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 A documentary about Heidi Fleiss, known as the “Hollywood Madam,” premiers tonight on HBO. Entitled “Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal,” the 70-minutes documentary will present her efforts to fund a brothel catering to women.In the 1990s Ms. Fleiss earned her nickname for running a call-girl ring and being charged with...
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the 131st day of 2008 with 235 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include British statesman and scholar James Bryce in 1838; Swiss theologian Karl Barth in 1886; Max Steiner, who...
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 Steve Fossett, millionaire businessman,
became famous for his ambitions to break records in aviation, ballooning and
sailing. Fossett has been the first person to fly alone around the world in a
balloon. He was supposed to fly first in an airplane without refueling. Fossett
also broke the record for the world’s longest nonstop...
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 50 homes in Southern California were considerably damaged by massive mudslides provoked by a monsoon. Officials said yesterday that heavy rains brought thunderstorms to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, generating the mudslide near the city of Independence that was 300 yards wide and up to 3 feet deep. Nature’s fury also triggered to flooding...
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 While mudslides on fire-blemished territory in the eastern
Sierra Nevada constrained people to leave their properties, more gentle weather
in Northern California facilitated the
firefighters’ work in suppressing parts of the wildfires in the area and
permitted inhabitants of numerous communities to return home.
A massive mudslide...
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A nationwide alliance of immigrant rights and
community organizations on Thursday launched a new movement aimed at
registering more than one million Latino and Asian voters ahead of
November's presidential elections. The movement, called the
We Are America Alliance (WAAA), will reach out to voters in 13 states,
which also have the...
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Goleta, California, caught fire on Friday. Los Padres National Forest burnt down and officials had to evacuate the residents who were living in the canyon. Goleta is located at about 8 miles northwest Santa Barbara and this weekend, because of the dry thunderstorms, the place turned into flames.Authorities evacuated the area as fast as...
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 The northeastern Nevada town Wells was rocked by a powerful earthquake
Thursday at 6:16 a.m. according to The Associated Press. The 6.0 magnitude
earthquake was felt from northern Idaho and Utah to Southern California.
Despite people’s shock no serious injuries were registered.
However, there were great damages in Nevada. According...
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 Thomas and Tamitha Garner, who had been missing in the state of Utah for 12 days, were eventually found this afternoon, by the road-plowing crew near the Utah-Nevada state line, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
The couple had gone on a trip to photograph wild horses and ended up blocked in the snow. They were surrounded by reporters,...
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 Hillary Clinton stepped up attacks Monday on rival presidential hopeful
Barack Obama, portraying him as a political chameleon who had shifted
views on key issues such as the Iraq war and health care.
Exchanges between the two top Democratic contenders grew testy at
times as Obama defended his record and charged that Clinton and...
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 US presidential contender Barack Obama urged Americans Sunday to
overcome lingering barriers for black citizens, evoking the spirit of
Martin Luther King at the church where the 1960s civil rights leader
preached.
Fresh from a defeat by Hillary Clinton in a Democratic Party
preference poll, Obama stopped by the Ebenezer Baptist...
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 Arizona Senator John McCain picked up key momentum Saturday in his bid
to become the Republican presidential nominee, but there was still no
clear frontrunner in the crowded centre-right pack.
McCain picked up 33 per cent of the vote in the first state in the
socially conservative South to weigh in on the presidential...
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 Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won the Nevada
caucuses on Saturday in the latest contest to represent each party
ahead this year's US presidential elections.
With 97 per cent of caucus sites reporting, Clinton led the
Democratic vote with 51 per cent over chief rival and fellow senator
Barack Obama, who had 45...
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 With no clear leader yet to emerge in the bid for their party's
nominations, US presidential contenders face key tests in South
Carolina and Nevada later Saturday as they scramble for their party's
presidential nomination.
Most of the focus will be on the centre-right Republicans in South
Carolina, the first southern state in the...
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 Favourite son Mitt Romney revived his bid for the Republican candidacy
for president Tuesday night, claiming victory in Michigan's primary
vote over his chief rival Senator John McCain.
Romney had 39 per cent of the centre-right Republican vote,
followed by 30 per cent for McCain, the Vietnam War veteran and one-
time prisoner of...
