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Maryland is selling a bridge in Cecil County. The State
Highway Administration says the Maryland Route
545 bridge in Childs is available to be purchased and
reused at a new location. The state is willing to sell to
a city, county, historic preservation group, nonprofit,
corporation or individual. The new owner would be re-
quired to preserve the bridge according to established
standards for historic bridges. (AP)
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WHO WAS FIRED FOR “GROSS MISCONDUCT” AFTER DEFENDING
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A failed judicial candidate in Fairchance, Pa., who just
can’t believe he received so few votes is taking his ap-
peal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Robert Pritchard Sr.
got just 63 votes for district judge in the May 2009
primary. The winner, an incumbent, got 2,900 votes,
and another challenger got 957. Pritchard says people
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could have voted illegally because the county allegedly can International Auto Show Monday in Detroit. A production version of the two-door car could be sold
hasn’t properly purged 25,000 dead or unregistered as part of the company’s Jetta lineup, according to AutoWeek. (EXPRESS)
voters from its rolls. (AP)
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Combined Federal Campaign
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Obama considering A fee on the nation’s biggest
banks could be politically popu-
FORT COLLINS, COLO. ways to raise revenue,
lar, coming at a time when those
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recoup bailout funds institutions are poised to offer tens
Begins His Prison Term
of billions of dollars in bonuses to
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who orchestrated Obama tried to rein in bonus-
the balloon boy hoax The budget that President Obama es at banks that received large
turned himself in Mon- submits next month is likely to amounts of federal money, but
day to begin a 90-day include fees on banks and other many of those banks have repaid
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MADISON, WIS.
A senior White House official and to emphasize the president’s
Ammo Carried on Plane confirmed that a fee on financial a large portion of the investment, declined on Monday to discuss proposals to reform the financial
A passenger inadvertently carried shot- institutions is part of a menu of consistent with the law, the presi- specifics about the president’s bud- system.
gun shells onto a Dallas-bound Midwest ideas the president is considering dent will propose a way to recoup get after the proposed fee was first But it is not clear how a fee could
Airlines plane at Milwaukee’s airport on as he prepares to submit his bud- additional funds, and one of the reported on Politico’s Web site. But be imposed without hurting the
Monday before he realized his mistake get on Feb. 2. options is a levy on financial insti- Gibbs said Obama has long favored very people whose interests White
and alerted flight attendants, authorities “The president has made a com- tutions.” finding ways to make sure taxpay- House officials say they are advo-
said. The man said he had forgotten that mitment to the American people Key details remain unresolved, ers are reimbursed. cating. Some officials have said
the ammunition was in his carry-on bags that he will recoup their investment including how big the fees would “The president has talked on a they worry that a tax on financial
when he boarded the flight. (AP) in the financial industry,” said the be and how to ensure that they number of occasions about insist- transactions — like a withdraw-
official, who spoke on the condi- are not passed along to bank cus- ing that the money the taxpay- al or deposit — could be too easi-
NEW YORK
tion of anonymity. “While we have tomers. ers put up ... is paid back in full,” ly shifted to customers. MICHAEL D.
Gas Nears $3 Per Gallon made great progress in recouping Press secretary Robert Gibbs Gibbs said. SHEAR (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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about racially tinged comments his retirement last
by Senate Majority Leader Harry week.
Reid about President Obama is the Reid The reasons
fact that a new independent poll for Reid’s fall are
shows the Nevada Democrat in many — the primary one being
the direst of straits in his re-elec- that serving as leader of a nation-
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Reid trailed all three Repub- tion in a swing state are simply
licans against whom he was test- incompatible in the current polit-
ed in a new poll by the Las Vegas ical climate.
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voters said they held a favorable to walk away from their jobs —
opinion of Reid, while 52 percent particularly out of fear of elec-
said they see him in an unfavor- toral defeat — as it would send a
able light. dangerous message to other waver-
Those numbers — com- ing members about the party’s
bined with the negative publicity electoral prospects. CHRIS CILLIZZA
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The results suggest that most Af-
al force in more than two months, the Taliban controlled only seven southern Afghanistan, the NATO Robinson will step down temporarily.
ghans neither support the Taliban nor
underscoring fears that casualties months ago and now you meet command announced. That raised
will rise as more foreign troops with ... elders and they describe share the concerns in the West about to at least 10 the number of U.S. N. Ireland
the legitimacy of President Hamid
stream into the country. with considerable optimism the service members killed in Afghan-
Karzai’s re-election after a fraud-rid-
Nevertheless, a new poll says future, you sense the tide is turn- istan so far this year, according to FM Resigns
Afghans are more optimistic than ing,” he told ABC News about a dled election. (AP) an Associated Press tally. (AP)
Amid Wife’s
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PARIS
The peace process faces a new chal-
New Wave Director
lenge as Northern Ireland’s leader
Rohmer Dies at 89
was forced to step down — at least
French New Wave director Eric Rohmer — temporarily — amid outrage over his
known for “My Night at Maud’s,” ‘’Claire’s wife’s affair with a teenager.
Knee” and other films about the intricacies In an emotional statement Mon-
of romantic relationships and the dilem- day, First Minister Peter Robinson
mas of modern love — died on Monday. said he would step aside for a few
He was 89. Rohmer, also an influential weeks to answer questions about
film critic early in his career, died in Paris, Iris Robinson’s romantic and finan-
said Les Films du Losange, the production cial dealings with the 19-year-old
company he co-founded. (AP) for whom she helped raised tens of
thousands of dollars when she was
VATICAN CITY
58. A report by the British Broad-
Pope Laments Failure
casting Corp. suggests Robinson
To Reach Climate Treaty
acted improperly by failing to warn
Pope Benedict XVI denounced the failure parliament that his wife was secur-
of world leaders to agree to a new cli- ing loans for her lover.
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JERUSALEM Monday, the Spanish capital was blanketed with snow, extending schoolchildren’s holiday break by a day. Additionally, more allegation,” Robinson said.
Border Fences Ordered than 100 flights to and from Madrid’s airport were canceled between midnight and noon on Monday, authorities said. The scandal has outraged Rob-
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- inson’s socially conservative Protes-
yahu has ordered the construction of tant power base and threatened to
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border with Egypt, saying he wants to done what e-mail addicts and workaholics have been doing for years — ist Party’s partnership with the
stem a growing flood of African asylum invoking the Almighty’s blessing on their high-tech gadgets. The Rev. Canon David Parrott blessed Catholic Sinn Fein — critical to
seekers and to prevent Islamic militants a symbolic heap of laptops and smartphones on the altar of London’s 17th-century St. Lawrence maintaining the shaky coalition
from entering the country. (AP) Jewry church Monday to remind busy workers that God’s grace can reach them in many ways. (AP) government. (AP)
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