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19-YEAR-OLD MILFORD MAN CHARGED IN DEATH OF 22-M0NTH-0LD GIRL local, ei Get breaking news on your cell phone Text DELNEWS to 44636 to get breaking local news as it happens. Summer Bird, with Kent Desormeaux aboard, upset oday ww www.delawareonline.com June 7, 2009 $L50 'FINAL EDITION r-i Illfl AIlTIIJiinniV I i .1. oirral XX II 111 ill v- Airspeed sensors on doomed jet scrutinized 2 bodies, briefcase, ticket for Air France flight found in vast Atiantic search area 1 Imfm SCHOOL DISTRICT CONSOLIDATION Mergers seen as answer to costs Administrators' pay soaks up money, but many parents prefer local control By JENNIFER PRICE The News Journal The Sussex Technical School District has one school and 11 administrators. Between the district office and the high school, administration salaries total $1.1 million. The Polytech and Delmar school districts also each have one building with more than 10 administrators.

In a state grappling with an $800 million deficit, some legislators, state officials and parents think 19 school districts for 125,430 public school students is an inefficient, top-heavy system that protects political power and A Cameras are creeping up all over to catch crimes, but the electronic eyes may be prying into private life 31 By MARCO SIBAJA and EMMA VANDORE Associated Press RECIFE, Brazil Searchers found two bodies and the first confirmed debris a briefcase containing an Air France Flight 447 ticket in the Atlantic Ocean near where the jetliner is believed to have crashed, a Brazil military official said Saturday. The French agency investigating the disaster, meanwhile, said airspeed instruments were not replaced as the maker recommended before the plane disappeared in turbulent weather nearly a week ago during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people aboard. All were killed, the world's worst commercial air accident since 2001, and Air France's deadliest plane crash. The bodies of two male passengers were recovered Saturday morning about 45 miles south of where Air France Flight 447 emitted its last signals roughly 400 miles northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil's northern coast. Brazilian air force spokesman Col.

Jorge Amaral said an Air France ticket was found inside a leather briefcase. "It was confirmed with Air France that the ticket number corresponds to a passenger on the flight," he said. Admiral Edison Lawrence said the bodies were being transported to the Fernando de Noronha islands for identification. A backpack with a laptop and a vaccination card also were recovered. See CRASH A2 By MIKE CHALMERS The News Journal Have you been to lunch recently in downtown Wilmington? A traffic camera sent an image of your car to the Internet as you crossed Northeast Boulevard and East 12th Street.

A worker at Downtown Visions watched on a video monitor as you parked at 11th and Walnut streets. Security guards at one of the city's big corporations, using their own network of cameras mounted outside their building, watched you walk up to Rodney Square. So did the Down .1 INSIDE A district-by-district look at what school superintendents make. All ensures local control at too great a cost to the taxpayer. "Delaware has a payroll that is unsustainable today and certainly in D-DAY'S 65TH ANNIVERSARY Wim Wit' town Visions worker.

Stopping for cash at an ATM on Market Street put you on a few more video screens. Want a magazine? Two dozen cameras hang from the ceiling of the drugstore. The restaurant owner, or one of his employees, watched you eat lunch. If you did some shopping, the jewelry merchant and clothing retailer also caught you on camera. And while you were out: A city vehicle prowling the streets with a special camera snapped a picture of your car and compared your license plate with a database of parking-ticket scofHaws.

Paranoid yet? The use of surveillance cameras across the country has exploded in the past few years as they've gotten smaller, cheaper and easier to use. They're also more common because more people say they're willing to trade some anonymity for a stronger feeling of protection. "You feel like Big Brother's VI 'i': the future. The key is to get our payroll under control, and to do that, you have to look at administrative costs," said state Auditor R. Thomas Wagner Jr.

"How many people do you really need to run a school system?" Wagner proposes that the leadership of the three county-wide vocational school districts combine to operate under one superintendent, one business manager and one buildings supervisor. Such a move could cut 80 administrative positions nine of which have six-figure salaries and save more than $4.4 million, he said. He argues that at a time when cuts have to be made in education, administrators should be trimmed before teachers or paraprofessionals. "When you see what all those superintendents make and what countless office staff make, they would save thousands of dollars if they consolidated school management," said Nancy Quade, whose daughter, Rachel Cox, is a junior at Red Clay Consoli-dated's Cab Calloway School of the Arts. See CONSOLIDATION -All II IJ 1 1 i APREMY DE LA MAUV1NIERE President Barack Obama, veterans and others sing the national anthem Saturday during a service at the American Cemetery near Colleville-sur-Mer.

Let sacrifices of veterans shape future, Obama says By JENNIFER L0VEN Associated Press OMAHA BEACH, France President Barack Obama honored the valiant dead and the "sheer improbability" of their D-Day victory, commemorating Saturday's 65th anniversary of the decisive invasion even as he remakes two wars and tries to thwart potential nuclear threats in Iran and North Korea. The young U.S. commander in chief, speaking at the American Cemetery after the leaders of France. Canada and Britain, held up the sacrifices of D-Day veterans and their "unimaginable hell" as a lesson for modern times. "Friends and veterans, what we cannot forget what we must not forget is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century," he said.

See D-DAY -A2 1 rff r-- 1 M. i i watching," said Kim Gold, 48, of Wilmington. "I just hope he is. Wilmington is just not as safe as it used to be, so anything they can do to deter crime is great." Privacy advocates and civil libertarians have always been uneasy about that trade-off. Now, though, the next wave of video surveillance technology is poised to connect all those electronic eyes into a seamless network and pair it with such advances as facial-recognition software.

Police could be more effective at catching criminals, but businesses could also become more efficient at identifying customers, their buying habits and preferences. "Right now, all those cameras are disparate systems," said Stephen Henderson, who teaches criminal law and procedure at Widener University School of Law. "What happens when all those are put together? That's the critical question, and it's beginning to happen." See CAMERAS A14 Sen. Karen Peterson calls for three coun-tywide school districts in Del. Auditor R.

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