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submitted by Adam for team Batboy's revenge! 49 weeks 6 days 4 hours 37 minutes ago
We all know that some airlines nickel-and-dime you with fees -- fees for baggage, fees for food, fees for blankets and pillows. But fees for death?
Monrovia resident Jane Wilkens, 48, was looking forward to a getaway to Hawaii's Big Island this coming April with her 77-year-old...(more)
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submitted by Adam 19 weeks 3 days 5 hours 58 minutes ago
California's jobless rate crept ahead Friday as experts saw weakness spreading into new areas of the economy.
For months, job losses were concentrated in the state's housing industry. But with June's increase of one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.9%, it was evident that a broader downturn...(more)
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submitted by Adam 19 weeks 6 days 7 hours 39 minutes ago
A man found slain in his Long Beach home over the weekend was identified Tuesday as a popular English professor at UC Riverside who specialized in African American studies, officials said.
Lindon Barrett, 46, was found dead in his home Sunday after neighbors reported a foul odor...(more)
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submitted by Adam for team Iraq news 41 weeks 5 days 6 hours 2 minutes ago
AP - As of Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008, at least 3,960 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,224 died as a...(more)
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submitted by Adam 1 week 4 days 7 hours 54 minutes ago
Vanishing Arctic sea ice brought on by climate change is causing the crucially important microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton to bloom explosively and die away as never before, a phenomenon that is likely to create havoc among migratory creatures that rely on the ocean for food,...(more)
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submitted by Adam 19 weeks 6 days 7 hours 48 minutes ago
An E. coli outbreak traced to recalled beef in Michigan and Ohio has spawned cases in three other states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
New York, Kentucky and Indiana each have one lab-confirmed case of a bacterial infection that matches the 41 previously reported cases, according to...(more)
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submitted by Adam 20 weeks 6 days 9 hours 5 minutes ago
About 450 state and local police officers swept through Compton, Lynwood and other parts of Los Angeles County early Tuesday, arresting 16 people and serving more than a dozen search warrants in an operation aimed at dismantling a violent clique of the Bloods gang.
The raids were...(more)
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submitted by Adam 19 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago
Two Orange County residents are sick with West Nile virus, the first illnesses known to have been caused by the virus in Southern California this year, health officials said Friday. Two other residents also have been infected by the virus but have not shown symptoms.
An 80-year-old...(more)
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submitted by Adam 19 weeks 6 days 7 hours 46 minutes ago
Nothing like a disgraceful bit of provincialism to ruin a grand evening.
This should have been a glorious farewell to Yankee Stadium, to the ballpark Commissioner Bud Selig calls "the most famous sports cathedral in the world." This should have been a night to celebrate greats past...(more)
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submitted by Adam for team Batboy's revenge! 19 weeks 6 days 7 hours 37 minutes ago
Lakers guard, who is Jewish, will travel to Israel in August to run basketball camps for Israeli and Palestinian children, with the goal of giving them a lasting foundation of friendship and goodwill.
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submitted by Adam for team Outdoor news 16 weeks 3 days 6 hours 50 minutes ago
One inevitable measure of a mountain is simply how often climbers escape with their lives. By that standard, K2 stands almost alone in the world.
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submitted by Adam 20 weeks 2 days 14 hours 21 minutes ago
For decades, the unwritten motto at shellfish hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest was "Better oysters through science."
Scientists mated the heartiest, fastest-growing stock to produce plumper, sweeter oysters for slurping raw on the half-shell or frying up to dip in tangy sauces.
They probed the genetic code to...(more)
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