NEW YORK: ‘Tribute in Light’ glares for one last reminder

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday night in Lower Manhattan to take a final look at the towers of light that have served as reminders of the World Trade Center for the past month.

“Tribute in Light,” two shafts of massed searchlight beams shooting into the night sky, represented the 110-story twin skyscrapers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks. Since March 11, they have been lighted from dusk to 11 p.m. every night.

The lights were scheduled to burn for one month, and are to be turned off for a final time at dawn today.

The $500,000 project uses 88 searchlights arranged in 50-foot squares at a site near the northwest corner of the trade center plaza.

Kentucky: Sheriff shot to death at political rally, fish fry

A county sheriff was shot and killed Saturday during a political rally in Somerset, state police said.

Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron was shot about 7:15 p.m. at the rally and fish fry, Trooper Craig Sutton said. A suspect was in custody but no other information was immediately available, Sutton said.

Catron appeared on a segment of “America’s Most Wanted” that aired Saturday about Steve Anderson, a former Kentucky State Militia member who once hosted a shortwave radio show on which he made inflammatory comments about the government, blacks, Jews and immigrants.

Anderson fled into the mountains on Oct. 14 after firing at a Bell County sheriff’s deputy’s cruiser.

Catron, who had been sheriff since 1986, was running for a fifth term.

WASHINGTON, D.C..: President pushes tax cuts as April 15 deadline nears

President Bush reminded Americans ahead of Monday’s tax deadline that they were saving money through his 10-year tax-cut plan and he urged Congress to make the reductions permanent.

“I urge Congress to pass this vital measure,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

But that probably will not happen this year because of opposition from Senate Democratic leaders who say the cuts have darkened the nation’s long-term budget picture.

Bush and his wife, Laura, paid $250,202 in federal income taxes this year  31 percent of their $811,100 adjusted gross income for 2001, according to forms released by the White House.

Florida: Spacewalking grandfathers make space station repairs

The world’s first pair of spacewalking grandfathers on Saturday floated outside and finished bolting a 44-foot girder to the international space station.

Shuttle Atlantis astronauts Jerry Ross, 54, and Lee Morin, 49, had to contend with some sticky bolts, but still managed to snap two three-pronged struts into place and complete the work begun by two of their colleagues earlier in the week.

It was the first spacewalk ever by two grandfathers, albeit relatively young ones.

Each man has two grandchildren. But Morin has been a grandpa longer  eight years.