CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - As many as seven schools in Greenville, South Carolina were in lockdown and area ugg residents were warned to stay inside after a suspect fired at a police officer on Friday and fled the ugg autralia scene, officials said.

A female police officer returned fire after being shot at by the suspect in the breezeway of an apartment building, said Greenville police spokeswoman Officer Alia Urps.

The officer was not injured.

At least one area school was in lockdown and three others were on partial lockdown following the incident, school officials said. Greenville Police Chief Terri Wilfong said she believed seven schools were locked down in early afternoon.

Before the shooting incident, police had been pursuing the suspect because the silver Yukon SUV he gucci outlet was driving had plates that matched cheap uggs a different car.

That discrepancy had been noticed when police were checking an area where stolen cars were often left. The suspect burberry outlet had then driven the Yukon away from that area.

The driver would not stop the Yukon, Wilfong said, so an officer in pursuit put out a general description and another officer found the car in ugg boots sale an apartment complex near a school.

When she walked onto an apartment breezeway, "that's when she was ambushed. A subject began shooting at her," Wilfong said.

Police were searching a wooded area behind the complex cheap ugg boots for the shooter, described as a black male between 30 and 35 years old, dressed in gray pants and a gray shirt with long hair pulled back in a ponytail, Wilfong said.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - As many as seven schools in Greenville, South Carolina were in lockdown and area residents were warned to stay inside after a suspect fired at a police officer on Friday and fled the scene, officials said.

A female police officer returned fire after being shot at by the suspect in the breezeway of an apartment building, said Greenville uggs police spokeswoman Officer Alia Urps.

The officer was not injured.

At least one area school was in lockdown and three others were on partial lockdown following the incident, school officials said. Greenville Police Chief Terri Wilfong said she believed seven schools were locked down in early afternoon.

Before the shooting incident, police had been pursuing the uggs for cheap suspect because the silver Yukon SUV he was driving had plates that matched a different car.

That discrepancy had been noticed when police were checking an area where stolen cars were often left. The suspect had then driven the Yukon away from that area.

The driver would not stop the Yukon, Wilfong said, so an officer in pursuit put out a general description and another officer found the car tiffany jewellery in an apartment complex near a school.

When she walked onto an apartment breezeway, "that's when tiffany uk she was ambushed. A subject began shooting at her," Wilfong said.

Police were searching a wooded area behind the complex for the shooter, described as a black male between 30 and 35 years old, dressed in gray pants and a gray shirt with long hair pulled back in a ponytail, Wilfong said.

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Students and staff Friday were unpacking three truckloads of new musical instruments that singer Barry Manilow donated to tornado-ravaged schools in Joplin, Missouri.

Manilow presented the instruments, valued at $300,000, to a gathering of Joplin music students on Thursday. The instruments will help replenish ones lost on May 22 when an EF-5 tornado swept through Joplin, destroying the high school and several other school buildings.

"We are just thrilled, he is such a nice person," Rick Castor, director of the Joplin High School band, said Friday. "It was just like Christmas. We opened a few of the things last night and today."

The donation includes a concert grand piano that will be placed on the stage of the temporary, and then the new auditorium, Castor said. The schools also got six new upright pianos, along with brass, string and other instruments, to replace ones that were destroyed, he said.

The instruments come from the Manilow Music Project, which for six years has helped schools that suffered cuts to music programs. Manilow is also helping with a ugg clearance local drive to get used instruments donated to the Joplin schools and to raise money to replace sheet music lost in the tornado.

The tornado killed 162 people.

"I know first-hand how invaluable music can be to get you through life's uggs outlet tough times," Manilow said in a statement. "It is an honor and ugg australia sale uk a privilege to help these kids after such a disaster."

Manilow, 68, had his biggest success in the 1970s but has remained a popular touring artist for years. Castor said his students had not heard of Manilow and were surprised when he told them he is among the top-selling singer-songwriters of all time.

In speaking to the students Thursday, Manilow quipped that "back in burberry outlet the 1970s, I was Justin Bieber," according to The Joplin Globe.

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Students and staff Friday were unpacking three truckloads of new musical instruments that singer Barry Manilow donated to tornado-ravaged schools in Joplin, Missouri.

Manilow presented the instruments, valued at $300,000, to a gathering of Joplin music students uggs uk on Thursday. The instruments will help replenish ones lost on May 22 when an EF-5 tornado swept through Joplin, destroying the high school and several other school buildings.

"We are just thrilled, he is such a nice person," Rick Castor, director of the Joplin High School band, said Friday. "It was just like Christmas. We opened a few of the things last night and today."

The donation includes a concert grand piano that will be placed on the stage of the temporary, and then the new auditorium, Castor uggs said. The schools also got six new upright pianos, along with brass, string and other instruments, to replace ones that were destroyed, he said.

