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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 2010
Page
6
Doku Umarov, leader of Chechen militants, claimed responsibility for the Moscow subway blasts in an Internet message. The week saw two more suicide bombings in southern Russia, killing 12 in Dagestan and 39 in Moscow, with many injuries during the morning rush hour.
In Washington DC, a drive-by killed four and wounded five as a crowd returning from a funeral. Police arrested two men and a 14 year old boy who drove the minivan. Authorities await whether the incidents are linked to a separate shooting a mile away on March 22.
An Alabama firm tied to a fatal Kentucky crash held a deficient FMCSA safety rating of 88.4, a high score on the agency’s scale. Driver Kenneth Layman of Jasper crossed the median on I 65, killing 10 in a van and himself. 11 total deaths included Mennonite wedding travelers from Iowa.
British researchers noted a mass exodus of common toads at a central Italy breeding site five days before a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck L Aquila. The decline in toad numbers suggests amphibians may sense environmental changes humans cannot detect.
President Obama opened large offshore areas along the East Coast Alaska and the Gulf to drilling while canceling exploration in Bristol Bay Alaska. The plan could allow work 50 miles off Virginia by 2012 and seek lifting a ban in the eastern Gulf 125 miles from Florida beaches.
Flooding across New England from Maine to Connecticut forced hundreds from their homes. In Rhode Island the Pawtuxet River overflow damaged a West Warwick auto shop with 260 cars in ten feet of water and threatened dozens more businesses and homes. Interstate 95 closures and stalled Amtrak service marked transport impacts as waters receded slowly.
Top Republicans worry that the rallying cry to repeal the health care law may energize conservatives but alienate moderate voters in fall elections. Sen. Bob Corker says repeal is politically appealing yet mathematically unlikely in the Senate. Democrats warn the issue could fade as benefits of the law become clearer.
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