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Emotional outburst disrupts murder trial
A slain man’s fiancee She identified Dion Jamal gun at me, and I heard another Kenny’s body shake. And then She stumbled to the nearby the slayings of Sharp, 24, of
Horton as the man who executed shot — and it tore through my there was another shot. And I door of her pastor, the Rev. Duquesne, on Feb. 18, 2002, and
wails inconsolably after her fiance, Kenneth Sharp, in a face.” felt my back shake,” she said. Michael Golphin, who then Jeffrey Nichols, 20, also of
a crime-scene photo West Mifflin garage after two Horton reloaded the gun and “I thought, if I’m not dead, I called police. She wrote out Duquesne, two days earlier.
is put on display. harrowing days in February fired two more shots as Penny- have to act like I’m dead so he’d details of the shooting for police Sharp died because he had
2002. baker, who was six months’ preg- stop shooting,” Pennybaker said before an ambulance arrived. seen Horton kill Nichols, prose-
BY DAVID CONTI “I heard a loud gunshot,” Pen- nant, tried to hide her abdomen yesterday. “I pointed to my stomach and cutors have said.
TRIBUNE-REVIEW nybaker, 22, told jurors Friday behind Sharp, she testified. After the sixth shotgun blast, held up six fingers to tell them Pennybaker testified for 90
during the fifth day of Horton’s Horton then reloaded again, Pennybaker heard a door shut how far along my baby was,” minutes, her voice muffled by a
Rasheeda Pennybaker calmly trial in Allegheny County Com- Pennybaker said. and a car pull away. Not knowing Pennybaker said. reconstructed jaw.
recounted the shotgun blasts that mon Pleas Court. “I turned “I started praying. And I heard her jaw was gone, she dialed 911 Horton, 27, of West Mifflin, The prosecutor then displayed
killed her fiance and disfigured around and saw Kenny stoop another shot. It wasn’t as loud be- on her cell phone but could not faces the death penalty if con-
her face. over a bit. Then Dion aimed the cause my ears were ringing. I felt talk. victed of first-degree murder in SEE OUTBURST • A5
FDA:
Grateful remembrance
N. Korea
possibly
arranging
nuke test
Onion
U.S. spy satellite images
show a hole dug and
refilled at a suspected
site and some bleachers.
farm
BY JOHN J. LUMPKIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — U.S. spy
satellites have detected what
may be preparations for North
Korea’s first test of a nuclear
weapon, although analysts
filthy
believe it could be a calculated
ruse on Pyongyang’s part,
I Adamov
a U.S. defense
official said
Deplorable living
denies guilt: Friday.
Russian
officials
meet with
The satellite
images show
North Korea
conditions found
the former has dug and
nuclear refilled a sig-
YEVGENIY ASMOLOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Three of four plants inspected after
energy nificant hole at A religious procession passes next to rusted World War II-era helmets Friday just outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Dozens the Chi-Chi’s hepatitis outbreak
minister a suspected test of world leaders, including President Bush, are expected in Moscow to attend festivities Monday commemorating the 60th
in a Swiss site at Gilju, a anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Story, A3 still can’t export to the U.S.
prison. A6 town in the
BY JOE MANDAK
northeastern THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iraqi cleric threatens to end truce
part of the country, said the of-
ficial, who discussed intelli- The Food and Drug Administration says
gence only on the condition of workers at one of four Mexican green onion
anonymity. farms inspected as the result of a 2003 hepatitis
The hole was dug in a man- outbreak lived in windowless metal shacks with
ner consistent with prepara- Al-Sadr may mobilize with Iraqi security forces in the widespread challenges to its I Damage no showers. Shallow trenches in an area littered
tions for an underground southern city of Kufa on Friday, authority. control: The
nuclear test, although it is his militia again. Police on a day of widespread violence The clash in Kufa came after chief of the
with soiled diapers and other human waste ran
downhill to onion fields and a packaging house,
not known whether North Kor- uncover a mass grave. in Iraq. a defiant speech by al-Sadr that U.N. oil-for- recently released documents show.
eans have deposited a weapon A mass grave was found at a was read at Friday prayers, and food probe The FDA has stopped short of conclusively
inside, the official said. BY GAIUTRA BAHADUR dump near the Shiite slum that’s it brought reminders of the urges Congress linking any one problem at the farms to the out-
In addition, the official said, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS al-Sadr’s stronghold in the capi- chaos al-Sadr’s supporters to drop break, which sickened at least 650 people and
North Koreans have built some tal, and two suicide car bombs caused last year when they subpoenas of killed four who ate at the Chi-Chi’s restaurant
bleachers a safe distance from BAGHDAD — Supporters of struck a market and a police revolted against U.S. troops in an investigator in Beaver County.
