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The Californian C-8 TUESDAY, ArRiL 30, 2002. Cleanup from tornadoes begins Teen couple abducted in Florida; girl killed MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Five men were arrested Monday in the armed abduction of a teen-age couple taking a moonlight stroll trendy South Beach. The girlfriend was killed and the Art Deco neighborhood lined with nightclubs and restaurants. Late Saturday, she was with her boyfriend, Eddy Nelson Porto-banco, when five armed men forced them into a pickup truck and sped off, police said.

Portobanco, also 18, was dumped on a stretch of highway 3a niles north of South Beach two hours later. He flagged down a car for help and was treated at a hospital. LA PLATA, Md. (AP) Deborah McClain was hiding in her basement with her husband and six children when La Plata was ripped by a deadly tornado, one of the most powerful in Maryland history. When it was over, I went upstairs and all you could see was the sky, said McClain, 41.

The roof was gone. The wall was gone. The beds had gone out the window. Tornado-ravaged cities from Missouri to Maryland picked up the pieces Monday, a day after an unusually potent batch of storms plowed across the eastern half of the nation. At least six people were killed, including three in a pair of hard-hit Maryland counties south of the nations capital.

More than 100 people were injured across the country and thousands lost power. The tornado that hit La Plata was an F5, the most powerful, according to a preliminary determination by the National Weather Service. In Charles County 'alone, the twister destroyed six houses and left a track of damage 24 miles long and 400 yards wide. Damage still needed to be evaluated in Calvert County. Under the Fujita scale, a boyfriend was stabbed and wounded.

Investigators called the attack a random act of vio-lence. The body of 18-year-old Ana Maria Angel was found along a highway 40 miles north of South Beach, an Associated Press Photo Pat Robey displays a copy of the movie Ttolster, which he found outside the destroyed house of a friend, In La Plata, on Monday. A tornado hit the area Sunday night. Blake sued by wifes heirs for Charles, Calvert and Dorchester counties, freeing the National Guard to help. Lt.

Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who surveyed the damage from the air, said the tornado appeared to have touched down like a bouncing ball. LOS ANGELES (AP) Nearly a year after Bonny Lee Bakleys murder, her heirs filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against her husband, Robert Blake, claiming that the actor conspired with his bodyguard and then personally shot her to death. twister with an F5 rating has winds from 261 mph to 318 mph. Maryland has never had an F5 and only two F4s are on record including one in 1926 that killed 14 school-children in La Plata.

Gov. Parris Glendening declared a state of emergency Among the dead was Margaret Albey, 74, whose small, wood-frame home lay in the storms path. Her body was found under a couch alongside her 77-year-old husband, George, who survived. Another victim, William Erickson died in a house collapse. On or about May 4, 2001, defendant Robert Blake murdered his wife by shooting her with a gun while she was sitting in his vehicle, said the lawsuit, which cited the felony complaint Blake has pleaded innocent to criminal charges of murder and conspiracy.

Bosnian student kills 1 before killing self German school. The students ran screaming from the room after the teen-ager shot himself, leaving books and the wounded teacher in a pool of blood. Walls and benches were splattered with blood; bullets blew holes in the walls and shat VLASENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) A 17-year-old shot and killed one teacher and wounded another Monday before taking his own life in front of 30 other students. Bosnias first school attack came three days after a deadly shooting spree at a tered classroom windows. Officials said the teenager, Dragoslav Petkovic, opened fire with his fathers 7.65-mm handgun shortly after noon at his high school in the eastern town of Vlaseni-ca, about 30 miles northeast of the capital, Sarajevo.

Teen faces SEC lawsuit WASHINGTON (AP) Federal securities regulators filed a new lawsuit Monday alleging stock manipulation by a 17-year-old in California. Cole A. Bartiromo had already agreed to pay $900,000 to settle aHegations he swindled investors in a sports betting scheme on the Internet. The Securities and Exchange Commission aBeged in a civil lawsuit that Bartiromo reaped at least $91,400 by posting false information about companies on the Internet to inflate their stock prices and then selling his blocks of shares at a profit. The SEC, which filed the suit in federal court in New York City, is seeking unspecified civil fines.

PETA not mooved by ads Earl Palmer, owner of From the Hide on West Exchange in the Stockyards section of Fort Worth, Texas, has his ear nibbled by Midnite, one of his 6-week-old pot bellied piglets Monday. Palmer raises and sells the pigs as pets. YVEIjID news Community prints its own money VEDIC CITY, Iowa (AP)-If Walt Disney World can make Disney Dollars and Club Med can print its own currency, then this Iowa town founded by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation figured it, too, could make its own money. The Raam Mudra, as the colorful notes are called, began circulating last month in this city incorporated last year by 125 followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles guru and founder of the TM movement. The idea in creating the money was to promote the city and its plans for a theme park devoted to world peace.

