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12 / Thursday, December 12, 2013 YOUR WORLD The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEES
Train collides with
vehicle in Virginia
WAVERLY, Va. (AP) — An
Amtrak train on its way to
Boston struck a vehicle in rural
Virginia that police said
attempted to drive around a
crossing bar, destroying the car
and injuring the driver.
Amtrak said the train did not
derail and none of its 46 passengers
was injured in the
crash, which occurred around 6
a.m. today in Waverly, a community
about 50 miles southeast
of Richmond.
Virginia State Police Sgt.
Michelle Anaya said the driver
of the vehicle, Untron Drew,
was taken by med-flight to
Richmond with injuries she
said weren’t life threatening.
Sentence teen’s
fatal DWI stirs ire
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)
— A North Texas teen from an
affluent family was sentenced
to probation this week after he
killed four pedestrians when he
lost control of his speeding
pickup truck while driving
drunk, a punishment that outraged
the victims’ families and
left prosecutors disappointed.
The 16-year-old boy was sentenced
Tuesday in a Fort Worth
juvenile court to 10 years of
probation after he confessed to
intoxication manslaughter in
the June 15 crash on a dark
rural road.
Prosecutors had sought the
maximum 20 years in state
custody for the Keller teen, but
his attorneys appealed to state
District Judge Jean Boyd that
the teenager needed rehabilitation
not prison.
Health coverage
disparities emerge
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)
— The slow rollout of a new
federal health insurance marketplace
may be deepening differences
in health coverage
among Americans, with residents
in some states gaining
insurance at a far greater rate
than others.
The demarcation may be as
simple as Democrat and
Republican.
Newly released federal figures
show more people are
picking private insurance plans
or being routed to Medicaid
programs in states with
Democratic leaders who have
fully embraced the federal
health care law than in states
where Republican elected officials
have derisively rejected
what they call “Obamacare.”
On one side of the political
divide are a dozen mostly
Democratic leaning states,
including California, Minnesota
and New York. They have both
expanded Medicaid for lowerincome
adults and started their
own health insurance
exchanges for people to shop
for federally subsidized private
insurance.
On the other side are two
dozen conservative states,
such as Texas, Florida and
Missouri. They have both
rejected the Medicaid expansion
and refused any role in
running an online insurance
exchange, leaving that entirely
to the federal government.
Union embraces
Ukraine protesters
BRUSSELS (AP) — Two
weeks ago, the European
Union’s foreign policy chief was
at a summit in Lithuania, wooing
Ukraine’s president with
offers of preferential dealings
with the world’s largest trade
bloc. This week, she stood in
Kiev’s Independence Square
with protesters bent on ousting
the same man.
The EU is seeking to bounce
back after Ukraine rejected a
deal with Europe in favor of a
rival alliance with Russia. What
had been a policy of courting
President Viktor Yanukovych
has become a more nuanced
campaign to work both sides of
the escalating dispute.
6-year-old in hot
water over a kiss
CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) —
Officials at a Colorado school
where a 6-year-old boy was
suspended for kissing a girl
have dropped the term “sexual
harassment” from the boy’s
record, instead calling the
behavior misconduct.
The change was made after
the boy’s parents and the principal
met to discuss the issue.
The girl’s mother, Jade
Masters-Ownbey, told the
Canon City Daily Record on
Wednesday that the school district
did a great job protecting
her daughter from repeated
harassment from the boy.
First-grader Hunter Yelton
was given a two-day suspension,
with a sexual harassment
infraction on his discipline
record. The boy’s mother,
Jennifer Saunders, insists the
punishment was too harsh.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Nominees for the 71st annual
Golden Globe Awards, announced this morning in Beverly Hills,
Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:
MOTION PICTURES
• Picture, Drama: “12 Years a Slave,” “Captain Phillips,”
“Gravity,” “Philomena,” “Rush.”
• Picture, Musical or Comedy: “American Hustle,” “Her,”
“Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Nebraska,” “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
• Actor, Drama: Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”; Idris Elba,
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”; Tom Hanks, “Captain Phillips”;
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”; Robert Redford,
“All Is Lost.”
• Actress, Drama: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”; Sandra
Bullock, “Gravity”; Judi Dench, “Philomena”; Emma Thompson,
“Saving Mr. Banks”; Kate Winslet, “Labor Day.”
• Director: Alfonso Curon, “Gravity”; Paul Greengrass, “Captain
Phillips”; Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”; Alexander Payne,
“Nebraska”; David O. Russell, “American Hustle.”
• Actor, Musical or Comedy: Christian Bale, “American
Hustle”; Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”; Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf
of Wall Street”; Joaquin Phoenix, “Her.”
• Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, “American
Hustle”; Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight”; Greta Gerwig, “Frances
Ha”; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Enough Said”; Meryl Streep, “August:
Osage County.”
• Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”; Daniel
Bruhl, “Rush”; Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”; Michael
Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”; Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers
Club.”
• Supporting Actress: Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”; Jennifer
Lawrence, “American Hustle”; Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”;
Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”; June Squibb, “Nebraska.”
• Animated Film: “The Croods,” “Despicable Me 2,” “Frozen.”
• Screenplay: Spike Jonze, “Her”; Bob Nelson, “Nebraska”; Jeff
Pope and Steve Coogan, “Philomena”; John Ridley, “12 Years a
Slave”; Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, “American
Hustle.”
