WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011

Court
tosses
Fumos
sentence

I came out of my office and said, I dont want to freak

anybody out, but my desk is undulating.
CHRIS CHRIDON

1:51 p.m.

PITT EMPLOYEE WAS ON THE 36TH FLOOR OF THE CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING

DID YOU FEEL THAT?

Series of errors made

inpenalizingDemocrat,
appellate judges rule
BY

Mayor
vows
to fix
road
City to close
Washington
Boulevard
if needed

BRIAN BOWLING

TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Former state Sen. Vincent

Fumo could spend a lot
more time in prison as a
result of a federal appeals
court ruling Tuesday, two
legal experts said.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals unanimously
upheld Fumos political corruption conviction and
agreed with prosecutors,
2-1, that the trial judge made
a series of errors in determining Fumos sentence.
The court vacated that
penalty and ordered U.S.
District Judge Ronald L.
Buckwalter to sentence
F u m o
again.
Buckwalter
sentenced
t
h
e
Philadelp h i a
Democrat
Fumo:
in
July
Convicted
2010
to
on 137 counts
four years
of fraud, tax
and seven
evasion and
months
obstruction
after
a
of justice.
Philadelphia federal jury convicted Fumo on
137 counts of fraud, tax evasion and obstruction of justice. Fumo, 68, is scheduled
for release from a federal
prison in Ashland, Ky., in
August 2013.
Prosecutors had sought a
sentence in excess of 20
years for Fumo, a legendary
power broker in Pennsylvania politics.
We are pleased with the
decision of the Third Circuit
Court of Appeals and will

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BY

BOB BAUDER

TRIBUNE-REVIEW

JUSTIN MERRIMAN | TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Pittsburghers remain alert on the corner of William Penn Place near the Omni William Penn Hotel, Downtown, after being
evacuated from buildings on Tuesday afternoon when an earthquake was felt in the region. Seismic action from the
earthquake is represented above in a seismograph taken by University of Pittsburgh at the Allegheny Observatory.

Virginia earthquake shakes region

Some buildings evacuated, inspected; little damage reported
TRIBUNE-REVIEW

The shaking in

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in central Virginia, one of the

strongest ever recorded on the East Coast, shook buildings from
Georgia to New England and forced the evacuations of parts of the
Capitol, White House and Pentagon. Officials reported a few injuries
in Washington, 84 miles from the epicenter.
Less than a minute after the rumbling
began at 1:51 p.m., tremors rolled across
Western Pennsylvania, causing evacuations and fear but little damage.
It felt like being on a boat in the water,
said Kathy Gasper, an administrative coordinator at UPMC headquarters on the 57th
floor of the U.S. Steel Tower, Pittsburghs
tallest building. It wobbled a little. I
thought I was imagining things.
Everyone started asking, Did you feel
that?
Many did.
The Allegheny County Emergency Serv-

W.Pa.
trembles

ices Center received 753 calls to 911

between 1 and 3 p.m., nearly double the
norm, said Bob Harvey, 911 communications manager.
The boards lit up, Harvey said. We
were about to do a shift change, so we kept
everybody over.
Emergency management officials suggested inspections and recommended
against evacuations. Yet schools, businesses, hospitals and office towers across
the region sent people outside.
QUAKE A4

FUMO A6

Western
Pennsylvania
lasted between
10 and 20
seconds.
It took about
43 seconds for the
wave to travel
from the epicenter
to Pittsburgh.
The quake
struck 84 miles
southwest of
Washington,
about 3.7 miles
below the surface.
The largest
earthquake in the
Central Virginia
Seismic Zone prior
to Tuesday was a
4.8 in 1875.

With Hurricane Irene

heading toward the East
Coast this week, Mayor
Luke Ravenstahl said on
Tuesday hes prepared to
shut down Washington
Boulevard if rain threatens
the busy road where four
people died in a flash flood.
In his first public comments since those deaths,
Ravenstahl expressed sympathy for the families and
vowed to fix persistent
flooding
that has
p l a g u e d Time to
the High- prepare
land Park
thorough- Irene
approaches
fare
for the East
nearly a Coast. A3
century.
Aliquippas
S o m e - plight
thing has overlooked
to change amid
on Wash- flooding
i n g t o n deaths. B1
Boulevard,
and were
going to work our hardest on
whatever that might be,
Ravenstahl said. If we have
to close down a road, perhaps
prematurely, perhaps unnecessarily, we will do that.
Funerals are scheduled
today for Fridays victims.
A service will be at 10 a.m.
at Murrysville Community

MAYOR A6

Rebel forces overrun Gadhafi compound

Focus turns to finishing fight,
challenges of unity, security
LOS ANGELES TIMES

AP

Rebel fighters trample on a head of Moammar Gadhafi inside the

main compound in Bab Azizia in Tripoli, Libya.

TRIPOLI, Libya When they finally

captured Moammar Gadhafis vast
fortress and crushed the illusion that he
still ruled them, euphoric rebels hunted
down symbols of the power Libyas
leader had held over nearly every aspect
of their lives.
They torched the Bedouin tent where
Gadhafi famously met with dignitaries

and journalists. They drove around in one

of the golf carts he used to navigate the
compound. They mocked him by trying on
a cheap plastic military hat that he might
have worn in photos and on television.
Rebel fighters converging on Tripoli
from several directions burst into the
Bab Azizia compound on Tuesday, where
Gadhafi had once lived and ruled. Neither he nor his most high-profile son was
there, but the triumph at Bab Azizia all
but marked the end of the aging leaders
nearly 42 years in power.
The fast-moving rebel takeover

plunged Tripoli into chaos, with celebratory fire from automatic weapons and
even anti-aircraft weaponry lighting up
the sky late into the night. At midnight,
crowds still were gathered in the capitals
Martyrs Square, renamed since the
rebels captured it on Sunday.
Drivers leaned on their horns, and the
citys mosques echoed with calls in praise
of God. The red, black and green rebel
flag flew over Bab Azizia, which President Ronald Reagan bombed in 1986.

GADHAFI A6

INSIDE
OPINION

Facebook will allow

users to veto tags
on photos. A3

Cal Thomas welcomes you

to the island of Virginia. A7

More control

LIVING

Sea of debt?
BUSINESS

Taking a dip

Heinzs quarterly profit

declines because of spending
to close plants. B8

WEATHER 84 68

Mostly sunny and pleasant

today; a strong late storm.
Details, A8

INDEX

VOL. 123 NO. 203

Five sections
50 pages

SCIENCE

Chefs
salads

Wild world

A study
estimates that
Earth has almost
8.8 million species,
but weve only
discovered about
a quarter of them. A5

Culinary stars
offer their
recipes for stellar
summer fare Grilled
Corn and Poblano
Potato Salad. D1

Advice D7
Bridge D7
Business B8
City&Region B1

Classified E1
Comics D8
Crossword D7
Editorials A7

Financial B9
Horoscope D7
Living D1
Lotteries A8

Movies D5
Obituaries B4
Sports C1
Television D6

SPORTS

Change of heart

Matt Cooke says he

has changed (his)
approach to hitting.
No more elbows. No
more blindside shots. No
more of the hits that have
garnered him the
reputation as the NHLs
dirtiest player. C3
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