The instruments come from the Manilow Music Project, which for six years has helped schools that suffered cuts to music programs. Manilow is also helping with a local drive to get used instruments donated to the Joplin schools and to raise ugg boots for cheap money to replace sheet music lost in the ugg outlet tornado.

The tornado killed 162 people.

"I know first-hand how invaluable music can be to get you ugg uk through life's tough times," Manilow said in a statement. "It is an honor and a ugg boots uk privilege to help these kids after such a disaster."

Manilow, 68, had his biggest success in the 1970s but has remained a popular touring artist for years. Castor said his students had not heard of Manilow and were surprised when he told them he is among the top-selling singer-songwriters of all time.

In speaking to the students Thursday, Manilow quipped that "back in the 1970s, I was Justin Bieber," according to The Joplin Globe.

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A central Texas gun dealer ran radio ads advising "Socialist" liberals, Ugg Boots sale those who voted for President Barack Obama, Arabs and Muslims that they need not apply for his concealed gun license class.

Crockett Keller, who owns Keller's Riverside Store, ran the ads on the radio station in his rural hometown of Mason, Texas, which is 120 miles west of the state capital of Austin.

"If ugg uk you are a Socialist uggs on sale liberal ugg boots sale and/or voted for the current campaigner in chief, please do not take this class," Keller said in the ad. "You have already proven that you cannot make a knowledgeable and prudent decision as required under the law."

"Also, if you are a non-Christian Arab, or Muslim, I will not teach you the class," Keller said in the radio ad.

Keller said he is simply exercising his freedom to teach concealed handgun license classes to whomever he wants. He said he has received "hundreds" of calls from Americans who support his stance.

"I should have had the class next week instead of this week, I could have had 500 people in it," Keller said on Friday.

He said he was not joking when he put the lines about socialists in his commercial, because ugg boots clearance he knows some socialist liberals and did not want them to enroll in the class.

"I didn't want them to show up and have to tell them no," he said.

The Texas Department of Public Safety, which oversees the concealed carry program, and licenses instructors, said in a statement that "certified instructors burberry outlet are required to comply gucci outlet with all applicable state and federal statutes, and conduct by an instructor that denied service to individuals on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion would place that cheap Ugg Boots instructor's certification at risk."

The department said it had begun an investigation into the matter, and would "take appropriate administrative action based on the findings of from the investigation."

Adults in Texas are allowed to carry concealed weapons if they have completed a class such as the one Keller teaches.

Keller wrapped up his radio by saying: "With no shame, I'm Crockett Keller. Thank you, and may God bless."

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A police officer is suing a New Jersey delicatessen and its discount ugg boots cook, who admitted stuffing body hair into the officer's bagel sandwich in revenge for a traffic arrest.

The lawsuit filed by Patrolman Jeremy Merck of the Evesham, New Jersey, Police Department seeks unspecified damages from Good Foods to Go in Marlton, New Jersey, and its cook, Ryan Burke, for an incident cheap uggs that occurred in February 2010.

Merck ordered an egg, cheese and turkey bagel and after eating part of it, he found it "was adulterated with pubic, chest or other human hair," the lawsuit said.

Merck sought medical help and was checked for communicable diseases at a hospital, his attorney, Bruce Zamost, said on Friday. None was detected.

Burke, who served Merck the sandwich, was later charged with aggravated assault, retaliation against a public servant and food tampering. He ultimately served 15 days in jail.

According to a police report from the criminal case, "Burke admitted to tearing out hairs from his chest and his pubic area and placing them on Ptl. Merck's sandwich out of anger due to the fines and lawyers fees he had from the prior arrest in 2009."

In 2009, Merck charged Burke with traffic offenses. Burke later complained the traffic case cost him $4,400.

"Burke admitted that he did not like Ptl. Merck as a result of that incident and expressed that he shouldn't have to see Ptl. Merck at Good Foods to Go," the police report continued.

A woman who answered the phone at the headquarters of the ugg boots restaurant chain declined to comment on reports Burke was fired after the sandwich incident. The restaurant's lawyer, Mark Sander, could not be reached for comment on Friday.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) uggs on sale - A police officer is suing a New Jersey delicatessen and its cook, who admitted stuffing body hair into the officer's bagel sandwich in revenge for a traffic arrest.

The lawsuit filed by Patrolman Jeremy Merck of the Evesham, New Jersey, Police Department seeks ugg outlet unspecified damages from Good Foods to Go in Marlton, New Jersey, and its cook, Ryan Burke, for an incident that occurred in February 2010.

Merck ordered an egg, cheese and turkey bagel and after eating part of it, he found it "was adulterated with pubic, chest or other human hair," the lawsuit said.

Merck sought medical help and was checked ugg boots clearance for communicable diseases at a hospital, his attorney, Bruce Zamost, said on Friday. None was detected.

