| Al Qaeda-Linked Insurgents Claim Convoy Attack
An al Qaeda-linked coalition of Iraqi Sunni insurgents claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack in Baghdad on a convoy of a Western democracy institute that killed a 28-year-old Ohio woman and three security contractors.The Washington-based National Democratic Institute identified its slain staffer as Andrea Parhamovich of Perry, Ohio. Contractors from Hungary, Croatia and Iraq also were killed in the ambush Wednesday. Two other people were wounded, one seriously.Parhamovich, a graduate of Marietta College in southeast Ohio, had been working with NDI in Iraq since late 2006 as a communications specialist advising Iraqi political parties on how to reach out to voters and constituents. She was helping "build the kind of national level political institutions that can help bridge the sectarian divide and improve Iraqi lives," NDI said.In the rural neighborhood where Parhamovich's parents live, David Rolfes of NDI and Parhamovich's brother-in-law, Joe Zampini, stood at a church across the road and asked reporters not to approach the family's home.
Georgia Driver Education: Required Teen Driver Course Now Offered ...
ATLANTA, Jan. 19, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Safety Council, in conjunction with AAA and Taggart's Driving School, announces the approval of its 30-hour online driver education course that meets Georgia's new Joshua's Law requirements for teen drivers and is approved by the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS). Called Joshua's Law, the State of Georgia now requires 16-year-olds to complete an approved driver education course in order to receive their Class D License. The law was passed in response to the ever-growing overrepresentation of youthful, novice drivers in traffic crash and fatality statistics. Joshua's Law became effective on January 1, 2007. The primary objective of this course which is available at www.JoshuasLaw.com is to provide novice drivers with the knowledge required to effectively make responsible and well-reasoned decisions while driving.
Man praised for pulling dad from fire now accused in his death
A Santa Cruz man praised for rushing inside his burning home to pull his paralyzed father out is now a suspect in the elderly man's death. Ruben Ramirez Leon Jr., 41, was arrested last week and involuntary manslaughter charges were expected to be filed this week, Deputy District Attorney Celia Rowland said Tuesday. She wouldn't discuss details of the investigation. Leon allegedly left on a heater that started the Dec. 9 fire, investigators said. Ruben Ramirez Leon Sr., 82, died of smoke inhalation and there was $300,000 damage to the Almar Avenue home. When fire crews arrived, the younger Leon told firefighters his father was still inside the burning house. He then rushed inside to get him, authorities said at the time. Firefighters followed and pulled both men to safety.
Uganda: Who Was Alice Lakwena?
Alice Auma was born in 1956 to Severino Lukoya, a catechist for the Church of Uganda in Bungatira in Gulu district, and Iberina Ayaa. She was raised as an Anglican and attended Bungatira Primary School to Primary Seven. After leaving school, she married in Patiko but separated from her husband because she was barren. She later married Alex Okello but separated from him after three years for the same reason. She returned to her father's home in 1979 and engaged in trade in Opit where she bought flour which she sold in Pakwach. She later converted to Roman Catholicism. .
Loud and clear: The newest, biggest in home electronics
Norma Desmond would have been thrilled by the most prominent trend at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show: Home-theater pictures are getting bigger - and louder and clearer. All the better for her close-up. This year's show also offered many products at the small end of the spectrum, including a personal-protection device that the fictional silent-screen siren could have used to send Joe Gillis more gently into her Sunset Boulevard swimming pool. About 150,000 people browsed through 20,000 new products last week at the show in Las Vegas. Here are just a few items that grabbed our attention amid the onslaught of news releases, booming sounds, disco balls, and saleswomen in dresses with rapidly converging necklines and hemlines: Sharp's new 108-inch liquid crystal display television.
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