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Los Angeles, California (CNN)  -- The high school honor student and the NFL's highest-paid defensive back stroll down the destitute streets of Skid Row.

"I can sell you something right quick," a drug dealer hisses.

Another shouts, "Gonna whoop your ass!" More expletives are hurled.

Seventeen-year-old Kenneth Chancey is giving a tour to Nnamdi Asomugha, showing the NFL star the streets that he and his sister used to walk to get to school while living in a Skid Row homeless shelter. Prostitutes, addicts and drug dealers scatter. "Camera! Camera!" they shout.

The two make it safely past the park, one of the roughest areas of Los Angeles. An orange soda whizzes through the air, nearly hitting the teen and the Oakland Raiders' All-Pro cornerback worth $45 million.

"Wow," the teen says. "I'm sure they watch you every Sunday, and they don't even recognize who you are."

It is Kenneth's inner strength and his love for education that have brought together this high school class president and NFL star.

"The thing I took away is how fearless he is," Asomugha said later. "The things he's been through are so big and so severe -- they were threatening our lives and throwing things at us on Skid Row. But it doesn't bother him.

"His potential meter is at 1,000 right now."

Escaping through education

Even while Kenneth lived on Skid Row, he dreamed of attending Harvard to become a neurosurgeon. When Asomugha saw Kenneth's story on CNN, he wanted to help. He runs a foundation, the Asomugha College Tour for Scholars, that takes talented inner-city kids on tours of college campuses they otherwise would never be able to see. He's helped get 25 teens into college over the last four years.

On this day, he's come to tell Kenneth that he will be among the 16 students traveling in the spring to visit schools in Washington, D.C.

"I'm thankful to be able to give back," Asomugha said.

Hours before the Skid Row tour, Asomugha traveled to Hollywood's Helen Bernstein High School, where Kenneth is a starting running back in his senior year. They met at the school's football stadium, where Asomugha told Kenneth in person.

"This smile on my face," Kenneth said, "is a freaking good thing. This is awesome!"

Asomugha leaned closer. "You know who we're working on now?"

"Obama?" Kenneth asked nervously.

"We have to," the NFL star replied.

Kenneth's fever-pitched excitement reached a crescendo, "Oh my gosh!"

His father, Gordon Costello, joined in and handed a folded paper to Asomugha. The proud dad didn't show off football awards or his son's athletic achievements. Instead, it's Kenneth's latest report card, straight A's.

"He might overqualify for the tour," Asomugha said as he studied the report card. "This shows someone with a lot of drive and ambition. These are some great grades."

"I'm at a loss for words," the teen said. "Stuff like this doesn't happen every day."

Asomugha came from a family where education was stressed from day one. He remembers asking his mom as a boy, "Can I have some ice cream?"

"No," she responded. "You haven't finished your homework."

"I'd say, 'but I'm 3!' "

Asomugha's sister is a pediatrician, his mother holds a doctorate. Two other siblings have secondary degrees.

"I am the least educated in my family," Asomugha said. "I catch a lot of heat from my family."

The football star, who is the highest-paid defensive back in NFL history, has a degree in finance from the University of California-Berkeley.

Kenneth is energized. "I'm going to be the first one in my family to get a secondary education," he told Asomugha.

"And everyone will follow you," his father added.

Kenneth spent his sixth-grade year living in a van with his mother and stepfather. His sister once was beaten up by someone who wanted her shirt. Kenneth was held up at gunpoint for his laptop. He refused to hand it over because his grandmother bought it for him.

"If you're going to shoot me, shoot me now," he told the would-be thief.

"He said, 'I ain't gonna kill no little kid.' "

Mantra: Always keep your head up

From February to August of this year, Kenneth lived at the Union Rescue Mission homeless shelter along Skid Row with his father and sister. After the CNN piece aired, his friend invited him and his sister, Stephanie, to stay with his family, while Kenneth's father looked for work.

Outside Kenneth's earshot, the NFL star talked about how the teen is an inspiration, doing all the right things to achieve greatness in life.

"You don't hear about guys like Kenneth," Asomugha said. "When you have your back against the wall and you're trying to fight and there are so many things -- so many obstacles -- against you but you're still keeping your head above the water like he's doing ... the sky's the limit."

Kenneth says he constantly thought about dropping out to get a job to help his father financially. His dad would have none of it.

"Your education will pay off in the long run," his father always told him.

On the tour at Skid Row, Kenneth took Asomugha to the shelter's rooftop. It's a million-dollar view of the Los Angeles skyline. It's where Kenneth studied. It's also where he learned his biggest lesson: to always keep his head up.

The student and the football player leaned over the building's ledge. Down below, drug deals were being made.

