Iowa State campus festival turns violent \nAMES, Iowa -- A yearly festival near the Iowa State University campus turned riotous early Sunday when more than 1,000 people vandalized cars, broke storefront windows and tore down street lights, police said.\nOfficers broke up the crowd with tear gas and arrested about 30 people on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to assaulting a police officer, police said.\nAbout 20 people received treatment for minor injuries at a nearby hospital, mainly for skin and eye irritations from the tear gas.\nThere were no estimates of property damage Sunday afternoon, but police said the damage was "extensive."\nOfficers responded to a call around midnight that a group of people at the annual student-organized Veishea celebration was getting out of hand and arrived to find a crowd of several hundred people flowing into the street.
U.S. bracing for terror before election\nWASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United States is bracing for possible terrorist attacks before the November presidential election, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.\nThe opportunity for terrorists to try to influence the election, as was the case last month in Spain, appears to be an opportunity that would "be too good to pass up for them," Rice said.\n"I think that we do have to take very seriously the thought that the terrorists might have learned, we hope, the wrong lesson from Spain," Rice told "Fox News Sunday."\n"I think we also have to take seriously that they might try during the cycle leading up to the election to do something," she said.\n"We are actively looking at that possibility, actively trying to see -- to make certain that we are responding appropriately," she said.\nJose Maria Aznar, outgoing prime minister of Spain and a strong U.S. ally in the war in Iraq, says he has warned President Bush he believes terrorists will try to affect the U.S. election as they did in Spain.
Church prays for kidnapped soldier\nBATAVIA, Ohio -- Members of a church once attended by an Army reservist taken hostage in Iraq prayed for his safe return during Sunday's patriotic services.\nAbout 900 people attended two morning services at First Baptist Church of Glen Este, near where Pfc. Keith M. Maupin grew up. Many wore yellow ribbons and wiped away tears during the service, which featured songs such as "America the Beautiful" along with traditional hymns and a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.\n"We all must have hope -- great hope -- that God will deliver Matt Maupin and give the family strength," Pastor Brent Snook said.
