Fumes send children, teacher to hospital with dizziness

Fumes send children, teacher to hospital with dizziness

CHAGRIN FALLS

Authorities in northeast Ohio say fumes from a construction project sent 10 middle-school children and a teacher to a hospital for treatment of dizziness and led officials to evacuate the school as a precaution.

Kenston Local Schools officials said the Bainbridge Township Fire Department determined the fumes at Kenston Middle School in Chagrin Falls on Tuesday were caused by a roofing adhesive. Officials said an air- handling unit circulated the fumes in two classrooms.

School officials say the building was evacuated after students in those classrooms began complaining about the fumes in the morning.

Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe

WASHINGTON

For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. They failed repeatedly until two years ago when they finally spotted one. Then another. And another. And another.

Three American scientists – including one who initially flunked out of MIT - won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday that launched a whole new way to observe the cosmos. Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences cited the combination of highly advanced theory and ingenious equipment design in awarding Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.

“It’s a win for the human race as a whole. These gravitational waves will be powerful ways for the human race to explore the universe,” Thorne told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Report: Anti-abortion representative asked girlfriend to get one

PITTSBURGH

A Pittsburgh newspaper reported that an anti-abortion congressman asked a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to have an abortion when he thought she might be pregnant.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it obtained text messages between Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy and Shannon Edwards. A Jan. 25 text message from Edwards says the congressman had “zero issue” promoting his “pro-life stance” despite asking her to “abort our unborn child just last week.”

Edwards, it turned out, wasn’t pregnant.

Murphy recently acknowledged the affair, which became public as a result of Edwards’ divorce proceedings. His spokeswoman had no comment on the latest report. Murphy is co-sponsoring a bill that would outlaw most late-term abortions. The House passed it Tuesday.

North Korea accuses US of imposing an ‘economic blockade’

UNITED NATIONS

North Korea’s U.N. ambassador accused the United States on Tuesday of imposing “an economic blockade” on his country and deploying nuclear assets on the Korean peninsula aimed at toppling leader Kim Jong Un.

Ja Song Nam said the U.S. push for countries to implement what he called “illegal and unjustifiable” U.N. sanctions on North Korea is part of America’s “frantic attempt to completely block our peaceful economy for people’s everyday lives and humanitarian cooperation.”

The U.N. Security Council has imposed its toughest sanctions on North Korea in response to its continuing nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests.

Associated Press