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CMYK Show her Pa. kids bash the money the bayou boys Activist wants Wilkes-Barre Clinton County dominates to pay legal settlement. Louisiana in Little League WS. LOCAL, 3A SPORTS, 1B $ VOUCHER $ 20 FOR ONLY 10 The Times Leader300964 WILKES-BARRE, PA timesleader.com TUESDAY,AUGUST23, 2011 50¢ Insurgents control most of capital; Gadhafi whereabouts disputed SPORTS SHOWCASE Fed probe figures Libyanrebels roll may lose By JEFFREY FLEISHMAN Los Angeles Times CAIRO — Rebels pouring in properties from the countryside strength- ened their grip on much of the Libyan capital, setting up check- Sites owned by four charged points and securing buildings in probe among 2,500 that even as longtime leader Moam- mar Gadhafi evaded their grasp face back-tax sale Sept. 22. NATIONAL LEAGUE and pockets of his loyalists PHILLIES 10 “We can- not feel continued to By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES METS 0 put up fierce [email protected] peace. We resistance. Roughly 2,500 Luzerne County Heavy fight- properties could potentially be NATIONALS 4 cannot feel ing rumbled auctioned in the Sept. 22 back-tax D’BACKS 1 victory around Gadha- sale unless the owners pay what’s until we fi’s Bab Azizia owed through 2009, according to compound in an auction list- AMERICAN LEAGUE see Gad- southern Tri- ing published hafi cap- poli, and Monday.Proper- RANGERS 4 throughout the ties may be put RED SOX 0 tured.” capital rebels up for sale if tax- said they had es have gone un- Tripoli resident sustained paid for two IL BASEBALL heavy losses. years. The opposition The auction Greco SWB YANKS 11 forces claimed control of about list includes RED WINGS 2 80 percent of the city, which was properties own- at once jubilant with waving ed by four peo- flags and precarious with the rat- ple charged as NFL tle of gunfire. part of the cor- Attention quickly focused on ruption probe – N.Y. GIANTS 41 how the Transitional National Robert Powell, BEARS 13 Council, the rebels’ governing Barton Wei- body, would impose order on a dlich, William Powell fractious tribal nation battered Sharkey and by six months of revolt. The re- Thom Greco – OAKLAND’S bels are prone to divisions and as well as a golf PRYOR-ITY Western officials worry that course, a skat- power struggles and the desire ing rink and The Oakland Raiders for revenge may threaten stabil- more than 200 used a third-round pick ity much as they did after the fall acres of aban- Monday in the NFL’s sup- of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. doned mine plemental draft to select But the rebels’ sense of mo- land. Sharkey former Ohio State mentum suffered a blow early To get out of quarterback Tuesday when Gadhafi’s son and the sale, proper- Terrelle Pryor. onetime heir apparent, Seif al-Is- ty owners must Oakland forfeits lam, appeared at a Tripoli hotel pay taxes owed its third- that remained in the hands of through 2009, round Gadhafi’s forces. The rebels had file for bank- selec- claimed Sunday that they had ruptcy or con- tion captured him. Another son, Mo- AP PHOTO vince a judge to in the Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam waves to troops loyal to his father in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday. grant more Weidlich 2012 SeeLIBYA,Page 12A Rebels had claimed they captured him, but he later appeared independently. time. County of- draft. 1B ficials expect the list of properties to shrink significantly because many owners wait until the last minute to resolve their debts. Man wanted in Mountain Top stabbing arrested in W-B The law requires counties to ad- INSIDE vertise the properties facing auc- Armoni M. Johnson was Armoni M. Johnson, 24, of arrested at the home of his sister, Township police. tion 30 days before a sale. The ANEWS: Local 3A identified through a LiveScan North Sherman Street, Wilkes- Shakana Leonard, of South River According to court papers fil- Sept. 22 auction, known as an up- Nation & World 5A Barre, was charged with two fe- Street, at about 7 p.m. Charges of ed by Wright Township police: set sale, is for properties that have Obituaries 8A fingerprint check, police say. lony counts each of aggravated hindering prosecution and disor- They were dispatched to 64 not yet been listed at a delinquent Editorials 11A assault and conspiracy to com- derly conduct were being filed Charter Drive at Capitol Hill tax sale. BSPORTS: 1B mit aggravated assault and one against her. Apartments at 4:39 p.m. Aug. 7 Powell’s Olivia Way townhouse, BBUSINESS: 8B BY STEVE MOCARSKY felony count of burglary. Wilkes-Barre police Sgt. Tom for a report of a victim stabbed located in the