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LENT BEGINS Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren embarks on mu conversation Page B5 INSURANCE PLAN If Chase Utley cant go, joe Blanton may have to go Page Cl pt. Police: Maeheim teens speeding Texts show they wanted to jump hill lets pummel ILibyai mi rebels Boyd bill expands teacher layoffs School districts want the freedom to furlough teachers for economic reasons. The teachers union opposes the measure. BY BRIAN WALLACE StaffWriter State Rep. Scott Boyd of West Lampeter has introduced legislation that would make it easier for schools to furlough teachers for economic reasons.

Boyd last week introduced House Bill 855, which would amend the School Code to give school districts more discretion in implementing layoffs. The legislation is similar to a bill introduced last month in the Senate by state Sen. Mike Folmer of Lebanon. The state teachers union has objected to the changes, claiming the Please see BILL page A5 More calls heard for no-fly zone BYPAULSCHEMM and RYAN LUCAS Associated Press RAS LANOUF, Libya Repeated airstrikes by Libyan warplanes on Monday illustrated the edge Moammar Gadhafi holds in his fight against rebel forces marching toward the capital: He controls the air. After pleas from the uprisings leaders, Britain and France began drafting a U.N.

resolution for a no-fly zone in Libya that could balance the scales. President Barack Obama warned that the U.S. and its NATO allies are still considering military options to stop what he called unacceptable" violence by Gadhafis regime. NATO decided to boost flights of AWACs surveillance planes over Libya from 10 to 24 hours a day, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder said.

I want to Suzette Wenger Staff 1 students in January. Police now say the students were traveling at 80 to 90 miles per hour, when their car collided with an oncoming This stretch of Mount Wilson Road in southern Lebanon County shows little evidence Monday of the fatal accident that claimed the lives of four Manheim Central High School U.S.-LIbya Fighting complicates politics in Washington Page A4 See a drivers-eye view of Mount Wilson Road at the scene of the fatal crash. IN BRIEF U.S., Afghanistan to negotiate security deal Defense Secretary Robert Gates said a team of U.S. officials would arrive in Afghanistan next week to begin negotiations over a new compact for U.S.-Afghan security relations after 2014. Page A2 Why Hawkes wont vouch for voucher bill Columnist Jeff Hawkes explains what he believes is wrong with a proposed Pennsylvania school voucher bill.

Page B1 Cost of oil down, price of gas up. What gives? What you pay at your gas station depends on an array of factors, from what happens on an exchange in New York to what the competition is charging. Page B7 WEATHER send a very clear message to those who are around Colonel Gadhafi. It is their choice to make how they operate moving forward. And they will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place, Obama said during remarks in the Oval Office Monday.

Libyan warplanes launched multiple airstrikes Monday on opposition fighters regrouping at the oil port of Ras Lanouf on the Mediterranean coast a day after they were driven back by a heavy government counteroffensive aimed at stopping the rebel drive toward Tripoli, Gadhafis stronghold. One strike hit near a gas station in Ras Lanouf, blasting two large craters in the road and wounding at least two people in a pick-up truck. The rebels oppose any Western ground troops deploying in Libya, but theyre pressing for a no-fly zone to relieve them of the threat from the air. The rebels can take on BY CINDY STAUFFER StaffWriter Four Manheim teenagers who died in a January car crash were traveling between 80 and 90 mph when the accident happened, police said Monday. That is one of the findings in the ongoing investigation of the Jan.

16 crash in South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County. Investigators, who obtained search warrants for the teens cell phones, also found text messages that confirmed that the boys had planned to speed over a dip in the road, getting air, shortly before the accident occurred. The teens killed in the crash were John Griffith, 16; Cody Hollinger, 16; Nicolas Bryson, 15, and De Vaughn Lee, 15. They were traveling south on Mount Wilson Road about 11:30 a.m. when their car slid sideways into the northbound lane, of their car jumping a hill on Mount Wilson Road that morning.

South Londonderry Township police Chief Jeffrey Arnold said Monday that his department obtained search warrants to examine the teens phones after the crash. Police did not find any videos on the cell phones of the car jumping the hill. But they did find text messages about the teens plans. The text messages, Arnold said, told everyone where they were going, what they were doing there. They were going there with the specific purpose: to jump the hill.

Investigators, including the Lebanon County district attorney, plan to meet in the next month or two to discuss the accident investigation and decide if it can be formally concluded, Arnold said. cstaufferlnpnews.com where it was struck broadside by a car driven by Neil Nasta, 58, of Lancaster, and occupied by Renee Moro, 39, of Palmyra. The two suffered injuries but were treated at a local hospital and released. All four teens were members of the Manheim Central High School Barons football team. The accident happened after the team had gathered for a breakfast at a Manheim restaurant.

Earlier reports said police had received a statement at the accident scene that the teens had planned to make a video Please see LIBYA page A5 Today: Some sun and clouds. High 47. Tonight Patchy clouds, cold. Low 28. Wednesday: Becoming cloudy.

High 44. 4 on trial for murder Woman killed in home-invasion robbery -V V.U-J i Ttr. Ex-county woman faces drug charge Was a student at Cornell BY TOM KNAPP StaffWriter The drug was worth homicide trial of the four alleged robbers. Heather Nunn didnt give it up. Rather than surrender money and other belongings, Nunn denied the intruders, Miller said.

The problem was Heather Nunn also underestimated the men, Miller said. The group had come to 224 Pearl St. armed, and at least one man wasnt afraid to use deadly force, Miller said. Edward Leon Major, the alleged triggerman, is on trial this week Please see TRIAL, page A5 BY BRETT HAMBRIGHT StaffWriter Heather Nunn wasnt willing to give in to the four men who came to rob her Lancaster city home in October 2004, a jury was told Monday. Nunn, who was alone in the kitchen while her two young daughters bathed upstairs, resisted the demands of the foursome that barged into her Pearl Street home.

They grossly underestimated Heather Nunn, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Miller told a local jury in an opening statement at the between $50,000 and $100,000, police said, although various news reports later estimated the drugs street value at $150,000. Police charged Blakinger, a deans-list student at Cornell University, with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, a felony. She admitted to police that the drugs were hers, Please see DRUG, page A5 Keri Blakinger A former national skating star and Lancaster Country Day School graduate is in jail in Ithaca, N.Y., after being arrested in December with heroin in her possession, police and news reports say. According to a news release from Ithaca police, 26-year-old Keri Lynn Blakinger was arrested with nearly 6 ounces of uncut heroin about 500 doses in Ithaca on Dec.

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