The Delaware Gazette

Piecing together the library’s display of quilts

The quilts are back! The won­der­fully tal­ented mem­bers of the Delaware Piece­mak­ers Quilt Guild have once again gra­ciously lent their quilts to the Delaware County Dis­trict Library for a month-long dis­play at the Delaware Main Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., to cel­e­brate Nation Quilt Month. The quilts, draped artis­ti­cally from the rail­ing on the mez­za­nine enhance the Library with color, cre­ativ­ity and warmth.

Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship

SAN FRANCISCO — Blog­gers and activists from China, the Mid­dle East and Latin Amer­ica said Fri­day they were afraid that new Twit­ter poli­cies could allow gov­ern­ments to cen­sor mes­sages, sti­fling free expression.

Library organizes group for movie buffs

Book dis­cus­sion groups have long been a sta­ple of the Delaware County Dis­trict Library, with mul­ti­ple dis­cus­sion sched­uled each month at library loca­tions. The staff at the Orange Branch Library, 7171 Good­ing Blvd. is mak­ing a leap in another direc­tion — a com­mu­nity film discussion!

A 2nd London police official quits in scandal

LONDON (AP) — Scot­land Yard’s assis­tant com­mis­sioner resigned Mon­day, a day after his boss also quit, and fresh inves­ti­ga­tions of pos­si­ble police wrong­do­ing were launched in the phone hack­ing scan­dal that has spread from Rupert Murdoch’s media empire to the British prime minister’s office.

Amid scandal, Murdoch kills off News of the World

LONDON (AP) — The Mur­doch media empire unex­pect­edly jet­ti­soned the News of the World Thurs­day after a pub­lic back­lash over the ille­gal guer­rilla tac­tics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the royal and remain Britain’s best-selling Sun­day newspaper.

Strauss-Kahn free from house arrest; charges stand

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NEW YORK — For­mer IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court with­out bail and free from house arrest Fri­day after pros­e­cu­tors acknowl­edged there were ques­tions about the cred­i­bil­ity of the hotel house­keeper who accused him of sex­ual assault.

Ex-IMF leader pleads not guilty to sex assault

NEW YORK — Dominique Strauss-Kahn for­mally asserted his inno­cence Mon­day to charges he tried to rape a hotel maid, but the drama unfolded out­side the Man­hat­tan court­room as pro­test­ers jeered the for­mer Inter­na­tional Mon­e­tary Fund leader and lawyers for the house­keeper said she was eager to tes­tify despite a “smear cam­paign” against her.

Another Gadhafi regime official defects

TRIPOLI, Libya — Another high-ranking Libyan offi­cial has defected and fled the coun­try amid a widen­ing NATO cam­paign of bomb­ings as well as leaflet­ting and other psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare to per­suade Moam­mar Gadhafi’s troops to stop fighting.

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