By Glenn JohnsonThe Associated Press

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins’ bullets, died Tues-day after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.

For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, a powerful voice on health care, civil rights, and war and peace. To the American public, though, he was best known as the last surviving son of America’s most glamorous political fam-ily, the eulogist of a clan shattered again and again by tragedy.

His family announced his death in a brief statement released early today.

“We’ve lost the irreplaceable center

of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, op-timism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever,” the statement said. “We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice, fairness and opportunity for all.”

Kennedy was elected to the Senate in 1962, when his brother John was presi-dent, and served longer than all but two senators in history. Over the decades, he put his imprint on every major piece of so-cial legislation to clear the Congress.

His own hopes of reaching the White House were damaged — perhaps doomed — in 1969 by the scandal that came to be known as Chappaquiddick, an auto acci-dent that left a young woman dead.

Kennedy — known to family, friends and foes simply as Ted — ended his quest for the presidency in 1980 with a stir-ring valedictory that echoed across the decades: “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.”

The third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history, Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent surgery and a grueling regimen of radiation and chemotherapy.

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By Jim kuhnhennThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all pre-vious deficits since America’s founding. And it says by the next decade’s end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.

But before President Barack Obama can do much about it, he’ll have to weather reces-sion aftershocks including un-employment that his advisers said Tuesday is still heading for 10 percent.

Overall, White House and congressional budget analysts said in a brace of new esti-mates that the economy will shrink by 2.5 to 2.8 percent this year even as it begins to climb out of the recession. Those estimates reflect this year’s deeper-than-expected

economic plunge.The grim deficit news

presents Obama with both immediate and longer-term challenges. The still fragile economy cannot afford deficit-fighting cures such as spend-ing cuts or tax increases. But nervous holders of U.S. debt, particularly foreign bondhold-ers, could demand interest rate increases that would quickly

be felt in the pocketbooks of American consumers.

Amid the gloomy numbers on Tuesday, Obama signaled his satisfaction with improve-ments in the economy by an-nouncing he would nominate Republican Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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NAMPA — A man shot by a Nampa police officer Sunday morning told investigators he wanted to be shot, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Richard Doyle Mattison is charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement of-ficer.

Court documents state that investigators interviewed 41-year-old Mattison, of Nampa, at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise after the incident, a press release is-sued by Canyon County prosecutors said.

According to the reports, Mattison admit-ted to pointing a gun at the police officer so the officer would shoot him.

Mattison was in possession of a loaded ri-fle and handgun when he was shot, officials said.

Canyon County Magistrate Judge Dayo Onanubusi has ordered Mattison held with-out bail following his release from the hos-pital.

Nampa police had responded Sunday to an address on South Valley Drive to follow-up on an earlier domestic battery report when the incident occurred. Officers checked the interior of the residence and were beginning to search the rear of the home.

One officer walked out the back door of the home when officials said Mattison raised a loaded rifle and pointed it at the officer. The officer reacted by firing multiple shots, strik-ing Mattison several times.

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CALDWELL — Canyon County commis-sioners addressed a crowd Tuesday as they outlined plans for a potential $46 million bond to build a new jail.

They will consider a resolution to put the jail bond on the Nov. 3 ballot at their Aug. 31 meeting.

The plan for the facility that could hold 652 inmates and allow for the current jail annex to be closed met with mixed reactions from the public.

Government watchdog and blogger Paul Alldredge doubted that the county could maintain, staff and run the new jail for the amount officials estimate.

“They’re going to have to have nursing, they’re going to have to have kitchen staff out there,” he said. “They’re not addressing that with the public.”

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Ted Kennedy dead at 77

Ted KennedyU.S. senator