"Anytime you look down over the ledge, you start to see the negative," Asomugha said. "When you keep your head up, you're seeing all the positive. Was that your mantra?"

The teen smiled. "That's how you do it in life," Kenneth said. "I just try to keep my head up, to look into the future."

Five years from now, he'll be graduating from college. The hell of Skid Row will be a distant memory.

"Once I succeed," he said, "I will be able to help other people."

CNN's Traci Tamura and Gregg Canes contributed to this report.

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answer: Seventeen-year-old

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Washington (CNN) -- President Obama said Wednesday night he will work with Congress and the military to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the armed forces.

Obama made the remark in his first State of the Union speech during a short litany of civil rights issues, which included his successful hate crimes bill, a move to "crack down on equal-pay laws" and improvement of the immigration system.

"We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal, that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it," he said.

"We must continually renew this promise. My administration has a Civil Rights Division that is once again prosecuting civil rights violations and employment discrimination. We finally strengthened our laws to protect against crimes driven by hate," he said.

"This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are."

Weigh in on the president's address

Former Navy pilot Sen. John McCain said "it would be a mistake" to repeal the 1993 law that bars gay men and lesbians from revealing their sexual orientation, and prevents the military from asking about it.

"This successful policy has been in effect for over 15 years, and it is well understood and predominantly supported by our military at all levels," McCain said. "We have the best-trained, best-equipped, and most professional force in the history of our country, and the men and women in uniform are performing heroically in two wars. At a time when our Armed Forces are fighting and sacrificing on the battlefield, now is not the time to abandon the policy."

But in a message to Pentagon leadership, Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it's time to repeal the law.

"As a nation built on the principal of equality, we should recognize and welcome change that will build a stronger more cohesive military," said Shalikashvili. His letter was sent to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, who supports repealing the policy.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an organization that works with those affected by the "don't ask, don't tell" law, praised Obama's call for repeal.

"We very much need a sense of urgency to get this done in 2010," the group said. "We call on the president to repeal the archaic 1993 law in his defense budget currently being drafted, that is probably the only and best moving bill where DADT can be killed this year. ... The American public, including conservatives, is overwhelmingly with the commander in chief on this one."

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, flatly disagreed with the idea of ending it.

"When it comes to 'don't ask don't tell,' frankly, I think it's worked very well. And we just ought to leave it alone," he said to reporters Wednesday morning.

The policy prohibits openly gay men and women from serving in the U.S. armed forces.

The policy bans military recruiters or authorities from asking about an individual's sexual orientation but also prohibits a service member from revealing that he or she is gay.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Michigan, supports ending the practice but wants to go about it carefully.

Levin said he did not have any details about what the president would say.

"If we do this in a way which isn't sensitive ... we could have exactly the opposite effect of what I hope will be the case -- which is to change the policy," he said Monday.

Levin said the committee plans to hold hearings on the issue in early February, although the hearing may be with outside experts -- delaying a hearing with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, that had originally been promised, CNN was told by a congressional source.

Obama campaigned on the promise that he would repeal the law in his first year of office.

Speaking to the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, in October, Obama admitted that "our progress may be taking longer than we like," but he insisted his administration was still on track to overturn the policy.

"Do not doubt the direction we are heading and the destination we will reach," he said.

Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell deflected repeated questions about the policy at Wednesday's Pentagon briefing, directing reporters to take their questions to the White House.

"We continue to work on this problem," said Morrell. "But I'm not going to get into it with more specificity than that."

CNN's Ed Hornick and Laurie Ure contributed to this report.

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question: What did John McCain say?

answer: "it would be a mistake" to repeal the 1993 law that bars gay men and lesbians from revealing their sexual orientation, and prevents the military from asking about it.

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(CNN) -- A biology professor charged with killing three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville fatally shot her brother more than 23 years ago, but she and her mother claimed the shooting was accidental, according to documents released Sunday.

Amy Bishop Anderson was 19 when she fatally shot her brother, Seth, on December 6, 1986, in Braintree, Massachusetts, according to a Massachusetts State Police report released Sunday. She was never charged in that shooting.

Anderson was charged this weekend with capital murder in Friday's on-campus shooting deaths of her colleagues. She could face the death penalty.

The state police report in the 1986 shooting, released by the office of U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Massachusetts, gives an account similar to a Boston Globe story published on December 8, 2008. Delahunt was district attorney at the time; staffers said he was in the Middle East on Sunday and unable to comment on the case.

Earlier this weekend, Braintree police said records from that shooting were missing, and that the department's log indicated the shooting was accidental. However, Police Chief Paul Frazier said he didn't agree with the Globe's account.

The Globe's story stated that Anderson asked her mother how to unload a round from a 12-gauge shotgun and that Anderson -- then known as Amy Bishop -- accidentally shot her brother while she was handling the weapon. The article cited then-Police Chief John Polio as the source.