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 Polls opened in the Midwestern US state of Michigan Tuesday for the
latest presidential primary which will see only Republican candidates
battling for their party's nomination owing to a Democrat boycott of
the state.
Republican candidate and Michigan native Mitt Romney is seeking to
jump-start his bid for the party's nomination...
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 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, seeking to salvage his
bid for his party's nomination, stressed his local roots and business
credentials as he campaigned across Michigan ahead of the state's
Tuesday primary.
Romney, a wealthy businessman and former Massachusetts governor,
sank millions of dollars into the first...
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 Rain and snow pummelled the California region Saturday, dumping nearly
two metres of snow in the Sierra Nevada and bursting a levee in Nevada
that forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
The levee broke along the Truckee Canal in Fernley, Nevada,
trapping about 3,500 people who were being rescued by US military
helicopters...
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 A powerful storm battered California on Friday leaving some 500,000
homes and businesses without power and threatening mudslides, flooding
and huge snowfalls projected to last into next week.
Meteorologists said the storm could be the worst in the state for
ten years with up to 25 centimeters of rain expected to fall Friday...
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 According to a recent statistic conducted for a report on
Thursday,, more than 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States
are war veterans, although they represent only 11 percent of the civilian adult
population.
On any given night last year, nearly 196,000 veterans slept
on the street, in a shelter or in...
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 The western area of the United States are swept by savage wildfires, authorities reporting a small success in their battle with the blazes on Monday after rain fell in several regions.Officials from South Dakota reported the death of one person who tried to save some of his goods from the burning house, 27 residences homes being...
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 A savage blaze powered by strong winds swept across a vast area near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains, burning down more than 200 homes and prompting the evacuation of 1,000 persons.The wildfire erupted Sunday a few miles south of the famous lake, but quickly spread to other regions due to the powerful wind. About 750 firemen...
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A report by the Commonwealth Fund analyzed overall
performance of health care system in caring for children in fifty states and
the District of Columbia. There
were taken into consideration factors such as access, quality, costs, equity and
healthy outcomes. The states were ranked afterwards on basis of this
investigation.
The...
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 “My Blueberry Nights” is an odd road movie directed by Wong
Kar Wai and it describes “a story of a woman who takes the long route instead
of the short one to meet up with the man she loves,” according to the director.
Appearing on the panel are Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel
Weisz, David Strathairn and Cat...
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 The trailer for the highly anticipated movie Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released on ABC’s “Good Morning
America,” on Thursday, before appearing online. The Indiana Jones fans were
thrilled and declared they were eager to see the movie, which features actors
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Shia...
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A large number of hepatitis C cases was recorded recently in
Las Vegas. All
the individuals infected were former patients of the Endoscopy Center of
Southern Nevada. The cause of the contamination was supposed to be the reuse of
syringes and medicine vials.
State health officials contacted the Centers for Disease
Control and...
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 Seventy-seven more cases of hepatitis C contamination have been recorded, in an outbreak occurred among patients of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. The information was brought out by Nevada health officials.
These last findings raise the number of persons infected with this disease to eighty-five, as there had been eight...
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 The unsafe medical procedures that spread hepatitis C among
patients at an important Las Vegas surgical clinic may actually be more
widespread than investigators imagined, health officials announced Thursday.
Health inspections at 13 other outpatient clinics in the Las
Vegas area revealed several violations of practices, Lisa...
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 A week after 40,000 people from Nevada found out that unsafe
medical procedures might have infected them with Hepatitis C or the AIDS virus,
five certified nurse anesthetics gave up their licenses today until authorities
learn why a surgical center reused syringes and vials for four years, the Las
Vegas Sun reports.
The nurses...
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 A clinic in Las Vegas was ordered to shut down after
authorities discovered that more than 40,000 patients may have been exposed to deadly
diseases such a hepatitis C and the HIV virus, through the reuse of syringes
and vials.
The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada "was served
with an emergency suspension of its business...
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 The California Department of Public Health warned consumers
not to buy alfalfa sprouts manufactured by two Californian companies, as tests
have found they may contain Salmonella.
