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Hazara Shiite community following the funeral victim bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday (14/1). (REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed)

Quetta, Pakistan (Reuters)-officials denouncing the security forces of Pakistan province on Sunday after the bombing of the Shia Hazara community, killing 80 people in the Northwest of the town, Quetta.

"The terrorist attacks on the Shia Hazara community in Quetta is password and security failure," said Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, Governor of the province of Baluchistan, when organizing the hospital.

"We give freedom to the security to act against the terrorists and the Group hard, but Quetta incident happened," he said.

The number who perished as a result of the bombing on Saturday night rose to 80 people, with most of the victims were in the city's main bazaar, the capital of Baluchistan, near the border with Afghanistan.

Most of the dead were citizens of Hazara, Shia tribal groups. High security officials said that number could rise as 20 people were seriously injured.

The Pakistani Government, which is not favored over various issues, such as poverty and electricity outages, ahead of the election predicted in the coming months, increasingly hard pressed to pursue Sunni pegaris, who consider Shiites not a Muslim.

A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sunni, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which is also causing casualties near the school and the computer center.

LeJ also stated was behind bombings in the past month in Quetta, which killed almost 100 people, one of the worst school attack in Pakistan.

Shia political institutions called for a strike in Quetta to denounce the latest massacre. Many shops and bazaars are closed. Relatives who were injured responding to a request by the hospital's blood.

Officials said Pakistan hard group password command bombings and shootings increase LeJ against Shiites to spark violence, which will pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in Pakistan, an ally of United States.

More than 400 people dead in Pakistan's Shiites in the past year, many of them by gunmen or bomb. Some hard-line Shiite group retaliated by killing Sunni clerics.

The split with Sunni Shia evolved after the Prophet Muhammad died in 632, when his followers disagree over his successor.
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PA Governor Corbett Signs Bill Allowing Takeover of Bankrupt Harrisburg

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(Reuters)— Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed legislation on Thursday that allows for the takeover of the state's capital city of Harrisburg, setting up a legal confrontation between the state and the city.

The bill paves the way for the governor to declare a state of fiscal emergency that leads to a recovery plan for Harrisburg, which filed for bankruptcy last week.

Harrisburg, a city of about 50,000, is struggling to pay for essential services as well as about $300 million in debt that funded an incinerator project that failed to generate expected cash.

The Harrisburg City Council voted 4-3 on October 11 to file for a Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy as a way of resolving a massive debt crisis brought on by the funding of an incinerator that hasn't generated enough cash.

The action immediately generated conflict between the City Council and the mayor, Linda Thompson, the state legislature, and the governor, who dispute the legality of the Council's action in filing for bankruptcy.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge set a November 23 hearing date on the legality of the bankruptcy.

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Mark Schwartz, a lawyer hired by the City Council to handle the Chapter 9 bankruptcy case, called the governor's signing of the takeover act "absolutely perverse."

"It's too little, too late," he said in a telephone interview on Thursday, dismissing the new law as "clearly unconstitutional."

Schwartz added that the legislation really didn't do anything since the governor "must now get approval from the bankruptcy court" to take over the city.

Governor Corbett signed the bill in a private ceremony, according to the governor's spokeswoman, Kelli Roberts.

"The bill signed into law today will help to enforce Act 47 when municipalities fail to adopt a fiscal recovery plan, making it clear that if there is a failure to act, the state will intervene," Corbett said in a statement.

Under the law, the governor can declare a fiscal emergency after it is determined the city is insolvent or near insolvency, unable to provide vital services and has not adopted a fiscal recovery plan.

"I remain a strong proponent for municipal governments tackling their own problems and coming together to develop a fiscal recovery plan when necessary," Corbett said. "But when that fails to happen, the state has to take action to ensure public safety."

When a fiscal emergency is declared, the State Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary is granted powers to develop an Emergency Action Plan to coordinate essential services. These services include pension and debt payments.

The governor can then petition the state court for the city to be placed into receivership. The receiver will have 30 days to develop a fiscal recovery plan that is submitted to the court. Once approved, the receiver can implement the plan to take control of the municipality's finances relating to the plan.

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Throughout the process, if the city adopts and implements an acceptable fiscal recovery plan, a takeover is averted.

Mayor Thompson said the city will comply with the law. Thompson opposed the bankruptcy filing.

The mayor said in a statement that she will use the current financial recovery plan as the starting point for any discussions, saying implementation of some version of the plan is preferable to entering into receivership or bankruptcy.

"If we don't attempt to solve our own problems, the alternatives will be far worse," Thompson said.

A legislative panel estimated the cost of placing Harrisburg into receivership would be between $2.15 million and $2.55 million in the first year. The costs would be about $1 million for the state and between $1.15 million to $1.55 million for Harrisburg.

"This is all process and no money," Schwartz said. "There's not 10 cents for Harrisburg."

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Florida Governor May Divert Taxes to STEM Majors

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has a message for any aspiring anthropologists in Florida: Look elsewhere.

The Republican governor told conservative radio show host Marc Bernier this week that the state is going to begin shifting funding away from certain liberal arts majors at state universities to favor STEM disciplines.

"You know, we don't need a lot more anthropologists in the state. It's a great degree if people want to get it, but we don't need them here," he said.

Scott said students need to focus on studying subjects that can get them jobs—specifically in high-growth areas such as STEM.

"I want to spend our dollars giving people science, technology, engineering, math degrees. That's what our kids need to focus all their time and attention on," he said. "So when they get out of school, they can get a job."

He told Bernier that everything he does as governor has been designed to keep the cost of living down and to create jobs. Since taking over as governor at the beginning of the year, Scott says he's made the state more friendly for corporations, and that Florida has added more than 10,000 private-sector jobs each month this year.

"My job is to keep building jobs each and every day," he told Bernier. "People that are thinking about making big corporate moves, they're thinking about Florida for the first time."

Scott reiterated his position to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

"If I'm going to take money from a citizen to put into education then I'm going to take that money to create jobs," he told the paper.

Any Floridians who are considering studying anthropology may have to look elsewhere, anyway. Florida State University recently announced that it is no longer admitting students to its undergraduate and graduate anthropology programs because of the state's budget crisis.

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Ohio governor commutes sentence of death row inmate

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COLUMBUS, Ohio | Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:07pm EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich on Monday commuted the death sentence of convicted killer Joseph Murphy to life without the possibility of parole, his second such action in the past three months.

The application of Ohio's death penalty came under question in July when a federal judge issued a stay of execution for another inmate and called the state's practices haphazard.

In commuting his sentence, Kasich called Murphy's 1987 murder of Ruth Predmore, 72, "heinous and disturbing," but the death penalty inappropriate given a brutal upbringing and relatively young age at the time of the crime.

Murphy was 21 when he stabbed Predmore in the neck during a robbery, severing the carotid arteries and jugular vein. His execution had been scheduled for October 18 and the Ohio Parole Board had recommended that his sentence be commuted.

"Even though as a child and adolescent Murphy suffered uniquely severe and sustained verbal, physical and sexual abuse from those who should have loved him, it does not excuse his crime," Kasich said in a statement.

Kasich commuted another inmate's death sentence to life in June and has delayed other executions. A joint state Supreme Court and bar association task force is planned to review the state's administration of the death penalty.

The task force will not address whether the state should or should not have a death penalty.

Ohio has executed four men in 2011, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Thirty-six people have been executed in the United States so far this year.

(Reporting by Jim Leckrone and David Bailey; Editing by Greg McCune)

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