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President Barack Obama
speaks on homeownership for
the middle class at a Phoenix
high school.
Obama calls for more
affordable housing
Speaking in Phoenix, President
Barack Obama urged Congress
to help more Americans secure
cheaper mortgages or afford-
able rentals and called for
limiting government involvement
in mortgage giants Freddie Mac
and Fannie Mae. 3A
Jailer faces criminal
charge in inmates death
Wake County Detention Center
jailer Markeith Council is indicted
on a voluntary manslaughter
charge in the June 4 beating of
inmate Shon Demetrius McClain,
who died June 17 of his injuries. 1B
WakeMed penalized
over readmissions
WakeMed will lose $650,000 in
Medicare reimbursements. Other
Triangle hospitals also have been
penalized by the program that
pays for medical care for the
elderly because too many
patients return within 30 days of
being discharged. 1B
Reports: Libyan charged
in Benghazi attack
A U.S. official tells news outlets
murder charges have been filed
against a prominent militia leader
in Benghazi, Libya, in connection
with the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on
a diplomatic mission that killed
the U.S. ambassador and three
other Americans. 4A
Feds accuse BofA of
defrauding investors
Civil complaints by the U.S. Jus-
tice Department and the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission
say Bank of America misled
investors and concealed informa-
tion about the risks when they
sold securities backed by prime
mortgages that eventually
soured. 4B
Scientist sinks teeth into bear count
By Daniel Blustein
dblustein@newsobserver.com
Whenever a black bear is killed in
North Carolina, whether by a car or a
hunter, Colleen Olfenbuttel wants a
small part of the animal: the two tiny
teeth just behind the upper canines.
It turns out that counting growth
rings in those teeth is the best way
to determine a bears age informa-
tion that helps scientists such as Ol-
fenbuttel at the N.C. Wildlife Re-
sources Commission assess the
health of the states growing bear
Todays
weather
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School to be Apex Friendship
Some residents say
West Apex would have
been more appropriate
By T. Keung Hui
khui@newsobserver.com
CARY After a lengthy and emo-
tional discussion, the Wake County
school board voted 5-3 Tuesday to
rename a new high school in Apex
after an area with long ties to the
African-American community.
The board opted to abandon the
WAKE SCHOOLS LEADER SWORN IN
Newly appointed Wake County schools Superintendent Jim Merrill is congratulated after being sworn in during
a Wake County school board meeting on Tuesday in Cary. The veteran educator worked in Wake from 1984 until Gallery: See more photos from the
2000 and was most recently the superintendent of Virginia Beach schools.
Fort Hood defendant: I am the shooter
Hasan defends himself
at trial; he could face
execution if convicted
By Manny Fernandez
New York Times
KILLEEN, Texas Nearly four
years after going on a deadly shoot-
ing rampage at the Fort Hood Army
base here in 2009, Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan told a jury of senior Army of-
ficers Tuesday that the evidence
will clearly show that I am the
population and decide how to man-
age it.
For more than 35 years, the
states Black Bear Cooperator Pro-
gram has collected thousands of the
bear teeth, the majority from hunt-
ers. The teeth have no known func-
tion and can even be removed from
live but hopefully tranquilized
bears.
Many hunters are happy to send
in their bear teeth. Olfenbuttels
team gets teeth from 40 to 50 per-
cent of the black bears killed each
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use of the previously selected
name, West Apex High, in favor of
Apex Friendship High in recogni-
tion of the Friendship community
around the new school.
The naming controversy pitted
Friendship residents, who said ap-
proval would show respect for the
historic community, against other
Apex families who argued that us-
ing Friendship in the name would
be inappropriate for a high school.
Its our job to represent the en-
tire community, school board
shooter.
In an opening state-
ment that took little
more than a minute,
Hasan, seated in a
wheelchair and speak-
ing quietly, said that
Hasan
there was death and
destruction on both sides but that the
evidence presented by the prosecu-
tion would show only one side.
Hasan said the evidence would
show that he fought on the wrong
side, and then switched sides. He
year.
By participating in the program,
hunters help out the scientists and
get information about the ages of
their bears. But those arent the on-
ly incentives.
Theyll actually send you a hat,
said Jim Noles, 58, a Greensboro
bear hunter and the president of the
N.C. Bear Hunters Association.
The blaze orange hat features a
new black bear logo each year, and
its quite popular with hunters.
