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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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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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Petraeus said he spent
about an hour with Trump,
and he praised the presi-
dent-elect for showing a
“great grasp of a variety of
the challenges that are out
there.”
W O M E N ’ S
and students,” said Ginther, a
Democrat.
Horujko, 28, was placed on
administrative leave Monday
and the investigation turned
over to Columbus police,
consistent with protocol for
police shootings. Horujko
appears to be an avid runner,
with several half-marathons
under his belt, according to
online race results.
Gov. John Kasich praised
the speed with which
Horujko and other officers
acted.
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