An affidavit filed in federal court in Akron said Mark Campano told an FBI agent that he “did indeed” build the pipe bombs found this week at his apartment in Cuyahoga Falls.

Neither Campano nor the FBI agent who talked to him described a motive or possible target in the affidavit, which was filed late Wednesday.

His defense attorney, Donald Hicks, said Friday that he had no comment. A woman who answered the phone at a number provided to police by Campano said she was a housekeeper and could not provide a family contact.

The two-page affidavit didn’t reflect all the information gathered by investigators, wrote Donald J. Guerra, an agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Copper-based pipe bombs found at the apartment were consistent with the explosion debris, Guerra said. PVC piping, as well as explosive powder, hobby fuse, pipes and end caps found at the apartment, is commonly used to make pipe bombs, he said.

Authorities took Campano into custody after an explosion rocked his apartment complex Monday night. Police said he was attempting to load shotgun shells when one blew up.

The 56-year-old Campano, a former anesthesiologist, has a history of substance abuse dating to 1987, according to state medical board records. His Ohio medical license was revoked in 2006.

He completed a drug treatment program in the late 1980s, according to Ohio medical board records. He moved to West Virginia and practiced medicine there until he gave up his license in 1993 when he had a relapse involving drugs and alcohol.

Campano sought treatment again and was found to have major depression, alcohol dependency, and drug abuse, records show.

West Virginia medical board records show Campano attended medical school at Ohio’s Wright State University and did additional training at hospitals in Akron and Miami.

Campano was charged Wednesday with one count of unlawful possession of a pipe bomb. He agreed to waive a preliminary hearing and bond hearing.

About 35 pipe bombs, an assortment of firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found in the apartment after two loud explosions. Other apartments were evacuated, but no one else was hurt.

Campano told an officer that he was trying to load shotgun shells when one blew up in his hands, according to a police report. He was taken to an Akron hospital with severe injuries to his left hand and arm. After he was released Wednesday, he was taken to court.

The emirate’s ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and his family have been among the highest spenders at major American thoroughbred auctions dating to the 1980s, often paying millions of dollars for top bloodstock even during market downturns such as the current one.

Dubai World, the main investment arm of the Middle Eastern city-state, is asking for at least a six-month delay on paying back a nearly $60 billion debt. It was unclear what effect the country’s debt crisis would have on the sheik’s horse racing and breeding interests and whether the American thoroughbred market would feel any repercussions.

“We’ve seen no sign that it’s going to have any impact, and we certainly hope they’re able to work their way through the situation,” said Nick Nicholson, president of Keeneland, a Lexington racetrack and auction house where the sheik is a major horse buyer and regularly attends sales.

Sheik Mohammed has been a longtime horse enthusiast. He is one of the world’s premier endurance riders and is married to Princess Haya of Jordan, president of the International Equestrian Federation.

In 2001, he bulked up his horse operations in the United States with the purchase of Jonabell Farm in Lexington. Among the top stallions stabled there are 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense and his sire, Street Cry, 2006 Preakness winner Bernardini, and Medaglia d’Oro, who sired Rachel Alexandra, winner of this year’s Kentucky Oaks and Preakness Stakes.

Oliver Tait, chief operating officer at Jonabell, declined to comment Friday about the debt crisis except to say that operations at the farm hadn’t changed.

“It’s business as usual,” Tait said. “Our object has remained the same. We’re carrying on.”

Seven horses owned by the sheik’s Godolphin Racing stable have run in the Kentucky Derby, including Desert Party and Regal Ransom this year. The highest finish for a Godolphin horse in the Derby is sixth, by China Visit in 2000.

Mohammed’s goal of winning a Derby has been amplified in recent years with some record-shattering purchases of not just stallions but also mares, including Playful Act, which he bought in 2007 at Keeneland for an unprecedented $10.5 million.

“Sheik Mohammed obviously has a passion for thoroughbred racing,” said Case Clay, president of Three Chimneys Farm in Lexington. “I’m guessing the money he’s using to buy is small potatoes compared to what’s going on over in Dubai. If it all falls down in Dubai, I think he still has disposable income to enjoy horse racing.”

