of
when he was 13 and his said he planned to use a car sides in the area, as the vil- ethnic wars in the 1990s.
family immigrated to the bomb, assault rifle and oth-
United States, according to er explosives in an Islamist-
a video he posted on You- inspired attack on various
Tube. Those who know Os- locations around Tampa,
makac said he mostly kept including a sheriff’s office.
to himself as a high school- His family in Florida has
er who loved rap music and said the charges are untrue.
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