NY girl killed by bus had suicide note, police say

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By msnbc.com staff

A 15-year-old who a witness says jumped in front of a Staten Island bus was carrying a suicide note when she was struck, distraught because she was the target of bullying at her school,?according to a relative.

Amanda Diane Cummings, a sophomore at?Staten Island's New Dorp High School,?was hit by a city bus on Dec. 27 and died Monday from her injuries. A police spokesman told The Staten Island Advance that Amanda had?a suicide note with her?when a witness saw her jump in front of the bus at about 7:30 p.m., but authorities did not disclose the contents of the note.

Keith Cummings, Amanda's uncle, said his niece had been taunted by bullies, who stole her phone and?other belongings.?

?She had to be picked up from school because she was worried about being beat up,? Cummings told 1010 WINS radio. The day before the accident, she got an email from her boyfriend saying that he was?dumping her, he added, CBSNewYork.com reported. Cummings said he thought it pushed Amanda over the edge.

Cecil Weber, Amanda's mother,?told The Staten Island Advance on Tuesday that police were investigating cirucumstances surrounding Amanda's death, and she called it "an accident."

"She was fun-loving and was always kind to everyone around her,"?Weber said.

Keith Cummings told The Advance he will seek criminal redress against Amanda's tormenters, some of whom he said even posted cruel comments on her Facebook page while she lay injured in the hospital.

?I?m not going to tolerate this. I?m gonna go full force,? he told The Advance. ?Kids can?t do this to each other.?

New Dorp High School has about 2,600 students, according to New York City's government website.

The city medical examiner will determine the cause of Amanda's death.

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Bartow, famed college hoops coach, 81

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Gene Bartow (r.) with John Wooden, the legendary coach he replaced at UCLA in 1975.

GENE BARTOW, who died yesterday at age 81 at his Birmingham, Ala., home after a two-year battle with stomach cancer, will always be known as the man who replaced legendary John Wooden at UCLA, who retired in 1975.

But for all the success he had in his 36 years of coaching at six different universities and two high schools, he will be best remembered in the city of Memphis for coaching the Memphis State Tigers to the 1973 NCAA championship game and for the way he united a divided city that had gone up in flames during rioting two years earlier, following the assasination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Bartow came to Memphis State from Valparaiso in 1970 at a salary of just $20,000. He inherited two African-American players from the city ? the late, great All-American guard Larry Finch and forward Ronnie Robinson, who became the backbone of a program that went 82-32 in four seasons and took a magical run through the 1973 tournament with a group of local stars who helped heal a lot of festering wounds in the community.

?I was lucky that Larry and Ronnie were already in the program when I got to Memphis,? Bartow once said. ?They were just great players and leaders, but they were also great people. They loved people, white or black, just a couple of caring guys.?

The native of Browning Mo., had just two losing seasons in 34 years as a college head coach.

He coached exactly 1,000 college games, at Central Missouri State, Valparaiso (Ind.) University, then Memphis State, Illinois, UCLA and Alabama-Birmingham. He was 647-353, with 14 NCAA tournament appearances, and is one of 13 coaches in history to take two different schools (Memphis and UCLA) to the Final Four.

Bartow was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009, along with Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Wayman Tisdale, Jud Heathcote, Walter Byers, Travis Grant and Bill Wall.

Bartow is survived by his wife, Ruth, and children, Mark, Beth and Murray.

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How to Best Watch the First Meteor Shower of the Year [How To]

This spectacular fireball is an early shot of the first meteor shower of the year, captured on January 2 by Brian Emfinger. If you want to catch your own, get ready! The peak activity will be tomorrow. Here's how to enjoy them: More »

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With focus on Iowa, Huntsman continues NH effort (AP)

NASHUA, N.H. ? Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman said Monday that his intense focus on New Hampshire is paying off and went after rival Mitt Romney in unusually sharp language.

But Huntsman, the former Utah governor, is still being met by some blank looks with the primary just eight days away.

Watching Huntsman enter a Nashua diner surrounded by television cameras, voter Jimmy Pacheco at first mistook the former Utah governor for New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, and not a flicker of recognition crossed his face when he heard Huntsman's name. But by the time Huntsman reached his booth, the former truck driver greeted him like an old friend, complimented him on his "pretty wife" and said afterward that he probably would vote for Huntsman.

Noting that Huntsman is skipping Iowa's Tuesday caucuses and staking his hopes on a strong showing in New Hampshire's Jan. 10 primary, Pacheco said, "He cares about us."

Two minutes earlier, Pacheco had said he was leaning toward Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who has long been the front-runner in New Hampshire.

After stopping by several Nashua businesses and restaurants, Huntsman told reporters that New Hampshire is a place where an underdog can come from behind and beat expectations.

"It happens time and time again here in New Hampshire. It's where message matters, it's where grass-roots politics is rewarded, and this is a state that is finely tuned to finding leaders and then sending them south," he said.

While he lags far behind Romney in polls, the usually positive Huntsman went after Romney by name while speaking to voters in Dover later in the day.

"You can do what the establishment wants you to do. You've got a good candidate in Mitt Romney," Huntsman said. "If you have 47 members of Congress supporting you, as he just announced today, you think you're going to be to do what needs to be done in terms of reforming Congress? No how, no way."

He also suggested Romney couldn't reform the banking system because he's receiving too many donations from Wall Street.

"We cannot afford a status quo presidency," Huntsman said.

At another restaurant, GOP voter Matt Dobski said he was closer to backing Huntsman after meeting him but remained undecided. He said he likes Romney but doesn't like the health care law he enacted in Massachusetts, finds former House Speaker Newt Gingrich too polarizing, and thinks Texas Rep. Ron Paul is too extreme.

Huntsman, in contrast, "is probably one of the only candidates who's been consistent in all his policies and what's needed to change America," Dobski said. "That's important because, right now, everybody's waffling to say what they need to say to get votes. ... So a guy like Huntsman could really come through and steal the show, if he gets the media exposure he needs."

After having the state to himself last week, Huntsman soon will have plenty of company. Only seven days separate the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann plan to head straight to South Carolina after Iowa and then return to New Hampshire for two debates just before the primary.

Huntsman downplayed those debates, saying there have been too many already.

"I think with each passing debate, they're less and less important," he said. "People see them more as show business."

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Golf cart driver caught 3 times over limit

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A man driving a golf cart tried to run away from police after getting caught with almost three times the legal blood alcohol limit.

Police stopped the golf cart at 12.30am (AEDT) on New Year's Day when they saw it travelling on Dorsman Drive at Singleton Heights, in the Hunter Valley.

Officers spoke to two men who were in the cart before subjecting the driver to a roadside breath test, which allegedly returned a positive result.

The 33-year-old man from Byron Bay was arrested and taken to Singleton Police Station where it is alleged he attempted to run from officers.

The man was caught and subjected to a breath analysis which returned a reading of 0.143.

He was subsequently charged with mid-range PCA, providing a false name and resisting arrest.

He was refused bail to appear in Singleton Bail Court on Monday.

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iPhone App Freebies: Tagg, Acorn Mafia, ScanCard, more

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