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Feds give $1 mln in aid to repair collapsed bridge
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood on Friday announced that the government is allocating $1 million in federal emergency funds to Washington State to help repair the Interstate 5 bridge. A section of the four-lane interstate bridge, located 60 miles north of Seattle, collapsed into the water Thursday, disrupting travel in both directions. "We are doing ...
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Couple Stabbing Occurs Over ‘American Idol’ Argument
American Idol on May 15 at Stambaugh’s home. They then began arguing over which contestant should win the competition – Candice Glover or Kree Harrison. York police believe one of them then grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the other, prompting the person stabbed to grab the knife and stab back. It is not clear which of the two stabbed the other first. Also not clear is which of ...
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Illinois House votes to allow residents to carry concealed guns
An Evanston police officer holds a firearm that was turned in as part of an amnesty-based gun buyback program in Evanston, Illinois December 15, ...
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Arizona jury foreman says believed Jodi Arias was abused
Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, ...
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Louisiana to push ahead with paying private firms to teach kids
(Reuters) - Louisiana's schools chief vowed on Friday to push ahead with a plan to let students take classes from private firms and nonprofits at taxpayers' expense, despite a legal setback and objections from some ...
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New Yorks Main Beach tops experts list for best in U.S.
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. This may be hard to believe in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, but an annual list of the best beaches in the country has a New York beach ranked No. 1. Less surprisingly, that beach is in East Hampton, the vacation playground for the rich and ...
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America’s Cup wanted to be like NASCAR — too much
America's Cup officials likened their upcoming San Francisco races to NASCAR on the water. And as it turned out, it is more like NASCAR than they might like. Just as the 2001 race-related death ...
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Busted Bay Bridge Bolts Manufacturer Denies Blame
bolts that cracked on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge said the parts supplied to Caltrans met industry specifications when they were delivered. An analysis by some of the industry's leading experts has concluded the anchor rodslater found to be too brittle to provide support during an earthquake were not defective when manufactured, Dyson Corporation CEO Brian Rawson said in ...
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Driver Injured After Truck Careens Into Livermore Yard
LIVERMORE (KPIX 5) – A truck slammed into a Livermore backyard Friday, sending one woman to the hospital. Officers said a woman traveling eastbound on Concannon Boulevard when she pulled over. Witnesses said she suddenly shot of rapidly, crossing all of the lanes of Concannon before going over several embankments and up a canal before coming to rest in a backyard, where the car god lodged ...
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Dayton vetoes Teach for Americas $1.5 million while signing higher-ed bill
Gov. Mark Dayton signed the higher-education funding bill Friday but vetoed $1.5 million in it for Teach for America. The national program that recruits and trains recent college graduates to teach for two years in disadvantaged schools has net assets of more than $350 million, Dayton wrote, so it's unclear why they need the money. Also, the organization was selected to receive the money ...
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If youre American you should know these things about Memorial Day
Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment place American flags at the graves of U.S. soldiers buried in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day last year. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)Here's what every American should know about Memorial Day.What is Memorial Day all about? It's about honoring fallen soldiers; those who lost their lives in service to our ...
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Bridge UJA-Federation of New Yorks Womens Philanthropy Bridge
The 50th UJA-Federation of New ...
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Feds look for temporary fix after I-5 collapse
(AP Photo/Everett Daily Herald, Jon Bauer). Rescue workers look for victims after a portion of the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed into the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday, May 23, ...
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People’s Daily Begins a ‘Dishonest Americans Series’
A screenshot from People's Daily Online showing a photograph of what was claimed to be the ripped ticket of Mr. Liu, a Chinese man who encountered rough treatment by United Airlines staff. People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's direct mouthpiece, has a series on "dishonest Americans," which a scholar of propaganda says is an attempt to make American democratic ...
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Budget cuts mean unpaid day off for many in govt
FILE - This March 22, 2013 file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. No one answered the phone at the IRS hotline for tax help. Forget about advice on avoiding foreclosures at one of the Housing and Urban Development offices nationwide. Roughly five percent of the federal workforce _ 115,000 people at six government agencies _ got an unpaid day off on ...
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Students safe after armed man reported at school
THORNTON, Colo. -; All students at a Denver-area high school are safe after a report that a man with a rifle was seen near campus, police said ...
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DA Victims shot after drugs handed over
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -; Prosecutors say a Tennessee pharmacy owner killed during a robbery had handed over several bottles of oxycodone before he was shot to ...
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LA sanitation ends plans for dump near Joshua Tree
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles County's sanitation districts are no longer pursuing plans to build a 4,000-acre landfill near Joshua Tree National Park on former mine ...
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Arellano Felix drug cartel leader pleads guilty
FILE - This image provided by Mexico's Federal Public Safety Department, SSP, shows wanted drug-kingpin Eduardo Arellano Felix, leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, who is expected to plead guilty to federal charges Friday, May 24, 2013. Felix was extradited from Mexico to the United States last September on drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering charges. He ...
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American Missionary Mysteriously Disappears in Africa
American missionary Jerry Krause has been missing for nearly two months. The 54-yr-old missionary pilot disappeared April 7 while flying his turboprop aircraft from South Africa to Mali. Jerry's wife, Gina Krause, served with her husband as a missionary to Africa for more than 25 years. Jerry worked with Mission Aviation Fellowship until the ministry left Mali back in 2009. They remained in ...
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Will Scouts suffer membership hit after lifting ban
NBC News' Miranda Leitsinger and radio talk show host Michael Smerconish discuss a decision by the Boy Scouts of America to lift a ban on openly-gay ...
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New York sees more mortgage violations report
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that banks have violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses, according ...
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State Department official who pushed to change Benghazi storyline up for promotion
The State Department official who played a key role in massaging the Obama administration's storyline on the Benghazi attack has been put up for a promotion -- a move that could trigger a heated confirmation battle on the Hill. Victoria Nuland was nominated Thursday by President Obama for the position of assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs at the State ...
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Weiner vs. Quinn New York Citys TMI Primary
Reuters New Yorkers -- they all have such interesting lives. This year, some of those lives are going to be on extraordinarily display in the political arena. Between newly announced mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's extra-marital sexting and the impending June 11 release of City Council Speaker Christine ...
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Real Housewives Salary Dispute LuAnn de Lesseps Is New Yorks Lone Holdout
that de Lesseps still refuses to sign a deal that would have her return to the reality series -- though, with production already underway, that offer is said to be for a diminished role than the one originally on the ...
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Idaho looks to eco-business for eventual recovery
Colorado has been leading the country in developing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly ‘green economy’ using $1 billion in federal grants over the last ten years or so, the efforts have paid off and now it seems that Idaho’s leadership may be looking to do something similar.
Using a $1.25 million federal grant the state of Idaho is investigating the extent of our green economy. Officials from the Idaho Department of Labor are in the process of interviewing around 5000 large and small employers and asking them, basically, how many ‘green’ jobs they’re currently got and what their growth potential is for the coming years. Read more
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