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Chairman Keith Sutton, a Demo- Inside
crat, said before the vote. Not just Schools: Sides trade charges
Friendship, not just West Apex. It on bond issue. 1B
bothers me that were put in a posi-
tion where we have to choose a public high school.
side. I think the best road to take is The word Friendship is of
one of compromise. course not a negative word, but it
But opponents of the change, in- feels very inappropriate for a high
cluding families who expect to attend s c h o o l , s a i d A p e x re s i d e n t
the school scheduled to open in 2015, Rebecca Risner.
said it wasnt a compromise at all. The prior school board had voted
They argued that friendship is in November 2011 to use the West
more appropriate for the name of a Apex name.
preschool or a religious school than a SEE SCHOOL, PAGE 9A
TRAVIS LONG - tlong@newsobserver.com
Online
ceremony at nando.com/localpics.
seemed close to offering an apology hourlong opening argument by Col.
for the shooting when he said, We Steve Henricks, one of the Army
the mujahedeen are imperfect Mus- prosecutors, who presented a mat-
lims trying to establish a perfect ter-of-fact yet dramatic retelling of
religion. He added, I apologize for the rampage and how it unfolded.
any mistakes Ive made in this en- Hasan, 42, an Army psychiatrist
deavor. and a U.S.-born Muslim of Palestin-
He did not elaborate. In other state- ian descent, opened fire inside a
ments, he has apologized to the Is- m e d i c a l p ro c e s s i n g c o m p l ex
lamic fighters known as the mujahe- known as the Soldier Readiness
deen for being part of an Army wag- Processing Center on Nov. 5, 2009,
ing what he described as an immoral shooting unarmed soldiers and
war against Muslims. commissioned officers as they tried
Hasans remarks followed an SEE FORT HOOD, PAGE 8A
A black bear
walks along a
dirt road in
the late after-
noon in the
Alligator River
National Wild-
life Refuge in
Dare County.
Biologists are
working with
hunters
across the
state to collect
teeth from
bears they kill.
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Escape artist takes to skies for coffin feat Facebook

Wisconsin man frees had to give it another push.
himself from locks
Martin, who began teaching
Anthony Mar-
tin escaped
CEO calls for
himself to pick locks at age 6, som- after being
6,500 feet above Earth ersaulted out of the box as he
pushed his way to freedom.
handcuffed
and locked
immigration
By Andrea Thomas I didnt know where I was. inside a box,
Associated Press but I was hypnotized as I watched
SERENA, Ill. A Wisconsin dare- the box falling behind me, he said.
devil freed himself from shackles
which was
dropped from
a plane at
overhaul
and a locked casket while plum- Stunt specifics 14,000 feet Mark Zuckerberg joins
meting to the earth at 130 miles The mood on the plane was som- Tuesday. After
per hour on Tuesday, eventually ber as it ascended to 14,000 feet. escaping, he activists at event
parachuting gently into a northern All the skydivers involved in the landed safely
Illinois field. stunt carefully checked the others in a field By Carla Marinucci
Anthony Martin of Sheboygan, equipment before Martin climbed about 70 miles San Francisco Chronicle
Wis., waved to the cameras and the into the box and was handcuffed to southwest of SAN FRANCISCO Facebook
crowd that turned out to watch his a belt around his waist and chained Chicago. CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his
stunt after he landed at a farm to the inside of the casket. A prison first step on the national political
about 70 miles southwest of Chica- door lock for which no key was said JOE SILVA - AP stage Monday night when he joined
go. to exist was screwed into place to publicly with tech leaders, civil
Martin, 47, said the escape was hold the door tight as two of the held on to handles to further stea- on just his 17th skydive. He decid- rights activists and
exhilarating but that he was disori- skydivers checked for sight of the dy the casket as others shot video ed he wanted to learn to skydive undocumented im-
ented because the plywood casket proposed landing area from the and stills of the escape-or-die specifically so he could escape migrants to call for a
whipped wildly from side-to-side open door of the plane. jump. from a casket in freefall. comprehensive over-
while he picked the locks, and he When everyone was ready, a The box rocked from side to side Knocking back reporters ques- haul of the nations
struggled to open the door. drogue a small parachute similar until around 6,500 feet when Mar- tions about where he ranks himself immigration policies
I didnt feel any force, but what I to those used to slow drag-racing tin emerged and tracked away from alongside the escape greats, includ- an issue he said
felt was a lot of jostling, he said . cars and fighter jets attached to the casket before deploying his ing Harry Houdini, Martin pondered Zuckerberg touches not just Sili-
It seemed to me like I had a the top of the box was tossed from parachute. the question, What next? con Valley but the
glimpse of the ground for a second the door, sucking the casket from Martin performed the same This escape will be hard to fol- whole country.
then it (the door) came back and I the aircraft. Two skydivers also stunt once before, in August 1988 low, he said. This is something that we be-
lieve is really important for the fu-
ture of our country and for us to
do whats right, the social media
FORT HOOD innovator told a crowd of several
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
hundred at the Yerba Buena Center
to hide under desks and tables. His for the Arts in San Francisco.
