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| Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off |
The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial for the hospital,... |
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 A Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday morning in Southern California spewing toxic gas. Authorities quoted by The Associated Press confirmed the derailment and added there were no injured people.The area was quickly sealed off and about 60 people living in the town situated in the southern desert area couldn’t return to their homes. The...
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 The bodies of six people - 4 adults and 2 children - were found by police in a small brick house in Memphis, Tennessee. Inside the small building were found three other children in a critical condition.Investigators suspect this may be a mass killing. If it’s proved to be so, it would be the worst mass murder in Memphis in the past 15...
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 One person was killed and several other were wounded after a man opened fire inside a Wendy’s restaurant in West Palm Beach, Florida and then shot him self. The two deaths were confirmed by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, who was quoted by ABC News. The Sheriff added that three of the wounded are in critical condition. The...
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 Twenty five students were injured as the school bus they were in overturned on Monday north of Atlanta, authorities said.Two students were reported as being in critical condition after the crash. Both of them were airlifted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Atlanta Medical Center, said Cherokee County Fire Department spokesman Tim...
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 The FBI searched the home in which the man possibly sickened by the ricin found in a Las Vegas hotel room lived.Authorities said they had found all the ricin in several vials recovered Thursday from the hotel room where the man identified as Roger Von Bergendorff had been staying, but they though it might be better to check the home in...
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 The Democrat Party presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama, are fighting to win the still undecided voters of Oho and Texas as, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll, the contest between the two senators is still very tight. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has a good morale after wining eleven in a...
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 A man, who stayed in the Las Vegas hotel room where ricin, castor beans, guns and an "anarchist type textbook" were found, was discovered on Thursday in a local hospital. The man who might help solve the whole mystery about the case is currently in critical condition, doctors said. He is in hospital since Feb. 14 and is...
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 A lethal substance was discovered in a hotel room in Las Vegas, media resources reported on Friday.Probably to avoid the disturbance it would have caused, authorities said they believed the case was not terrorist-related. The poisonous substance discovered at the Extended Stay America Hotel on Thursday was ricin. After spotting the...
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 A man employed by a motivational coaching business in Provo, Utah reportedly sued the firm because they used waterboarding on him in front of a sales team during a team-building. The employee is Chad Hudgens and he sued Prosper Inc and Joshua Christopherson, his team leader who he says used the highly controversial torture technique on...
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 A Lawrenceville teenager was arrested and charged on Friday for killing his mother and two sisters, the local authorities reported.Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., 17, is facing murder charges in the shooting which took place near the family home in Lawrenceville. The corpses of his mother, who was a sheriff's deputy, and his two small...
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 Teen Kills Himself in Front of Webcam
An official told Fox News on Friday that a teenager from Florida committed suicide in front of his webcam after he had posted online messages announcing everyone about...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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