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Man arrested outside Obama’s hotel
By JAMES BELTRAN
Associated Press Writer
DES MOINES, lowa (AP) — A man
with a large knife and -an Ohio identifica
tion card was arrested Wednesday outside
presidential hopeful Barack Obamas hotel
in southeast lowa, police said.
Davit Zakaryan, 24, was searched and
apprehended after Obamas security crew
allegedly saw him loitering outside a
Fairfield Inn in Ottumwa before the Illinois
senator was about to leave for a busy day of
campaigning, -
Police said they did not know why
Zakaryan was outside the hotel with the
knife, and they cautioned against making
any assumptions until he was questioned
further.
. “This is not an earth-shattering” arrest,
Reports say
journalist used
the ‘N-word’
By LARRY MILLER
Special to the NNPA
FHILADELPHIA
(NNPA) — The latest media
figure on the hot seat for
using the “n- word” is WTXF
Fox 29’s weekend news
anchor Tom Burlington, who
was suspended last week fol
lowing a meeting during
which the award-winning
journalist used the racial slur
several times during an inter
nal news meeting. Burlington
reportedly didn’t direct the
slur at anyone and according
to Jennifer Best, Public
Affairs Director for WTXE,
would not confirm that
Burlington was suspended for
using the word.
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Barack Obama :
Lt. Mike McDonough of the Ottumwa
Police Department said. “He made no
threats toward the senator.”
“At this point I can only
confirm that Tom was sus
pended for personal reasons,”
Best said, politely declining
to answer further inquiries or
comment as to how long
Burlington’s suspension
would last.
“I can’t release any other
details,” she said. According
to published reports, during a
news staff meeting following
a discussion of a story about
the recent NAACP mock
funeral for the “n-word” at
John Dobbins High School,
Burlington allegedly argued
that it was irresponsible to
report on the subject without
actually using the word.
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McDonough said the identification card
Zakaryan gave them showed he was from
Ohio, but they weren' sure whether the ID
was valid. McDonough said he was not
sure what Ohio city was listed on the card.
Zakaryan was arrested after 8:30 a.m.
and charged with possessing an illegal
weapon and driving without a license.
Police said the knife was longer than 8 inch
es, which exceeds the state limit. Zakaryan
was being held Wednesday night at the
Wapello County Jail on a $6,825 bond. He
was to be arraigned Thursday morning.
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for
Obama’s lowa office, said he was not famil
iar with the specifics of the arrest, but com
plimented police and Secret Service for
their efforts.
McDonough said Obamas security crew
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had been keeping an eye on Zakaryan
because they thought his car looked famil
iar and may have been at another of
Obamas campaign stops. After Zakaryan
pulled the car near the hotel, the agents
asked police to question him. Thar's when
they found the knife inside the car,
McDonough said.
Obama, a Democrat, has spent much of
his time campaigning in lowa the past few
months, trying to build support for the
state’s leadoff caucuses in January. In May,
Secret Service announced it would provide
protection for Obama while he was cam
paigning,
On Wednesday, Obama made stops in
Oskaloosa, Pella and Des Moines, partici
pating in July 4 celebrations and visiting
with activists.
Infections Opportunistes (GHESKIO) pub
lished in a recent issue of the open-access jour
nal, PLoS Medicine, finds that integrating a
new rapid syphilis test into prenatal HIV test
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2,000 cases of stillbirth, neonatal death or
congenital syphilis.
Researchers compared three strategies for
screening pregnant women for syphilis. The
first strategy, the standard of care in rural
Haitian areas without access to syphilis labo
ratory testing, is assessing symptoms and
treating if symptoms are found, according to
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