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ByJustinJuozapavicius The Associated Press CUSHING, OKLA. Dozensof buildings sustained "sub- stantial damage" after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck an Oklahoma town that's home to one of the world's key oil hubs, but of- ficials said Monday that no damage has been reported at the oil terminal. Cushing City Manager Steve Spears said 40 to 50 buildings were damaged in Sunday's earthquake, which was the third in Oklahoma this year with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater. No major injuries have been reported, and Spears said the damage included cracks to build- ings and fallen bricks and facades. Oklahoma has had thou- sands of earthquakes in re- cent years, with nearly all traced to the underground injection of wastewater left over from oil and gas pro- duction. Sunday's quake was centered1milewestofCush- ingandabout25miles south of where a magnitude 4.3 quake forced a shutdown of severalwellslastweek.Some longtime Cushing residents said Monday they've become accustomed to the unsettled ground beneath their feet. Others shrugged it off as a cost of doing business living next to an oil hub. Fearing aftershocks, po- lice cordoned off older parts of the city about 50 miles northeast of Oklahoma City to keep gawkers away late Sunday, and geologists con- firmed that several small quakes have rumbled the area. Spears said an assisted living community had been evacuated after damage was reported. The Cushing Pub- lic School District canceled Monday classes. The Oklahoma Depart- ment of Transportation re- ported Sunday night that no highway or bridge dam- age was found within a 15- mile radius of the earth- quake's epicenter. The quake struck at 7:44 p.m. Sunday and was felt as far away as Iowa, Illinois and Texas. The U.S. Geo- logical Survey initially said Sunday's quake was of mag- nitude 5.3 but later lowered the reading to 5.0. "I thought my whole trailer was going to tip over, it was shaking it so bad," said Cushing resident Cindy Roe, 50. "It was loud and all the lights went out and you could hear things falling on the ground. "It was awful and I don't want to have another one." In recent years, Okla- homa regulators have asked oil and gas producers to ei- ther close wastewater in- jection wells or cut back on the volume of fluids in- jected. The reductions have generally led to a drop-off in quakes and their sever- ity, though not always. Oklahoma's strongest quake on record, a magni- tude 5.8 temblor on Sept. 3, occurred in Pawnee, on the fringe of an area that had already restricted wastewa- ter disposal. Shortly after- ward, geologists speculated on whether the temblor oc- curred on a previously un- known fault. OKLAHOMA Official:40to50buildings damaged in earthquake JIMBECKEL—THEOKLAHOMAN A television reporter takes video as she walks past a damaged building in Cushing, Okla. caused by Sunday night's 5.0magnitude earthquake Monday. By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO Anesthesia dur- ing early childhood sur- gery poses little risk for intelligence and academics later on, the largest study of its kind suggests. The results were found in research on nearly 200,000 Swedish teens. School grades were only marginally lower in kids who'd had one or more common surgeries with anesthesia before age 4, compared with those who'd had no anesthesia during those early years. Whether the results apply to sicker children who have riskier surger- ies with anesthesia is not known. But the research- ers from Sweden's Karo- linska Institute and doc- tors elsewhere called the new results reassur- ing, given experiments in young animals linking an- esthesia drugs with brain damage. Previous studies of children have been rela- tively small, with conflict- ing results. The new find- ings, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics , don't provide a definitive answer and other research is on- going. The study authors and other doctors say the harms from postponing surgery must be consid- ered when evaluating any potential risks from anes- thesia in young children. The most common pro- cedures in the study were hernia repairs; ear, nose or throat surgeries; and ab- dominal operations. The researchers say the op- erations likely lasted an hour or less. The study did not include children with other serious health prob- lems and those who had more complex or risky op- erations, including brain, heart and cancer surger- ies. The research involved about 33,500 teens who'd had surgery before age 4 and nearly 160,000 who did not. School grades at age 16 were less than half a per- cent lower on average in teens who'd had one child- hood surgery with anes- thesia versus the no-sur- gery group. Average grades were less than 2 percent lower among teens who'd had two or more surgeries with anesthesia. The researchers also looked at IQ tests given to Swedish boys at age 18 upon joining the mili- tary. Scores were about the same for those with one early surgery and the non- surgery group; scores were less than 3 percent lower in boys with three or more early surgeries. The researchers, led by Karolinska's Dr. Pia Glatz, noted that factors other than anesthesia appeared to have a much greater im- pact on academics and in- telligence measures, in- cluding mothers' educa- tion level. A journal editorial says the results mean it is un- likely that early anesthe- sia poses a long-term risk. HEALTH Young brains and anesthesia: Big study suggests minimal risks By Curt Anderson The Associated Press MIAMI Janet Reno, who was the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney gen- eral but also became the epicenter of multiple politi- cal storms during the Clin- ton administration, died early Monday. She was 78. Reno died from compli- cations of Parkinson's dis- ease, her goddaughter Ga- brielle D'Alemberte said, adding that Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded by family and friends. A former Miami prose- cutor who famously told reporters "I don't do spin," Reno served nearly eight years as attorney general under President Bill Clin- ton, the longest stint in a century. Her sister, Maggy Reno Hurchalla, said that Clin- ton called over the weekend said to "tell Janet I love her" and that many others from her career visited or called, including former Flor- ida governor and Sen. Bob Graham. Bill and Hillary Clinton issued a statement praising Reno's tenure and President Barack Obama called her "an American original" in his own state- ment. "When Janet Reno ar- rived in Washington in 1993, the city had never seen anyone like her before — and hasn't since," Obama said. "Her legacy lives on in a generation of lawyers she inspired, the ordinary lives she touched, and a nation that is more just." One of the administra- tion's most recognizable and polarizing figures, Reno faced criticism early on for the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, where sect leader David Koresh and some 80 followers perished. She was known for delib- erating slowly, publicly and in a blunt manner. Reno frequently said "the buck stops with me," borrowing the mantra from President Harry S. Truman. After Waco, Reno figured into some of the Clinton ad- ministration's controver- sies and scandals, includ- ing Whitewater, Filegate, bungling at the FBI labora- tory, Monica Lewinsky, al- leged Chinese nuclear spy- ing and questionable cam- paign financing in the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election. In the spring of 2000, Reno enraged her home- town's Cuban-American community when she au- thorized the armed seizure of5-year-oldElianGonzalez. He was taken from the Little Havana home of his Miami relatives so he could be re- turned to his father in Cuba. During her tenure, the Justice Department prose- cuted the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing case, cap- tured the "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski that same year and investigated the 1993 terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center. OBITUARY Former US AG Jane Reno dies at 78 www.dalescarpetandflooringredbluff.com Come in and see us in our NEW LOCATION at 330 Walnut St. Red Bluff 530-529-4004 Summer is upon us once again! 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