According to the state police report released Sunday, Braintree police told state police that "indications were that Amy Bishop had been attempting to manipulate the shotgun and had subsequently brought the gun downstairs in an attempt to gain assistance from her mother in disarming the weapon" when it went off, shooting her brother, Seth, in the chest.

But, Frazier said Saturday, "it is a far different story I believe than what was reported back then. I cannot tell you what the thought process was behind our releasing her at the time."

An officer then involved in the case who is still working for the department told him that Anderson shot her brother during an argument, Frazier said.

The officer said Anderson allegedly fired a shot in her bedroom without hitting anyone, argued with her brother, shot him and then fired another round in the home before fleeing, according to Frazier.

Frazier said the teen was arrested after pointing a weapon at a vehicle near the house in an attempt to get the driver to stop, but it drove on. But during the booking process, then-Chief Polio called and told the officers to release her, Frazier said. He said her mother was at the time a member of the Braintree Personnel Board.

In a telephone call with CNN, Polio, now 87 and retired, denied ever calling in the order. He said detectives including lead investigator Capt. Theodore Buker -- who has since died -- had interviewed Anderson and her mother, Judith, who is identified in the state police report as J. Bishop.

Buker told him that the shooting appeared accidental and the two men agreed she should be released to her mother, Polio said. A request was then filed with Delahunt's office to conduct an inquiry, but Delahunt never did so, he said.

The state police report, however, said that Buker met with a state police investigator and determined that "due to the testimony of the members of the Bishop family, and in particular the testimony of J. Bishop, relevant to the facts concerning the death of Seth Bishop that no further investigation ... was warranted," the report concludes. Seth Bishop's death was listed as accidental and the investigation was concluded.

Delahunt spokesman Mark Forest told CNN the state police and medical examiner concluded the death was accidental, and an autopsy was also conducted. "The investigative reports ... did not recommend any further action," he said in an e-mail. Those reports were turned over to state and local authorities, including the district attorney's office, he said.

Anderson's mother witnessed the shooting, the state police report said. Investigators waited 11 days to interview Anderson and her parents because of their "highly emotional state" following the shooting, according to the report.

In the December 17, 1986, interview, Anderson told authorities she "thought it would be a good idea if she learned how to load the shotgun in the house," according to the state police report. The young woman told police she was concerned for her own safety after the family home was broken into, although she previously had been afraid of the gun.

She said she got the gun and loaded shells into it, but was unable to get them out. Anderson said that while she was attempting to unload the weapon on her bed, it went off. She then took it downstairs to ask for help in unloading it. She asked her brother, she said, and he told her to point the gun up instead of carrying it beside her leg. Her brother was walking across the kitchen between her and her mother, she said. She started to raise the gun, and "someone said something to her," she recalled in the report. She turned and the gun went off.

"Amy thought that she had ruined the kitchen but was not aware of the fact that she had struck her brother," the report said. She fled, and told police she thought she had dropped the gun as she ran away. "She cannot recall anything else until she subsequently saw her mother at the police station," the report said. The report does not reference any other shots fired besides the one in Anderson's bedroom and the shot that struck her brother.

Anderson's father was not home at the time. He told police he had had a disagreement with his daughter "about a comment she had made" before he left to go shopping. He told police he had bought the shotgun about a year before the shooting, after the house had been broken into, and that he and his son belonged to a rifle club. Anderson was not trained to use the gun, he said.

Anderson's mother said that when her daughter came downstairs and asked for help in unloading the gun, she told her not to point it at anyone, and that her daughter turned and the gun went off. The woman told police she did not hear the shotgun fire earlier in her daughter's bedroom and "believed the house was relatively well soundproofed and that such a discharge would not necessarily be heard on another floor of the house."

Polio acknowledged that an argument had occurred during the shooting and said that the other shots, including one fired into the ceiling, did not appear aimed at anyone. He also recalled that Anderson had fled the scene. But, he said, he could not remember what he had told the newspaper in reference to the case or why details, including the argument, were not reported.

He said Anderson's mother had worked for the personnel board and at one point was assigned to the police department. But he rejected as "laughable" any suggestions that the suspect's mother might have influenced their handling of the case.

"There was no cover-up," Polio said. "Absolutely no cover-up and no missing records. The records were all there when I left. Where they went in the last 22 years and two police chiefs subsequent, I don't know."

Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan announced Sunday an effort to locate all materials associated with the shooting.

"The Braintree Police Department will conduct a thorough audit of all its records to identify if there were deficits in its past recordkeeping process," Sullivan said. "It is important to note that in 1986, police records were created and maintained manually, which complicates their review and retrieval."

