Syracuse police found a body in Onondaga Lake Tuesday morning. According to the Syracuse Post-Standard, the body has been identified by the Onondaga County Medical Examiner as Frank retired Syracuse firefighter Wlosinski, 74.
Wlosinski disappeared from his daughter' Fairmount home on January 2.
Volunteers searched the Camillus area, Wlosinski's old home in Warners and the Syracuse neighborhood around the Sacred Heart Basillica where he attended church. No one searched near the shoreline in Geddes where Wlosinski's body was found.
State police don't know how Wlosinski came to be in the water or why he was in the area, Investigator Gary Darstein said. An autopsy will be performed today.
President Obama is to sign an executive order to ensure existing limits of federal funding of abortions under the new health care overhaul law, CNN reports.
The signing will be attended by Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan and 12 other Democratic House colleagues, whose votes were crucial in passing the overhaul bill, political observers say.
"While the legislation as written maintains current law, the executive order provides additional safeguards to ensure that the status quo is upheld and enforced, and that the health care legislation's restrictions against the public funding of abortions cannot be circumvented," the White House told CNN.
Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan said the order makes very clear that the current law aplies to the new law.
"I have said from the start that my goal was to see health care pass while maintaining the principle of the sanctity of life," he said.
The abortion issue nearly ended the bill until Obama promised the executive order to the anti-abortion Democrats. The lawmakers switched their votes to "yes" to help pass the reform bill 219-212 on Sunday.
Stupak let anti-abortion Democrats in opposition of the Senate bill, because he said it would allow federal funding for abortions beyond the current limits of cases of rape or incest, or danger for the mother. His argument centered on whether the bill would force all taxpayers into paying for abortions by subsidizing insurance policies and funding federal health clinics that might offer abortions by leading up to the vote.
Obama's executive order to be signed today addresses those concerns.
E! Online reports that Kim Kardashian and pro-football boyfriend Reggie Bush have split again. The split comes a month after the pair fought off engagement rumors.
According to the report Kardashian's fame and business schedule are to blame for the split. This is the second split for the couple who reunited last August after a quick breakup.
Kardashian and Bush were hit with heavy engagement rumors after Bush won the Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints.
The couple, who began dating in 2007, mutually decided to part ways and not discuss the split publicly, a source told E! Online.
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