LOCAL
LOCAL
Attorney says cop
coerced witness
hA DEFENSE attorney accused a city police detective of coercion in interviewing a witness. The accusation came Monday in closing arguments in the murder trial of Gary Crockett.
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School policymaker
seeks to be employee
kMICHAEL WRITE, outgoing president of the Youngstown school board, now seeks to be employed for the district in a program to improve graduation rates among young men.
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RESEARCH
So you think you’re
smarter than chimp?
kJapanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
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WORLD
Report: Iran halted
its nuclear plans
kIRAN was attempting to build a nuclear weapon but halted the effort in the fall of 2003 and doesn’t appear to have restarted it, a U.S. intelligence report said Monday.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Don Imus returns
with black comedy
kDon Imus returned to the airwaves Monday eight months after he was fired for a racially charged remark about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, and introduced a new cast that included two black comedians.
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