The Braintree shooting resurfaced after Harvard-trained Anderson was charged in Friday's shooting in Alabama. Huntsville Police Chief Henry Reyes said Saturday that Anderson was attending a faculty meeting on the third floor of the sciences building Friday afternoon when she brandished a gun and shot six colleagues, killing three.

Anderson, a professor and researcher at the university and a mother of four, was arrested as she was leaving the building, Reyes told reporters Saturday. He said a 9 mm handgun was recovered from the second floor of the building late Friday.

Madison County District Attorney Rob Broussard said officials were considering other charges, including attempted murder. Authorities have not ruled out the possibility of other suspects in connection to the shooting.

Anderson, who is known to students as Dr. Bishop, had been working at the university since 2003, and was up for tenure, according to spokesman Ray Garner. However, authorities wouldn't discuss possible motives or whether the issue of tenure may have played a role in the shooting.

Garner told CNN that the university gives teachers six years to get tenure. Those who do not get it are terminated, he said.

University President David Williams said a prayer service would be held on Sunday. He said the campus would open next week for employees, but that there would be no classes.

Reached at the couple's home, Jim Anderson told CNN that his wife has an attorney whom he would not identify. He described her as a good teacher.

CNN's Alona Rivord, Aaron Cooper, Khadijah Rentas and Tom Watkins contributed to this report.

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text: the

text: department

text: told

text: him

text: that

text: Anderson

text: shot

text: her

text: brother

text: during

text: an

text: argument

text: Frazier

text: said

text: The

text: officer

text: said

text: Anderson

text: allegedly

text: fired

text: a

text: shot

text: in

text: her

text: bedroom

text: without

text: hitting

text: anyone

text: argued

text: with

text: her

text: brother

text: shot

text: him

text: and

text: then

text: fired

text: another

text: round

text: in

text: the

text: home

text: before

text: fleeing

text: according

text: to

text: Frazier

text: Frazier

text: said

text: the

text: teen

text: was

text: arrested

text: after

text: pointing

text: a

text: weapon

text: at

text: a

text: vehicle

text: near

text: the

text: house

text: in

text: an

text: attempt

text: to

text: get

text: the

text: driver

text: to

text: stop

text: but

text: it

text: drove

text: on

text: But

text: during

text: the

text: booking

text: process

text: then

text: Chief

text: Polio

text: called

text: and

text: told

text: the

text: officers

text: to

text: release

text: her

text: Frazier

text: said

text: He

text: said

text: her

text: mother

text: was

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: the

text: Braintree

text: Personnel

text: Board

text: In

text: a

text: telephone

text: call

text: with

text: CNN

text: Polio

text: now

text: and

text: retired

text: denied

text: ever

text: calling

text: in

text: the

text: order

text: He

text: said

text: detectives

text: including

text: lead

text: investigator

text: Capt

text: Theodore

text: Buker

text: who

text: has

text: since

text: died

text: had

text: interviewed

text: Anderson

text: and

text: her

text: mother

text: Judith

text: who

text: is

text: identified

text: in

text: the

text: state

text: police

text: report

text: as

text: J.

text: Bishop

text: Buker

text: told

text: him

text: that

text: the

text: shooting

text: appeared

text: accidental

text: and

text: the

text: two

text: men

text: agreed

text: she

text: should

text: be

text: released

text: to

text: her

text: mother

text: Polio

text: said

text: A

text: request

text: was

text: then

text: filed

text: with

text: Delahunt

text: 's

text: office

text: to

text: conduct

text: an

text: inquiry

text: but

text: Delahunt

text: never

text: did

text: so

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: state

text: police

text: report

text: however

text: said

text: that

text: Buker

text: met

text: with

text: a

text: state

text: police

text: investigator

text: and

text: determined

text: that

text: due

text: to

text: the

text: testimony

text: of

text: the

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: Bishop

text: family

text: and

text: in

text: particular

text: the

text: testimony

text: of

text: J.

