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the safest," she said of the school.
• Back in the Midwest, about 100 flights in and out of Chicago's airports were canceled for Wednesday, according to the air traffic tracking website FlightAware.com. Flights into O'Hare International Airport were being delayed an average of about an

hour at one point Wednesday.
• In Missouri, a Kansas City man's neighbors may be part of the reason he's alive after he suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow. The ambulance became stuck Tuesday while rushing to his home, said fire department spokesman James Garrett. While rescue workers ran the rest of the way to treat the man, as many as 20 people helped free the vehicle.
• Elsewhere, authorities said no one was injured after a train collided with a car that was stuck in snow on railroad tracks in Woodward, Okla., where at least 15 inches of snow fell. The motorist tried to drive over the train tracks Wednesday morning but became trapped on the snow-covered road, Oklahoma City television

station KWTV reported.
• Authorities say the driver was able to exit the car safely but couldn't push the vehicle from the tracks before the train smashed into it. The car was totaled in the collision.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Animal Industry Board says some cases of a bovine venereal disease have been confirmed in a Dewey County cattle herd.
• Bovine trichomoniasis (trihk-uh-muh-NY'-uh-sihs) is transmitted between cows and bulls during breeding season. The disease can cause cows to spontaneously abort their calves and become infertile. The Rapid City Journal reports the discovery of the disease could be financially devastating to some cattle ranchers. Up to half of the cows in an infected herd could lose their calves.
• Last year, North Dakota stiffened import rules in hopes of protecting cattle from the disease. An Iowa facility was quarantined after two bulls there tested positive, and more than 200 cases were detected in Missouri.
• The disease typically is spread by infected bulls because the bulls don't show any symptoms.
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