CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland's Landmarks Commission is recommending that six more Catholic churches be designated as historical city landmarks, which would give them some protection against demolition or structural changes. The Cleveland Catholic Diocese, which has been closing churches in an ongoing downsizing plan, opposes the designations that City Council will now consider adopting through legislation.
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The musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra and their management settled a strike on Tuesday that lasted little longer than a quick scherzo but made clear the tensions raised by difficult economic times across the orchestra world.
Celebrity musician Wyclef Jean denounced charges that he misappropriated funds from his charity, Yele Haiti, and defended the foundation and his commitment to Haiti relief efforts. "Let me be clear: I denounce any allegation that I have ever profited personally through my work with Yele Haiti," Jean said in a statement released Saturday. "These baseless attacks are simply not true."
Reporting from Washington – With hundreds of American firefighters involved in a furtive search-and-rescue operation in Haiti working against the clock, the U.S. government was flying medical teams, food and water into the earthquake-stricken nation for a relief effort of historic proportions.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Earthquakes do not respect social customs. They do not coddle the rich. They know nothing about the invisible lines that in Haiti keep the poor masses packed together in crowded slums and the well-to-do high up in the breezy hills of places like Pétionville.
Looking out the windows of his flight bridge high above the Navy aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson, Rear Adm. Ted Branch watched large black H53 and smaller gray Seahawk helicopters lining up on his deck Friday afternoon.
The city's principal seaport is also thought to be too damaged to accept cargo ships
"We consider this as an estimate" from the Haitian Red Cross, said Jean-Luc Martinage, a spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre promised Monday that taxpayers will make a profit on the $50 billion that Treasury has sunk into the company over the past 13 months. "I think the government's investment is well placed and I think they'll make a lot of money," Whitacre told reporters after an event at the annual auto show here Monday morning. "It won't be too long."
A power outage at their ticket counters forced airlines at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, including Continental, to cancel most of their flights today.