text: Bishop

text: relevant

text: to

text: the

text: facts

text: concerning

text: the

text: death

text: of

text: Seth

text: Bishop

text: that

text: no

text: further

text: investigation

text: was

text: warranted

text: the

text: report

text: concludes

text: Seth

text: Bishop

text: 's

text: death

text: was

text: listed

text: as

text: accidental

text: and

text: the

text: investigation

text: was

text: concluded

text: Delahunt

text: spokesman

text: Mark

text: Forest

text: told

text: CNN

text: the

text: state

text: police

text: and

text: medical

text: examiner

text: concluded

text: the

text: death

text: was

text: accidental

text: and

text: an

text: autopsy

text: was

text: also

text: conducted

text: The

text: investigative

text: reports

text: did

text: not

text: recommend

text: any

text: further

text: action

text: he

text: said

text: in

text: an

text: e

text: mail

text: Those

text: reports

text: were

text: turned

text: over

text: to

text: state

text: and

text: local

text: authorities

text: including

text: the

text: district

text: attorney

text: 's

text: office

text: he

text: said

text: Anderson

text: 's

text: mother

text: witnessed

text: the

text: shooting

text: the

text: state

text: police

text: report

text: said

text: Investigators

text: waited

text: days

text: to

text: interview

text: Anderson

text: and

text: her

text: parents

text: because

text: of

text: their

text: highly

text: emotional

text: state

text: following

text: the

text: shooting

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: report

text: In

text: the

text: December

text: interview

text: Anderson

text: told

text: authorities

text: she

text: thought

text: it

text: would

text: be

text: a

text: good

text: idea

text: if

text: she

text: learned

text: how

text: to

text: load

text: the

text: shotgun

text: in

text: the

text: house

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: state

text: police

text: report

text: The

text: young

text: woman

text: told

text: police

text: she

text: was

text: concerned

text: for

text: her

text: own

text: safety

text: after

text: the

text: family

text: home

text: was

text: broken

text: into

text: although

text: she

text: previously

text: had

text: been

text: afraid

text: of

text: the

text: gun

text: She

text: said

text: she

text: got

text: the

text: gun

text: and

text: loaded

text: shells

text: into

text: it

text: but

text: was

text: unable

text: to

text: get

text: them

text: out

text: Anderson

text: said

text: that

text: while

text: she

text: was

text: attempting

text: to

text: unload

text: the

text: weapon

text: on

text: her

text: bed

text: it

text: went

text: off

text: She

text: then

text: took

text: it

text: downstairs

text: to

text: ask

text: for

text: help

text: in

text: unloading

text: it

text: She

text: asked

text: her

text: brother

text: she

text: said

text: and

text: he

text: told

text: her

text: to

text: point

text: the

text: gun

text: up

text: instead

text: of

text: carrying

text: it

text: beside

text: her

text: leg

text: Her

text: brother

text: was

text: walking

text: across

text: the

text: kitchen

text: between

text: her

text: and

text: her

text: mother

text: she

text: said

text: She

text: started

text: to

text: raise

text: the

text: gun

text: and

text: someone

text: said

text: something

text: to

text: her

text: she

text: recalled

text: in

text: the

text: report

text: She

text: turned

text: and

text: the

text: gun

text: went

text: off

text: Amy

text: thought

text: that

text: she

text: had

text: ruined

text: the

text: kitchen

text: but

text: was

text: not

text: aware

text: of

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: she

text: had

text: struck

text: her

text: brother

text: the

text: report

text: said

text: She

text: fled

text: and

text: told

text: police

text: she

text: thought

text: she

text: had

text: dropped

text: the

text: gun

text: as

text: she

text: ran

text: away

text: She

text: can

text: not

text: recall

text: anything

text: else

text: until

text: she

text: subsequently

text: saw

text: her

text: mother

text: at

text: the

text: police

text: station

text: the

text: report

text: said

text: The

text: report

text: does

text: not

text: reference

text: any

text: other

text: shots

text: fired

text: besides

text: the

text: one

text: in

text: Anderson

text: 's

text: bedroom

text: and

text: the

text: shot

text: that

text: struck

text: her

text: brother

text: Anderson

text: 's

text: father

text: was

text: not

text: home

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: He

text: told

text: police

text: he

text: had

text: had

text: a

text: disagreement

text: with

text: his

text: daughter

text: about

text: a

text: comment

text: she

text: had

text: made

text: before

text: he

text: left

text: to

text: go

text: shopping

text: He

text: told

text: police

text: he

text: had

text: bought

text: the

text: shotgun

text: about

text: a

text: year

text: before

text: the

text: shooting

text: after

text: the

text: house

text: had

text: been

text: broken

text: into

text: and

text: that

text: he

text: and

text: his

text: son

text: belonged

text: to

text: a

text: rifle

text: club

