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NATION/WORLD Tuesday, November 29, 2016 East Oregonian Page 7A Fast-acting Ohio State officer praised for killing attacker COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officials on Monday praised an Ohio State University police officer who shot and killed a man a minute after he drove his car into a crowd and then stabbed multiple people. Officer Alan Horujko, who started on the university police force in January 2015, was responding to reports of a nearby gas leak when the car jumped a curb on campus at 9:52 a.m. Horujko ordered the Alan Horujko attacker, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, to drop the knife and then shot him when he didn’t obey the command, university president Michael Drake said. “The officer encountered the individual by 9:53 — the subject was neutralized by 9:53,” Drake said, under- scoring how quickly events unfolded. Horujko is owed a debt of gratitude, said Monica Moll, director of Ohio State’s Department of Public Safety. “He did a fabulous job today,” she said. University police Chief Craig Stone said it was fortunate the officer had gone to investigate the gas leak, which helped position him to respond to the attack so quickly. Eleven people were hurt in the attack. Police said they were investigating whether it was terrorism. Artan was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to Disputes, falsehoods hit transition By JULIE PACE and CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press NEW YORK — The drama, disputes and falsehoods that permeated Donald Trump’s presi- dential campaign are now roiling his transition to the White House, forcing aides to defend his baseless assertions of illegal voting and sending internal fights spilling into public. On Monday, a recount effort, led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein and joined by Hillary Clinton’s campaign also marched on in three states, based partly on the Stein campaign’s unsub- stantiated assertion that cyberhacking could have interfered with electronic voting machines. Wisconsin officials approved plans to begin a recount as early as Thursday. Stein also asked for a recount in Pennsylvania and was expected to do the same in Michigan, where officials certified Trump’s victory Monday. Trump has angrily denounced the recounts and now claims without evidence that he, not Clinton, would have won the popular vote if it hadn’t been for “millions of people who voted illegally.” On Twitter, he singled out Virginia, California and New Hampshire. In another series of tweets Monday, he lashed out at a CNN reporter who had called Trump’s fraud claim “baseless.” There has been no indica- tion of widespread election tampering or voter fraud in those states or any others, and Trump aides struggled Monday to back up their boss’ claim. Spokesman Jason Miller said illegal voting was “an issue of concern.” But the only evidence he raised was a 2014 news report and a study on voting irregularities conducted before the 2016 election. Trump met Monday with candidates for top Cabinet posts, including retired Gen. David Petraeus, a new contender for secretary of state. Trump is to meet Tuesday with Tennessee G O O D AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster President-elect Donald Trump, followed by his wife Melania Trump and son Barron Trump, boards his plane at Palm Beach International Airport, Sunday in West Palm Beach, Fla., en route to New York. Trump picks Price as health secretary WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has selected Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a leading critic of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care law, to head the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a person familiar with the decision. If confirmed by the Senate, Price will play a central role in Republican efforts to repeal and replace the current health care law. Trump has pledged to move quickly on overhauling the landmark measure, but has been vague about what he hopes to see in a replacement bill. The president-elect has said he favors keeping provisions that allow young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance and that prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. Trump is expected to announce Price’s nomination as early as Tuesday morning. The person familiar with decision insisted on anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the matter ahead of the official announcement. Price, a 62-year-old six-term congressman and orthopedic surgeon, has chaired the House Budget Committee for the past two years. A bookish conserva- tive from the Atlanta suburbs, Price has worked closely with House Speaker Ryan to assemble GOP budgets aimed at reducing the annual deficit. Last week, Price said whatever Republicans do to replace Obama’s health care law will bear a “significant resemblance” to a 2015 measure that was vetoed by the president. That bill would have gutted some of the health care law’s main features: Medicaid expansion, subsidies to help middle-class Americans buy private policies, the tax penalties for individuals who refused to get coverage and several taxes to support coverage expansion. Sen. Bob Corker, who is also being considered more seriously for the diplomatic post, and Mitt Romney, who has become a symbol of the internal divisions agitating the transition team. S H E P H E R D “Very good conversation and we’ll see where it goes from here,” he said. A former CIA chief, Petraeus pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information relating to documents he had provided to his biographer, with whom he was having an affair. Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who is heading the transition effort, teased “a number of very important announcements tomorrow” as he exited Trump Tower Monday night. a U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condi- tion of anonymity. The FBI joined the investigation. Mayor Andrew Ginther called Horujko an “outstanding young law enforcement officer.” “There has never been a more dangerous or compli- cated and challenging time to be a police officer, and we had a dynamic well-trained professional today save the lives of many of our residents Orders could have little effect on pipeline camp BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gath- ered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion project. A North Dakota sheriff on Monday dismissed a dead- line from the Army Corps of Engineers as a meaningless move aimed only at reducing the government’s legal responsibility for hundreds of demonstrators. The Corps “is basically kicking the can down the road, and all it is doing is taking the liability from the Corps and putting it on” the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said. The Corps said last week in a letter that all federal lands north of the Cannon- ball River will be closed to the public for “safety concerns” starting Dec. 5. The order includes the encampment called Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp. The agency cited North Dakota’s oncoming winter and increasingly contentious clashes between protesters and police. But in a statement issued late Sunday, the Corps said it “has no plans for forcible removal.” Anyone on land north of the river, including the main protest camp, after the deadline may be prose- cuted for trespassing. Gov. Jack Dalrymple called the Corps’ position “very puzzling.” “When you put out a pronouncement that people must leave your land by a certain date, I think you take on a responsibility to somehow bring that about,” Dalrymple said. “Clearly the responsibility of clearing that land now lies primarily with the Corps.” But later on Monday, Dalrymple issued his own “mandatory evacuation” for the camp “to safeguard against harsh winter conditions.” But the order didn’t specify any action to be taken against protesters who don’t comply, and state Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong later said no action would be taken to enforce it. The 1,172-mile pipeline is nearly complete except for a small section beneath a Missouri River reservoir near the encampment, which is about 50 miles south of Bismarck. Opponents worry about potential effects on drinking water on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and farther downstream on the Missouri River, as well as destruction of cultural artifacts. 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