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Rail crack looked at in train collision
posted: 05/19/2013 5:08 a.m. Discuss
Officials investigating a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play and are studying a rail fracture where a derailed commuter train was struck by another bound for New York City.
IRS scrutiny a muddle
posted: 05/19/2013 5:08 a.m. Comments 2
During the summer of 2010, the dozen or so accountants and tax agents of Group 7822 of the Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati got a directive from their manager.
Emotions run high as Scout vote on gay ban nears
posted: 05/19/2013 5:04 a.m. Discuss
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
Criticism mounts on aid for vets
posted: 05/19/2013 5:02 a.m. Discuss
The 30-second Web video has the edgy quality of a campaign-season attack ad, including ominous music, grainy photos and a closing demand: “It’s time for new leadership.”
Boston to review bomb response
posted: 05/19/2013 5:02 a.m. Discuss
LOWELL, Mass. — Boston’s Police Department and mayor’s office will conduct reviews of the response to last month’s bombing of the Boston Marathon, Police Commissioner Ed Davis said Saturday.
Car plows into Virginia parade; up to 60 injured
posted: 05/19/2013 5:02 a.m. Discuss
About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.
Ohio women mourn regal shelter’s sale
posted: 05/19/2013 5:01 a.m. Discuss
CINCINNATI — For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home.
Cattle rustling in state often under the radar
posted: 05/19/2013 4:46 a.m. Discuss
Melbourne cattle farmer Hayden Wyatt has watched his herd more closely since someone stole 140 cows and calves from him and his partner a year and a half ago.
In the news
posted: 05/19/2013 4:43 a.m. Discuss
Aimee Copeland, 25, an Atlanta-area woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease, returned home from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of “bionic” hands with 24 programmable functions that will improve her dexterity, her father said.
Names and faces
posted: 05/19/2013 4:42 a.m. Discuss
Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of dollars for his pet monkey’s twomonth stay at an animal shelter after it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday as a deadline expired for him to reclaim the animal.
TV news shows
posted: 05/19/2013 4:42 a.m. Discuss
Lineup of guests for today’s TV news shows: ABC’s This Week — White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer; Sen. Robert Menendez, D- N.J.; Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio ; Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga.; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. 9 a.m., KATV, Channel 7, Little Rock.
The nation in brief
posted: 05/19/2013 4:41 a.m. Discuss
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I learned to think the unthinkable. I learned that the most horrific of circumstances can produce the most inspirational and heroic of actions, not just by one single person, but by hundreds of them.” Ed Davis, Boston Police Department commissioner, on what he learned from the Boston Marathon bombings as the department and mayor’s office prepare to review the emergency response Article, this page
The world in brief
posted: 05/19/2013 4:40 a.m. Discuss
QUOTE OF THE DAY “We continue to urge the North Korean leadership to heed President Obama’s call to choose the path of peace and come into compliance with its international obligations.” Caitlin Hayden, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, after North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the sea Article, 1A
