LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It’s so crazy to think that a society that has Social Security and Medicare would not find this [health-care law] constitutional.”
Jonathan Gruber,
an MIT economist who advised both the Obama administration and Massachusetts lawmakers as they developed the state mandate in the 2006 law Article, 1A
Programs lost for some on DirecTV
NEW YORK - DirecTV Inc. subscribers in 19 U.S.
markets have lost access to certain programming, after Tribune Broadcasting said it failed to reach a settlement with the satellite television provider in their contract negotiations.
Tribune Broadcasting said late Saturday in a statement that without a deal in place, DirecTV was barred by federal law from carrying the signal of Tribune’s local television stations after midnight, when their agreement expired.
Tribune President Nils Larsen called the situation “extremely unfortunate.”
As it struck midnight in each time U.S. time zone, Tribune channels carried by DirecTV went blank.
5 nabbed in killing of Ohio woman
URBANA, Ohio - Five people have been arrested in the death of an Ohio woman who police say was stabbed, suffocated and dismembered in a bathtub before some of her remains were taken about 90 miles to Kentucky.
Officers said Jessica Rae Sacco, 21, was found dead Friday in her apartment in Urbana, about 40 miles northwest of Columbus. Authorities arrested five people, including a 25-year-old man who lived at the same address as Sacco.
He’s charged with murder, assault, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
His bail was set at more than $530,000.
He was arrested in Hamilton along with a man and woman from Fenton, Mich.
Felony charges against the Michigan couple and a man and woman from Urbana allege they failed to intervene during the killing or helped to hide it, police said.
U.S. records set in warm March
BOSTON - Chicago had its all-time warmest March, while New York’s Central Park had its second-hottest as thousands of new weather records were set or tied across the U.S., according to the National Weather Service.
The average temperature for the month in Chicago was 53.5 degrees Fahrenheit. That topped the previous mark of 48.6 degrees, set in 1910 and matched in 1945, the weather service said, citing data compiled since 1873.
In New York, the average temperature was 50.9 degrees, which was 8.9 degrees above normal, while below the record 51.1 degrees in 1945, according to the weather service.
Across the U.S., 7,577 all time daily high temperatures were set or matched in March, according to the National Climate Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
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