assault, one of the deadliest mass Zuckerberg, wearing his trade-
shootings at a U.S. military base, mark hoodie and sneakers, defined
left 13 dead and more than 30 oth- Silicon Valley as an idealistic
ers wounded. place that aims to make an impact
Henricks told the jurors that on the world in his first public re-
three weeks before the shooting, marks on immigration, which were
Hasan was told by his superior that delivered to an ecstatic reception at
he would soon be deploying to Af- the invitation-only forum. He ap-
ghanistan and had been upset by peared alongside his former Har-
the news. vard roommate Joe Green, who co-
On Nov. 5, the day his unit was to founded the issue advocacy group
report to the readiness center for Fwd.us.
processing, Hasan gave away some They co-sponsored the event
of his clothes and other belongings with Define American, an immi-
to a neighbor in the apartments grant rights group
where he lived, the prosecutor said. founded by Jose
He drove to the complex and walked Antonio Vargas, a
into the center, taking a seat with former newspaper
other soldiers in a waiting area called writer who made na-
Station 13. He had paper towels tional headlines by
stuffed in his uniform, to shield the revealing in a maga-
rattle of the ammunition he carried, Vargas zine article two years
the prosecutor said. ago that he is an un-
Henricks said that the defendant documented immigrant.
had trained for that moment, tak- BRIGITTE WOOSLEY - AP Political observers said the gath-
ing classes to receive a state con- This courtroom sketch shows military prosecutor Lt. Col. Steve Henricks, right, speaking as Nidal ering represented a dramatic step
cealed handgun license and spend- Malik Hasan, center, and presiding judge Col. Tara Osborn look on during Hasans trial Tuesday. in the immigration debate.
ing much of his time at a nearby You have Mark Zuckerberg, who
shooting range. And after shouting counts of premeditated murder is not known for being a big player
God is great in Arabic, he stood and 32 counts of attempted pre- in politics, stepping out quietly
and opened fire. meditated murder. If convicted, he and, now, stepping out publicly,
Using an FN Five-seven semiau- could become the first U.S. soldier said Frank Sharry, executive direc-
tomatic handgun outfitted with in 52 years to be sent to death row tor of Americas Voice, a leading im-
two laser sights, he avoided those and executed at Fort Leavenworth, migrants rights group in Washing-
in civilian clothes to shoot those in Kan. The last military death sen- ton, D.C.
uniform. Two men in civilian attire tence was carried out there in April Zuckerberg has publicly aligned
approached him as he calmly made 1961, with the hanging of John A. himself with Vargas, the countrys
his way outside, and he let them Bennett, an Army private who was most famous undocumented immi-
live, telling one not to worry about convicted of the rape and attempt- grant, Sharry said. Its not sur-
it and the other that it was a train- ed murder of an 11-year-old girl. prising this kind of political innova-
ing exercise. tion is coming from Silicon Valley.
The only civilian he killed, Mi- This is my weapon Theyre playing to win.
chael Grant Cahill, 62, was a physi- Hasan, who appeared in camou- The evening was also the West
cian assistant and a retired Nation- flage fatigues and the beard that his Coast premiere of Documented, a
al Guardsman who had tried to end former Army defense lawyers film that Vargas, who was born in
the attack by trying to hit Hasan LM OTERO - AP fought for his right to wear, be- the Philippines, wrote and direct-
with a chair. An armed soldier stands guard Tuesday as reporters are escorted came the only defendant in recent ed. Vargas said he founded Define
to the courthouse at Fort Hood for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasans trial. history to represent himself in a American to fight for citizenship
Reluctant to deploy military capital-punishment case. for young undocumented immi-
Hasan was scheduled to deploy itation. his own lawyer, was quiet and calm He took on this role after deciding grants brought to the United States
to Afghanistan on Nov. 28 with Henricks addressed Hasans mo- in court. Some of the witnesses he to release his court-appointed law- as children, like himself.
several Army Reserve units of tive briefly, telling the jury that he questioned asked him to repeat yers from the Army Trial Defense Zuckerberg told the audience he
m e n t a l h e a l t h p ro f e s s i o n a l s did not want to deploy, and was in- himself because they could not Service. Although he has a mas- first became aware of the need for
trained to deal with combat stress. spired by what he saw as a duty to hear him. After the gripping testi- ters degree in public health, he has comprehensive immigration re-
Five of the soldiers he is charged perform a jihad on Nov. 5, 2009. In mony of one of his victims Staff no formal legal training. form while volunteering to teach a
with killing came from those Re- the days and hours before the at- Sgt. Alonzo M. Lunsford Jr., a Hasans decision to represent class in entrepreneurship at a
serve units. tack, investigators found, he per- health care specialist whom he himself created unusual moments school in the San Francisco Bay
Despite the evidence of Hasans formed Internet searches on sui- shot seven times the judge asked Tuesday. Area.
