SOUTH

‘VAGUE CHANCE’ AT PRESIDENTIAL RUN, JEB BUSH SAYS

The term “Bush White House” will expire in January 2009, but Governor Bush, a Republican of Florida and brother to the president, could revive it as soon as 2013, according to a Reuters report.

Mr. Bush said in an interview published yesterday that he will not attempt to succeed his brother in 2008. When asked whether he might run in a later presidential election, however, the governor responded: “Let’s say there’s a vague chance.” Reuters reported that the interview appeared in a German magazine, Focus Weekly, in advance of Mr. Bush’s visit to Germany this week.

– Staff Reporter of the Sun

MIDDLE ATLANTIC

TEENAGER REPORTED SEIZED; PARENTS KILLED LITITZ, Pa. – Police were searching for a 14-year-old girl who reportedly was kidnapped at gunpoint yesterday by an older boy after her parents were killed at their home. Kara Beth Borden was last seen yesterday morning at the home in Warwick Township, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia, police said. Pennsylvania State Police issued an alert for the girl after reports that she had been abducted by an 18-year-old family acquaintance.

– Associated Press

WASHINGTON

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER SAYS BUSH DIDN’T MISLEAD ON WAR

While admitting “we were wrong” about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, President Bush’s national security adviser yesterday rejected assertions that the president manipulated intelligence and misled the American people.

Mr. Bush relied on the collective judgment of the intelligence community when he determined that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, the national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said.

– Associated Press