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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 3-year-old Queens boy who went missing
Saturday from a campground in Sullivan
County has been rescued. He
was scared but safe after he had spent a night alone in the woods, authorities
said.
Daniel and his family were spending the
Memorial Day weekend at the at the Swinging Bridge Campground, about 80 miles
northwest of New...
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The trial of R. Kelly began with three days of explosive
testimony. Facing up 15 years behind bars if convicted, the R&B star is charged
with 14 counts of child pornography.
Prosecutor Shauna Boliker said Kelly “created, staged, produced and starred” in
the infamous video sex tape. Meanwhile, defense...
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The Santa Cruz Mountains area
burst into flames a few days ago and since then people are fighting desperately
to stop the persistent wildfire. All that the fire leaves behind is ashes. Six square
miles of centuries-old wood has turned into a battlefield, nature versus
humans. At least 20 houses were destroyed and another 570...
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 A bride, a groom and two other people were wounded in a
shooting at a creekside wedding in rural Pope County,
the Associated Press reports. The stranger who shot them was arrested after
being chased by outraged guests, a sheriff’s official said Sunday.
The shooting happened at Piney Creek on Rushing Road, just north of...
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 President Bush was made an honorary member
of Rolling Thunder, the Vietnam War POW-MIA group that is holding its 21st
annual gathering. Every year’s ritual of Rolling Thunder’s members starts from
the Pentagon parking lot, going past Arlington
National Cemetery,
across Memorial Bridge and around the Lincoln Memorial,
and finally...
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 Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms hit
central parts of the United
States, killing seven people, injuring
dozens more and destroying many homes. The areas worst-hit by the powerful
storms were in Iowa.
In Minnesota,
dozens of homes were destroyed by a strong storm and a two-year-old child died
in Hugo, local media reported....
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 Homicide detectives are investigating the deaths of five
family members found Sunday inside a home in a gated community in Orange County.
It appears that the bodies of an elderly woman, a man and woman in their 40s
and the bodies of two sisters in their early 20s had been found in the house
after three weeks, Sheriff's Lt. Erin...
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 It appears that a wounded man who died after being taken to a
California Highway
patrol parking lot in Corte Madera was a 27-year-old Hells Angels associate, identified
as a San Leandro man who attended a Hells Angels
funeral earlier that day in Daly City.
The victim’s name was not released.
Sunday, the man was shot on...
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 The Brooklyn
Bridge, one of the oldest suspension
bridges in the United States,
attracts thousands and thousands of tourists every year and it is considered an
icon for New York, as well as for America.
The 6,000-foot-long bridge over the East
River connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn took
years to...
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 Two black teenagers were arrested Thursday in
the assault on a young Jewish man, police said. The assault raised racial
tensions in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Besean Parker, 14, and Namor Clarke, 17,
will be charged as adults with robbery, according to police. Police also said
the assault on 16-year-old Alon Sherman was not...
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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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