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CORONADO -- The city of Coronado has started cutting down eucalyptus trees that have been rooted in one neighborhood for more than 100 years, prompting one man to plant himself among the branches.

"Let's have the dialogue," said Dan'l Steward from his perch about 15 feet above the ground. "I'm trying to create another window."

City crews began trimming back or removing all the eucalyptus trees on E Avenue Monday, after a resident complained the aging trees were a safety concern.

"A giant limb from one of these trees fell when my wife was coming back from a run, and it almost killed her," Mike Chase said of the 2013 incident.

The city dispatched an arborist to the neighborhood who agreed -- the trees are a liability concern.

Another E Avenue resident, Scott Wertz, says if the old eucalyptus have to go, he wants to see them replaced with other eucalyptus.

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Lincoln Elementary School is cleaning up after two of its classrooms sustained water damage Sunday afternoon.

Principal Theresa Smith said a sprinkler head broke off the schools fire sprinkler system, spewing water all over Pam McGhees second-grade classroom.

We did have quite a bit of water damage. The fire department came and was able to shut that off, Smith said.

The water caused damage to reading books, text books and other classroom materials before spilling into the hallway and flooding the music room across the hall.

Some water also seeped into the Title I classroom.

The music teacher is going from room to room to teach music today, Smith said Monday.

The second grade class spent the day in the library.

The school hired Premier Carpet Care of Beatrice to help remedy the problem. The company sucked more than 250 gallons of water from the classrooms and brought in dehumidifiers to dry out the carpet and walls on Monday.

Smith said a teacher was working in the building when the sprinkler head broke. The fire alarm went off, and the teacher called the fire department and the principal.

Because the problem was noticed right away, Smith said the damage was not as bad as it could have been, although many books and classroom materials had to be thrown away.

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WASHINGTON -- Investigators found more than 800 rounds of ammunition in the car of the man accused of scaling the White House fence and sprinting inside the building, a federal prosecutor said Monday. A machete and two hatchets also were found.

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The accused intruder, former soldier Omar J. Gonzalez, had been arrested earlier in the summer in Virginia with a carful of weapons, authorities said, and the federal prosecutor said Monday in court that Gonzalez had had a map with the White House and the Masonic Temple in Alexandria circled.

CBS News' Paula Reid reports that Gonzalez entered the courtroom in an orange jumpsuit and was unrestrained, but escorted by two guards.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Mudd declared that Gonzalez was a "danger to the president." Gonzalez, who was carrying a knife, was arrested just inside the White House front door.

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President Barack Obama and his family had left the White House for Camp David Friday evening when the incident occurred. Obama's spokesman said Monday that the president was "obviously concerned" about what happened.

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The pop diva put aside her wacky image to sing sweet harmonies with Tony Bennett, the elder statesman of cool.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, bridging a 60-year age gap to form one of musics unlikeliest pairs, launched a jazz album on Monday that lets the pop diva put aside her wacky image to sing sweet harmonies with the elder statesman of cool.

Cheek to Cheek, on sale on Tuesday after a launch concert in the ornate Renaissance setting of the Grand-Place in Brussels, features jazz standards by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and others a distant world away from Lady Gagas 21st century.

When I began writing music for the music industry, I became known as the quirky girl from downtown New York, she told a news conference at the 15th-century city hall.

So I tailored my music to be that way, to get noticed, to be able to travel more and play more shows, said the 28-year-old artist known to many as much for startling costumes like a robe made of meat as for her innovative music and stage shows.

But swathed in blue velvet with a 2-metre (6-foot) train, Lady Gaga this week was more 1950s Hollywood star than queen of MTV in 2014 although still easily young enough to be Bennetts grand-daughter.

I feel liberated, she said, holding the hand of her fellow Italian-American New Yorker and musing on the challenges of old-style jazz. Its been over eight years and Ive not been singing out. But Tony will not accept any less than all of me.

The two first met in 2011 at a charity concert in New York and a short time afterwards, recorded a version of The Lady is a Tramp for Bennetts album Duets II.

I was overjoyed that he had heard that Id been singing jazz for so long, perhaps I was even afraid that I had lost that part of me, Lady Gaga said.

Bennett, who shot to fame with Because of You in 1951, said he enjoyed the simplicity of a jazz setting.

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Take a look through our gallery at some of the strangest, most inventive and most comfortable sheds in the North East.

In national shed week we discovered highly decorated bars, cosy lounges and a converted digger shed .. and you can still send us photos of your own amazing sheds.

It all goes to show thatyou should expect more than a lawnmower behind that unassuming wooden door. Or maybe it's not unassuming at all! Apart from that digger... the winner of the last Shed of the Year title created his haven from an upturned boat.

Many pictures in our gallery come from the website readersheds.co.uk which includes creations from throughout the United Kingdom and far beyond.

The 2014 Shed of the Year was selected by Sunderland-born TV architect George Clarke and a panel of judges for a Channel 4 programme.

The judges included the founder of readersheds, Andrew Wilcox, who said: "National shed week is a time to celebrate your garden shed, be inspired and get creative."