In this month’s recently concluded Keeneland sale, however, neither Mohammed nor his representative John Ferguson participated, even though the sale featured the dispersal of about 150 horses that belonged to the great Kentucky horse breeding operation, Overbrook Farm.

“I think many of us were surprised given some of the pedigrees we were selling,” said Ric Waldman, who served as Overbrook’s stallion consultant.

Waldman said he didn’t know if the sheik’s absence from the November sale had anything to do with the debt crisis.

The influence of Dubai on horse racing extends far beyond the sheik’s individual interest. Last year, a company headed by one of his close associates purchased Fasig-Tipton, the other major horse auction house in Lexington.

Dubai each year also hosts the world’s richest horse race, the Dubai World Cup. A world-class racecourse seating 60,000 people is being planned for next year’s event.

Meydan, the company spearheading that project, also is a top sponsor of next year’s World Equestrian Games in Lexington. Jamie Link, CEO of the World Games 2010 Foundation, said he expects Dubai’s financial troubles will have no effect on that commitment.

“We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disregarded your culture, along with your dreams, hopes and great love for this land,” the Rev. Robert Chase told descendants from both sides. “With pain, we the Collegiate Church, remember our part in these events.”

The minister spoke on Native American Heritage Day at a reconciliation ceremony of the Lenape tribe with the Collegiate Church, started in 1628 in then-New Amsterdam as the Reformed Dutch Church.

The rite was held in front of the Museum of the American Indian in lower Manhattan, where Dutch colonizers had built their fort near an Indian trail now called Broadway, just steps away from Wall Street.

The Collegiate Church was considered the “conscience” of the new colony, whose merchants quickly developed commerce with the world in fur and grains — till then the turf of the natives.

Surrounded by Lenape Indians, the Dutch colonists “were hacking men, women and children to death,” said Ronald Holloway, the chairman of the Sand Hill band of Lenapes, who lived here before Henry Hudson landed 400 years ago.

The Indians dispersed across the country, eventually ending up on government-formed reservations. On Friday, some came from as far away as Oklahoma.

During the ceremony, Chase embraced Holloway and, as symbolic gestures of healing, the two sides exchanged wampum — strings of beads used by North American Indians as money or ornament. A boy representing the Lenapes and a girl from the Collegiate Church put necklaces on each other.

While Friday’s ceremony exuded warmth and openness, accompanied by an Indian drumming circle and the haunting sound of a wooden flute, the feelings leading up to the reconciliation were mixed.

“After 400 years, when someone says ‘I’m sorry,’ you say, ‘Really?’ ” Holloway said before the ritual. “There was some kind of uneasiness. But then you’ve got to accept someone’s sincere apology; they said, ‘We did it.’ We ran you off, we killed you.’ “

In New York City, the Collegiate churches are composed of four congregations including the landmark Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue led by the late Rev. Norman Vincent Peale.

The church plans to sponsor educational activities and exhibits to teach children history — including the Indian reverence for preserving the purity of the land taken over by the Dutch colonists.

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(This version CORRECTS story to indicate that Native American Heritage Day did not begin this year.)

Reality: Pretty much all that’s left of that town is in the imagination.

So 114 years later, Vandergrift residents — from baby boomers who grew up during the town’s heyday to students as young as their grandchildren — are reviving Olmsted’s vision and making the community environmentally sustainable for the 21st century and beyond.

Their goal is to attract people to live or shop in the boutiques of the quaint town of just 5,000 people — which lost residents, jobs and allure along with steel.

From bringing back green spaces paved-over for parking to seeking how to harness electrical energy for the town from the fast-flowing river, Vandergrift is investing millions toward environmentally sustainable revitalization — a concept gaining popularity in Rust Belt towns that have few viable options for renewal.

“This community is such a wonderful template for demonstrating (sustainability) not just for themselves, but, I think, way outside of Vandergrift,” said University of Pittsburgh professor Lisa Mauck Weiland, looking over the skeletal wooden remains of what was once a JCPenney. The building is now the object of a “green” renovation with the input of students from Pitt and a local high school.

While many communities are embracing sustainable revitalization, Vandergrift’s strategy is all-encompassing: to create an energy independent, ecologically low-impact, economically viable town from the ashes of its postindustrial wasteland. It aims to renovate buildings with sustainable materials, from carpet textiles to solar roof panels. A farmers market has been expanded. Trees are being planted and green spaces recovered.

