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Obama, Clinton families pay tribute to JFK TBH to sell uniforms The Bellevue Hospital Foundation is sponsoring a Uniform Sale on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 21-22, at The Bellevue Hospital Conference Rooms A&B. Hours today will be 1-5 p.m., and hours on Friday will be 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. A dressing room will be available. Brands will include Cherokee, Dickies, Runway by Cherokee, Workwear, Baby Phat, Scrub HQ, Tooniforms, Skechers, and Littmann stethoscopes. Categories include: Tops, jackets, pants, footwear, and medical accessories. Proceeds to benefit the newly formed Employee Assistance Fund through TBH Foundation. For additional information, contact June Washburn at 419-4834040, Ext. 4408.
DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama paid tribute Wednesday to former President John F. Kennedy’s legacy, joining former President Bill Clinton to lay a wreath at Kennedy’s grave and presenting a freedom medal that Kennedy conceived before his assassination 50 years ago this week. One on each side, Obama and Clinton held the hands of Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, as they made their way up the stairs at Arlington National Cemetery. First lady Michelle Obama and
former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined the two presidents to place a wreath near the eternal flame that marks Kennedy’s gravesite. Obama and Clinton placed their hands over their hearts as a bugler played “Taps” near an American flag at halfmast. Obama made no public comments, but greeted Kennedy relatives gathered to honor his legacy ahead of the 50th anniversary of his assassination on Friday. The daylong tribute began earlier at the White House, where Obama bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on prominent Americans
including Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. Kennedy established the modern version of the medal, but was assassinated two weeks before he planned to honor the first group of recipients. “Today, we salute fierce competitors who became true champions,” Obama said, pausing to speak in personal terms about each of the recipients and their contributions to society. The leaders honored ran the gamut from sports and entertainment to science and public service. Mrs. Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and film direc-
Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, along with members of the Kennedy family, pause during a wreath laying ceremony in honor of President John F. Kennedy, Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Friday will See JFK | 2 mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
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Quake reported RR museum in SE Ohio NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that a mild earthquake has shaken residents in southeastern Ohio. The agency says the 3.5-magnitude quake occurred close to 1 p.m. Wednesday. The epicenter was about 2 miles southeast of the town of Nelsonville in Athens County. Geophysicist John Bellini described the quake as “light.”
plans $250,000 in improvements By Becky Brooks Managing Editor
Bellevue’s Mad River and NKP Railroad Museum Board of Directors is having nearly $250,000 in rail and track improvements made this fall. Museum President Chris Beamer said Wednesday that because of work which Norfolk Southern Railway is doing on its tracks in the community, museum officials were able to meet with contractors who also could make improvements to Mad River’s tracks. “It’s sinking and the tracks are bad,” Beamer said about the coach yard outside the fenced area of the museum. “Our contractor said it should
Today: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 48. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Tonight: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 43. South wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Friday: Showers. High near 50. Southwest wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts KARL RITTER between a tenth and quar- Associated Press ter of an inch possible. WARSAW, Poland — Friday night: A chance of rain showers before 1 An old rift between rich and poor has reopened in U.N. climate talks as developing countries look for ways to make developed countries accept responsibility for global warming — and pay for it. With two days left, there was commotion in the Warsaw talks Wednesday after the conference president — Poland’s environment minister — was fired in a government reshuffle and developing country negotiators said they walked out of a late-night meeting on compensation for climate impacts. “We do not see a clear commitment of developed parties to reach an agreement,” said Rene Orellana, head of Bolivia’s delegation. U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern downplayed
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Engines owned by the Mad River and NKP Railroad Museum are stationed on a side track near Gardner Street.
be done by Christmas,” he added. “It (work) should last another month.”
Before work on the yard tracks could begin, the engines and cars had to be relocated.
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Turmoil heats up at climate talks as both sides play the blame game
Alik Keplicz | AP
A group of Solidarity trade unionists from a coal mine, supporting the coal mining industry protest in front of the National Stadium hosting the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday.
the dispute and said American negotiators who had attended the meeting were surprised to hear of a walk-out. “The meeting ended with everyone leaving,” Stern told reporters in Warsaw. Differing views on what’s been said and done in closed discussions is not unusual in the slow-moving U.N.
effort to curb global warming, which has often been held back by mistrust between rich and poor countries. The question of who is to blame for global warming is central to developing countries who say they should receive financial support from rich nations to green their economies, adapt to shifts in the climate and
cover costs of unavoidable damage caused by warming temperatures. Also, they say the fact that rich nations, historically speaking, have released the biggest amounts of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases, means they need to take the lead in reducing current emissions. In Warsaw, Brazil even proposed developing a formula to calculate historical blame, to guide talks on a new global climate deal in 2015. “They must know how much they are actually responsible … for the essential problem of climate change,” Brazilian negotiator Raphael Azeredo said. Developed nations blocked that proposal, saying you must also look at current and future emissions when dividing the responsibility. China overtook the U.S. to become the world’s biggest carbon
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Investigation: Ohioan, 19, accidentally shot himself FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — An investigation has concluded an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot killed a 19-year-old northern Ohio man whose family challenged a ruling that it was a suicide. State Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office had investigated the March 2012 death of Jacob Limberios and had called a grand jury to consider testimony. Authorities said Wednesday that the grand jury declined to bring charges against anyone in the case. The Sandusky County coroner had ruled the death a suicide but also said the teen might not have known the gun was loaded.His parents fought that ruling and hired their own forensic pathologist to do an autopsy. He concluded the death was a homicide after the teen’s body was exhumed last fall.