the hole — presumably for Muqtada al-Sadr, the militant checkpoint, killing at least 23. Najaf and elsewhere. The ser- who quit and “It’s disgusting, but it’s not surprising,” said
viewing any test. Shiite Muslim cleric responsi- Yesterday’s violence under- mon said the Iraqi government to return secret Tammy Flaminio, of Darlington, Beaver
ble for two uprisings against the scored the weakness of the new documents. County, whose husband, Wayne, was hospital-
SEE NORTH KOREA • A6 United States last year, clashed Iraqi government in the face of SEE TRUCE • A6 A6 ized with hepatitis A after dining at the Chi-
Chi’s Beaver County Mall location. “It’s a Third
World country.”
Attorneys for Chi-Chi’s and a key supplier say
Highmark dumps Monsour, cites patient safety concerns unresolved questions about liability for the out-
break have more to do with contract law than
anything the FDA found on the farms.
The financially flailing that it no longer will pay for care its hospital’s shaky license status. Highmark also noted that Monsour “One of the things that you have to remember
clients receive at Monsour except in Monsour has been unable to cor- no longer is accredited by the Joint is our — Chi-Chi’s — contractual relationships
hospital fired its CEO emergencies. The termination notice rect problems cited in a series of in- Commission on Accreditation of were not directly with the farms in Mexico,”
earlier this week. is effective Monday. spections by the state Health Depart- Healthcare Organizations, an inde- said Chi-Chi’s attorney, Fred Gordon. “Our con-
Highmark’s decision comes on the ment for noncompliance with state pendent organization that accredits tracts were with Sysco and Castellini — Sysco
BY RICHARD GAZARIK heels of a decision by MedPLUS+, hospital regulations. hospitals based on quality of care and as the deliverer and Castellini as the procurer
TRIBUNE-REVIEW another private insurance carrier, to Michael Weinstein, a spokesman patient safety. of what are required by law to be safe and whole-
suspend payments to Monsour. Med- for Highmark, said coverage will not Highmark conducted its own review some foods.”
Bad financial news continues to PLUS+ reimburses the hospital for be discontinued for patients currently of conditions at Monsour earlier this Chi-Chi’s and its insurers are suing Sysco
plague Monsour Medical Center. some costs for patients covered by hospitalized at Monsour. “Some other year and found problems that “may Inc., of Houston, and Castellini Co., of Wilder,
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Assistance. details we’re working out might affect
notified the Jeannette hospital Friday In both cases, the carriers cite the other treatment,” he said. SEE HIGHMARK • A7 SEE FDA • A7
MORNING BRIEFING
Weather Nation/World Opinion Business Taste of success Index Editorials A9
I The Pentagon now I Pat Buchanan is I There’s fresh hope for VOL. 117 • NO. 93 Financial D2
67·46 foresees a smaller
round of base closings
and consolidations,
according to Defense
trying to figure out
what, exactly, President
Bush is celebrating in
Moscow. A9
job seekers and more
help-wanted signs
going up. Employers
added 274,000 jobs
The sold-out 2005
Pittsburgh Wine Festival
continues with an
evening of fine
Advice E7
Bridge E7
Business D1
City & Region B1
Horoscope E7
Living E1
Lotteries A10
Movies E5
Secretary Donald last month — 100,000 dining Classified F1 Obituaries B4
Rumsfeld. A3 City & Region more than expected. D1 and the Comics E8 Sports C1
I Pakistan arrests I An Elliott pastor I Missed “Desperate finest Crossword E7 Television E6
at least seven more accused of spending Housewives”? Don’t vintages.
suspected terrorists nearly $500,000 from a worry. A three-judge A8
An afternoon since this week’s religious leader’s estate panel threw out rules
thundershower, capture of a senior is charged with felony requiring standard
with a shower al-Qaida figure. A3 theft. B1 anti-piracy technology
possible early in I Allegheny County to prevent digital shows
the evening. A10 Living Sheriff Pete DeFazio says from being copied. D1
I Turf-talking men are he’ll serve one more term,
strutting their stuff. E1 then quit politics. B1