Perhaps the most ambitious is the river energy project. With Weiland’s guidance and a grant from the National Science Foundation, University of Pittsburgh students are seeking to exploit the hydrokinetic forces of the Kiski River to offset energy costs downtown, without building dams or coal-burning electrical facilities.

Sustainability fits Vandergrift well. Olmsted, known as the father of American landscape architecture, made the town’s design one with nature — the philosophy he used when planning the U.S. Capital grounds, the lush green campuses of Boston and Stanford universities, Central Park’s 843 acres of woodlands, lawns and ponds — as well as distinctive parks in Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, Atlanta, Louisville, Ky., and Buffalo, N.Y.

Olmsted’s theory was that every urbanite, regardless of status, needed a sanctuary. He designed Vandergrift, 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, with no right angles, instead following the curves of the river. He also used curving paths to blur movement among pedestrians and hedges to buffer commercialism. Street corners and the buildings on them were rounded. Parks dotted the hilly landscape, and the town was walkable.

“The town is set up and has the same layout as Olmsted designed it,” said Ashley Bistline, a 17-year-old senior at Kiski Area High School, who is participating in the JCPenney renovation. “That in itself is enough of an attraction.”

The decrepit former department store is not unusual. Many original buildings are in disrepair. Urban islands of grass and flowers are now concrete parking lots. Vacant storefronts and boarded-up buildings dot a main street that is just a whiff of the packed sidewalks, restaurants and boutiques of yesteryear.

Like most other Pittsburgh-area Rust Belt towns, Vandergrift’s fortunes dissolved along with the steel industry. In 28 years, the town’s population dropped from more than 6,800 in 1980 to barely 5,000 in 2008. By 2000, a quarter of the residents were over 65 and almost 16 percent lived in poverty — about 4 percent higher than the national average.

Memory runs deep in a town with a high elderly population. In the late 1980s a group formed to oppose demolition of the Casino Theater, built in 1900 to feature vaudeville shows. Volunteering labor and funding, they renovated the Greek Revival-style building where school shows and occasionally movies are now featured as the lobby is redone.

Since then, a flower shop has filled a fully restored main street facade, other construction is under way, and the idea of creating downtown residences is being explored.

Meade Jack, president of the Vandergrift Improvement Program, wants sustainable concepts throughout downtown, beginning with the JCPenney — a building the size of four NBA basketball courts — that will get a nearly $2 million, five-year “sustainable” renovation.

“I think a lot of people have forgotten about it. They’ve written it out of their lives,” Bistline said. “That’s why we’re doing the project, to bring people back to the town.”

How could it be true in the land of plenty, in the midst of an obesity epidemic, skeptics wondered.

Surprisingly, many statisticians and policy analysts say the projection seems about right. Where they differ, along ideological lines, is in interpreting what it all means.

Most would agree that people on food stamps aren’t necessarily starving, and some may not be even close to it. It’s also clear that people who need food stamps the most often don’t get them.

Food stamps are a U.S. Department of Agriculture program administered by states, but the USDA’s annual report on food stamp enrollment, released this week, said dozens of states failed to reach some of the country’s most needy citizens in 2007.

Whether receiving food stamps means people are truly impoverished provokes more debate.

The eye-opening estimate on children is from an analysis published earlier this month in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The authors, sociologists from Cornell University and Washington University in St. Louis, based their projection on 30 years of national data. They said their results show U.S. kids face a substantial risk for experiencing poverty, which poses a serious threat to their health and well-being.

A USDA hunger report last week raised similar concerns, finding that more than one in seven American households lacked “food security” in 2008 — the highest number since tracking began in 1995. That suggests almost 15 percent of households nationwide struggled to get enough to eat, versus about 11 percent in 2007.

Sarah Meadows, a Rand Corp. policy analyst, called the food stamps analysis believable but stressed that it doesn’t mean that half of all children are using food stamps at any given time.

“While there may be a group of children who are persistently exposed to poverty, many move in and move out,” she said.

Columbia University statistician Andrew Gelman said the paper clarifies a misconception “that people are either on welfare or they’re not.” Reality is more nuanced; the study underscores that some families only receive government aid temporarily, he said.

