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Man in fair condition after stabbing

Jesus Velasco Rosales of Santa Maria was reported to be in fair condition Monday and his roommate was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed Rosales during an argument Saturday.

Carlos Reyes Selgado, 49, was arrested and booked into county jail on suspicion of the attempted murder of Rosales, according to the Santa Maria Police Department.

Santa Maria police officers were sent to a residence in the 600 block of West Williams Street about 10:30 p.m. Saturday regarding a fight between roommates. When officers arrived, they found that Rosales had been stabbed.

Rosales was treated at Marian Medical Center for a single stab wound to his upper chest, and Selgado was also treated at the hospital before he was transported to jail.

SAN DIEGO — A Marine Corps drill instructor facing court-martial for allegedly abusing recruits was doing his job in toughening them up them for war, his defense lawyers said.

Lawyers for Sgt. Jerrod M. Glass said other drill instructors told Glass that recruits needed to be prepared for combat, even if getting them ready meant violating military policies.

“His job was not to be nice but to instill discipline and toughness,” defense attorney Capt. Patrick J. Callahan told the jury Tuesday in his opening statements. “Why are we here? The other three drill instructors. They felt the platoon would not be prepared for combat, which in today’s Marine Corps is not some fanciful idea but a daily reality.”

Prosecutors disputed Callahan’s account, telling jurors that Glass, once a star student, abused an entire 40-member platoon during training last winter, from dumping water canteens over their heads and destroying their hygiene kits to hitting recruits with flashlights and tent poles.

Lawyers argued for more than an hour Tuesday over whether Madison and Oneida counties can foreclose on Oneida Indian Nation land.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made no decision, and has no deadline to issue one. The hearing was held in Manhattan.

Madison County Attorney John Campanie said the counties argued for a quick ruling before the three-judge panel.

“We tried to put forth that Madison and Oneida county taxpayers have waited too long and it’s important to have a resolution of this,” Campanie said.

One judge asked if the court should wait until the federal government rules on the nation’s request to put all of its land into federal trust. Nation lawyer Peter Carmen said after the hearing that would be a fair way to proceed.

Two local students were surprised when they received invitations to compete in this weekend�s Miss Teen Seattle and Miss Pre-teen Seattle competitions. Amanda Vishoot, 18, and 12-year-old Kelly Harrington both received letters in the mail informing them that they had been recommended for the competitions by a teacher at their schools.

Katie Walton, secretary at Nationals Incorporated, the company that is coordinating the event, said four contestants � a top overall winner and a first, second and third place runner-up in each category � will be given the opportunity to compete in the Cities of America National Competition in Orlando, Florida. The winner of that competition will receive her choice of a new 2007 automobile or a $10,000 cash scholarship.

�I got my invitation letter last May,� Vishoot said.

City commissioners heard plenty of ideas about the future of Public Library of Enid and Garfield County during their study session Tuesday.The library building downtown suffered extensive damage last month when a storm blew through, tore off the roof and caused water damage. City Manager Eric Benson told commissioners in addition to the damage from the storm, asbestos has been found in the building and must be removed. No matter what happens to the library building, he said, the asbestos will have to be removed. He said the roof damage is being repaired, but there also was damage to computers and books. Mold, cracks in the foundation and other problems also have been found.He made a number of suggestions during Tuesday’s discussion in order to get commissioners’ input. No vote was taken since the talk occurred in study session.Among his suggestions were combining the city and county library with the Northern Oklahoma College Enid library, establishing a library and cyber cafe at Oakwood Mall and building a new up-to-date library as part of a proposed 25-year, $450 million bond issue to be offered in the spring.The current library building’s central location downtown means it cannot be allowed to become a boarded up space, Benson said.

CHILD’S PLAY

GROVER BEACH, Sept. 22 - The Grover Beach Community Library, 230 North 9th St., offers a reading program for preschool children in the Kids’ Korner, 10:30 to 11 a.m., featuring treats and a special project Info: 481-4131.

SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 22 - Art from Scrap Workshops for artists of all ages are held at the Community Environmental Council, 302 E. Cota St. Get Medieval and create &#8220Dragons and Other Dangerous Things,” 10 a.m. to noon. Cost: $6 per person. Children age 5 and younger must be under adult supervision. Info: 884-0459 or www.artfromscrap.org.

SANTA MARIA, Sept. 24 to Nov. 13- Children’s Art Classes for all ages are offered at the Town Center Gallery, second floor of the Town Center Mall. Fun classes include &#8220Make a Masterpiece” and &#8220Lovely Landscapes” with artist Beth Ostapiuk, and &#8220Drawing Cartoon People and Animals” taught by Michael Corob.

Five men have been arrested on charges they bilked New Orleans residents out of thousands of dollars by contracting to renovate houses and failing to do so, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Charles Foti said.

In some cases the victim was an elderly person, in at least one case disabled, spokeswoman Jennifer Cluck said.

The five suspects were identified by the attorney general’s office, which provided this information:

— Anthony Thomas was arrested Oct. 25 and booked with one count of felony theft, one count of acting as a contractor without a license and one count of theft from an elderly or disabled person. Thomas, owner of Thomas Dry Wall, is alleged to have accepted a down payment of $52,000 as part of a contract with a resident to renovate her home, and to have abandoned the job without fulfilling the contract.

Ultramodern sparred with avant-naturalism when the summer edition of the biannual New York International Gift Fair commandeered the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminals 88 and 94. The tussle was most conspicuous at Accent on Design, the juried division of all things cutting-edge. Here, the gleaming abstractions of Arik Levy shared the floor with the forward-thinking forestry of Angela Adams. Overall, small-scale goods stole the spotlight from furniture and statement accessories, and eco-centricity was ubiquitous.

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A barn in the stable area at Churchill Downs has been quarantined after a horse tested positive for equine herpes.

Churchill Downs spokesman John Asher said a 3-year-old thoroughbred in Barn 47, which houses horses trained by David Carroll and Al Stall Jr., tested positive for the virus after displaying symptoms on Thursday. The horse trained by Carroll was transported to an equine hospital in Lexington for observation.

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During the Big Freeze of 1990, household pipes iced up and burst, soaking furniture, damaging walls and bringing ceilings to the floor.

“It was horrendous,” said David Cooper, a plumber for 22 years with Wallner Plumbing in Redding. “I worked harder that winter than in my whole life.”

That kind of cold spell (Redding temperatures dropped to a record low of 17 degrees) is a rarity in the north state, but it doesn’t take a freak freeze to cause pipe problems.

“We get breaks all the time. It doesn’t have to be a deep freeze,” said Kevin Brouillard, a plumber with Twyman Plumbing in Redding.

Whether it’s a normal winter or a once-in-acentury freeze, the advice is the same: A little bit of effort now can prevent a big expensive, problem later.

“When the water inside the pipe turns to ice, it expands and creates more pressure than the pipe is designed to hold,” Cooper explained.