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Pensacola News Journal Saturday, March 8, 2008 Page edited by Phil Nickinson, 435-8672 after 4 p.m. SEVERE WEATHER MILITARY BRIEFS Man gets 18 months for threat SALT LAKE CITY A man who threatened to blow up Hill Air Force Base and kill his wife and children unless soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were withdrawn has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. William Jeffrey Stiffler also must pay $100,000 for the cost of evacuating and searching the base last July, U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart ordered Thursday. Stiffler, 40, said mental-health issues contributed to his decision to make the threats and apologized.

He has a history of problems, such as depression and bipolar disorder, said his attorney, Robert Steele. "I took the wrong path," Stiffler said. "I regret my threatening behavior has led to this." Stiffler admitted to e-mailing two threats, which referred to six hostages in Idaho identified as his family and another acquaintance, to FBI headquarters under someone else's name on July 21. .1. Vl jU -Jr -'V.

-r "Hygj 2A Bush expected to veto torture ban WASHINGTON The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding a technique that simulates drowning and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects. Bush has said the bill would harm the government's ability to prevent future attacks. Supporters of the legislation argue that it preserves the United States' right to collect critical intelligence while boosting the country's moral standing abroad. "The bill would take Doug FingerAssociated Press A mobile home in Lake City was destroyed by a tornado that touched down Friday morning. Two killed as storms hit N.

Florida Tree crushes woman in mobile home; man killed in post-storm accident Local rainfall About eight-tenths of an jinch of rain was recorded jFriday at Pensacola Regional Airport, according to the National Weather service. Soldiers charged in two deaths 20 minutes. The National Weather Service said radar data at the time of the storm showed winds of 90 mph. The airport is about a mile north of the area where the tornado hit. He said the airport was without power for about two hours and they just got back up Friday afternoon.

The tornado was spawned by a fast-moving storm which raced across northern Florida, producing high winds and heavy rains. State emergency officials said two other tornadoes touched down in the tiny coastal town of Keaton Beach on the Gulf of Mexico and Capitola, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Tallahassee. In Capitola, a handful of homes were destroyed, while others were damaged. Associated Press LAKE CITY A tornado ripped through this northern Florida city on Friday, turning a home on its side, scattering debris everywhere and killing two people, officials said. A woman was killed when a tree fell on her mobile home and a man was killed while attempting to connect a generator after the power was knocked out by the twister that struck Friday morning, said Harvey Campbell, a spokesman for Columbia County Emergency Management.

Authorities have not identified the victims. The tornado, which tore a swath about 3 miles in the northern part of Lake City, damaged a few businesses and more than 20 homes. Power is still out in much of the community, Campbell said. Dan Helton, 36, a mason, said the powerful storm picked up his house off its concrete block foundation and dropped it on its side. Helton was in the kitchen when he saw a big pecan tree fall nearby.

Then the door blew in and his television, refrigerator and furniture started falling into the kitchen as the house tumbled, he said. "I didn't know what was happening. I knew it must have been a tornado. It was like a big suction," Helton said. "It was over in a matter of minutes." Helton and his wife, Lisa, 32, and his parents visiting THE FULL COST OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE CITY OF PENSACOLA, FLORIDA FOR FY 2006 2007 Bush presses other nations to support Cuban people COLLECTION COST from Ohio received only minor bumps and bruises.

But they lost everything in their rented home. "I don't know what we are 'going to do," said Helton, whose family spent Friday night in a shelter. Power poles and tree limbs were snapped and lines were down throughput the city. The winds even overturned a UPS delivery truck. I Jonathan Fish, a lineman at the Lake City Airport, said they had 55-mph to 60-mph wind gusts at the airport for about 15 to prison for their participation in peaceful activities, including Amaya's brothers, Ariel and Guida Sigler Amaya.

