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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A public safety official in Rhode Island says investigators looking into yesterday's circus accident have found that a clamp snapped. It sent eight circus acrobats plummeting to the ground during a performance. The official told a Providence radio station (WPRO) that federal workplace safety investigators are focusing on why it failed. Three of the acrobats remain in critical condition.
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's military appears to be stepping up its efforts to bring eastern and southern Ukraine back under government control. Ukrainian troops today have been fighting gunbattles with a pro-Russia militia occupying the eastern city of Slovyansk (SLAHV'-yansk). The country's interior ministry says four officers have been killed and 30 others wounded in those clashes. And the government has sent an elite national guard unit to re-establish control in the southern port city of Odessa.
NEW YORK (AP) — Target says Chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel (STYN'-hahf-uhl) is out, nearly five months after the retailer disclosed a massive data breach that hurt its reputation. The nation's third-largest retailer says Steinhafel has agreed to step down as the company's chairman, president and CEO, effective immediately. He also has resigned from its board of directors. Target said in December that hackers stole credit and debit card information on tens of millions of customers.
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease. The agency described the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an "extraordinary" situation requiring a coordinated international response. Polio usually strikes children under five and is usually spread through infected water. There is no specific treatment or cure, but several vaccines exist.
GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — About a thousand people are out of their homes in the city of Guthrie, Oklahoma. Firefighters have worked through the night there to battle a large wildfire that destroyed at least six homes. It began when a controlled burn spread out of control.
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