The competition is sponsored by Cuprinol who have come up with the Shed'onomic report:

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If you have an outstanding shed you think should be in our gallery then please email photographs to us at community@ncjmedia.co.uk with your name and the area you live in.

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With the 2016 presidential election just two years away, and presumptive candidates locked in a continuous will-they, won't-they dance with the media, campaign fodder is slowly beginning to trickle out.

For Hillary Clinton, that means returning to a perennial favorite, particularly with right-wing media: her college thesis on left-wing activist Saul Alinsky and her 1971 stint as a law clerk for the radical law firm Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, based in Oakland, Calif.

A correspondence between the former Secretary of State, when she was still Hillary Rodham, and Mr. Alinsky, obtained by the conservative-leaning Washington Free Beacon, sheds further light on her politics at the time.

Though the letters, of course, are not new; they come from the archives of the Industrial Areas Foundation. They show a young Hillary Rodham, living in Berkeley for the summer during her time as a student at Yale Law School, communicating with the famed activist in a casual, friendly manner. She asks about his forthcoming book, "Rules for Radicals." She suggests they should meet the next time he's in California. She closes the letter by writing, "I hope you are still well and fighting ... Hopefully we can have a good argument sometime in the future."

Alinsky, active in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, worked mainly to improve the lives of the poor in communities across the US.

While he has become associated with radical left-wing politics in current political thought, it's an association that's largely misplaced, says Mark Santow, associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and the author of a forthcoming book on Alinsky.

Professor Santow says Alinsky's philosophy did not have a political persuasion. Rather, he was "relentlessly non-ideological." In fact, Santow says parts of Alinsky's thinking could be found in elements of today's Democrat and Republican Parties.

"He basically believed that American society was increasingly dominated by large institutions, governments, corporations," he says. "He thought that ordinary Americans had lost citizenship."

He adds: "He bears some resemblance to libertarians like William Buckley ... but he also bears resemblance togreen, new left politics on the other side as well."

Since leaving law school, Clinton, who was raised a Goldwater Republican and interned with Rep. Gerald R. Ford during college before switching to the Democratic Party, has led a political life characterized mainly by pragmatism. Unlike Alinsky, she elected not to go into community organizing, believing change was best achieved from within the political system, not outside of it, Santow notes.

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After a huge toxic-algae bloom in the western part of Lake Erie contaminated Toledos public water supply this summer, environmentalists, politicians and scientists scrambled.

Summits were held. Money was allocated for research and infrastructure improvements. Bills were introduced.

But state lawmakers and agency directors have been reluctant to pass regulations that would limit farm runoff, one of the major contributors to phosphorus and nitrogen in watersheds. Both chemicals help create algae blooms in lakes worldwide.

In fact, little has been done to limit farm runoff despite years of blooms that have affected as many as 19 lakes in Ohio since 2010. Erie has endured even larger blooms than the one that forced Toledo officials to tell 500,000 residents to keep their taps closed for two days.

And despite calls from various groups, the state wont declare the Maumee River in distress, a designation that would allow tougher restrictions on farm fertilizers. That has some groups wondering about the agriculture industrys influence at the Statehouse.

The agriculture industry, including fertilizer manufacturers, has given nearly $3.1 million to political candidates, parties and ballot issues in Ohio since 2010, according to the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization Follow the Money, which tracks campaign contributions and industry influence.

Of that $3.1 million, the Ohio Farm Bureau and the bureaus Agriculture for Good Government political-action committee contributed about $766,000 about one-quarter of the total agriculture contributions.

Environmental groups, by comparison, donated less than $112,000 over that same time period.

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Diane Mays cant wait for the lines to be laid that will bring drinking water to her Mifflin Township home for the first time in 20 years. Shes worried, though, about something else that will flow to her home the highest water rate in the county.

Franklin County system users pay 84 percent more than Columbus residents pay for water, according to the county sanitary engineer department. Like most Columbus suburbs, the county buys its water from the city.

This is a very, very low-income community, Mays said of her Leonard Park neighborhood. She already has a lien of at least $8,000 on her $100,000 market-value home for the sanitary sewer line the county installed about three years ago.

Still, the waterlines would mean that her son, Matt Bowen, would no longer have to make three trips a day to fill a 330-gallon tank in a pickup truck at a faucet outside the township hall to top off the leaky 1,025-gallon water tank at her house. Mays well has never pumped clean water. It ran dry about five years ago.

And I raised five kids in that home, Mays said, standing outside the ranch home on Missouri Avenue.

The township water has always been free, township Service Director D.J. Tharp said.

On the other side of Columbus in Franklin Township, residents of the Mon-E-Bak Farms neighborhood have water in their wells but cant drink it because its contaminated with their own sewage.

Leonard Park, squeezed into a corner of I-670 and Stelzer Road, and Mon-E-Bak, nestled in the crook of I-70 and Wilson Road, top a list of 20 unincorporated urban pockets slated to get waterlines. Work begins next month in Leonard Park; Mon-E-Bak must wait until 2016.

The average quarterly water and sewer bill for a Columbus family of three is about $184. For a resident of Dublin, where the median household income is $144,000, its $225. In Mon-E-Bak, where the average income is $18,000, and other areas served by the county, the bill will be around $332.

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