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Weeklong traffic mess possible after CT derailment
Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned ...
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AP PHOTOS College commencements across nation
First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and ...
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Venezuela in rare diplomatic overture to America
CARACAS - Venezuela on Sunday made a rare diplomatic overture to the United States, suggesting it could be time for better ties."We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Televen television Sunday."The first thing would be to resume diplomatic representation at the highest level," he said.The ...
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Count your blessings a religious America
An unforgettable scene in the kids movie Madagascar 2 has King Julian, "Lord of the Lemurs," reclining with his friends at the luxury end of a rickety old plane watching newsreels of aircraft crashes while the penguins dubiously take the controls.When Melman, the giraffe, walks to the front and pokes his head through the curtain dividing 'cattle class' from the elites, Julian ...
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Millions in the path of severe weather
oklahoma , including this one we saw a bit earlier in edmond. this has been a topsy-turvy weekend for a lot of paeople in the country's midsection and this weather is on the move. tonight ...
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Midwest under severe weather alert
Some of the largest cities in the Midwest are under alert in what could be a long night for the country's heartland, The Weather Channel's Kelly Cass ...
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Video shows workers near top of Washington Monument
washington monument . and the video captures the first phase of repairs, which involve building some scaffolding around the entire structure, from top to bottom, in fact. you'll recall that the ...
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Shooting death of gay man rocks New York community
A view of fog over the New York skyline. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) NEW YORK - Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, remained in shock on Sunday over the shooting death of a gay man by a gunman who police said uttered anti-gay slurs before targeting the victim. Mark Carson, 32, was shot dead in Greenwich Village around midnight on Friday in what police are calling a ...
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Predictions of an American manufacturing renaissance may be premature
My father designed radio-controlled equipment that was installed in steel mills. An operator could stand on the floor, send signals to an overhead crane from a device on his belt and maneuver ingots weighing several tons. Very modern for its time, the system greatly reduced the risk of injury among workers.My dad was understandably proud of his contribution to the American manufacturing boom of ...
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Miami police parts ways with popular First 48 cable show
For nearly a decade, The First 48, A&E’s wildly popular reality show, has chronicled homicide detectives investigating scores of Miami murders - ...
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Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide hurricane struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to ...
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Video Surviving the Midwest twisters How one family pulled through
The intense weather is not over for people living in the middle of the country. From Oklahoma City to Minneapolis, severe weather is still a threat. One family hit hard shares their story of survival with Anna ...
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Chicago Teachers Union Marches For Second Straight Day
CHICAGO (CBS) – For the second day in a row, opponents of Chicago Public School closures marched near those buildings slated to be shuttered, reports WBBM’s Nancy ...
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Officer who mistakenly shot Hofstra student faced harrowing choice expert says
The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...
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Associated Press Los Angeles Daybook
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Small changes coming for New York Knicks
Photo credit: Don't count on J.R. Smith giving the Knicks a discount. (Getty) While the Knicks' 2012-13 season was easily the team's most successful campaign in more than a decade, the fact remains that it fell well short of a championship or even a conference finals berth against LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Surely, they'll be in the thick of things again next season, ...
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Tornadoes tear through Kansas Oklahoma
By Jeff Black and Hasani Gittens, NBC News People in two states were taking shelter amid wailing warning sirens Sunday as tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma. Thunder clouds were also heaving hail -- dime to softball sized -- as well as rain across broad swaths of both states. Residents in downtown Wichita, Kan., were told to seek shelter Sunday afternoon after a ...
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Supercell of thunderstorms threaten Midwest
(CBS News) GRANBURY, Texas - From Oklahoma City to Minneapolis, severe weather is threatening the nation's midsection on Sunday night. There are tornado warnings up in Kansas and Iowa. Oklahoma and Missouri could also be hard hit. Forecasters say a supercell of thunderstorms packing baseball-sized hail, heavy rain, and tornadoes could do a lot of damage. Already a tornado has touched down ...
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Could cop have avoided accidentally killing Hofstra student
NEW YORK The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a life, says an expert in the field. "The big question is, how do you know, when someone's pointing a gun at you, whether you ...
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Thunderstorm supercells threaten Midwest
Not sure if these homes have basements, but it's insane to live in Oklahoma tornado country and not have one. We live in the Midwest, and we have a basement to go too when the tornado warnings sound. Every home in practically every subdivision has basements. I wouldn't live in a home without ...
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Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of ...
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Diamondbacks rally in 9th falls short at Miami
Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, left, is robbed of a foul ball by a fan in the stands during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Miami. The Marlins defeated the Diamondbacks 2-1. (AP Photo/Wilfredo ...
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Tornadoes hit Kan. Okla. no injuries reported
A tornado from a large storm system moving cross the south has struck a Georgia town 60 miles north of Atlanta, according to CNN. A least one death has been reported in the state. High winds also are raking Tennessee, where a man died after a tree fell into his home, according to ...
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Small Florida town buzzing over news of local lotto winner
Clutching the Powerball tickets that she estimates she won $8 on, Denise Godsey looks over at a gaggle of gathered television news trucks at a Publix in Zephyrhills, ...
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Splash reports jump in food sales in North America
MANILA, Philippines--Splash Corp., a listed personal care products manufacturer, said buyers in North America snapped up its Barrio Fiesta-branded condiments business although overall food sales still ended with modest gains. In a statement, Splash said first-quarter sales of the Barrio Fiesta condiments brand grew 1 percent to P22.37 million. Overall food sales, which included Moondish Foods ...
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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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