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Panel questions Republican on page board WASHINGTON -- The House ethics committee Thursday questioned a Republican member of the House page board who said afterward that GOP leaders hid from her Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate approaches to teenage male pages. "I'm a member of the page board who was not informed of the e-mail messages that were sent," Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., said. "I want the investigation to go forth quickly and reach a conclusion.\nSite of Amish schoolhouse shooting razed NICKEL MINES, Pa. -- Ten days after the Amish schoolhouse shootings, a demolition crew using heavy equipment tore down the bloodstained building Thursday and obliterated nearly all traces of the place where five girls were killed. "It's a little heart-wrenching to see it go down, but it sort of inishes things off," said the 27-year-old brother of two of the 15 boys sent out of the schoolhouse by the gunman before the shooting.\nFormer President Ford hospitalizedRANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Gerald Ford, the nation's oldest living former president, was in a hospital Thursday and undergoing medical tests, his office said. Ford, 93, was doing well at Eisenhower Medical Center, spokeswoman Penny Circle said in a statement. She did not disclose the nature of the tests. The former president has been hospitalized repeatedly this year.\nBritish man pleads guilty in bomb plot LONDON -- A British man pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to murder in a plot to bomb high-profile targets in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange and the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington. Prosecutor Edmund Lawson said Dhiren Barot, 34, planned "to carry out explosions at those premises with no warning. They were plainly designed to kill as many people as possible."\nGunmen storm Iraqi TV station, killing 11 BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen, some of them in police uniforms, stormed the downtown Baghdad headquarters of a new satellite television station Thursday, killing the board chairman and 10 others in the second attack on an Iraqi station in the capital in as many weeks. The motive for the attack was not clear, though there were signs it was carried out by Shiite militiamen. Journalists have frequently been targeted in both the insurgency and the spiral of sectarian killings in Iraq.