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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. 7A News News Clinton goes to Iowa next month DES MOINES, Iowa Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline a high-profile fundraiser next month in the first presidential caucus state of Iowa, creating a big campaign splash as Democrats scramble to hold a key Senate seat in November and the former secretary of state considers a campaign of her own in 2016. Former President Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton will attend retiring Sen. Tom annual steak fry in Indianola on Sept.

14, Iowa Democrats said Monday. It will be the former first first appearance in Iowa since 2008 when she finished a disappointing third in the presidential caucuses. Clinton has urged Democrats to mobilize for midterm elections and party officials said she would likely appear at other events around the country to help the major fundraising committees. And steak fry, an event that draws thousands of grassroots activists each year, and future presidential cam- paign staff and volunteers, could be among the biggest, potentially serving as the unofficial start of second presidential bid. Early polls show her as the leading candidate to succeed President Barack Obama, her onetime rival.

Clinton is forward to campaigning for her Democratic friends and colleagues and to helping the effort to move America her spokesman Nick Merrill said, adding that raise money for important races in Republicans need to win a net of six seats to take control of the Senate for the remainder of term. The GOP is expected to maintain control of the House. Senate race pits Democrat Bruce Braley against Republican Joni Ernst in a campaign to succeed Harkin, who has held the seat for three decades. Clinton has spent much of the summer promoting her book, and stumbled when asked about her post-presidential wealth earned through six-figure speaking fees and other ventures. Her return to the campaign trail on behalf of Democratic candidates has been widely anticipated as approval ratings have sagged and some Democrats have sought to distance themselves from him in Republican-leaning states.

On a personal note, the daughter Chelsea is expecting her first child this fall and the former New York senator has said she does not want to make any political decisions before she welcomes her grandchild. I decide to run, I will have a very specific agenda about what I think we should be Clinton said in an interview in July. She said the focus first should be on the midterm elections, however. Democrats said fall campaign itinerary was still being formulated. appear alongside House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi at a fundraiser in San Francisco in October to benefit female candidates.

Clinton, said Rep. Steve Israel, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, an extraordinary force for our values and will relentlessly fight to jumpstart the middle Associated Press Body of missing wife found in mine shaft SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. The body of the missing, pregnant wife of a U.S. Marine has been found deep in an abandoned mine shaft in Southern California, where her husband had been stationed, and Alaskan authorities have arrested her alleged lover on suspicion of homicide. The remains of 20-year-old Erin Corwin were found Saturday 140 feet down an abandoned mine shift on federal land near Twentynine Palms after authorities spent nearly two months searching 300 square miles in the remote area east of Los Angeles, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said.

Her remains were identified Sunday through dental records, he said. Her alleged lover and former neighbor, Christopher Brandon Lee, was arrested around 9 p.m. Sunday in Anchorage, Alaska, on suspicion of homicide on an extradition warrant from California, said Jennifer Castro, a spokesman for the Anchorage Police Department. Corwin was in the early stages of pregnancy when she disappeared from her home in Twentynine Palms, California, on June 28. Her husband, Marine Cpl.

Jonathan Corwin, reported her missing the next day. The investigation grew to focus on Lee, who was the neighbor, according to court papers. Erin friend told investigators that Corwin and Lee were having an affair and that the unborn child might be the papers show. Corwin told her husband when she left that day that she was going to scout out hiking trails that she and her mother could explore when her mother visited a few days later. But the friend showed authorities text messages that said Corwin was planning to go on a special hunting trip with Lee the day she disappeared to celebrate.

is highly likely that Erin could have been harmed by an unknown investigators wrote in the documents. after Erin left with Lee, her phone was deactivated (turned off). Detectives believe if Erin was injured and left at an undisclosed location, she would not (be) able to call for Other evidence was found in the shaft one of more than 100 in the area but McMahon declined to discuss what it was. Authorities also declined to release the manner of death. Lee, a former Marine, told investigators he was not with Corwin that day and had been hunting in Joshua National Park.

