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WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney and allied party committees entered the election homestretch with a $45 million cash advantage over President Obama and the Democratic Party, new campaign reports show.

Romney, the Republican National Committee and a joint fundraising organization out-raised the president's fundraising operation by $21 million during the first 17 days of October and ended the period with $169.1 million available cash in the bank. Obama and Democrats, by contrast, had nearly $124 million in cash reserves as both campaigns move into a frenzy of round-the-clock stumping, non-stop attack ads and get-out-the-vote efforts.

OTTAWA—The work begins when someone gets sick from eating contaminated beef.

Someone visits their doctor or a hospital emergency room suffering from the symptoms of E. coli sickness, which include severe stomach cramps, watery or bloody diarrhea, vomiting and low-grade fever.

That single visit sets in motion a chain of events — a mix of high-tech science and old-fashioned detective work — that leads public health officials to link 16 cases of E. coli sickness from British Columbia to Newfoundland to the XL Foods Inc. slaughterhouse at the centre of the largest recall of meat in Canadian history.

“It is a bit like CSI in a lot of ways,” said Dr. Keith Warriner, director of the food quality assurance program at the University of Guelph.

The hospital laboratory will analyze a stool sample. If it finds E. coli O157:H7, which can be easily separated from the harmless strains of the bacteria in the intestines, it will send it off to the provincial laboratory for further testing.

There, scientists narrow down the strain through process called pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, which separates it into large chunks of DNA.

The resulting fingerprint — called a pulsed-field type — is shared electronically through PulseNet Canada, a national surveillance network that links the computers and databases of provincial and some federal laboratories so they can track the DNA fingerprints of most cases of salmonella poisoning and all cases of E. coli sickness.

Emanuel Steward, one of the most eminent boxing trainers of the modern era, whose stable of fighters included Lennox Lewis, Tommy Hearns, Evander Holyfield and Wladimir Klitschko, died on Thursday in Chicago. He was 68.

His companion, Anita Ruiz, confirmed the death, saying only that Steward had been hospitalized in Chicago for several weeks.

A coal miner’s son from West Virginia, Steward was known in particular for his long association with the Kronk Gym in Detroit. A basement boxing gym in a down-at-the-heels neighborhood, it became famous for the string of marquee names it produced under his supervision.

Steward, who eventually owned the gym, trained more than 30 world champions there and elsewhere, among them Julio César Chávez, a six-time world champion in three different weight classes; Oscar De La Hoya, who won 10 world titles in six classes; the former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks; and, most recently, Klitschko, the reigning heavyweight champion.

Among Steward’s crowning achievements as a trainer were Holyfield’s upset of Riddick Bowe to regain the world heavyweight title in 1993 and Lewis’s eighth-round knockout of Mike Tyson in 2002 for the heavyweight crown.

Steward was also a longtime commentator for HBO Sports.