self-radicalization, prosecutors do cide bombings and jihad. Hasan if he had any questions on At one point, he asked to see the After asking the kids what they
not have to prove that he was a He came to believe he pos- cross-examination. automatic weapon used in the at- were most worried about, he recall-
homegrown terrorist. He faces not sessed a jihad duty to kill as many I have no questions, Hasan tack. After holding it in his hands, ed, he was really touched to hear
terrorism but murder charges, and soldiers as possible, Henricks told the judge, Col. Tara A. Os- he told the judge: Your honor, Id one boys answer: Im not sure Im
prosecutors have to prove only that said. born. like to submit for the record that going to be able to go to college be-
he acted with intent and premed- Hasan, who has chosen to act as Hasan has been charged with 13 this is my weapon. cause Im undocumented.

tracking devices on black bears in

BEARS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
Some have been known to wear it
year-round.
An unexpected part of my job is
sometimes Im a fashion designer,
said Olfenbuttel, 39.
Analyzing the teeth
Olfenbuttel sends the teeth gath-
ered from North Carolina bears to
Gary Matson, 72, a scientist in
Montana.
Matsons lab processes 400 teeth
per day about 90,000 per year
sent in from around the world. He
first softens the teeth with acid and
then embeds them in wax so that he
can make fine slices using a micro-
tome, a sophisticated version of a
deli meat slicer. The thin slices are
observed under a microscope, and
the growth rings are counted.
Nobody understands why the
annual rings are formed, Matson
said. But a dark layer corresponds
to each winter of the bears life.
The distribution of ages of the
bears represents the health of the
population, Matson said.
Olfenbuttel uses this age informa-
tion to monitor and manage black
bear populations in North Carolina.
In July, she received the results
from Matsons lab of the tooth age
analysis of 1,442 North Carolina
bears harvested in 2012. In the
+ coming weeks, shell be using a
The bear facts
m North Carolina has two distinct
black bear populations: one on the
coast, the other in the mountains.
m The worlds largest black bear
on record was harvested in Craven
County in 1998. It weighed 880
pounds.
m Coastal bears get large be-
cause of longer growing seasons
and abundant agriculture. Theyve
been known to feed on wheat, corn
and soybean crops.
m The oldest bear harvested in
2012 was nearly 18 years old. The
Carteret County female weighed 278
pounds.
largest mammals starting in the
N.C. WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION early 1970s. Hunting regulations al-
A pre-molar tooth is removed from a black bear as part of North so have helped the black bear
Carolinas Black Bear Cooperator Program. bounce back.
Olfenbuttels challenge is to stabi-
computer model to analyze the data he said. lize the states bear population. A
and come up with an updated bear But the black bear has made a re- recent increase in damage to agri-
population estimate. markable comeback in the state, cultural crops by bears is a concern.
with 6 percent average annual pop- Hunting plays a key role in help-
Black bear comeback ulation growth over the past de- ing to manage bear populations,
A rapid decline in North Caroli- cade. she said.
nas bear population began in the We have restored bears to North
late 1800s, largely because of the Carolina, Olfenbuttel said. Up next: GPS devices
clearing of forests, loss of bear food There were an estimated 17,912 During the nonconsecutive
from chestnut blight and unregulat- bears in North Carolina in 2011, up weeks of a hunting season that runs
ed killing. from fewer than 5,000 in 1980. from October to December, Olfen-
During his first hunting season at Noles attributes the comeback to buttels office operates roving check
age 11 back in 1966, Noles only saw bear sanctuaries, which set aside stations where hunters can weigh
one bear track. hundreds of thousands of acres of their bears and pass off teeth.
There just werent any bears, protected land for one of the states Next year, her team will put GPS
the Asheville area to monitor their
movements.
In the past decade, more bears
have been spotted near populated
areas, partly due to expanding de-
velopment. They usually stick
around because of attractive odors
such as those from garbage, un-
cleaned grills and bird feeders.
Suburban bears
Bear research to date has been
mostly restricted to remote areas,
Olfenbuttel said. The Asheville
tracking project will expand what
biologists know about how bears
move through cities and towns.
We cant keep bears out of sub-
urban and urban areas, Olfenbut-
tel said.
Olfenbuttels continued quest to
learn more about bears will benefit
from legislation enacted in July that
requires hunters to purchase a bear
management stamp starting next
year.
With the new program, Olfenbut-
tel will be able to track the people
hunting bears in the state and bet-
ter promote tooth collection ef-
forts. She hopes to collect more
teeth, which will mean more infor-
mation to guide hunting and con-
servation regulations aimed at
maintaining stable black bear
populations.
Blustein: 919-829-4627