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Miami-Dade unions call for health-insurance account audit
The heads of three county labor unions fired up their troops outside County Hall on Tuesday afternoon, castigating Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s administration for carrying a $42 million surplus in the county’s health-insurance account while asking employees to contribute more toward healthcare costs. Police Benevolent Association President John Rivera, Service Employees International Union ...
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Bill would honor Buffalo Soldiers role in parks
In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first park ...
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McCaskill Gives Early Endorsement to Hillary Clinton
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, an early backer of Barack Obama in 2008, on Tuesday announced her backing of Ready for Hillary, a group encouraging the former secretary of state to run for president in 2016. McCaskill, who was re-elected to a second term in 2012, said the group's work was critical if Clinton opts to run in 2016. "Hillary Clinton had to give up her political ...
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Sen. Sessions Gang of Eight immigration bill “nowhere close to what the American people really want.”
Andrea Tantaros radio show to express his reservations about the Gang of Eight immigration bill – which he said was ';nowhere close to what the American people really want'; – and have a little fun with his colleague, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). Noting that Rubio has lately been expressing reservations about the border security provisions of the bill, but has been touting ...
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Former New York City Councilman Pedro Gautier Espada Sentenced to Six Months’ Imprisonment
Earlier today, Pedro Gautier Espada was sentenced before Judge Frederic Block in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, to six months’ imprisonment, to be followed by six months’ home confinement and one year of supervised release, for theft of federal funds from Bronx-based non-profit healthcare clinics, Soundview Healthcare Network ("Soundview") and for failing to ...
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Miami to have its own Little Santo Domingo” before year end EFE
MIAMI. - Adding to Miami neighborhoods such as "Little Havana" or "Little Haiti" that already draw tourists to southern Florida's multicultural city, will be its own "Little Santo Domingo" before year end," EFE reports. "Right now I'm working on a concept to create a "Little Santo Domingo" in District 1 of Miami," the commissioner ...
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White House Petition Calls for Ban of Creation Science Intelligent Design From Schools
The new holographic exhibit at the Creation Museum in Petersburg,, Kentucky. The exhibit was set up as part of the celebration of the five year anniversary of the Creation Museum's founding in ...
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US Atty Disabled woman held as slave in Ohio
The US Attorney for Northern Ohio tells reporters three people are being accused of holding a disabled woman as a slave, and allegedly treating her "worse than the animals in the ...
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Ohio residents held disabled woman in slavery government charges
U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach (C) talks at a news conference alongside Stephen Anthony (L) of the FBI and Ashland City Police Lieutenant Joel Icenhour, about the arrest of three individuals accused of human trafficking in Ashland county, at the Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk CLEVELAND - Three Ohio residents are accused of holding a cognitively disabled ...
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New Hampshire nears approval of medical marijuana law
By Jason McLure LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New Hampshire is set to become the final state in New England to allow medical marijuana after negotiators from the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled House agreed Tuesday on a bill backed by Governor Maggie Hassan. The law would allow up to four marijuana dispensaries to open as soon as 2015. Patients with cancer, HIV, ...
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Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong
A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...
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NewsWatch How to trade the Federal Reserve decision
The main question hanging over financial markets right now is when and how the Federal Open Market Committee may change its monetary policy in coming months. That's why Wednesday is shaping up to be a big markets day and MarketWatch reporters analyzed how various asset classes may react depending on the message the Fed sends to the financial ...
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Americas Teacher Training Programs Arent Good Enough
A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality finds "fundamental flaws and weaknesses" -- but critics have raised questions about its ...
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U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack Somali funding
(Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots including a planned attack on the New York Stock ...
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FBI releases new video of suspect in 2008 Times Square bombing
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal authorities announced a $65,000 reward on Tuesday in the unsolved 2008 case of the Times Square bomber who tried to destroy a military recruiting station before escaping on a ...
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Illinois pension fix headed to legislative conference committee
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Seeking to break a weeks-long impasse in efforts to fix the state's woefully underfunded pension system, Illinois will turn to a rarely used legislative conference committee in hopes of reaching a compromise solution, Governor Pat Quinn's office said on ...
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ICRC says opening its Guantanamo files would set dangerous precedent
The flag over a war crimes courtroom in Camp Justice at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in this photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense on October 17, 2012, day three of pre-trial hearings for the five Guantanamo prisoners accused of orchestrating the ...
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Fla. girl who lost feet in lawnmower accident takes first steps on prosthetic legs
toddler whose feet were amputated after her father accidentally backed over her with a riding lawnmower took her first steps on her new prosthetic test legs ...
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Watch Grandma Grounds Glock Block Neighborhood Watch
Some residents in an Oregon neighborhood say they are armed and ready and they won't bother to call 911 anymore after some -- -- statue from her yard point Holloman decided. To get a concealed ...
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Watch Calif. Family Seeks Sons Killer to Forgive Her
These two trees are planted along maple -- drive in honor of the two teens killed right here twenty years ago. Well now one of the families who lost their son wants -- Garcia to know they forgive ...
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Watch Arizona Police Search Lake for Missing College Student
Search under way in Arizona for a nineteen year old woman missing after a night out drinking Adrian Salinas was headed to her boyfriend's house and -- -- but never made it. Her car was blown out ...
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Judge Admonishes Miami Beach Attorneys In Memorial Day Shooting Probe
Miami Beach police have confirmed that a gun was found in the car of man who was shot to death in a police involved shooting early Monday ...
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Utility Watchdog Wants ComEd To Equalize Rates Between Chicago Suburbs
The head of the Citizens Utility Board says consumers are charged for the amount of electricity they use but ComEd also has to charge for the amount of power they will have to buy in peak ...
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Chicago-Area Native Develops Fan-To Fan Ticket Scalping App
CHICAGO (CBS) – A 25-year-old Mount Prospect native is one of Chicago’s newest entrepreneurs. Patrick O'Brien, a former Groupon salesman, is the founder of Ticket Scalper. He tells the WBBM Noon Business Hour it is the first mobile fan-to-fan marketplace for last-minute ...
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Growing number think White House ordered IRS targeting poll says
The number of Americans who think the White House ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups is growing, a poll found. The CNN/ORC International survey, released Tuesday, found a majority of respondents think the controversy, related to enhanced IRS scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, is very important to the nation. The number of people ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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