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Ninety people have been questioned so far in the investigation and nine people close to the two suspects Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his 34-year-old brother Said Kouachi were detained for further questioning, officials said. Authorities extended maximum terror alert from Paris to the northern Picardie region, focusing on several towns that might be possible safe havens for the two suspects, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters. French President Hollande joined by residents, tourists and Muslim leaders called for tolerance after the worst terrorist attack in decades. At noon, the Paris metro came to a standstill and a crowd fell silent near Notre Dame cathedral to honor victims. has been struck directly in the heart of its capital, in a place where the spirit of liberty and thus of resistance breathed Hollande said.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the possibility of a new attack our main and announced several overnight arrests. Tensions ran high in Paris, where 800 extra police patrolled schools, places of worship and transit hubs. Britain increased its security checks at ports and borders. The satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and witnesses said the attackers claimed allegiance to al-Qaida in Yemen. Around the world, from Berlin to Bangkok, thousands filled squares and streets, holding up pens to defend freedom of speech and honor those killed in the massacre.

only thing we can do is to live wrote Kai Diekmann, editor in chief of Bild, biggest-selling daily. colleagues in Paris have paid the ultimate price for freedom. We bow before French police detain 9 in hunt for 2 brothers From top: People light candles as flowers, pens and placards reading suis (I am Charlie) are placed to show solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Thursday in Bayonne, France. Marine Le Pen, leader of far right National Front political party, speaks during a rally during the 2012 French presidential election. A French soldier patrols Thursday at the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris.

French President Hollande raised the terror alert to its highest level in Paris and Picardie, a region north of the capital, as the hunt for two suspects widened. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANHUNT FOR SUSPECTS Paris attack raises fears of surge for extreme right BERLIN A day after terror struck Paris, resurgent far-right and anti-immigrant parties trumpeted a unified message: I told you so. In the nation hit by the terror, Marine Le Pen, leader of the surging far-right National Front, urged the French to wake up to the threat of Islamic fundamentalism: time of denial, hypocrisy is no longer Populist movements warning of the of Europe have been gaining ground across the continent, in small countries like Denmark and large ones like Britain, Germany and France. The attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo could win more supporters to their cause. Fears of precisely the kind of commando-style attack that struck the newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people, have risen sharply in recent months as home-grown fighters return from Syria and Iraq.

Such warnings have been aired across the political spectrum, but the anti-immigrant parties that have reaped the biggest benefits. Now the surreal scenes of carnage on a quiet Parisian street with cartoonists as victims are likely to feed into the arguments of right- wing forces that have been the loudest in declaring Islam to be incompatible with Western values. There are concerns that more mainstream Europeans will be pulled into their orbit and that mainstream parties will be tempted to parrot the hardline rhetoric. ARK HERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON The Supreme Court has quietly engineered a dramatic increase in the number of states that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. That increase also has raised the chances the justices soon will settle the legal debate.

Some justices expressed reluctance about deciding the issue when more than half the country prohibited same-sex unions. With Florida joining in this week, 36 states allow them, nearly twice as many as just three months ago. The growth come from an outpouring of public support expressed in voting booths or state legislatures, but from the high surprising refusal last October to review lower court rulings in favor of same- sex marriages or to block them from taking effect. The justices now face a situation in which just 14 states prohibit such unions, a number that may give comfort to a court that does not like to be too far ahead of the country. Three earlier seminal rulings that outlawed state-backed discrimination in education, on interracial marriage and in criminal prohibitions against gay sex were issued when a similar number of states still had the discriminatory laws on their books.

no question that they knew what they were doing in October. They knew the implications of what they were said Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who represented New Yorker Edie Windsor in her successful Supreme Court challenge in 2013 to part of the federal anti-gay marriage law, the Defense of Marriage Act. The Supreme Court again is considering whether to hear a gay marriage case, and another factor has raised the likelihood the justices will do so. In November, the federal court of appeals based in Cincinnati became the first, and so far only, appellate court to uphold state bans on same-sex marriage. Plaintiffs from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee are asking to court to reverse that decision.

Supreme Court weighs marriage Decision on same-sex unions may be soon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO Gay rights advocate Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag June 26, 2013, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. BRIEFS STATE Bitter cold grips state again, closing schools INDIANAPOLIS Many of school districts have canceled classes, some for a second straight day, as bitter cold continued its hold over the state. Temperatures had fallen to between minus 5 and minus 10 by daybreak Thursday across all but far southern Indiana, where readings were hovering just above zero. Indianapolis fell to minus 6, Lafayette was at minus 9 and Bloomington dropped to minus 4. But it felt even colder.

Winds were pushing wind chills to between 15 and 25 degrees below zero across northern and central counties, where a wind chill warning remained in place throughout Thursday. Three of largest school districts, Fort Wayne Community Schools, Indianapolis Public Schools and South Bend Community Schools, canceled classes, as did numerous other districts in the wind chill warning area. Oil-drilling cash cow for Indiana State University TERRE HAUTE An oil-drilling boom at Indiana State downtown Terre Haute campus has generated about $350,000 in royalties for the school thanks to an Illinois company. ISU vice president for business affairs Diann McKee told the Tribune-Star the money from Lawrenceville, Illinois-based Pioneer Oil drilling operations is going toward the western Indiana maintenance needs. She said ISU is grateful to have the extra cash stream because it certainly complete some of the deferred maintenance projects.

Pioneer Oil signed an oil and gas lease with ISU in 2012 and began drilling in May into oil reserves beneath Terre Haute. Pioneer Oil also has other leases in Terre Haute that are sending royalties to the Vigo County School some businesses and churches. OM AVIES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS Funding for Indiana schools would increase slightly over the next two years, with much of that money going toward additional spending for private school vouchers and charter schools under Republican Gov. Mike budget proposal released Thursday. The plan presented to legislators would increase school funding by 2 percent, or $134 million, in the first year of the state budget, and then by 1 percent in the second year.

It would give $1,500 more per student for charter schools at an estimated cost of $41 million over the two years. It also lifts the school voucher limit on per-student funding, which the Pence administration projects will cost $4 million yearly. The proposal for spending about $31 billion over two years would leave the state with a reserve of nearly $2 billion without any proposed tax changes, said Chris Atkins, director of the Office of Management and Budget. Democrats, who are badly outnumbered in the General Assembly, said proposals for additional voucher and charter school spending will come at the expense of traditional public schools. They also faulted the plan for not adding money for needs such as hiring more child welfare case workers while spending cash on some $700 million in building and highway projects.

The budget proposal kept total state spending growth to about 1.3 percent over the next two years, Atkins said, even though a report released last month projected that state tax revenues could grow by double that amount. Atkins said the administration wanted to hold spending down because tax revenues have been some $240 million short this fiscal year from what was projected when legislators approved the last state budget in 2013. Pence proposes boost for charter schools, vouchers PENCE BRIEF NATION Honda fined $70 million for injury complaints WASHINGTON The Obama administration said Thursday it is fining Honda $70 million the largest civil penalty levied against an automaker for not reporting to regulators some 1,729 complaints that its vehicles caused deaths and injuries, and for not reporting warranty claims. The Japanese automaker acknowledged in November that it failed to report the death and injury complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over an 11-year period beginning in 2003. The company admitted it learned of the omissions in 2011 but had waited three years to take action..