text: Anderson

text: was

text: not

text: trained

text: to

text: use

text: the

text: gun

text: he

text: said

text: Anderson

text: 's

text: mother

text: said

text: that

text: when

text: her

text: daughter

text: came

text: downstairs

text: and

text: asked

text: for

text: help

text: in

text: unloading

text: the

text: gun

text: she

text: told

text: her

text: not

text: to

text: point

text: it

text: at

text: anyone

text: and

text: that

text: her

text: daughter

text: turned

text: and

text: the

text: gun

text: went

text: off

text: The

text: woman

text: told

text: police

text: she

text: did

text: not

text: hear

text: the

text: shotgun

text: fire

text: earlier

text: in

text: her

text: daughter

text: 's

text: bedroom

text: and

text: believed

text: the

text: house

text: was

text: relatively

text: well

text: soundproofed

text: and

text: that

text: such

text: a

text: discharge

text: would

text: not

text: necessarily

text: be

text: heard

text: on

text: another

text: floor

text: of

text: the

text: house

text: Polio

text: acknowledged

text: that

text: an

text: argument

text: had

text: occurred

text: during

text: the

text: shooting

text: and

text: said

text: that

text: the

text: other

text: shots

text: including

text: one

text: fired

text: into

text: the

text: ceiling

text: did

text: not

text: appear

text: aimed

text: at

text: anyone

text: He

text: also

text: recalled

text: that

text: Anderson

text: had

text: fled

text: the

text: scene

text: But

text: he

text: said

text: he

text: could

text: not

text: remember

text: what

text: he

text: had

text: told

text: the

text: newspaper

text: in

text: reference

text: to

text: the

text: case

text: or

text: why

text: details

text: including

text: the

text: argument

text: were

text: not

text: reported

text: He

text: said

text: Anderson

text: 's

text: mother

text: had

text: worked

text: for

text: the

text: personnel

text: board

text: and

text: at

text: one

text: point

text: was

text: assigned

text: to

text: the

text: police

text: department

text: But

text: he

text: rejected

text: as

text: laughable

text: any

text: suggestions

text: that

text: the

text: suspect

text: 's

text: mother

text: might

text: have

text: influenced

text: their

text: handling

text: of

text: the

text: case

text: There

text: was

text: no

text: cover

text: up

text: Polio

text: said

text: Absolutely

text: no

text: cover

text: up

text: and

text: no

text: missing

text: records

text: The

text: records

text: were

text: all

text: there

text: when

text: I

text: left

text: Where

text: they

text: went

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: years

text: and

text: two

text: police

text: chiefs

text: subsequent

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: Braintree

text: Mayor

text: Joseph

text: Sullivan

text: announced

text: Sunday

text: an

text: effort

text: to

text: locate

text: all

text: materials

text: associated

text: with

text: the

text: shooting

text: The

text: Braintree

text: Police

text: Department

text: will

text: conduct

text: a

text: thorough

text: audit

text: of

text: all

text: its

text: records

text: to

text: identify

text: if

text: there

text: were

text: deficits

text: in

text: its

text: past

text: recordkeeping

text: process

text: Sullivan

text: said

text: It

text: is

text: important

text: to

text: note

text: that

text: in

text: police

text: records

text: were

text: created

text: and

text: maintained

text: manually

text: which

text: complicates

text: their

text: review

text: and

text: retrieval

text: The

text: Braintree

text: shooting

text: resurfaced

text: after

text: Harvard

text: trained

text: Anderson

text: was

text: charged

text: in

text: Friday

text: 's

text: shooting

text: in

text: Alabama

text: Huntsville

text: Police

text: Chief

text: Henry

text: Reyes

text: said

text: Saturday

text: that

text: Anderson

text: was

text: attending

text: a

text: faculty

text: meeting

text: on

text: the

text: third

text: floor

text: of

text: the

text: sciences

text: building

text: Friday

text: afternoon

text: when

text: she

text: brandished

text: a

text: gun

text: and

text: shot

text: six

text: colleagues

text: killing

text: three

text: Anderson

text: a

text: professor

text: and

text: researcher

text: at

text: the

text: university

text: and

text: a

text: mother

text: of

text: four

text: was

text: arrested

text: as

text: she

text: was

text: leaving

text: the

text: building

text: Reyes

text: told

text: reporters

text: Saturday

text: He

text: said

text: a

text: mm

text: handgun

text: was

text: recovered

text: from

text: the

text: second

text: floor

text: of

text: the

text: building

text: late

text: Friday

text: Madison

text: County

text: District

text: Attorney

text: Rob

text: Broussard

text: said

text: officials

text: were

text: considering

text: other

text: charges

text: including

text: attempted

text: murder

text: Authorities

text: have

text: not

text: ruled

text: out

text: the

text: possibility

text: of

text: other

text: suspects

text: in

text: connection

text: to

text: the

text: shooting

text: Anderson

text: who

text: is

text: known

text: to

text: students

text: as

text: Dr.

