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Hard News: Summary Lead

 

Separate crashes leave 1 dead, at least 8 injured

By ABBY SIMONS, Minneaplolis Star Tribune

 

One person died in a Washington County crash today and eight were injured in a rollover crash in Kandiyohi County.

 

 

RI company recalling 1.2M pounds of salami because of salmonella concerns after outbreak

Associated Press

 

A Rhode Island meat company recalled 1.24 million pounds of pepper-coated salami on Saturday, after officials conducting a months-long, multistate investigation of a salmonella outbreak compared shopping receipts of those who got sick.

 

 

Westbound LIE reopens after fatal tanker-truck crash

By ANDREW STRICKLER, KEITH HERBERT AND MARK HARRINGTON, Newsday

 

Maintenance crews and a crane remained at the scene of an overturned tanker truck that crashed and burst into a massive tower of gasoline-fueled flames on the Long Island Expressway on Saturday morning, killing the truck driver and later collapsing a highway sign structure.

 

Delayed Identification Lead

Sacramento Bee

By Barbara Barte Osborn

 

A man charged with cutting old-growth trees on U.S. Forest Service land near Truckee was sentenced earlier this week to 27 months in prison and $70,430 in restitution.

 

John W. Clifton, 21, of Truckee and Sierraville, was sentenced Tuesday in Sacramento by U.S. District Judge John A Mendez.

 

West Olive teen hit by semi identified

By Tim Devaney, The Grand Rapids Press

 

A rural West Olive teenager hit by a semi was hospitalized in critical condition Friday night at Spectrum Health's Butterworth Hospital, authorities said.

 

Cody Morren, 16, was walking eastbound on the south side of M-45 (or Lake Michigan Drive) near the 104th Avenue intersection when he attempted to cross the highway. As he did, he was struck by the rear of a westbound semi at 4:44 p.m. Friday, said Sgt. Brian Buter, of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department.

 

Creative/Soft/ Feature Lead

 

Storms trash Calif. beaches, bring snow to AZ, NM

 

By Gillian Flaccus, Sacramento Bee

 

The sky was blue and the sun bright for the first time in days after a week of powerful Southern California rain storms, but all Victoria Macey could see was the mountain of steaming trash and twisted debris on her favorite beach.

 

Haitian orphans safe in new Chicago homes

By Cynthia Dizikes, Chicago Tribune

 

As Kim Lewen walked into her Willowbrook home Friday, her two adopted Haitian daughters wrapped tightly in her arms, the magnitude of her new reality finally hit her.

After months of bureaucratic wrangling and a devastating earthquake that stranded the girls at a mountaintop orphanage, she had become a mother.

"It's really amazing," Lewen said. "We just ate dinner and now I am going to give them a bath.