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August 10, 2005

Closing railroad crossings

Union Pacific is joining a chorus to push for closure of private railroad crossings. Last week's accident in Ventura County between an Amtrak train and a dump truck happened at one of those crossings. Union Pacific is pushing to close at least one of the county's 13 privately owned crossing and would like them all shut down. Staff writer Angie Martinez (amartinez@VenturaCountyStar.com) will have that story tomorrow on Page One.

We're going back to the Fair tomorrow for another Page One story. Staff writer Kevin Clerici (kclerici@VenturaCountyStar.com) is trying to figure out how to do the fair for cheap. He'll give you what he learned tomorrow.

Off the wire, we're looking to follow on the situations in Iran and Iraq.

And then there's the story of the artist who finally returned to Livermore, Calif., to fix the misspellings on the mosaic she created outside the town's public library. The city had to pay her an extra $6,000 to correctly spell the historical names she included in the mural ... names like Einstein and Shakespeare. But you won't see any pictures of her. She threated to throw a rock at a photographer who approached her and said she'd sue if they published her picture.


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