Lisa Zilligen of Chicago is an example. The 28-year-old single mother has three young children and has received food stamps on and off for several years. When she was a child, her family also received food stamps periodically when her father was unemployed and struggled to raise four children alone.

Zilligen lives in an apartment in a dicey neighborhood, attends Loyola University full-time and earns about $400 a month from a campus office job. She’s been getting about $600 in food stamps for the past several months; sometimes the allotment runs out before the end of the month and the family ends up visiting a food pantry, she said.

“My family would not survive without it. Absolutely not,” Zilligen said. She shops at a discount grocery store, her children wear donated clothes, and there’s no money for extras.

By most American standards, the Zilligens are poor, and the analysis suggests many families are in the same boat.

Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the analysis’ findings are valid — but the “hyperbole” suggesting many families are in danger of dire outcomes is not.

The report aims “to create a picture of alarm that is just not justified by the facts,” Rector said. Eligibility is based on income — for a family of four to be eligible, their annual take-home pay can’t exceed about $22,000. And Rector argued that many families with comforts like televisions and air conditioning receive food stamps for short periods of time when a parent is laid off.

Olivia Golden, a family welfare specialist formerly with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and now at the Urban Institute, has a different view.

She said the results bolster evidence that many U.S. children lack economic stability, even if they aren’t destitute.

“There are several levels of economic disadvantage and we should worry about all of them,” Golden said.

Marcia Meyers, a social policy professor at the University of Washington, said most of America’s poor “are not on the verge of literal starvation.” But they may not get adequate nutrition, and if they’re using food stamps, may not have access to high-quality foods, she said.

That partly explains how so many people could be on food stamps in a country where so many are overweight.

Some studies have found higher rates of obesity among some low-income groups, and many on food stamps live in low-income neighborhoods where fresh vegetables and other healthy foods are scarce.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi were admitted into Tuesday’s dinner for India’s visiting prime minister although they were not on the official guest list of more than 300 people. It had been unclear how close they may have gotten to Obama.

A White House official said Friday that the couple met Obama in the receiving line.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of an ongoing Secret Service investigation into how the couple slipped through its usually tight security.

Many people have called on Nader to jump into the hotly contested race to challenge Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, who has been struggling in recent polls. Nader said he’s getting increasingly more requests from Connecticut Green Party members, independents and supporters of Ned Lamont, the upstart Democrat who challenged Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2006 election.

“I’m just absorbing a lot of the feedback before I make a decision,” said Nader, who appeared at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford, where he was signing his new book, “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!”

More than 100 people turned out to hear Nader talk about his book, including some Green Party members who held signs that read, “Run Ralph Run!” The state’s Green Party has been stepping up efforts to encourage Nader to get into the race, saying this marks one of the best opportunities for the Greens to win a U.S. Senate seat.

Some Democrats accused Nader of being a spoiler in the 2000 presidential election when he ran as the Green Party’s candidate and got 2.7 percent of the vote. Republican George W. Bush won the electoral vote that year, defeating the Democrat, former Vice President Al Gore.

This time around, supporters look to 75-year-old Nader as the person who can reform government and hold the banking industry accountable. Dodd has come under criticism for his role in the national financial crisis as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. A recent Quinnipiac University Poll showed 54 percent of voters disapprove of the job that he’s been doing in Washington.

Nader said he wants to determine whether voters are truly dissatisfied with Dodd and whether there are enough willing to work throughout Connecticut’s 169 towns “for a new breed of political representation in Washington.”

“It really depends on what kind of momentum there is and how many people are willing to roll up their sleeves because I’m very accustomed to people saying ‘run Ralph run’ and then they drift away, predisposed and preoccupied with their daily life,” he told reporters. “It has to be bottom up.”

Nader said Dodd is “very personable” and shouldn’t be written off. He also warned against speculation that Connecticut’s senior senator might be urged by national Democrats not to run for re-election. But he said Dodd “has been very concessionary to the banks and the brokerage houses for years.”

Dodd’s campaign and the state Democrats have declined to comment on a possible Nader candidacy.

When Vic Lancia of Portland made it to the front of the line Friday so Nader could sign his book, he told his hero that he would be willing to help out with a Senate campaign.

