Monday Evening Associated Press News Minute - 11/2/2009

Here is the latest Ohio news from The Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) - A coroner in Cleveland says investigators are focusing on eight or nine missing women as they try to ID the bodies of six women found in the home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell. All six were black and at least five of the victims had been strangled. Sowell was arrested a day after the bodies were found.

CINCINNATI (AP) - Some 80 U.S. cities have streetcars on the ballot tomorrow - among them Cincinnati, where trolleys are a key issue in the mayoral race between Mayor Mark Mallory and challenger Brad Wenstrup. Mallory favors the city's streetcar plan while Wenstrup calls it "ill conceived."

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - A federal report suggests it's unlikely the government will ever fully recover its $80 billion investment in General Motors and Chrysler. For that to happen, the report says both companies' value would need to "grow substantially" beyond past levels.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Ohio Congressman Pat Tiberi and a North Dakota colleague say the nation's pension funds need more time to recover from the market meltdown. They've proposed changing pension fund rules to allow funds as much as 15 years to meet their asset targets.

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