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• As the storm closed in, the federal government said its offices in the Washington, D.C., area would be closed Wednesday.
• The storm had brought around 10 inches of snow to weather-hardened Chicago by late Tuesday, when snow was also starting to come down in parts of Virginia. Schools were closed in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, and more than 1,100 flights were cancelled at Chicago's two major airports, prompting delays and closures at others.
• Airlines along the storm's projected path were already cutting flights too, including hundreds more Wednesday, most of them at Dulles and Reagan National airports in the Washington area, according to FlightAware.com.
• While there were no initial reports of major accidents in the Chicago area, a semi-trailer slid off a snow-covered interstate in western Wisconsin, killing one person. The search for a second person, believed to be a passenger, was suspended overnight.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Two City Hall veterans took command in the contest to replace outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, setting up a likely runoff to determine who will lead a city troubled by double-digit unemployment and a looming budget gap.
• "The creativity and the genius that is Los Angeles, we will bring back. And that's what I'm going to do as the next mayor of Los Angeles," city Councilman Eric Garcetti promised Tuesday night as he led the field with 34 percent of the vote.
• With mail-in ballots and about 40 percent of precincts reporting, no candidate was in position to clear the majority needed to win outright. The top two finishers will go to a May 21 runoff, and Garcetti, 42, was followed closely by city Controller Wendy Greuel, 51, another Democrat who notched 29 percent of the vote.
• Democratic Councilwoman Jan Perry was parked in third place, with 17 percent.
• The election capped a lackluster primary campaign that was snubbed by most of the city's 1.8 million voters. Turnout was scant.
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