Burke, who served Merck uggs for cheap the sandwich, uggs was later charged with aggravated assault, retaliation against a public servant and food tampering. He ultimately served 15 days in jail.

According to a police report from the criminal case, "Burke admitted to tearing out ugg boots sale hairs from his chest and his pubic area and placing them on Ptl. Merck's sandwich out of anger due to the fines and lawyers fees he had from the prior arrest in 2009."

In 2009, Merck charged Burke with traffic offenses. Burke later complained the traffic case cost him $4,400.

"Burke admitted that he did not like Ptl. Merck as a result of that incident and expressed that he shouldn't have to see Ptl. Merck at Good Foods to Go," the police report continued.

A woman who answered the phone at the headquarters of the restaurant chain uggs outlet declined to comment on reports Burke was fired after the sandwich incident. The restaurant's lawyer, Mark Sander, could not be reached for comment on Friday.

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. authorities arrested 22 people in cheap ugg boots Florida on Friday, including pharmacists and doctors, in a crackdown against prescription drug abuse that officials say is the nation's fastest growing drug problem.

The arrests in Orlando and Tampa were the latest steps in successive operations by federal and local authorities to shut down so-called uggs on sale "pill mill" pain clinics, prescription forgery rings and illegal online pharmacies involved in the illegal distribution of prescription drugs such as painkillers.

At a news conference in Tampa, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said these operations, dubbed Pill Nation I cheap ugg boots and II, had led so far ugg uk to 118 arrests, the seizure of more than $19 million in assets and the closure of at least 40 Florida pain clinics.

"Our targeted, aggressive enforcement actions are ugg sale sending a clear message that -- here in Florida, which has long been the nation's cheap uggs epicenter for the illegal distribution of prescription drugs -- the days of easily acquiring these drugs from corrupt doctors and pharmacists are coming to an end," Holder said.

He was accompanied by the administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), ugg boots sale Michele Leonhart, and Florida state officials.

Those arrested in Florida on Friday, who included five doctors and two pharmacists, were charged with illegally diverting controlled substances.

Holder said in prepared remarks the abuse of prescription drugs, such as painkiller oxycodone and methadone, which is used cheap uggs for drug addiction detoxification, was now the fastest-growing drug problem in the country.

DEA chief Leonhart called it an "epidemic." Prescription drugs now caused more overdose deaths in the United States than "street drugs" such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

Holder said an estimated 7 million people in the United States regularly used prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes and this abuse contributed to nearly 40,000 deaths and almost $200 billion in healthcare costs annually.

Last year alone, one in seven teens abused prescription ugg boots uk drugs to get high, officials said.

Holder said the problem had reached "crisis proportions" in Florida, where between 2005 and 2010 the number of oxycodone-related deaths increased by 345 percent.

On Saturday, the DEA was sponsoring a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day which will ugg boots sale uk allow people to dispose of expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs at more than 5,000 collection sites throughout the United States.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago businessman Robert Pritzker, a patriarch of one of the world's richest families and founder of a conglomerate that was purchased by Warren Buffett, has moncler jacket died, his assistant said on Friday.

He was 85.

The cause of death was Parkinson's disease, said Pritzker's assistant, Becky Spooner.

Together with his brother Jay, who founded the Hyatt hotel chain, Robert Pritzker founded the Marmon Group, an industrial conglomerate that made everything from bolts and screws to water treatment products and railroad cars.

The company was purchased by billionaire investor Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in 2008.

"Throughout his career, Mr. Pritzker strongly believed that well-educated engineering minds would long be essential to the ability of the United States to compete in world markets," said Louhon Tucker, an executive at Colson Associates, in a statement.

The Pritzker family is one of the world's richest. The 11 members of the family on the 2011 Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans -- which did not include Robert -- had a combined worth of $17.1 billion, according to the magazine.

Pritzker was born in Chicago in 1926. He graduated with moncler sale a degree in industrial engineering in 1946 from Illinois Institute of Technology, the benefactor of a $60 million charitable contribution from Pritzker in 1996, the school said in a statement.

"Bob was an extraordinary man and one of IIT's most ardent and benevolent supporters. His name was synonymous with IIT," said President John L. Anderson. "The university is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its great leaders."

Pritzker retired from Chicago-based Marmon in 2002. He then created Colson Associates, a consortium of manufacturing and service moncler companies, which he ran until just before his death.

Pritzker also served on many civic and cultural boards, such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lincoln Park Zoological Society.

He is survived by his wife Mayari and five children.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago businessman Robert Pritzker, a patriarch of one of the world's richest families and founder of a conglomerate that was purchased by Warren Buffett, has died, his assistant said on Friday.

He was 85.

