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submitted by Micca 101 weeks 6 days 22 hours 49 minutes ago
It's amazing to me that Hayward still has a job. Perhaps his next one will be washing dishes in an American prison....
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submitted by Ari 205 weeks 2 days 1 hour 58 minutes ago
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Displaced residents trickled back into the hardest-hit areas of Cedar Rapids yesterday for their first up-close look at flood devastation, while a forecast of an earlier and lower flood crest at Iowa City sparked hope that the university town would escape a...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 192 weeks 13 hours 38 minutes ago
The head of Metrolink warned Congress a year ago that proposals to require updated safety devices on trains would involve "substantial cost" and urged lawmakers to give railroads "flexibility" in choosing and implementing the new systems.
The testimony came as part of a long-running argument over whether...(more)
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submitted by Will Montgomery 242 weeks 2 days 11 hours 58 minutes ago
Wells at this giant Darfur refugee camp are drying up.
Women wait as long as three days for water, using jerrycans to save their places in perpetual lines that snake around pumps. A year ago, residents could fill a 5-gallon plastic can in a few minutes, but...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Outdoor news 203 weeks 3 days 20 hours 6 minutes ago
Many of the rustic inns, restaurants and art galleries that dot the rugged Central Coast are nearly deserted this weekend at the height of the tourist season as a huge wildfire threatens Big Sur.
The blaze had charred nearly 42 square miles as of Friday in the...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 167 weeks 2 days 23 hours 20 minutes ago
On a now-vacant block in Chalmette, Lawrence and Otsie Ruiz slowly surveyed their slab on Prince Drive. Three weeks ago, it held a gutted house with a sound roof, solid windows and a trimmed lawn -- secure, but still not up to parish housing codes.
Repair work...(more)
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submitted by Grace 122 weeks 3 days 16 hours 40 minutes ago
She had already spent three days under the rubble, and by the time rescuers pulled the woman from the crumpled home, they told her crying relatives to dump her broken body with the other corpses on the sidewalk.
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submitted by Julia Leigh 192 weeks 3 days 20 hours 45 minutes ago
Authorities have raised the confirmed death toll in the Los Angeles commuter rail disaster to 24 and expect it to rise.
Fire spokesman Ron Myers confirmed Saturday another body has been pulled from the wreckage.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says that in addition to the 23 some bodies remain...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 250 weeks 6 days 13 hours 9 minutes ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Some dropped with the collapsing bridge into the waters of the Mississippi River and swam to safety, while others leaped from their cars over yawning gaps of asphalt to solid ground....
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 250 weeks 6 days 13 hours 10 minutes ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- An interstate bridge suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River during bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday, killing at least six people and sending vehicles, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water....
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 183 weeks 5 days 2 hours 43 minutes ago
As daybreak arrived this morning, fire officials feared more than 100 homes could already be destroyed in a fast-moving brush fire driven by high winds that has charred at least 2,500 acres in Santa Barbara County and forced evacuations of thousands in luxury neighborhoods dotting the...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 240 weeks 3 days 15 hours 34 minutes ago
Firefighters on Saturday began hauling the mangled, blackened debris of several big-rig trucks out of a freeway tunnel where at least two people were killed and 10 injured in a fiery, pileup that shut down the major interstate highway north of Los Angeles.
The crash late Friday...(more)
