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• OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- San Francisco Bay Area commuters again waited late into the night before federal mediators announced late Tuesday that a planned rail strike would once more be delayed and negotiations would continue.
• Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were scheduled to run Wednesday, averting would likely would have been a crippling morning commute.
• Federal mediator George Cohen said Tuesday night that parties have made some progress in the intense negotiations to avoid a second strike in more than three months.
• BART trains ran on a normal schedule Tuesday as unions and management returned to the bargaining table just hours after marathon negotiations ended around 5:30 a.m. The parties had agreed to extend labor talks past a midnight Monday deadline.
• The BART unions, ATU Local 1555 and Service Employees International Union Local 1021, had said they would go on strike if they didn't reach a contract deal by midnight Monday after extending stalled negotiations from over the weekend.
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• WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) -- It was a cold-hearted online post that a Florida sheriff said hastened the arrest of two girls, aged 12 and 14, in the bullying-suicide case of Rebecca Sedwick.
• Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd repeated the older girl's Facebook comment almost word for word at a news conference Tuesday.
• "'Yes, I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself but I don't give a ...' and you can add the last word yourself," Judd said.
• Authorities in central Florida said Rebecca was tormented online and at school by as many as 15 girls before she climbed a tower at an abandoned concrete plant and hurled herself to her death Sept. 9. But the two girls arrested were primarily the ones who bullied Rebecca, the sheriff said. They have been charged with stalking and released to their parents.
• Rebecca is one of at least a dozen or so suicides in the past three years that

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