EPA Cites Volkswagen Dealers Over Unfixed Exhaust Controls
The EPA says a dozen Volkswagen dealers and possibly more cheated buyers by failing to fix exhaust controls on 1975 and 1976 Rabbits and Sciroccos. VW of America had agreed to retrofit up to 195,000 cars, but some dealers did not perform the modifications, potentially signaling a broader issue.
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Washington
UPI
Environmental Protection Agency
Volkswagen
EPA
Justice Department
Volkswagen of America
Weather and life events brief for The Record
Weather forecast cooler with showers turning to snow flurries tonight and Wednesday. Readings: low near 30 tonight, Wednesday high 35 to 40. Precipitation chances 50 percent tonight and 60 percent Wednesday. Also marriage license filings for Rogs and Johnson, birth notice for Mulvane couple, and death of Clarence Ernsthausen.
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David M. Rogs
Embro
Scotland
U.S. Army
Mary L. Johnson
New London
Gary
Linda Mulvane
Bellevue
Boy
Ohio Board OKs 33.7 Million Education Budget Amid Pay Concerns
Columbus Ohio Board of Education approved 33.7 million dollars in county education spending while critics label county superintendents salaries as fantastic and partly funded by part time roles. Lyons urged law changes to empower the board to reduce or reject county salaries and budgets, noting current law limits oversight. The Geauga County superintendent earns 46 thousand dollars for 15 thousand students, highlighting wide pay gaps.
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UPI
Ohio Board of Education
County Boards of Education
Robert A. Lyons
Dayton
Huron County
Thomas Lasley
Scripps-Howard
Geauga County Board of Education
Walter Smith
William Phillis
Sibility
Lyons
Miners and Operators Near Tentative Coal Strike Settlement
Negotiators for the soft coal industry and United Mine Workers resume talks on a tentative agreement to end the 99 day strike. Health care costs and production incentives remain hurdles but progress is reported as optimistic, with final language to be set and union approval pending.
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Washington
UPI
United Mine Workers
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
UMW
Arnold Miller
Nicholas Camicia
Camicia
Miller
Cambia
Fertilizer Tanker Derailment Near Pleasant Street Yard
Two Norfolk and Western tanker cars loaded with ammonia sulfate derailed at about 9:45 a.m. near the Pleasant Street switchyard. No injuries were reported. Trainmaster James Th of Brewster Ohio noted slow movement as wheels left the track. Engineering crews would inspect the line to determine the cause, with one worker citing mud from melting snow as a factor. The derailment occurred about 100 feet west of the North Pleasant Street crossing.
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Pleasant Street
Norfolk and Western
James Th
Brewster
Ohio
Smith
North Pleasant Street Crossing
Norwalk Boards Set Meetings At City Hall And Monroe Street
The Charter Review Commission meets at 7 30 tonight at city hall. The Norwalk Board of Education meets at 8 tonight at the board offices at Monroe and Hester Streets.
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Charter Review Commission
City Hall
Norwalk Board of Education
Board
Monroe and
Hester Streets
Clarksfield Chooses Wakeman Ambulance Subscription Plan
At a crowded Clarksfield Township Trustees meeting 35 residents backed the Wakeman subscription ambulance service over a New London tax funded option. The Wakeman plan would serve multiple area hospitals with a $25 yearly subscription, while non subscribers would face a $50 base fee plus $1 per mile. Trustees plan a canvass. about 10 volunteers signed up.
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New London
Wakeman
Mostle
Clarksfield
Akeman
Area
New London Hospital
Fisher-Titus
Norwalk
Sandusky
Oberlin
Wellington
Amherst
Carl Gerber
Norman Hooker
David Lambright
Purist Loses Battle For Apostrophe
Colorado state lawmakers end the apostrophe dispute as Sen. William Comer concedes. El Paso Community College will be renamed Pike Peak Community College with no apostrophe despite Comer's effort to insert Pike's Peak. Hefley backed the apostrophe request, but House support was lacking.
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Denver
UPI
Colorado
William Comer
Colorado Springs
el Paso
Community College
Pikes Peak Community College
Man charged in insurance fraud scheme in Norwalk area
Wesley Garrett, 25, was arrested after allegedly forging a life insurance policy in the name of his wife's former husband to collect 100000 dollars. Investigators traced Garrett and his wife to California and Arizona before his Perkins arrest. He sought a false death certificate to cash the policy and flee the country. charges against his wife are possible. Garrett was released on bond after a Sandusky Municipal Court hearing.
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Huron County
Wesley Garrett
Perkins Police
Garrett
Allstate
Sears
Perkins Plaza
California
Arizona
Huron County Sheriff's Deputies
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
Perkins
Sandusky
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