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Nation+Worldnewsfeed Coldjob:NicoleBrennanshovelsthesidewalkoutsideherhomeonTuesdayasamas- sive snowstorm hits Winona, Minn. The storm is expected to bring blizzard-like condi- tions through Tuesday night. Whiteout conditions may occur. MIDWEST WINTER CHUCK MILLER — THE ASSOCIATED RPESS ApersoninTexashasbeenin- fected with the Zika virus after hav- ing sex with an ill person who had returned from a country where the disease was present, Dallas County health officials said Tuesday. It's the first case of the virus being transmitted in the U.S. during the current outbreak of Zika, which has been linked to birth defects in the Americas. Dallas County Health and Human Services said it received con- firmation of the case from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention. Health officials did not release any details about the Texas patient, cit- ing privacy issues. In a tweet, Dallas health officials said the first person infected had been to Venezuela, but did not detail when and where that person or the second person was di- agnosed. The CDC says that in this case there's no risk to a developing fetus. The Zika virus is usually spread through mosquito bites. —TheAssociatedPress OUTBREAK Sexually-transmittedZika case confirmed in Texas The top Army and Marine Corps generals told senators Tuesday that it will take up to three years to fully integrate women into all combat jobs, adding that women also should have to register for the draft. The military service leaders re- peatedly vowed that they will not lower standards to bring women into the more grueling jobs. But they warned that inherent physical dif- ferences and different injury rates between men and women will have an impact on how the integration moves ahead. The selective service question re- vealed differences. Army Gen. Mark Milley and Marine Gen. Robert Neller both flatly said that women should be included in the require- ment to register for the selective ser- vice at age 18. But Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Army Acting Secre- tary Patrick Murphy would only say that the issue should be discussed. Political leaders overall have so far been reluctant to endorse it. — The Associated Press PENTAGON Generals say women should have to register for dra The air traffic control system that choreographs the roughly 7,000 air- craft in U.S. skies at any given mo- ment is the most complex, but also one of the safest, in the world — and rarely a thought in the minds of the millions of travelers who rely on it. A Republican House committee chairman is launching a push this week to take away control of that system from the government and hand it to a nonprofit corporation di- rected by the airlines, airports, la- bor unions, business aircraft opera- tors and private pilots, among oth- ers. The idea is already generating turbulence. House Transportation committee chairman Bud Shuster, R-Pa., said last summer when he announced his idea that the U.S. is lagging be- hind other nations in the transition from a radar-based system to one based on satellites. It's questionable whether the present system is capa- ble of sustaining current demands, let alone future growth, he said. — The Associated Press AIRLINE SAFETY Plan to spin off air traffic control generates turbulence The former district attorney who declined a decade ago to bring sex- crime charges against Bill Cosby tes- tified Tuesday that the decision was intended to forever close the door on prosecuting the comedian. Former Montgomery County Dis- trict Attorney Bruce Castor took the stand at a pretrial hearing in a bid by Cosby's lawyers to get the case against the TV star thrown out be- cause of what they say is a non-pros- ecution agreement with Castor. The current district attorney has said there is no record of any such agreement. Cosby, 78, was arrested and charged in December with drugging and violating former Temple Univer- sity athletic department employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. Castor said Tuesday that he be- lieved Constand's story but that proving it would have been problem- atic because of serious flaws in the case. — The Associated Press CELEBRITY UNDER FIRE Former DA says Bill Cosby is shielded from prosecution Seventh-grader Nicole Madi- son Lovell was stabbed to death the same day she climbed out her bed- room window, by a Virginia Tech student who got help from a univer- sity classmate both before and after the crime, authorities said Tuesday. David Eisenhauer, the engineering student accused of kidnapping and killing the 13-year-old girl, told offi- cers who arrested him Saturday that he believes "the truth will set me free," according to a Blacksburg po- lice document. Authorities revealed a few more facts on Tuesday, even as they chased more than 400 tips, trying to reconstruct exactly what happened. Nicole's body was found hid- den off a North Carolina road, two hours south of campus. A prelim- inary report found the cause of death was stabbing, and that she died on Wednesday, the same day her mother discovered she was gone, Commonwealth's Attorney Mary Pettitt said. — The Associated Press VIRGINIA Prosecutor: Girl stabbed to death day she vanished Russia said Tuesday it supports the inclusion of all opposition par- ties in Syrian peace talks, including representatives of two hard-line Is- lamic groups, as President Bashar Assad's troops captured a village north of Syria's largest city with the aid of Russian airstrikes. Syria's official SANA news agency reported the capture of Hardatneen, north of Aleppo, as U.N. envoy Staf- fan de Mistura kicked off what he called a second day of peace talks in Geneva by hosting a government del- egation for the second time since Fri- day. He said he would meet with the main opposition group later in the day. But opposition figures said they had no scheduled meeting with de Mistura on Tuesday, and condemned what one member called the "crazy escalation" by Syrian and Russian forces around Aleppo. "We need the international com- munity to intervene with Russia to stop its indiscriminate bombings," opposition figure Farah Atassi said. — The Associated Press MIDEAST Russia open to hard-liners attending Syria peace talks VOTING STARTS TODAY! Vote for your favorite Tehama County Businesses before Wednesday, February 24. OnlineBallotsOnlyat www.redbluffdailynews.com Five Lucky Voters will be selected at random from all eligible ballots on March 4. 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