Larry Salci, the former president and CEO of Metro, has landed in a new position. On Monday, Salci was named president and CEO of Colorado Railcar Manufacturing in Ft. Lupton, CO, near Denver. Colorado Railcar is the only U.S. designer and manufacturer of passenger rail cars. Salci left Metro last December, after the completion of MetroLink's Cross County Extension and the loss of a controversial, multimillion-dollar lawsuit against some of the contractors involved in the project's construction.

Three recent polls give Sen. Hillary Clinton a small but persisitent advantage in Pennsylvania - and undecideds may tend to favor her as well. But Sen. Barack Obama appears to have escaped damage from his recent controversial remarks.

A decision in a case out of Kentucky could mean that executions will start again in Missouri.

In a Louisiana case, Gov. Matt Blunt submitted a brief, noting the case of Michael Devlin. The arguments presented before the court challenged the death penalty for a man convicted of raping his step-daughter.

Scientists using federal grants spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards in poor, black neighborhoods of East St. Louis and Baltimore to test whether it might protect children from lead poisoning in the soil. Families were told that without the sewage-based fertiizer, their lawns posed a danger of lead poisoning to their children; if children ate the treated soil, they would not face the same risk of lead poisoning. No one knows for sure, though, whether the sludge is safe.

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