He told police that although the two had kissed, they had never had intercourse. The investigation found that Lee and Corwin did have an dating back to at least February, Sgt. Trevis Newport said. It immediately clear if Lee, who has yet to make a first court appearance or arrive in California, had retained an attorney. Lee was arrested in July on suspicion of possessing a destructive device after a search warrant was served at his home in Yucca Valley.

Lee was taken into custody after the July 4 search and released on bail two days later. He was honorably discharged after that after seven years in the Marine Corps and subsequently moved his family to Alaska. Associated Press Ukraine: Dozens killed in shelling of convoy KIEV, Ukraine Ukraine accused pro-Russia separatists of killing dozens of civilians in an attack early Monday on a convoy fleeing a besieged rebel-held city. The rebels denied any attack took place, while the U.S. confirmed the shelling of the convoy but said it did not know who was responsible.

The refugees were attacked with Grad rockets and other weapons imported from Russia as their convoy traveled on the main road leading from Russia to the rebel-held city of Luhansk, Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for National Security Council, told reporters. people were killed, among them women and Lysenko said of the attack, which occurred between the towns of Khry- ashchuvate and Novos- vitlivka. are not able to count the death toll at this When asked about a rough estimate of deaths, he said Egypt: No deal yet on Gaza cease-fire CAIRO Egypt late Monday announced a 24-hour extension in talks between Israel and the Hamas militant group aimed at salvaging a long-term arrangement that would allow reconstruction of the Gaza Strip following a monthlong war that killed more than 2,000 people. The announcement came just minutes before a temporary truce was set to expire at midnight, averting a resumption of the fighting that has caused devastating damage across Gaza and disrupted life throughout southern Israel.

and Israelis agreed on extending the cease-fire by 24 hours to continue current the Egyptian government said in a statement. Palestinian and Israeli officials confirmed they had accepted request for an extension. Obama: Iraq forces retake Mosul Dam BAGHDAD Iraqi and Kurdish forces recaptured largest dam from Islamic militants Monday following dozens of U.S. airstrikes, President Barack Obama said, in the first major defeat for the extremists since they swept across the country this summer. Militants from the Islamic State group had seized the Mosul Dam on Aug.

7, giving them access and control of enormous power and water reserves and threatening to deny those resources to much of Iraq. Iraqi forces suffered a string of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Islamic State as the extremists took over large parts of northern and western Iraq and sent religious minorities fleeing. MISSOURI if 18-year-old shot with hands up FERGUSON, Mo. An unarmed 18-year-old whose fatal shooting by police has sparked rancorous protests in suburban St. Louis suffered a bullet wound to his right arm that may indicate his hands were up or his back was turned, but a pathologist hired by his family said Monday.

An independent autopsy determined that Michael Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, the lawyers and hired pathologists said. Witnesses said hands were above his head when he was repeatedly shot by an officer on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, where the governor called in the National Guard early Monday after police again used tear gas to quell protesters. Forensic pathologist Shawn Parcells, who assisted former New York City chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden during the private autopsy, said a bullet grazed right arm.

He said the wound indicates Brown may have had his back to the shooter, or he could have been facing the shooter with his hands above his head or in a defensive position across his chest or face. Parcells said. still have to look at the other (elements) of this investigation before we start piecing things death has heightened racial tensions between the predominantly black community and mostly white police department. Another protest quickly deteriorated Sunday night as marchers pushed toward one end of a street, and authorities who said they were responding to reports of gunfire, looting, vandalism and protesters hurling Molotov cocktails pushed them back with tear gas. It was unclear when National Guard troops would arrive, but Gov.

Jay Nixon said they would be under the direction of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which is overseeing security during protests. violent acts are a disservice to the family of Michael Brown and his memory, and to the people of this community who yearn for justice to be served and to feel safe in their own Nixon said in a statement. Associated Press ASSOCIATED PRESS This undated photo provided by the San Bernardino County, Department shows Erin Corwin. Corwin disappeared June 28 after leaving her home on the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base. ASSOCIATED PRESS Then-Democratic presidential hopeful Sen.

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