WASHINGTON (AP) Animal rights activists claim American cheese consumers are getting the wrong impression about California dairy cows, depicted in a popular television advertising campaign as happy cows living in bucolic pastures. Most California dairy cows live in filthy, grassless lots where they are forced to give too much milk and are separated from their calves too soon, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says in a deceptive advertising complaint it planned to file Hies-day with the Federal Trade Commission. The group is asking the FTC to order an end to the series of ads sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board. Child slasher sentenced to 99 year terms BS a A'sx i mn Press File Pi ioto ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) A man who slashed school children under the delusion that he could send them to God by killing them was sentenced Monday to two concurrent 99-year prison terms. Jason Pritchard, 34, wiU be 100 years old before he is eligible for parole under the sentence handed down by Su perior Court Judge Dan Hensley, who also concluded that Pritchard was guilty but mentaUy iR.

That means he is not eligible for release on furlough or parole until h6s cured. The Corrections Department would be required to seek civil commitment if Pritchard still is mentally ill after serving 66 years, or even his full sentence. Pritchard on May 7 carried a filet knife to Mountain View Elementary School and stabbed or slashed three boys brothers Billy Moy, 8, and Eric Moy, 9, and Cody Brown, 8 as they stood in line with other children for the schools breakfast program. A fourth boy wriggled away. A Holstein cow stands on top of a pile of manure In this September 2001 file photo, at a dairy farm In Chino.

PETA says the dairy industry is airing deceptive advertising. Ex-pom star running for mayor Parents who took children face trial ROSEBURG, Ore. AP) At an Interstate 5 rest stop, Brian Christine pointed a gun at a state social worker, said he was taking his three daughters and the van, then drove off to meet his wife and hit the road for Montana. When Christine and his wife, Ruth, both 29, go on trial Thesday on charges of kidnapping, robbery, cus todial interference and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, their defense attorney says he cannot dispute that Brian Christine took his children at gunpoint. Instead, attorney Edgar Steele will describe the Christines as desperate parents trying to rescue their children from a rogue government agency.

ROME (AP) The former porn star Cicci-olina, who was elected to Italys parliament in 1987, is again running for office, this time for mayor of the northern town of Monza. Cicciolina, whose real name is Bona Staller, is offering a platform that consists largely of spectacular developments for the town outside Milan best known for hosting the Italian Grand Prix: a new casino and even a new Disneyland amusement park. I am popular in the whole world, Staller said Monday. With my popularity, with all the tourists, a sea of money would come in. Therefore Monza would become much richer.

Rush Christine Slain bikers identified LAW DISORDER Teen charged in plot to poison punch VILLISCA, Iowa AP) A teen-ager has been charged with administering a dangerous substance after he allegedly plotted to poison the punch at the Villisca High School prom. Robert David Dumler, 15, initially faced a more serious felony charge of terrorism. Dumler was arrested Friday night after reports that he planned to spike the punch at Saturdays dance with a substance that would make people seriously ill or kill them, Police Chief Butch Rulla said. 15-year-old hijacks school bus LAS VEGAS (AP)-A 15-year-old Pahrump student armed with a Samurai sword hijacked a Nye County school bus Monday as part of a plan to blow up his high school, authorities said. The teen-ager rammed a police cruiser and led pursuing Nye County Sheriffs deputies on a high-speed chase across the California state line before being captured when the bus rolled over.

British Tony Blair hotted a Golden Jubilee dinner Monday for Queen Elizabeth II In London on Monday. Associated Prkss Photo Glamorous dinner held for queen LAS VEGAS (AP)-Authorities on Monday identified three California motorcycle gang members killed in a casino gun and knife battle during an annual biker rally that brought some 80,000 bikers to southern Nevada. Las Vegas police said they were piecing together videotape, ballistic and blood evidence from Harrahs Laughlin Casino Hotel, trying to determine what ignited a simmering rivalry between the Hells Angels and the Mongols. Clark County Coroner Ron Flud identified the three dead men as Robert Emmet Tumelty, 50, of Stockton; Jeramie Dean Bell, 27, of Hugh-son, near Modesto; and Anthony Salvador Barrera, 43, of Rancho Cucamonga, near Ontario. McCartney halts sale of Jude lyrics LONDON (AP) Former Beatle Paul McCartney won a last-minute court order Monday preventing the auction house Christies from selling his handwritten lyrics to the song Hey Jude.

The sheet of note paper with the scrawled lyrics had been expected to fetch up to $116,000, but McCartney claimed the piece had disappeared from his home. The lyrics will remain at Christies London headquarters until ownership is decided by agreement or a trial. Richard Meade, a lawyer for McCartney, said the sheet of paper with the lyrics was either stolen during one of several burglaries or was taken by someone working for him. Body of Lisa Lopes returns to U.S. LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Tony Blair and four previous British leaders celebrated Queen Elizabeth IIs 50 years on the throne by holding a formal dinner in her honor at 10 Downing St.

on Monday night. It one of many events that will celebrate her Golden Jubilee year. The monarch became queen at age 25 on Feb. 6, 1952, following the death of her father, King George VI. On national television, Blair and his wife, Cherie, were shown greeting the queen and her husband, Prince Philip.

The queen wore a sparkling aqua dress with an aqua sash at the waist; the prime ministers wife wore a dark purple gown and jacket with black trimmings. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) The body of singer Lisa Left Eye Lopes, who died in an automobile accident, was flown to the United States Monday for burial, officials said. A private plane carrying her body left the northern Honduras city of San Pedro Su-la bound for Atlanta, where Lopes is to be buried Thursday. I I.