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“I think it’s time that the governor recognizes that he can’t always have everything he wants, and it’s time for him to sit down and treat the workers with respect.” Mark Miller, Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader Article, 1A
NYC blaze kills 1, hurts 20 firefighters
NEW YORK - More than 20 firefighters were injured as they battled for seven hours to extinguish a wind-fueled blaze that killed a woman in a Brooklyn apartment house and forced other residents to flee into the winter chill, officials said Sunday.
Mary Feagin, 64, was found in the rubble of the six-floor apartment building, according to a New York Fire Department spokesman. The fire in the Flatbush neighborhood started just before 7 p.m. Saturday, fanned by wind gusts of more than 50 mph.
“This was bad because of the wind,” Fire Chief Edward Kilduff said. “We had to evacuate very quickly because basically the fire chased us right down the hall and down the stairs.”
About 200 firefighters were called to the scene. More than 20 firefighters and four residents suffered minor injuries, fire officials said. None was life-threatening.
Investigators were looking into the cause of the fire. The names of the victims were not immediately released.
Minnesota snow stymies 700 flights
More than 700 flights were canceled at Minneapolis-St.
Paul International Airport on Sunday as a winter storm snarled travel in the Twin Cities and other parts of the region.
The National Weather Service said Minneapolis would get as much as 17 inches of snow through Sunday night. Blizzard warnings were issued for much of South Dakota, part of southern North Dakota and west-central Minnesota.
A band covering the area from central New York through Massachusetts could get as much as 6 inches of snow through today, said Alan Reppert, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.com Inc.
Texas poised to allow guns on campus
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus.
More than half the members of the Texas House have signed on as co-authors of a measure directing universities to allow concealed handguns. The Senate passed a similar bill in 2009 and is expected to do so again. Republican Gov.
Rick Perry, who sometimes packs a pistol when he jogs, has said he’s in favor of the idea.
Texas has become a prime battleground for the issue because of its gun culture and its size, with 38 public universities and more than 500,000 students. It would become the second state, after Utah, to pass such a broad-based law.
Supporters of the legislation argue that it’s needed to protect students from gun violence on campuses, such as the mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007.
Report: Deputy errors led to ’70 death
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies didn’t target a Los Angeles Times journalist who was shot in the head with a tear-gas missile 41 years ago, but made mistakes that led to his death, according to a draft report by a civilian agency.
Ruben Salazar, a former Times columnist and KMEXTV news director, became a key figure in the Mexican-American civil-rights movement after his death during an anti-Vietnam War rally.
The 20-page report from the Office of Independent Review was the first outside examination of sheriff’s records of the killing. It was ordered by Sheriff Lee Baca in August after the newspaper pressed him to unseal the files. The report, obtained by the Times, is to be released Tuesday.
It found deputies used poor tactics at the rally where Salazar died in 1970, and that the department’s stonewalling afterward fueled skepticism. Salazar was in a bar when a deputy fired the missile, hitting and killing him at age 42.
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