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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16. 2008
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Women injured in a car bomb attack are brought to a hospital in Bagouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Tuesday. According to police and hospital officials, at least 38 people were killed and 64 wounded in the blast when a car parked in front of a restaurant in downtown Bagouba exploded, just before noon on Tuesday, across the street from the central courthouse and other government offices.
60 die in carbomb attack
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BAGHDAD — Car bombs and a suicide attacker struck crowded areas in Baghdad and former insurgent strongholds to the north and west of the capital Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people and breaking a recent lull in violence in the predominantly Sunni areas.
The attacks were a deadly reminder of the threat posed by suspected Sunni insurgents even as clashes between Shiite militia fighters and U.S.-Iraqi forces continued elsewhere.
The U.S. military condemned the bombings and said they appeared to have been carried out by al-Qaida in Iraq.
One survivor described a huge fire that sent black smoke billowing into the sky and left charred bodies inside their cars.
The first blast occurred in Bagouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, when a car parked in front of a restaurant exploded just before noon across the street from the central courthouse and other government offices.
"I was on my way to the government office when a big explosion occurred nearby," said the witness, who would only identify himself by his nickname Abu Ali. "As I approached the site, I saw cars on fire, burned bodies and damaged shops damaged with shattered glass everywhere."
At least 40 people were killed and 70 wounded in the blast, according to hospital officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.
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AP Television News footage showed many of the bodies covered in crisp white sheets in the main hospital's courtyard while the emergency room inside was overwhelmed with the wounded.
Elsewhere in northern Iraq, a double car bombing in Mosul wounded three Iraqi policemen and 15 civilians, the U.S. military said. Mosul is considered one of the last urban strongholds for al-Qaida in Iraq and the American and Iraqi militaries have promised a security crackdown.
The U.S. military in northern Iraq gave a slightly lower toll, saying 35 Iraqi citizens were killed, including a policeman, and 66 wounded in the attack.
A parked car bomb also targeted a police patrol in central Baghdad, killing four civilians who were passing by and wounding 15 other people, police said.
It was the deadliest bombing in Iraq since March 6 when a twin bombing killed 68 people in a crowded shopping district in the central Baghdad district of Karradad.
A suicide attacker on a motorcycle later drove up to a kebab restaurant in Ramadi and detonated his explosives vest around 12:30 p.m., killing at least 13 people including three policemen and wounding 20 other people, police Capt. Abu Saif al-Anbari said. Hospital officials said two children were among the dead.
Police initially thought a parked car had exploded in the industrial area but later determined it was a suicide attack, al-Anbari said.
Ahmed al-Dulaimi, a 27-year-old mechanic, was at the restaurant when the blast occurred but escaped injury because he was sitting at a back table. He said his cousin, who owned the restaurant, had been killed.
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"Pieces of flesh flew into the air
and the roof fell over us. I saw the horrible sight of bodies without heads or without legs or hands," he said.
Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, is the capital of Anbar province and has largely been sealed off by checkpoints.
Like Baqouba, the area has seen a sharp decline in violence in recent months as Sunni tribal leaders have joined forces with the Americans against al-Qaida in Iraq.
"Although attacks such as today's event are tragic, it is not indicative of the overall security situation in Baqouba". Maj. Mike Garcia, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Diyala, said in a statement.
The U.S. military said overall attacks in Diyala province have dropped more than 76 percent since June 2007.
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WICHITA — A city ordinance requiring dog breeders to buy an annual license was so ambiguously written that it could be interpreted to apply to all owners whose dogs have puppies.
"If you got a dog with a litter of puppies in Wichita, you've just broken the law," said Hank Price, a Wichita Kennel Club board member.
The city policy said breeders must buy an $50 annual license to breed dogs, but it doesn't define what a breeder is, allowing for the broad interpretation. Those who violate the law, which went into effect in December, face a $100 fine.
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City officials say the rule needs tweaking and could be sent back to the City Council for review in the next few months.
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Dennis Graves, the city's animal services supervisor, said tickets for not having the license have been written only when people were caught selling dogs in parking lots — the intended target of the measure. Only a few breeders have applied for the licenses.
The ordinance also says it's unlawful for anybody to sell or
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give away or accept any animal on property not owned or rented by the seller or buyer, unless it's at a pet shop, a state-licensed animal shelter or licensed for breeding or sale.
"If you have a litter of puppies and you're going to do anything like give one away, you're
violating the law," said Kim Jenning, who owns champion Dalmatians. "it's inexplicable to me."
inclusive kind of laws and ordinances always punish the responsible pet owners," said Jim Halsig, owner of Bed and Biscuit Pet Center, which grooms pets and sells animal supplies.
The ordi-
nance was
aimed at
puppy mills
and pit bulls,
said Kay
The ordinance also requires places where animals are housed by licensed breeders to be open
during "reasonable hours" for inspection by a health officer.
"Any of these broad-brush, all-inclusive kind of law and ordinances always punish the responsible pet owners."
Other dog owners don't think the city needs another pet ordinance.
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The law may have been designed to control the breeding of dangerous dogs and to reduce the population of unwanted pets, owners say, but it hurts responsible dog breeders and won't affect irresponsible owners who flout laws anyway.
"Any of these broad-brush, all
TOPEKA — Lobbyists have reported spending $790,000 in an ongoing debate about two coal-fired power plants in south west Kansas.
Breeder's licenses must be renewed annually. The penalty for failing to get a breeder's license is a mandatory court appearance and fines of $100 for the first offense and $250 for the second.
them enforce the laws they have. Then, when they can show us that's not working, then I think you look at new laws," said Treva Faires, a Wichita Kennel Club member.
Most of the money has been spent on advertising designed to sway public opinion.
The campaigns began after the state's top environmental regulator decided in October to deny an air-quality permit for the two plants. Sunflower Electric Power Corp.wants to build them in Finney County.
Know Your Power, a group opposed to Sunflower's project, spent nearly $406,000 on advertising last year.
Since then, supporters have outspent opponents by more than 6-to-1.
A second bill allowing the plants has gone to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. She's expected to veto it, just as she rejected a bill last month.
Kansas State student dies from balcony fall
MANHATTAN, Kan. A 19-year-old student at Kansas State University died after falling from a balcony at a university apartment building.
University police said Joshua David Walker, a freshman from Johnson, died about 7 a.m. Saturday at Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
University police responded to a call at 1 a.m. Saturday that a student had fallen from a second-floor balcony at the apartment building. Walker was a guest at the apartment; he lived off campus.
The investigation was continuing and university police said no additional details were being released.
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