Winter storm disrupts Chicago air travel and snow hits Midwest
About 1,000 flights canceled as a winter storm bears down on the Midwest. O'Hare and Midway see major disruptions with American Airlines canceling all O'Hare flights after 8 p.m. and Southwest canceling all Midway flights after 4 30 p.m. Snow totals of 2 to 6 inches and winds up to 60 mph forecast. Airlines waive change fees. The storm also affects Seattle coast debris recovery, New Orleans legal action over holiday lights, and a Utah snowstorm fatality nearby Dixie National Forest.
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Chicago
Midwest
O’hare
Midway International
American Airlines
Southwest Airlines
Midway
Airlines
New Orleans
Louisiana
Sarah Childs
Denham Springs
American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana
Childs
U.S
James Brady
Baton Rouge
Hunger and homelessness rise in U S cities
A national U S Conference of Mayors report finds emergency food requests up in 21 of 25 cities in 2012 and homelessness rising in more than half. It cites budget battles, the fiscal cliff, and ongoing poverty as backdrop.
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Washington
United States
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Greg Fischer
Louisville
Kentucky
Madoff Brother Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison
Peter Madoff, 67, received the maximum 10 year term after pleading guilty to conspiracy and falsifying records linked to Bernard Madoff's multibillion dollar fraud. Judge Swain called his explanations not credible as relatives and investors urged accountability and restitution for losses.
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Peter Madoff
Manhattan Federal Court
New York
Madoff
Bernard Madoff
U.S
Laura Taylor Swain
Michael T. de Vita
de Vita
Amy Luria Nissenbaum
Nissenbaum
Mystery $12 Million Donation Probed in Campaign 2012
Campaign watchdogs urge Justice Department and FEC to investigate more than 12 million dollars funneled through two Tennessee companies to a prominent tea party group. They say routing via Specialty Investments Group Inc. and Kingston Pike Development Corp. may violate anti laundering laws and that the Nashville lawyer William S. Rose Jr. could have violated multiple campaign finance statutes.
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Washington
Justice Department
Federal Election Commission
Tennessee
U.S
William S. Rose Jr
Knoxville
Rose
Associated Press
U S Population Growth Slows Amid Aging Demographic Shift
2012 census estimates show the United States adding 2.3 million people to reach 313.9 million, with growth at 0.75 percent the highest in five years but still at historic lows. Demographer William Frey notes aging trends, later marriages, and modest immigration shape this new era.
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Washington
America
U.S
Census Bureau
Sun Belt
William H. Frey
Brookings Institution
Gun deaths to surpass auto fatalities in 2015
Bloomberg data project firearm fatalities will total about 33,000 in 2015 while auto deaths hover near 32,000. CDC figures show gun violence rising after 2000 amid policy effects, with mass shootings rare but daily shootings ongoing across age groups.
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Atlanta
U.S
Bloomberg
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Sandy Hook
Garen Wintemute
University of California, Davis
CDC
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Pacific
Coast Guard
Olympic Peninsula
David Workman
State Marine Debris Task Force
Salt Lake City
Utah
Dixie National Forest
St. George
The
National Forest
Boston
Cleveland
Dallas
Los Angeles
Nashville
Philadelphia
Congress
Michael Nutter
House of Representa
Tives
Guns-R-Us
Phoenix
Ariz
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