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submitted by elvis 224 weeks 14 hours 33 minutes ago
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Schwarzenegger is calling up 1,500 National Guard troops to deploy to the Southern California wildfires....
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submitted by Grace 196 weeks 1 day 1 hour 40 minutes ago
Myanmar's foreign minister says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 10,000.
Foreign diplomats said Nyan Win made the comment at a Monday briefing given to them and representatives of U.N. and international aid agencies.
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submitted by Christine 220 weeks 4 days 6 hours 12 minutes ago
Coast Guard workers who monitor ship traffic in San Francisco Bay did not warn the crew of the Cosco Busan that it was about to sideswipe the base of a Bay Bridge tower last week, or even that the ship was near the obstacle, federal investigators...(more)
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submitted by pascal 73 weeks 4 days 7 hours 32 minutes ago
Raw footage from KGO of the fires in San Bruno
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submitted by Grace 78 weeks 6 days 12 hours 1 minute ago
In Grand Bayou, La., wiped out by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the spill is the latest catastrophe to strike its Atakapa-Ishak people, who have long contended with oil companies' encroachment.
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submitted by Mr X 177 weeks 3 days 9 hours 27 minutes ago
A Metrolink commuter train believed to be carrying up to 350 people collided with a freight train Friday, killing two people ...
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submitted by pbl 177 weeks 3 days 9 hours 21 minutes ago
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- A colossal Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives....
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 73 weeks 4 days 7 hours 41 minutes ago
With a thunderous roar heard for miles, a natural gas line explosion ripped through a San Bruno neighborhood Thursday evening, sending up a geyser of fire that killed at least one person and injured more than 20 others, and igniting a blaze that destroyed 53 homes...(more)
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submitted by Micca 180 weeks 5 days 21 hours 44 minutes ago
MADRID, Spain (AP) _ Spain's Interior Ministry says 45 people are dead after an airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 194 weeks 12 hours 41 minutes ago
The numbers are almost too large to fathom, so many Americans stop trying. As bodies pile up in disaster after global disaster, even the most sympathetic souls can turn away.
Charities know this as "donor fatigue," but it might be more accurately described as disaster fatigue —...(more)
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submitted by pascal 194 weeks 6 days 23 hours 3 minutes ago
The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province...(more)
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submitted by Ari 220 weeks 5 days 12 hours 41 minutes ago
Even though the government is chasing people away -- was Gavin REALLY in Hawaii? -- from helping clean up the spill, a bunch of people have been going out to Ocean Beach and cleaning up on their own. Check this out....
