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Monday, 1.27.14 the world ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net RESS AKOTAN NEWSROOM: PAGE 12 P D [email protected] Md. Gunman Had No Criminal Record COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — The 19-year-old Maryland mall W.H.: Obama Could Go Around Congress gunman was a skateboarding enthusiast who took a taxi to the BY PHILIP ELLIOTT “The president sees of the Senate and keep their majority in mall, carrying a 12-gauge shotgun he’d purchased legally a Associated Press this as a year of action the House instead want to keep the month earlier, plenty of ammunition and some crude home- to work with Congress focus on the struggling economy and made explosives inside a backpack, authorities said. Darion Marcus Aguliar entered the Mall in Columbia WASHINGTON — President Barack where he can and to by- Obama’s stewardship of it. The GOP is around 10:15 a.m. Saturday near Zumiez, a shop that sells Obama will work with Congress where pass Congress where pinning hopes that voter frustration re- skateboarding gear, and went downstairs to a food court di- he can and circumvent lawmakers necessary,” White mains high and punishes Democrats on rectly below. Less than an hour later, he returned to the store, where he must, his top advisers warned House press secretary the ballot for Obama’s tenure. dumped the backpack in a dressing room and then started Sunday in previewing Tuesday’s State Jay Carney said. “His economic policies are not work- shooting, police said. of the Union speech. Carney The act-or-else pos- ing,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Shoppers fled in a panic or barricaded themselves behind Obama faces a politically divided ture bristled Republi- The White House has been signaling to closed doors and police arrived within 2 minutes of the first Congress on Tuesday and will use his cans. Republicans that it would not wait for 911 call. They found three people dead, including Aguilar, who annual address to demand expanded “The president has sort of hung out Congress to act. It also is betting Obama’s killed himself, police said. economic opportunity. Absent legisla- on the left and tried to get what he backers will rally behind his plans. The shooting has baffled law enforcement and acquain- tive action, the White House is telling wants through the bureaucracy as op- “When American jobs and livelihoods tances of Aguilar, a quiet, skinny teenager who graduated from lawmakers that the president is ready posed to moving to the political cen- depend on getting something done, he high school less than a year ago and had no criminal record. to take unilateral action to close the ter,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell of will not wait for Congress,” Pfeiffer wrote Police spent Sunday trying to piece together his motive, but gap between rich and poor Americans. Kentucky, the GOP Senate leader. in an email to Obama supporters Satur- by late afternoon, it remained elusive. Added Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.: “It day. “I think the way we have to think Following the speech, Obama will After Aguilar had fired between six and nine shots, two Zu- about this year is we have a divided sounds vaguely like a threat, and I think miez employees were dead, police said. One victim, Brianna travel to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wis- government,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a long- it also has a certain amount of arro- consin and Tennessee to promote the Benlolo, a 21-year-old single mother, lived half a mile away time Obama adviser. “The Republican gance.” from Aguilar in the same College Park neighborhood, but po- proposals he introduces Tuesday lice said they were still trying to determine what, if any, rela- Congress is not going to rubber-stamp With campaigns for November’s evening. tionship they had. Although they lived close to Maryland’s the president’s agenda. The president is election on the horizon, there’s scant Pfeiffer appeared on CNN’s “State of largest university, neither was a student there. not going to sign the Republican Con- reason for the White House to be opti- the Union” and “Fox News Sunday.” Car- gress’ agenda.” mistic about Republican support for ney spoke with ABC’s “This Week.” Mc- So the White House is eyeing com- measures to revive a bipartisan immi- Connell was interviewed on Fox. Paul Health Care Overhaul Getting Tricky promise on some priorities, Obama ad- gration bill that has passed the Senate, spoke with CNN and NBC’s “Meet the CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Families shopping for health insur- visers said. But the president is also an increased minimum wage or expand- Press.” Cruz spoke to CBS’ “Face the ance through the new federal marketplace are running into looking at executive orders that can be