Winter storm blankets the Northeast causing closures and accidents
A winter storm blanketed the Northeast forcing federal offices and schools to close early. Delaware to New York saw about 6 inches of snow with some areas reaching 9 inches. Trains crowded in New Jersey, planes delayed at Newark, and multiple accidents clogged roads. Maryland road crews salted while officials warned of plummeting temperatures. A Maryland crash left a driver dead after colliding with a tractor trailer. Delaware reported nearly 60 accidents with minor injuries only.
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Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
David Buck
Maryland State Highway Administration
Newark
Taylor Matthews
Buck
Suit seeks tighter federal salt regulations
The CSPI filed a federal suit arguing the FDA must decide how to regulate salt as a food additive to halve sodium in the US diet. It cites a study claiming 150,000 lives saved annually and notes 75 percent of sodium comes from processed and restaurant foods.
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Atlanta
Center For Science In the Public Interest
Food and Drug Administration
American Journal of Public Health
U.S. Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
FDA
Federal Agency
Health and Human Services
American Public Health Association
Stephen Havas
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Havas
CSPI
Stephanie Childs
Grocery Manufacturers of
America
Childs
Alternate jurors chosen in Jackson trial
Santa Maria Calif The eight alternate jurors for Michael Jacksons child molestation trial were selected. Opening statements are set for next week with the trial possibly lasting five months. Judge Rodney Melville emphasized their elevated role in a high profile case.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Michael Jackson
Santa Barbara
Jackson
Black History Month profile of Julia Cooper educator and scholar
Julia Cooper, a scholar and educator born to enslaved parents in Raleigh, built a lifelong career empowering the less fortunate through teaching and writing. She earned a PhD at 65, led Wilberforce College departments, directed M Street School, and served as Frelinghuysen University president while shaping curricula and inspiring students to excel nationally. She died in 1964 at age 105, as the Civil Rights era began.
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Julia Cooper
Cooper
Raleigh
N.C
Hannah Stanley
St. Augustine’s Normal School
George Cooper
Oberlin College
Wilberforce College
Wilberforce
Benjamin W. Arnett
Washington, D.C
M-Street School
Paul Laurence Dunbar
M-Street
Harvard
Yale
Brown
Frelinghuysen University
Sorbonne
University of Paris
France
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