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The National Park Service announced Friday that it will launch a study to identify places of historical significance to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement at The Stonewall Inn, which was the site of the 1969 riots that helped launch the modern gay rights movement. It is currently the only site in the country designated a national landmark. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/30/obama-administration-launches-250k-study-identify-/#ixzz33FmB3H9X Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter

OLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., March 23 - Here among the ice-cream parlors, candle shops and heaps of antiques, public toilets have emerged as a threat to all that is quaint.To supporters, installing public bathrooms in this North Shore hamlet in the Town of Huntington would be a panacea to Main Street businesses, a necessary amenity to keep shoppers from being lured to shopping malls, where the discounts are deep and the toilets are plentiful.But in the eyes of a vocal group of residents, the toilets are a menace with a mean flush. They say they will clog traffic on Main...