ing prekindergarten programs. Nation.” trouble getting everyone covered when children are eligible enacted without Congress’ approval. Republicans looking to wrest control for Medicaid but their parents are not. Children who qualify for Medicaid, the safety-net program for the poor and disabled, can’t be included on subsidized family plans purchased through the federal marketplace, a Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Make A ‘Heist’ Of Grammys fact that is taking many parents by surprise and leaving some BY MESFIN FEKADU kids stuck without coverage. “Dude, on the behalf of the verse for conspiring and put- of rappers leading in nomina- In New Hampshire, some parents who’ve enrolled in pri- AP Music Writer robots . thank you, thank ting that beautiful light of a tions, was the night’s front- vate plans for themselves alone are finding out later that their you, thank you,” said Williams, young lady in my life,” Jay Z runner with nine. children aren’t eligible for Medicaid after all, leaving their kids LOS ANGELES — Mackle- who also won non-classical said, looking at Beyonce. “I For top album, Mackle- with no options. more & Ryan Lewis might producer of the year. want to tell Blu that, look, more & Lewis and Lamar’s “The children are getting stuck in this spot where we’ve en- shop at thrift shops, but they Macklemore & Lewis’ wins, ‘Daddy got a gold sippy cup platinum-selling debuts, “The rolled the parent, but we can’t bring the children back on the now have a ton of Grammy which include best rap song for you.”’ Heist” and “good kid, m.A.A.d family plan,” Maria Proulx, senior legal counsel for Anthem gold. and rap performance for Lorde won her first city,” will battle Taylor Swift’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire, told a state ad- The rap duo won four “Thrift Shop,” come after the Grammy for best pop solo per- earth-shattering sales force visory board panel this month. Grammy Awards so far Sun- Grammy rap committee al- formance with the hit “Roy- “Red,” Daft Punk’s electronic day, including best new artist most ousted the group from als.” adventure “Random Access and rap album for “The Heist,” its categories. A source told “This is the one thing I did- Memories” and the surprise Syria Peace Talks Yield Narrow Deal beating efforts from Kendrick The Associated Press that the n’t expect the most about nominee — “The Blessed Un- rap committee rejected the tonight, so thank you so rest” from the piano-playing GENEVA (AP) — Two days of face-to-face peace talks Lamar, Jay Z, Kanye West and Drake. duo, but that was later over- much,” said Lorde, who beat Sara Bareilles. yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women ruled by the general Grammy out Timberlake, Perry, Sara Macklemore & Lewis’ and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the govern- “Wow, we’re here on the stage right now,” said Mackle- committee. The rap commit- Bareilles and Bruno Mars. “Same Love” is up for song of ment said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving tee felt Macklemore & Lewis Lorde performed “Royals” the year alongside No. 1 Bill- up “the keys to Damascus.” more, thanking fans first, then his fiance and team. “I want to should qualify for the pop early on during the show, and board hits, including Perry’s With little progress to show after months of international awards instead because of she was just one of the top fe- “Roar,” Lorde’s “Royals,” pressure for the conference in Geneva, the U.N. mediator hop- say we made this album with- out a record label, we made it their massive success on Top males to hit the Grammy stage ‘’Locked Out of Heaven” by ing to broker an end to Syria’s civil war defended their pace. 40 radio. The source, who at- Sunday: Madonna, Carole Bruno Mars and Pink’s “Just The limited agreement to let women and children leave a independently and we appreci- ate all the support.” tended the general Grammy King, Pink and Bareilles will Give Me a Reason,” featuring blockaded part of the old city of Homs, under negotiation for meeting, spoke on the condi- also performed at the Staples Nate Ruess of fun. Lorde and at least two days, fell far short of expectations and was called Beyonce kicked off the Grammy Awards with steamy tion of anonymity because the Center in Los Angeles. Mars’ songs repeat in record into question by multiple reports of government shelling. meeting was private. Like the Macklemore & of the year, and will be up The talks have yet to touch upon the issue of a possible and smoky performance of “Drunk In Love:” She started Justin Timberlake, who Lewis, Lamar is nominated for against Imagine Dragons’ “Ra- transitional government — their purpose according to terms wasn’t up for any of the major album of the year, marking a dioactive” and two songs that laid out when they were first conceived.

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