“I’m retired, Ralph. I’ve got good legs to go to work for you,” Lancia told Nader, who just nodded and smiled. “Give me something to do next year Ralph.”

Tim McKee, a spokesman for the Connecticut Green Party, said the party is committed to proving to Nader there will be support, both volunteers and financial contributors. He said he’s pleased to see that people not associated with the party already have begun Internet pages on social networking sites, such as Facebook, urging Nader to run.

“We’re getting responses all across the nation. It’s on all the blogs and stuff,” McKee said. “They want him to run to win. That’s the most important thing. This is not symbolic or anything like that. It’s a run to win kind of effort.”

Mary Jo Coady first noticed the image Sunday when she walked into her daughter’s room.

The brownish residue on the bottom of the iron looks like the face of a man with long hair.

The 44-year-old Coady was raised Catholic. She and her two college-age daughters agree that the image looks like Jesus and is proof that “he’s listening.”

Coady tells The Eagle-Tribune she hopes her story will inspire others during the holidays. She says she plans to keep the iron in a closet and buy a new one.

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Information from: Eagle Tribune, http://www.eagletribune.com

The children of Aloise Buckley Heath, a West Hartford resident who died in 1967, filed a lawsuit against 95-year-old Benjamin Heath in June in Hartford Superior Court. They accuse him of transferring more than half the money out of the trust.

It’s unclear how much money is in the trust, which Aloise Buckley Heath established with her share of assets from her family’s oil, gas and mineral rights. Some public records indicate that millions of dollars may still be at stake, The Hartford Courant reported Friday. The children are heirs to the trust.

Messages were left Friday for Benjamin Heath’s Hartford-based lawyer, John Gale.

Heath could not be reached for comment. The phone number for his home in Newport Beach, Calif., is unlisted.

Aloise Buckley Heath was 48 when she died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1967. In her will, she named Benjamin Heath as executor of her estate.

She gained notoriety for trying to “out” communists at her alma mater, Smith College, and she contributed frequently to Ladies Home Journal, the National Review, Reader’s Digest and other magazines.

Six of the couple’s 10 children are suing, while four have opted not to join the lawsuit. At issue is the “Hembt Trust.”

William Buckley Sr. began acquiring oil rights in several countries in the 1920s in Venezuela and other Latin American countries, as well as the Caribbean, and formed the Catawba Corp.

Each of the elder Buckley’s surviving children got nearly 10 percent of Catawba’s assets when he died in 1958.

In 1981, Catawba paid an $800,000 fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency had filed a lawsuit alleging that companies controlled by the Buckleys defrauded shareholders of six other oil rights companies in which the family had a stake to, in effect, pad Catawba’s coffers.

The SEC also ordered Benjamin Heath to pay a $22,500 fine for his role in that scheme, and he’s now facing similar allegations lodged by his children.

His children’s lawsuit accuses him of transferring more than 50 percent of their mother’s trust to a private account called the Westmont Royalty Trust, in which they have no stake.

“The allegations work together in that the conduct of the various trustees was concerted and collaborative, one trust feeding the assets to another trust hence, involving the activities of the trustees,” the lawsuit says.

Heath has asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit, and a decision is pending.

Court documents say Heath hasn’t lived in Connecticut for 30 years and he hasn’t had any contact with anyone in Connecticut since he left.

Heath also says in court filings that the royalty interests from Aloise Buckley Heath’s trust fund are not subject to the lawsuit, because they are in property that is not in Connecticut.

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Information from: The Hartford Courant, http://www.courant.com

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said her office was unaware of any injuries or property damage at Walmart stores in New York on the day after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

The prosecutor’s office also said it appears company crowd control measures “improved significantly since last year.”

In California, a Walmart store in Upland closed its doors for several hours after shoppers began fighting over merchandise. Lt. Jim Etchason said officers were called about 2:44 a.m. and helped herd customers into the parking lot.

No arrests were made, Etchason said, and groups of customers were allowed back inside by 6 a.m.

San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokesman Jodi Miller said another scuffle was reported at a Walmart in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., but deputies did not find any disturbances.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said in a statement earlier Friday that it was getting positive feedback from its customers and employees nationwide.