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XENIA, Ohio — A semitrailer carrying 2,200 piglets has overturned on an Ohio highway.
Numerous agencies and volunteers worked to corral the animals after the crash Monday night on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia Township, near Dayton. Crews picked up the squealing pigs by their hind legs. They were taken to Greene County Fairgrounds.
Authorities say 300 to 400 pigs were killed. They say some of the animals ran into a nearby wooded area.
Authorities say the driver of the semitrailer lost control and slammed into a guardrail. He was not injured.
DANNEMORA, N.Y. — As investigators seek accomplices who may have helped two convicted murderers escape a maximum-security prison, many other questions remain about the brash, elaborate breakout.How could nobody hear prisoners slicing through a steel wall, breaking through brick and cutting their way in and out of a steam pipe — or why did those who heard stay silent? How did the inmates hide the hole, the dirt and dust from work that likely took days to accomplish? Did they have access to blueprints or other inside information to chart their path through the bowels of the prison?And as a manhunt for the prisoners stretches into a fourth day, there is a deepening unknown: “what the rest of the plan was,” says Rick Mathews, the director of the University at Albany's National Center for Security and Preparedness.As investigators questioned prison workers and outside contractors Monday to try to find out who may have supplied power tools used in the “Shawshank Redemption”-style escape, law officers questioned drivers and searched trunks at checkpoints near the Clinton Correctional Facility in far northern New York. But authorities said David Sweat and Richard Matt could be anywhere — perhaps Canada or Mexico.By The Associated Press
