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Time: 05-03-2010 21:44 User: mmatherly PubDate: 05-04-2010 Zone: KY Edition: 1 Page Name: A1 Color: Bftapbnta IVIEET FEATURESlD1 SPIKE Tortoise makes his home at Wayside Christian Mission SPORTS CI guigiey moving to head of class UK singles player wants title 75 CENTS METRO EDITION LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010 USPS 135567 "TOM Global link eyed in N.Y. bomb try White House spokesman Robert Gibbs characterized the incident for the first time Monday as an attempted act of terrorism. it was connected to international terrorism, a senior law enforcement source said Monday. The New York Police Department had been overseeing the investigation, but responsibility for it has shifted to a joint terrorism task force. Obama administration officials said the incident increasingly appears to have been coordinated by more than one person in a plot with international links.

The White House intensified its were set ablaze but failed to detonate at the tourist-crowded corner of Broadway and 45th Street. Emerging from a series of briefings, several officials said it was premature to rule out any motive but said the sweeping, multistate investigation was turning up new clues. One federal law enforcement official said that, while investigators are examining unspecified international communications that may be connected to the attack, "That doesn't get you to an international plot, a multiorganizational plot." "We're just not there," the official said. The White House also characterized the incident for the first time as an attempted act of terrorism. "I would say that was intended See BOMB, A4, col.

1 FBI-led task force takes over inquiry By Spencer S. Hsu, Jerry Markon and Anne E. Kornblut The Washington Post An FBI-led terrorism task force has taken over the investigation of a failed car bombing in Times Square because of indications that focus on the failed bombing Saturday in New York City, in which explosives inside a Nissan Pathfinder BP offers to pay for oil cleanup, COLD CASE 1 1965 MURDER OF ALBERTA JONES Finally, a suspect but no trial some damages sonal injury and commercial loss Lifestyles and livelihoods at stake es. President Barack Obama and several attorneys general have asked the company to explain what exactly that means. BP spokesman David Nicholas said the company doesn't know how much the cleanup will cost and hasn't decided how to pay for it.

People like Dana Powell, manager of the Paradise Inn in Pensa-cola Beach, have feared what will happen to the Gulf Coast's staple industries such as tourism and commercial fishing. "Now when there's a hurricane, we know it's going to level things, devastate things, be a huge mess and it's going to take several See SPILL, A4, col. 4 By Holbrook Mohr and Allen G. Breed Associated Press VENICE, La. BP PLC gave some assurance Monday to shrimpers, oil workers and scores of others that they will be paid for damage and injuries from the explosion of a drilling rig and the resulting massive oil spill in the Gulf.

A fact sheet on the company website says BP takes responsibility for cleaning up the spill and will pay compensation for "legitimate and objectively verifiable" claims for property damage, per Louisville sea captain to help combat spill High-tech ship will head to site By Matt Stone, The Courier-Journal Flora Shanklin, whose sister was killed in 1965, said she was disappointed about the decision not to indict a suspect. She said, "He's lived free for 45 years and, evidently, he doesn't have much of a conscience." Evidence insufficient for conviction, prosecutors say By Jessie Halladay The Courier-Journal 1 By Chris Kenning The Courier-Journal A Louisville sea captain will sail his high-tech ship from Texas on Tuesday to join the effort in the Gulf of Mexico to seal off a leaking oil well 5,000 feet underwater that is quickly becoming a major environmental disaster. Pete Hall, 54, who lives in the Audubon Park neighborhood, works for Ocean Services in Seattle. He is the captain of the 270-foot Galveston-based ship Ocean Carrier, which has helped map ocean floors and repair offshore drilling equipment. Its cutting-edge "dynamic position system" allows it to remain in place without anchors while its 150-ton crane lowers equipment such as remote-controlled submarines, drills, divers and equipment through a "moon pool," or circular hole in the middle of the ship.

Although Hall didn't know his exact duties yet, he planned to For nearly 45 years, Flora Shanklin has wondered who murdered her sister the first female prosecutor in Jefferson County and threw her body from the Sherman Minton Bridge. Last week, a Louisville Metro Police sergeant went to Shanklin's home and told her that police believe they've solved the case and have a suspect but there will be no trial because there is no longer enough evidence to get a conviction. In an April 23 letter to police, Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel said he would not seek an indictment in the Aug. 5, 1965, murder of Alberta Jones because, "short of the suspect confessing to the crime, it would not be feasible to prosecute See COLD CASE, A2, col. 2 IMP Pete Hall, who lives in Louisville's Audubon Park neighborhood, isn't sure what he'll be doing, but he will leave Texas for a staging area near the oil spill Tuesday night.

leave Galveston on Tuesday night with his crew for a staging area near Port Fourchon, where BP is having several 74-ton, 40-foot-high concrete domes built in hopes of funneling the oil so it can be pumped into ships. Once they arrive there, Hall will learn how he will help corral the spill, which is sending 210,000 gallons of crude into the Gulf of See OIL, A4, col. 1 1965 Courier-Journal photo Alberta Jones, a prosecutor in domestic relations court, confers with acting Judge Robert Haddad just months before her slaying. BREAKING NEWS momslike' INDEX 30 PAGES Business B8 Lottery A2 Comics D4 Metro Bl Deaths B5 Movies D3 Editorial A6 Sports CI Features Dl TV D5 ON YOUR CELL PHONE WEATHER B2 36-HOUR FORECAST Louisville area: Cloudy early turning sunny this afternoon. Clear tonight.

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