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the fire department operations have been reduced to a fire watch at this time.
• Federal investigators will spend the coming days piecing together what caused the train to collide with a trash truck Tuesday afternoon.
• Authorities say some of the derailed cars -- at least one carrying hazardous materials -- caught fire and an explosion rattled homes at least a half-mile away.
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Mother of baby trapped in sewer raised alarm but kept quiet about her identity during rescue
• BEIJING (AP) -- The mother of the Chinese newborn trapped in a sewer pipe in a stunning ordeal caught on video had raised the initial alarm and was present for the entire two-hour rescue but did not admit giving birth until confronted by police, reports said Wednesday.
• The state-run, Hangzhou-based newspaper Dushikuaibao said police became suspicious when they found baby toys and blood-stained toilet paper in the 22-year-old woman's rented room, in the building where Saturday's rescue occurred in eastern China.
• The woman, whose name was not revealed in state media reports, confessed to police when they asked her to undergo a medical checkup.
• The woman told police she could not afford an abortion and secretly delivered the child Saturday afternoon in the toilet. She said she tried to catch the baby but he slipped into the sewer line and that she alerted her landlord of the trapped baby after she could not pull the child out, the state-run, Jinhua-based Zhezhong News said.
• Video of the rescue of Baby No. 59 -- so named because of his incubator number in the hospital -- was shown on Chinese news programs and websites starting late Monday and picked up worldwide, prompting both horror and an outpouring of charity on behalf of the newborn. The mother's reported confession raises questions about whether she intended to abandon the baby, while suggesting that she was desperate and did not know what to do.
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Federal prosecutors in NY: Costa Rica money transfer company a hub for 'fraudsters, hackers'
• NEW YORK (AP) -- When an undercover agent posing as a new client sought to register at the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve as "Joe Bogus" from "123 Fake Main Street" in "Completely Made Up City," no one at the company based in Costa (Continued on page 25)
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