• Original Score: Alex Ebert, “All Is Lost”; Alex Heffes,
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”; Steven Price, “Gravity”; John
Williams, “The Book Thief”; Hans Zimmer, “12 Years a Slave.”
• Original Song: “Atlas” (music and lyrics by Chris Martin, Guy
Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion), “The Hunger
Games: Catching Fire”; “Let it Go” (music and lyrics by Kristen
Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez), “Frozen”; “Ordinary Love”
(music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. and
Brian Burton, lyrics by Bono), “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”;
“Please Mr. Kennedy” (music and lyrics by Ed Rush, George
Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen and Ethan
Coen), “Inside Llewyn Davis”; “Sweeter Than Fiction” (music and
lyrics by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff), “One Chance.”
Today's Forecast
Forecast for Thursday, Dec. 12
Toronto
25° | 18°
Partly
Cloudy
Rochester
22° | 17°
Buffalo
22° | 15°
Cloudy
PA.
Showers
CANADA
Watertown
21° | 9°
Syracuse
22° | 16°
Binghamton
20° | 13°
Thunderstorms
Mohawk Valley forecast
VT.
Lake Placid
12° | 1°
Albany
22° | 16°
MASS.
Montauk
29° | 28°
New York
27° | 26°
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Rain
Flurries
City/Region
High | Low temps
Snow
N.H.
Ice
Weather Underground • AP
Tonight: Aslight chance of snow showers. Mostly
cloudy, with a low around 18. Southwest wind 9 to 16
mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation
is 20 percent.
Friday: Aslight chance of snow showers before 4 p.m.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 24. Northwest wind 15
to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of
precipitation is 20 percent.
Friday night: A slight chance of light snow after midnight.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 9. Northwest
wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable. Chance
of precipitation is 20 percent.
Saturday: Snow. High near 20. East wind 5 to 8 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 80 percent.
Saturday Night: Snow. Low around 13. Chance of
precipitation is 80 percent.
Sunday: Snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 24.
Chance of precipitation is 70 percent.
Sunday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 9.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 25.
Moon
phases
First
Jan. 8
Full
Dec. 17
Last
Dec. 25
New
Jan. 1
Hi Lo Prc Otlk
Albany 31 15 .04 Cldy
Anchorage 25 15 Clr
Atlanta 55 33 Clr
Atlantic City 36 17 PCldy
Austin 57 31 Cldy
Baltimore 38 22 PCldy
Boston 32 22 Clr
Buffalo 26 12 Snow
Burlington,Vt. 29 08 .01 PCldy
Cheyenne 36 28 Clr
Chicago 20 03B .01 Cldy
Cincinnati 34 07 PCldy
Cleveland 26 10 .17 Cldy
Denver 37 15 Clr
Detroit 24 05 Cldy
Fargo B01 05B .02 Cldy
Honolulu 82 74 .01 PCldy
Houston 53 37 Cldy
Indianapolis 30 02 Clr
Jackson,Miss. 57 31 Clr
Jacksonville 66 47 Clr
Juneau 35 27 1.03 Snow
Kansas City 25 07 Clr
Key West 81 74 .01 Cldy
Las Vegas 53 35 PCldy
Little Rock 47 25 Clr
Los Angeles 73 51 Clr
Louisville 38 12 Clr
Lubbock 43 21 Cldy
Memphis 46 24 Clr
Miami Beach 84 72 .04 Cldy
Milwaukee 17 02B Cldy
Mpls-St Paul 01 04B Cldy
Nashville 48 18 Clr
New Orleans 52 45 Clr
New York City 33 24 PCldy
Norfolk,Va. 47 29 Clr
Oklahoma City 42 16 Clr
Omaha 12 06 Clr
Orlando 84 60 PCldy
Philadelphia 35 23 PCldy
Phoenix 72 55 Cldy
Pittsburgh 30 10 Cldy
Portland,Maine 30 10 .01 Clr
Portland,Ore. 41 25 Rain
Across the nation
Temperatures indicate yesterday’s high and overnight low to 8 p.m.
National forecast
Forecast highs for Thursday, Dec. 12
Wintry Mix In The Northwest
Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy
Fronts
Pressure
Cold Warm Stationary Low High
-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s
Showers
Rain
T-storms
Flurries
Snow
Lake-effect snow showers will be expected over the Great Lakes.
High pressure will produce sunshine and cool temperatures over
the central Plains to the Southeast and mid-Atlantic region. A
storm system in the Pacific Northwest will produce rain and snow.
Weather Underground • AP
Hi Lo Prc Otlk Hi Lo Prc Otlk
Providence 31 21 PCldy Santa Fe 32 16 PCldy
Richmond 46 29 Clr Seattle 46 34 Rain
Sacramento 56 29 Clr Shreveport 51 32 PCldy
St Louis 34 11 Clr Spokane 32 22 Cldy
St Petersburg 81 64 Cldy Syracuse 28 08 .08 Snow
Salt Lake City 26 05 Clr Tampa 81 62 Cldy
San Antonio 64 40 Cldy Topeka 26 11 Clr
San Diego 70 51 Clr Tucson 74 55 Cldy
San Francisco 57 39 Clr Tulsa 37 15 Clr
San Juan,P.R. 85 77 .01 PCldy Washington 43 29 PCldy
Ice