The tests were made after several illnesses have been
reported across the state. The manufacturers voluntarily decided to recall
their products from...
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 According to Safeway, US supermarket chain, some of its ground
beef may be tainted with Salmonella as the company was informed of the
potential threat by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
According to a company release, the ground beef in question
would have entered the supply chain between September 19 and November 5....
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 A new study conducted by a national group, ranks Virginia in
the top 20 among the most healthy states when it comes to depression and
suicide.
The study, released Wednesday by Mental Health America, uses
federal data to rank all 50 states and the District of Columbia in both
categories.
Overall, Virginia has the 18th-highest...
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 “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis went mild in court and
pleaded no contest to charges of filming underage girls for his adult videos on
Wednesday.
Francis was sentenced to 11 months in jail, a sentence that
he had already completed and thus he was freed to go back to his racy DVDs.
The “Girls Gone Wild” empire was built...
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 Former Hollywood madam Heidi
Fleiss was arrested and charged Thursday in Nevada of driving under the influence and
possessing drugs without prescription, People Magazine reports.
The Nye County
sheriff’s office told in a news conference that Fleiss was pulled over at 9.30.
a.m., after police received information about a...
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 Former beauty queen, Katie Rees got into big trouble.
The police pulled over the 23-year old on Wednesday for
speeding, only to find even that the ex pageant queen had been driving on a
suspended license, with suspended license plates and had no proof of insurance.
Furthermore, Rees resisted the arrest by becoming very violent to...
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 Whether the odds will be so astonishingly on OJ Simpson’s
side this time too, as the Nevada
justice of the peace Joe Bonaventure ruled on Wednesday that the former
sportsman should stand trial, given the 12 charges against him and two other
co-defendants.
The three, including 60-years Simpson and Clarence Stewart
and Charles...
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 On Friday, seismologists said that although things have cooled down a bit during the past few days in the strongly shaken Reno, a major earthquake is still not out of the question.According to John Anderson, director of the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno, the fact that the activity has recorded a decrease in...
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 During this weekend NASA has
hosted commercial weightless flights, which gave people the opportunity to
experience the same feeling of weightlessness that the space agency’s
astronauts experience while in space. On Thursday, NASA announced that the
flights at Moffett Field, California,
had been sold out, but the agency promised to...
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 A team of researchers warned
recently that Lake Mead might become pure history by 2021 because of climate
changes and a continual increase in the demand for Colorado
River’s water. If Lake Mead got
drain by 2021, it would trigger a severe water shortage across the entire
region.
Scientists at San
Diego’s Scripps Institution...
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 A new study by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) had made a comparison of the mathematics and science skills of eighth-grade students from 50 American states and 47 nations all around the world. The study was published Nov. 14, under the name of “Chance Favors the Prepared Mind: Mathematics and Science Indicators for Comparing...
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 According to a government survey released yesterday, more
than half of Kentucky
workers with arthritis say the chronic condition has limited their ability to
work
About one-third of U.S.
adults with arthritis say it has affected their ability to work, but in Kentucky that percentage
of sufferers is 51.3 percent, highest among the...
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 The US senior men's basketball team defeated Canada 113-63 on Saturday at the FIBA Americas Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada. Denver Nuggets’ Carmelo Anthony led the U.S. in scoring with 25 points and Milwaukee Bucks' Michael Redd added 19, including five 3-pointers.Team US pushed the tempo in the second quarter and increased their lead...
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 According to a report of RealtyTrac, a leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, the foreclosure filings during March have been reported on 234.685 properties in the United States, five percent more than a month before and a 57 percent increase from the same month a year before."The March numbers show that overall...
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 The U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, compiled by RealtyTrac, found that foreclosure filings rose 36 percent in August from July and 115 percent from a year ago, hit by declines in once-hot housing markets such as California, Nevada and Florida. The number of foreclosure filings this August was 243,947, the highest since RealtyTrac began...
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 Gasoline prices are expected to rise on Memorial Day holiday, but as fuel inventories build, they should fall by mid-June, AAA Oregon reports.In the past week, the average price per gallon of regular gasoline rose by more than 12 cents to $3.21. In the same period, Oregon's average price held steady at $3.41, and in three of the four...
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