text: Bishop

text: had

text: been

text: working

text: at

text: the

text: university

text: since

text: and

text: was

text: up

text: for

text: tenure

text: according

text: to

text: spokesman

text: Ray

text: Garner

text: However

text: authorities

text: would

text: n't

text: discuss

text: possible

text: motives

text: or

text: whether

text: the

text: issue

text: of

text: tenure

text: may

text: have

text: played

text: a

text: role

text: in

text: the

text: shooting

text: Garner

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: the

text: university

text: gives

text: teachers

text: six

text: years

text: to

text: get

text: tenure

text: Those

text: who

text: do

text: not

text: get

text: it

text: are

text: terminated

text: he

text: said

text: University

text: President

text: David

text: Williams

text: said

text: a

text: prayer

text: service

text: would

text: be

text: held

text: on

text: Sunday

text: He

text: said

text: the

text: campus

text: would

text: open

text: next

text: week

text: for

text: employees

text: but

text: that

text: there

text: would

text: be

text: no

text: classes

text: Reached

text: at

text: the

text: couple

text: 's

text: home

text: Jim

text: Anderson

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: his

text: wife

text: has

text: an

text: attorney

text: whom

text: he

text: would

text: not

text: identify

text: He

text: described

text: her

text: as

text: a

text: good

text: teacher

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Alona

text: Rivord

text: Aaron

text: Cooper

text: Khadijah

text: Rentas

text: and

text: Tom

text: Watkins

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: How many faculty members were killed?

answer: three

text: three

question: was he charged in her brother's 1986 death?

answer: She

text: She

question: What the police chief say?

answer: he didn't agree with the Globe's account.

text: he didn't agree with the Globe's account.

question: What accuse Anderson?

answer: capital murder

text: capital murder

question: how many faculty dead members was Anderson charged with?

answer: three

text: three

question: What the police said?

answer: records from that shooting were missing,

text: records from that shooting were missing,

question: Who was charged with the killings?

answer: Amy Bishop Anderson

text: Amy Bishop Anderson


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(CNN) -- Singer Nelly Furtado is trying to cross over in a direction many artists don't ordinarily take.

Singer Nelly Furtado says she enjoys diversity in music and broadening her fan base.

With "Mi Plan," the Grammy Award-winning singer is taping into a brand new market and fan base, almost a decade after she came to fame in 2000 with the single "I'm Like a Bird."

While the Canadian-born singer -- whose parents are Portuguese -- has sung in Spanish before, "Mi Plan" is the first time she has recorded an entire album in Spanish, a language she said she learned as a teen.

It's seems like a natural progression for Furtado, an artist often noted for diversity in her sound.

A few years after her breakthrough, Furtado teamed up with superproducer Timbaland for her 2006 album "Loose," a collaboration that gained her scores of hip-hop and R&B fans as well, and spawned hits such as "Promiscuous" and "Say It Right."

"Mi Plan" pairs her with a few Spanish-language music artists, including Alex Cuba, Juan Luis Guerra, Julieta Venegas and La Mala Rodriguez, as well as English-language artist Josh Groban.

The first single off the album, "Manos Al Aire," made history as it marked the first time a North American artist reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart with a song that was originally written in Spanish, rather than a translated version of an English-language song.

Furtado spoke with CNN about her passion for Spanish, why she feels like an artist reborn and the career path she hopes to take.

CNN: What was the inspiration for the new album?

Nelly Furtado: There were so many inspirations.

The language was the biggest inspiration. I've sang so much in Spanish in the past, and also Portuguese. I get a lot of joy in singing in Latin languages. It expresses the Latin side of me.  Watch Furtado talk about her new album Â»

My parents were born in Portugal and they raised us in Canada. We grew up speaking Portuguese and then I learned Spanish at the age of 14. I love being a multicultural artist, I love being a global artist.

[The album] is almost like a literal reflection of that this time in the fact that it's all in Spanish and it's a completely original project written from scratch.

CNN: So it's all new?

Furtado: Yes. It feels like a rebirth of sorts. It's almost like a parallel world where I get to reinvent myself again as an artist, but in a very whole kind of way. It's been a lot of fun.

CNN: You have such a loyal fan base. What do you hope they get from your latest project?

Furtado: Just because I have collaborated with so many different people with so many different styles of music that I think my sort of goal or mantra my whole career has been to broaden the minds of my fan base. This album is just an extension of that.

I'm an inclusive person and everyone is invited to the fiesta.

I'm excited because I am meeting brand new fans for the first time who don't have any of my prior albums. Four albums in, it's a tough job to try to attract new fans and I think that's what I am doing with this new music.

CNN: Did you consider it risky to do a Spanish-language album?

Furtado: I like to take risks. I live for risk taking and challenges.

I just find it so much more exciting and it keeps my job entertaining and interesting. Everyone is looking for that next challenge at work. Everyone wants that extra credential on their business card.

If it's easy, it's not fun.

CNN: How is performing in Spanish different?

Furtado: When I express myself in Spanish or in Portuguese I feel very free.

There are a lot of things you can say in a Spanish song that you can't say in an English song, especially from a feminine perspective.

