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BY JOHN MESSEDER Times Staff Writer Adams County court is the next scheduled stop for driver accused of causing a crash that closed an Adams County highway for three hours and sent three people to area hospitals. According to police, John Christopher Loubier, 34, of 40 Clines Church Road, Aspers, was eastbound on Pa. 394 shortly after 9 a.m. May 14, when he tried to pass a school bus, Instead, he crashed head-on into another vehicle, identified as Melanie A. Tate.

Trooper Daryl Elias described the section of Shrivers Corner Road, near Goldenville Road, Straban Township, as a with a posted 45 mph speed limit and a double-yellow center line. vehicle was not identified in the police reports, but Loubier was driving a 2004 Ford E-350 XLT Super Duty van. Rescue crews worked 45 minutes to extricate Loubier and his passenger from the van. Tate and passenger were airlifted to York Hospital; Loubier was transported by Biglerville ambulance to Gettysburg Hospital A blood test revealed cocaine metabolite and PCP (Phencyclidine) in system. He has been charged with aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, DUI (controlled substances), failure to drive in a single lane, unsafe speed, careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury, reckless driving, and passing without clear visibility.

Magisterial District Judge Thomas Carr ordered case held for Adams County Court of Common Pleas following a preliminary hearing Tuesday. Readers may contact John Messeder at MIDDLETOWN, Pa. The last ticket for the Pennsylvania July 7 (7-7-07) Millionaire Raffle was sold Friday at 6:01 p.m. at Trindle Mini Mart, 5272 E. Trindle Road, Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County.

Sales of Millionaire Raffle tickets began on May 29, and were to continue for six weeks until 5 p.m. July 7, or until all 625,000 tickets were sold. number has always been a popular number with lottery players, so we are excited to celebrate July 7, 2007, with a special Raffle said Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees. addition to selling out the 07-0707 Millionaire Raffle game, vari- ous combinations of for the BIG 4 game including 7-7-7-7 and 7-7-0-7 are sold out for the July 6 and July 7 mid-day and nighttime Lottery The winning raffle ticket numbers will be randomly selected at 7 p.m. on July 7, when the live drawing show will televise the selection of the five, $1 million, top-prize raffle ticket numbers and the five, $100,000, second-prize raffle ticket numbers.

The remaining 7,767 winning ticket numbers will also be selected, but will not be televised live due to time constraints. A complete list of all 7,777 winning Raffle ticket numbers will be available the following day on the Lottery Web site, http://www.palottery.com, and at Lottery retailers. The 07-07-07 Millionaire Raffle features 7,777 cash prizes totaling $6,456,700. The game will award five top prizes of $1 million, five $100,000 cash prizes, 200 prizes of $1,000 cash and 7,567 prizes of $100 cash. Trees reminded Millionaire Raffle players to sign the backs of their tickets and keep them in a safe place until the July 7 drawing.

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A collection of more than 50 troop transports, tankers and other vessels are rusting in limbo northeast of San Francisco. Such a step would set in motion the towing of some vessels from Suisun Bay, a shallow estuary, to the former Naval Air Station Alameda, where the warships would be scrubbed of sea life before being hauled to a ship- breaking facility in Texas. That scrubbing causes toxic paint to flake off into the water, and that is what worries environmentalists and state water-quality regulators. looks like using San Francisco Bay waters as a dumping said Michael Wall, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council who has followed the issue. Saul Bloom, executive director of Arc Ecology, a San Francisco environmental group working to make the ghost warships disappear, said the Maritime Administration to be the one agency that is most committed to ignoring the environmental Bloom said he was disappointed that the agency intended to scrub the warships at Alameda, a military base near Oakland that was shuttered a decade ago and portions of which are currently Superfund cleanup sites.

The ship- scrubbing could complicate ongoing cleanup efforts, he said. Moreover, Bloom said he was dismayed that the Maritime Administration had not committed to obtaining permits under the Clean Water Act for the scrubbing. Bruce Wolfe, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, said his agency charged with enforcing clean-water standards does not want to demand such permits from the Maritime Administration. Insisting on permits would slow the removal of the ships from Suisun Bay, Wolfe said. would much rather come to an agreement with them on what are the best management practices for scrubbing the warships, Wolfe said.

