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www.pantagraph.com A6 The Pantagraph Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Storm wallops upper Midwest Wis. governor rejects union compromises 1 A miA0 it. i i i I dropped 12.3 inches of snow at the airport by Monday morning. The snow fell from a storm that on Sunday spanned most of the upper Midwest and dropped more than 10 inches on towns in the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity for at least parts of Monday. It was the eighth snow emergency of the season for Minneapolis, which officials said was the most it has ever declared in a single winter.

In South Dakota, transportation officials reopened parts of interstates that were closed Sunday due to the storm. By Chris Williams ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS A major snow storm dealt another winter wallop to Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Ohio on Monday as it moved east out of Minnesota leaving more than a foot of fresh snow in its wake. Operations were returning to normal at the Minneapolis -St. Paul International Airport after the storm prompted Delta Airlines to cancel hundreds of flights Sunday, although hourlong delays were reported. Airport spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski said about 60 departures and 100 arrivals were can- day.

Meanwhile, thousands protested against the bill. At an evening news conference Monday, Walker again rejected two compromises. Under one, the unions said they would accept paying more for benefits but still retain their collective bargaining rights. Another compromise offered by Republican Sen. Dale Schultz would remove collective bargaining rights just for two years.

Walker refused to back down and instead called on the Democrats to return. "It's time for them to come back and participate in democracy," he said. The labor bill, he said, was needed for the flexibility to make up to $1 billion in cuts. By Scott Bauer AbSOCIAItOPKtSS MADISON, Wis. No resolution appeared imminent Monday to the stalemate over union rights in Wisconsin, leaving Senate Republicans resigned to forge ahead with less-controversial business such as tax breaks for dairy farmers and commending the Green Bay Packers on winning the Super Bowl.

As the standoff entered its second week, Republican Gov. Scott Walker refused to compromise on a bill stripping most collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees, and all 14 Senate Democrats remained missing in action for a fifth Associated PressDANIEL MEARS Maintenance workers on Monday remove snow on the sidewalks at Comerica Park where the Detroit Tigers will start their season April 8. Many Michigan residents awoke Monday to snow accumulations of 7 to 10 inches. celed early Monday, but was clearing. she said she didn't expect The National Weather more because the weather Service reported the storm Stepmom indicted in disabled girl's death 111.

union members, tea partiers join fray in Wis. New detail in case: Head of slain girl, 10, is missing 1 I By Mitch Weiss a a and Mike Baker Baker: Her associated press head is missing. HICKORY, N.C. The Medical stepmother of a 10 -year- examiners old disabled girl was indict- said end the girl was reported missing, desecrated Zahra's remains to cover up the slaying. Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins called the murder charge "a milestone of holding someone accountable that members of team Zahra have been working toward since the first words spoken on that 911 call." Attorneys for Elisa Baker did not return calls seeking comment Monday.

many bones, most notably the girl's skull, months after she was reported missing. Several bones showed cutting tool marks consistent with dismemberment. The revelation came in documents released by the state's chief medical examiner shortly after officials in western North Carolina held a news conference about the second-degree murder charge. Authorities said Elisa Baker, who has been jailed since the week Elisa Baker Zahra's death was caused by "undetermined homicidal violence." An autopsy was done even though authorities haven't recovered ed Monday on a charge she murdered the child, and officials released the latest gruesome detail in the case of little, freckle-faced Brain pacemakers eyed to zap psychiatric disease By Kurt Erickson kurt.ericksonlee.net SPRINGFIELD The protests over union bargaining rights in Wisconsin are drawing Illinoisans on both sides of the issue north of the border. From tea party members from Rockford to unionized state workers from Central Illinois, a number of Illinoisans have headed to Madison in recent days to join the battle over Wisconsin Gov.

Scott Walker's effort to end collective bargaining for public employee unions. The Illinois Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, reports it has sent 14 staff members to Wisconsin to help organize members in their fight. Another 20 retired IEA members are helping with phone banks. Similarly, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees' Council 31, which represents the majority of Illinois state government workers, also has a number of staff members on the ground in Madison. addition, AFSCME spokesman Anders Lindall said Monday that rank-and-file union workers from Springfield, Rockford and elsewhere around Illinois have organized carpools to Madison to join in the protests.

"People want to be a part of it "said Lindall. Michael Carrigan, president of the Illinois AFL-CIO, said the union has been concentrating mostly on Chicago's mayoral election in recent days. But, he said two buses of union workers headed across the border Monday. Another busload is scheduled to leave for Madison on Wednesday a day after today's balloting. Like others, Carrigan said some union workers are going to Madison on their own.

"Most are just getting in their cars and SUVs and heading up," Carrigan said Monday. Walker wants to end collective bargaining for state worker unions and limit contract negotiations to salary issues. He also wants public employees to pay a larger share for pensions and health insurance. At least one group associated with the tea party movement from Rockford also went to Madison in support of Walker's efforts. WREX reported about 15 tea partiers were in Madison on Friday.

undergo physical therapy, said Dr. Helen Mayberg of Emory University. "Once your brain is returned to you, now you have to learn to use it," she told the annual meeting this month of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- tend to improve gradually, sometimes to their frustration. And just because the tics of Tourette's fade or depression lightens doesn't mean patients can abandon traditional therapy. They also need help learning to function much as recipients of hip replacements By Lauran Neergaard ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C.

-Call them brain pacemakers, tiny implants that hold promise for fighting tough psychiatric diseases if scientists can figure out just where in all that gray matter to put them. Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, has proved a powerful way to block the tremors of Parkinson's disease. Blocking mental illness isn't nearly as easy a task. But a push is on to expand research into how well these brain stimulators tackle the most severe cases of depression, obses -sive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's syndrome to know best how to use them before too many doc -tors and patients clamor to try. "It's not a light switch," cautions Dr.

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