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pressway Co., its government-owned operator, said it had no record of any repairs performed since then, but company official Satoshi Noguchi said an inspection of the tunnel's roof in September found nothing amiss.
• Authorities early Tuesday raided several of the company's offices, including its headquarters in the central city of Nagoya. About a dozen uniformed police were shown on television entering the headquarters, toting cardboard and plastic boxes.
• "Yes they are searching our offices here. We will be fully cooperating with them," said Osamu Funahashi, another company official.
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After Sandy, NYC pins housing hope on repairs; program is novel, but can it be 'rapid'?
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Facing Superstorm Sandy's daunting toll of wreckage and displacement in the nation's largest city, officials have put much of their hopes and hundreds of millions of dollars into jump-starting repairs to make homes livable.
• Federal and city officials see the strategy -- focusing on getting people back into their own homes, not temporary housing -- as an innovative and nimble answer to the challenge of housing thousands of storm victims in a notoriously expensive and crowded area.
• But with relatively few homes fixed so far, questions are emerging about whether the "rapid repairs" initiative can live up to its name.
• More than 10,000 homeowners have signed up for NYC Rapid Repairs in the three weeks since Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the initiative to bring in hundreds of contractors to restore power, heat and other essentials free of charge.
• Contractors have done initial assessments of about 7,000 homes in the city and 2,000 in similar initiatives on Long Island, but just about 400 projects have been completed so far.
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Judge in Fort Hood shooting case ousted, order that suspect be shaved for trial nullified
• FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The military judge who ordered the Fort Hood shooting suspect's beard to be forcibly shaved has been thrown off the case, but the ruling ends lengthy delays in the trial of the Army officer charged with the 2009 rampage that killed 13 people.
• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled Monday that Col. Gregory Gross did not appear impartial while presiding over the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan. (Continued on page 33)
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