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12:00 a.m., Pfc. William Orth served a warrant on Crystal Perez, of Breckenridge St. for failure to pay a fine; Perez was taken into custody by Constable Redding. July 5 1:45 p.m., Pfc. William Laughman to a report of a criminal mischief, broken tree limb at the Rec Park; Park Director Beth Corson told police three white males were in the park.

One, wearing a black top with light colored shorts, shaved head and a narrow beard broke a limb off one of the trees outside the office. The other two men, one wearing a maroon top and black shorts, with a bald head and a narrow beard, the other was dark complected, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans. All three men left in a white Jeep Cherokee heading south on Long Lane. 9:27 p.m., Pfcs. Justin Rogerson, William Orth and Ryan Eiker responded to a report of a verbal domestic disturbance at 520 York Gettysburg.

Case closed, no arrests. John Messeder BY JOHN MESSEDER Times Staff Writer An Aspers man has been charged with assaulting his wife after the young son called police last month to report his father was beating his mother. Edward Allen Truax, 43, of 501 E. Company Farm Road has been charged with making terroristic threats, simple assault and harassment. State Tpr.

Daniel Devilbiss was sent to the home at about noon June 12. The year-old son called 9-1-1 to report his father was trying to break his arm and they were in the back yard When Devilbiss arrived, Truax had departed, but the officer reported the wife visibly shaken and appeared to have been crying. Her lip was slightly swollen and her left wrist appeared to be swollen and red. Her left wrist was clearly marked and was noticeably larger than that of her right She told the trooper she was in the rear yard with her husband and confronted him with information he had been seen at another house. He started shouting at her, then slapped her in the mouth and in the back of her head with an empty hand.

She said grabbed onto her left wrist and began twisting it back and forth, threatening to break it, and threatening to her teeth victim stated that this is not the first time he has struck Devilbiss reported, said she was in fear of her life and personal safety as well as her Devilbiss said the son had witnessed the entire fight until he went into the house to call 9-1-1. was visibly upset and shaking because of what he had the trooper reported. Truax was bound over to Adams County Court of Common Pleas June 28 by Magisterial District Judge Thomas Carr. Readers may contact John Messeder at Aspers suspect bound to court Attempt pass on curvy, hilly road sends two to hospital and driver to court Cutting the ribbon signifying the re-opening of Journey under new management, the owner Amanda Kunkel stands between Carrie Stuart, office manager for the Gettysburg Adams Chamber of Commerce and Jonathan Holmes, chairman of the board for the Chamber. The store, at 341 Baltimore St.

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as we get paid to do our work here, this is what they get paid said McDonald, 33, of Elizabethtown. not doing their Across the capital, state workers whose jobs have been deemed will be indefinitely furloughed without pay at 12:01 a.m. Monday unless a budget is approved before then expressed anger, frustration and resignation over the prospect of the unprecedented action. The state government has operated without a budget since Sunday. just think this should have ever happened.

out of our hands. We have no said Sheila Miller, 57, of Shippensburg, a clerk for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, where nearly half of the prospective furloughs are scheduled to occur. are very upset about this, because we think this would really Miller said. Melanie Sterling, 46, of Bernville, a PennDOT manager with 23 years at the department, thinks more could have been done to avoid the present circumstances. know they have to pass a budget yearly, and it seems to me they should be working on it harder so it get to this she said.

During a monthlong budget showdown in 1991, state paychecks were deferred, but unpaid furloughs have not previously gotten beyond the threat stage. This year, there is a growing sense that a timely compromise is impossible and furloughs inevitable. If furloughs occur, all state parks and driver licensing centers will close Monday. So will five slot- machine casinos, which are electronically monitored by state Revenue Department employees who would be laid off. Liquor stores and the state lottery would continue to operate, however, because they are financed with the money they generate and not from the general fund.

Nearly 52,000 workers with responsibilities, including state police and prison guards, would continue to work and be paid on time. The rest about 2,000 top administration officials would continue to work but would not be paid until a new budget is in place. The threat of a partial government shutdown was not precipitated by a financial crisis. In fact, the state ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of nearly $650 million. Furlough prospect worries workers.