Wright Township de- Stocks 9B [email protected] He was arraigned before Dis- Harding said Johnson had given multiple times. velopment formerly known as The WILKES-BARRE – City police trict Judge Ronald Swank and police “the run-around with dif- Justin Barna, of Apartment Sanctuary, is listed at a starting bid CHEALTH: 1C Birthdays 4C on Monday captured a man jailed at the Luzerne County ferent names,” but he was posi- 7B, told Luzerne County 911that of $24,551. TV/Movies 6C wanted in the stabbing of a resi- Correctional Facility for lack of tively identified with a LiveScan he was “stabbed all over” by two The bid amounts include taxes Crossword/Horoscope 7C dent of Capitol Hill Apartments $75,000 cash bail. fingerprint check at the King- men and that Johnson was owed through 2010, estimated Comics 8C in Wright Township earlier this Wilkes-Barre police Lt. Mar- ston Police Department and month. cella Lendacky said Johnson was then turned over to Wright SeeSTABBING, Page 12A SeeAUCTION, Page 12A DCLASSIFIED: 1D AREA POLITICS 11th District congressman says he’ll run for 2nd term, calls for balanced budget amendment and reforms of entitlements WEATHER Lydia Mellner Sunny to partly cloudy. As town halls grow raucous, Barletta turns to roundtables High 75, low 50. Details, Page 10B By BILL O’BOYLE Barletta said he has met or will meet with [email protected] representatives from the following sectors: WILKES-BARRE -- Frustrated by disrup- health care, education/higher education, tive hecklers at town hall meetings, U.S. Rep. small business, hospital administration, law Lou Barletta Monday said he has opted for a enforcement, agriculture, labor, pharmaceu- series of roundtable discussions on topics ticals, senior citizens, transportation/infras- running from health care to education to agri- tructure, gang awareness and employment/ ONLINE culture. workforce. To see video of Barletta, R-Hazleton, also confirmed that the interview he will run for a second two-year term. Town hall issue with Rep. Bar- After eight months in office, “it’s clear a lot When Barletta campaigned against 13- letta, scan this of work needs to be done,” he told a group of term Democrat incumbent Paul Kanjorski QR code into Times Leader reporters and editors. last year, he criticized his opponent for refus- your smart- “It’s very frustrating when you get to Wash- ing to hold town hall meetings. Kanjorski had phone or visit www.timeslea- ington and you see what goes on behind the similar ambushes by hecklers at his meet- DON CAREY/ THE TIMES LEADER 6 09815 10011 der.com scenes,” Barletta said. “There’s so much that U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta plans to meet with representatives the public doesn’t know.” SeeBARLETTA, Page 12A of many aspects of his constituency. K PAGE 2A TUESDAY, AUGUST23, 2011 ➛ timesleader.com THE TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com LCCC is hosting Bank robbery charge lodged DETAILS LOTTERY Otto McNab Jr. of Butler township po- entered McNab’s driveway. The Township threatened to set lice responded vehicle occupants were identi- MIDDAY DRAWING event to honor 9/11 to a reported fied as McNab and Diane Yost, off a bomb, police say. robbery at Sus- both of whom were taken into DAILY NUMBER – 1-5-0 The school was able to WHAT’S NEXT? quehanna custody. BIG 4 – 2-6-1-2 Bank, with a Yost told police McNab told QUINTO - 5-4-6-6-8 procure an artifact from the The official opening of LCCC’s new her that he wanted to get money By STEVE MOCARSKY street address Health Sciences Building at 42 E. from the bank because they were TREASURE HUNT World Trade Center wreckage. [email protected] McNab of 653 State Main Street in Nanticoke will be Route 93, Sug- going to buy a car. She didn’t 01-12-13-20-29 marked with a ribbon cutting BUTLER TWP. – A township arloaf, at 12:15 p.m., where a know he had no active accounts NIGHTLY DRAWING ceremony at 2 p.m. on Friday, man was arrested Monday after man told a teller he had a bomb at the bank, police said. By B. GARRET ROGAN Sept. 23. A reunion for graduates he allegedly robbed a bank and DAILY NUMBER - 1-0-2 and would set it off if he wasn’t Police said McNab provided Times Leader Correspondent from the nursing, surgical tech- threatened to set off a bomb if BIG 4 - 9-6-4-4 given money. The suspect was oral and written statements indi- nology, respiratory therapy and the teller didn’t give him money. cating that he committed the NANTICOKE -- Luzerne given $2,262 and left the bank. QUINTO - 3-0-7-3-2 emergency management services robbery alone by telling the tell- County Community College will fields of study will be held at the Otto McNab Jr., 36, of 73 E.