As a female, the moment you sing too passionately in English you are kind of labeled as an angry singer. In Spanish that doesn't happen. You can be dramatic as you want and it's accepted. So it's liberating.

CNN: There are a lot of Spanish-speaking artists who want to cross over into the English-language market. How does it feel to be doing the reverse?

Furtado: I think I'm capitalizing a little bit on the inroads I have already made in the Latin world through working with other established Latin acts.

I dabbled in Spanish on my third album. I had two records on there in Spanish and I really enjoyed writing them and playing them live. I'm just going where my heart's at and following the passions.

CNN: What's next for you?

Furtado: It's interesting because when I got off the road from touring with my third album, "Loose," I was exhausted. I tried to write some songs in English and no inspiration really came to me.

Then I started writing songs in Spanish and it started flowing, so this album has been like a medicine of sorts. I'm so excited about music now.

I can't wait to put out another project in English and further Spanish albums as well as Portuguese. The list is never-ending.

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question: What language is Nelly Furtado's new album sung in?

answer: Spanish,

text: Spanish,

question: Whose new album is sung in Spanish?

answer: Nelly Furtado

text: Nelly Furtado

question: Where are Furtado's parents from?

answer: Portugal

text: Portugal

question: Where did single make history?

answer: Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart

text: Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart

question: who is nelly furtado

answer: Singer

text: Singer

question: What nationality are Furtado's parents?

answer: Portuguese

text: Portuguese


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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, who gave amnesty to armed militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, died Wednesday, the country's information minister said. He was 58.

Yar'Adua had not been seen in public since November, when he went to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an inflammation of tissue around his heart. He was diagnosed with that condition, acute pericarditis, last fall after he complained of chest pain.

He returned to Nigeria in February but had remained out of sight.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has served as the country's acting leader since Yar'Adua fell ill.

Yar'Adua took office in 2007 in an election mired in controversy and accusations of vote-rigging.

"There was ballot snatching, voters were molested, voters were beaten ... and also payment inducement to vote for certain candidates," said Eneruvie Enakoko of the Civil Liberties Organization, a human rights group in Lagos.

The president, a soft-spoken and unassuming figure who did not bask in the media spotlight like past leaders of the West African nation, pledged to fight to improve the country of 150 million people despite the accusations.

"Our collective goal is to deliver for our children a Nigeria better, stronger, more peaceful, more secure and more prosperous than we met it," Yar'Adua said.

President Barack Obama issued a statement late Wednesday expressing his condolences to Yar'Adua's family and the Nigerian people.

"President Yar'Adua worked to promote peace and stability in Africa through his support of Nigerian peacekeeping efforts as well as his strong criticism of undemocratic actions in the region," Obama said in the statement. "He was committed to creating lasting peace and prosperity within Nigeria's own borders, and continuing that work will be an important part of honoring his legacy."

His election followed wide support from his predecessor, leading critics to label him a puppet of the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

After he was elected, Yar'Adua replaced some of Obasanjo's top officials, including the head of the army, a move analysts said was aimed at shedding off his predecessor's influence.

One of Yar'Adua's biggest successes was offering amnesty to militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, a move that brought fragile peace to the area after years of conflict. The well-armed Niger Delta rebels have been battling Nigeria's armed forces over oil profits, which they say are unequally distributed.

While he has hospitalized in Saudi Arabia, the militants called off the truce, dealing a blow to plans to end violence that has crippled oil production in the nation.

Analysts say he did little to institutionalize reform in a country where two-thirds of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.

"Because many people feel disillusioned economically and as long as they have those sentiments -- I think the risk of radical uprisings in places like northern Nigeria and certainly southern Nigeria in the Delta will continue regardless of who is in power," said Rolake Akinola, an analyst at Control Risks West Africa.

Yar'Adua, a former chemistry teacher, was married twice and has nine children.

CNN's Faith Karimi and Christian Purefoy contributed to this report.

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text: children

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text: Faith

text: Karimi

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text: Christian

text: Purefoy

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text: this

text: report

question: What year did Yar'Adua take office?

answer: 2007

question: who was reported dead

answer: President Umaru Yar'Adua,

text: President Umaru Yar'Adua,

question: Who was amnesty given to in the Niger Delta region?

answer: armed militants

text: armed militants

question: What did he go to Saudi Arabia for?

answer: treatment of an inflammation of tissue around his heart.

text: treatment of an inflammation of tissue around his heart.

question: when did he take office

answer: 2007

question: Who is reported to have died?

answer: Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua,

text: Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua,

question: what country did this happen in

answer: Nigeria

text: Nigeria

question: Who did the information minister say died?

answer: President Umaru Yar'Adua,

text: President Umaru Yar'Adua,

question: Who was amnesty given to?

answer: armed militants

text: armed militants