"For Miguel and Josefa, the horrors of life in Cuba are behind them, but millions of others are still trapped in the tropical gulag," Bush said. "Yet most of the world says nothing." The president said the global community has largely remained silent in recent months, even as dozens of young Cubans wearing "change" bracelets were arrested, as Cuban authorities raided a Catholic church to spray parishioners with tear gas and drag them away. Last weekend, activists distributing copies of the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights were pushed and beaten. away one of the most valuable tools on the war on terror," deputy White House press secretary Tony Fratto said Friday.

The bill would restrict the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation techniques listed in the Army field manual. The legislation would bar the CIA from using waterboarding, sensory deprivation or other coercive methods to break a prisoner who refuses to answer questions. Those practices were banned by the military in 2006, but the president wants the harsh interrogation methods to be a part of the CIA's toolbox. dishonorable discharge, a reduction in rank and a forfeiture of all pay and allowances. Davila, a chemical operations specialist, is accused of killing Sgt.

Randi J. Miller, of Company Madigan Army Medical Center; and her husband Staff Sgt. Timothy J. Miller, of the 47th Combat Support Hospital, 62nd Medical Brigade, on Saturday in their suburban Parkland home. From wire service reports $4,751,897 $904,039 $5,655,936 $22.20 City gerk DISPOSAL COST TOTAL ANNUAL COSTS FOR RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES WASHINGTON not been, silent, nor will we be silent," he said.

"When a new day finally dawns for Cubans, they h. Bush will remember the few brave nations that stood with them, and the many that did not." Bush spoke after meeting in the Oval Office with former prisoner Miguel Sigler Amaya and his wife, Josefa Lopez Pena. Five years ago this month, in what Bush called "a trag-" ic moment in the history of Cuba," Amaya was among scores arrested for offenses against the regime. He was released in 2006 and ordered to leave the country with his wife. But 55 of the 75 pro-democracy activists arrested in that 2003 crackdown remain hv MONTHLY COSTS PER CUSTOMER FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES A Fort Lewis, soldier on Thursday was charged with murder in the deaths of two fellow soldiers, according to a statement from the base.

The Army charged Spc. Ivette Davila, 22, with two counts of premeditated murder, and one count each of burglary, kidnapping and obstruction of justice. If convicted of the charges, Davila faces a maximum punishment of confinement for life, a (SEAL) Deb Riechmann Associated Press WASHINGTON President Bush chastised most other countries Friday for "a sad and curious pattern" of doing little to speak out against human rights and political abuses in Cuba. "Unfortunately, the list of countries supporting the Cuban people is far too short and the democracies absent from that list are far too notable," Bush said at the White House. The "small band of brave nations" speaking out for freedom in Cuba include, Bush said, his own administration as well as nations that were in the Communist bloc but are now democratic such as the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

"The United States has NOTE: (1) COLLECTION OF RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE IN THE CITY OF PENSACOLA IS MANDATORY. ACTUAL COSTS FOR SERVICES SHOWN APPLY ONLY TO RESIDENTIAL USERS SERVICED BY THE CITY OF PENSACOLA. (2) THECITYOFPENSACOLASANITATIONACTIVITYIS ATRUEENTERPRISEFUNCTION WHICH DOESNOT RECEIVE ANY GENERAL FUND SUBSIDIES OF ANY KIND. (3) CITY ORDINANCE 14-07 ALLOWS FOR THE PASS-THROUGH OF VEHICLE FUEL AND LUBRICANT CHARGES TO CUSTOMERS. IN ADDITION TO THE $22.20 MONTHLY COSTS PER CUSTOMER FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, A MONTHLY COST PER CUSTOMER FOR THE FUEL SURCHARGE RANGED BETWEEN $1.30 AND $1.75 PER MONTH The undersigned, duly authorized representatives of the City of Pensacola HEREBY CERTIFY THAT: The solid waste management full cost disclosure notice for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007 does not, to the best of my knowledge, contain any untrue statements or calculation or fail to present any materiai which should be included for the purpose of informing the pijblic the full costs of solid waste management in accordance with F.S.

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