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...underutilized stamping plants in Indianapolis and Mansfield, Ohio; and closing warehouses in Boston, Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, all by the end of this year. Workers at all nine plants and the three warehouses were told for the first time they were closing when they showed up for work Monday morning. "They just told us they were having a meeting at 8:15," says one union official from Pontiac...
...study published Monday in the Archive of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine adds to that evidence while introducing an intriguing new perspective. Many studies have suggested that television impedes learning by inhibiting youngsters' ability to interact with others, and according to Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a University of Washington pediatrician, that effect may be compounded when parents get drawn into TV-watching...
...radar screen" of the FBI, an officer said. In 1996, Topeka police found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, gunpowder and other items that could be used to make small bombs. He was sentenced to highly supervised probation for two years. He was expected to be charged Monday with murder and two counts of aggravated assault...
Search efforts were under way on Monday following the disappearance of an Air France Airbus passenger jet bearing 216 passengers and 12 crew members en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. After leaving the range of Brazilian radar controllers, the plane encountered stormy weather over the Atlantic Ocean, French officials said, and then suffered an unknown failure possibly caused by a short circuit. Speaking to France Info radio, the French government minister supervising the search for the aircraft, Jean-Louis Borloo, said, "We must seriously imagine the most tragic scenario...
...Clearly there has been a failure in the aircraft, and we can say without a doubt this is an air catastrophe," Gourgeon said, adding that he "shares in the mourning of passengers' relatives." On Monday afternoon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with families and friends of the missing passengers at Charles de Gaulle airport. "I told them the truth: that the chances of finding survivors are very small," he said. An Air France manager in Brazil said the passengers included 80 Brazilians, 73 French citizens, 18 Germans, nine Italians and six U.S. citizens as well as citizens of 17 other...