The cause of death was Parkinson's disease, said Pritzker's assistant, Becky Spooner.

Together with his brother Jay, who founded the Hyatt hotel chain, Robert Pritzker founded the Marmon Group, an industrial conglomerate that made everything from bolts and screws to water treatment products and railroad cars.

The company was purchased by billionaire investor Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in 2008.

"Throughout his career, Mr. Pritzker strongly believed that well-educated engineering minds would long be essential to the ability of the United States to compete in world markets," said Louhon Tucker, an executive at Colson Associates, in a statement.

The Pritzker family is one of the world's richest. The 11 members of the family on the 2011 Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans -- which did not include Robert -- had a combined worth of $17.1 billion, according to the magazine.

Pritzker was born in Chicago in 1926. He graduated with a degree in industrial engineering in 1946 from Illinois Institute of Technology, the benefactor of a $60 million charitable contribution from Pritzker in 1996, the school said in a statement.

"Bob was an extraordinary man and one of IIT's most ardent and benevolent supporters. His name was synonymous with IIT," said President John L. Anderson. "The university is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its great leaders."

Pritzker retired from Chicago-based Marmon in 2002. He then moncler jackets created Colson moncler outlet Associates, a consortium of manufacturing and service companies, which he ran until just before his death.

Pritzker also served on many civic and cultural boards, such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra moncler coats and Lincoln Park Zoological Society.

He is survived by his wife Mayari and five children.

PARIS (Reuters) - L'action EDF a chuté de plus de 5% vendredi après-midi en Bourse de Paris, des intervenants de marché ayant évoqué un article du Monde selon lequel le Parti socialiste et les écologistes seraient sur le point de sceller un accord électoral prévoyant doudoune moncler homme des fermetures de centrales nucléaires.

Interrogées par Reuters, les deux parties ont cependant affirmé que rien de tel n'avait été décidé pour l'instant et que les négociations en vue des élections présidentielle et législatives de 2012 en France se poursuivaient.

L'électricien public a demandé à l'Autorité des Marchés financiers (AMF) de mener une enquête sur la chute du cours.

"Nous trouvons très bizarre qu'un article du Monde, démenti par tout le monde, ait produit une telle variation sur le cours", a déclaré une porte-parole d'EDF.

Le titre EDF a reculé de 5,52%, plus forte baisse du CAC 40, à 22,260 euros alors que le CAC 40 a cédé 0,59% et son indice européen sectoriel 1,34%.

"Nous pensons que la baisse du titre serait probablement liée à l'article du Monde selon lequel les Verts et le Parti socialiste doudoune moncler seraient sur le point de signer un accord électoral, qui prévoit des fermetures de centrales nucléaires", commente un trader qui n'a pas voulu être identifié.

"Si cela a bien lieu (nous sommes est encore loin des élections présidentielles de mai 2012), ce serait bien sûr une très mauvaise nouvelle", ajoute-t-il. "Bien entendu, il y le programme et la réalité permettant de le mettre en oeuvre."

Selon le Monde de samedi, les socialistes ont dû concéder la fermeture d'une demi-douzaine de centrales en fin de vie, dont la doyenne, Fessenheim dans le Haut-Rhin, pour s'entendre avec les écologistes qui réclamaient une sortie totale du nucléaire.

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"Des groupes de travail doudoune moncler pas cher se retrouveront, mercredi 2 novembre, pour ajuster les points de programme, mais des compromis ont été négociés", ajoute le quotidien, selon lequel l'accord devrait être signé mi-novembre.

Le Parti socialiste, tout comme Europe Ecologie-Les Verts ne doudoune moncler femme confirment pas ces informations du Monde, expliquant que les négociations n'ont pas encore abouti.

"Les discussions sont, à ce stade, bien plus générales", a dit à Reuters Michel Sapin, ancien ministre de l'Economie, proche de François Hollande et impliqué dans ces négociations.

Quant à Yannick Jadot, le porte-parole d'Eva Joly, candidate d'Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, il estime que l'article du Monde témoigne d'une vision "un peu romancée" de la réalité.

"S'il devait y avoir un accord entre les deux, Fessenheim fermerait assez rapidement. (...) Nous, on est toujours sur une sortie du nucléaire qui comprend effectivement la fermeture assez rapide des centrales les plus vieilles", a-t-il dit.

Il a émis le souhait que les négociations avec le Parti socialiste aboutissent dans les 15 prochains jours.

François Hollande, candidat socialiste à l'élection présidentielle, souhaite une baisse de 75% à 50% de la part du nucléaire dans la production d'électricité.

La centrale de Fessenheim est la plus ancienne de France et possède deux réacteurs de 900 mégawatts chacun.

L'été dernier, l'Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (ASN) a jugé que le réacteur numéro 1 de cette centrale était apte à être exploité dix ans de plus.