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There is finally some good news for environment enthusiasts! A five-year ban on fishing around Lundy Island off the Devon coats has significantly revived sea life. The eastern coats of Lundy is the only zone where fishing in completely prohibited...
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A baby boy who was cut from his slain mother’s womb has been released from a western Pennsylvania hospital.
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Install a little photo program to show off pictures of your dog on Facebook, and you might find you’re really spreading an ad.
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Republican John McCain is pushing back against Democratic criticism that he misstated the timing of the buildup of troops ordered by President Bush in early 2007. He...
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Profits posted Wednesday by Pfizer Inc. and Wyeth show a common theme among pharmaceutical companies _ nearly all the growth they’re seeing these days is...
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Vince Vaughn is the best star for the buck, says Forbes magazine.
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Amazon.com Inc. says its second-quarter profit more than doubled and surpassed Wall Street’s expectations. Sales were strong in several sections of Amazon’s...
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More older children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder while the rate is holding steady for children under 12, according to a government...
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A Delaware judge has postponed the start of a trial pitting cell phone chip maker Qualcomm Inc. against mobile handset maker Nokia Corp. in a dispute over licensing...
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It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the...
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Congress is moving quickly to pass a housing package that aims to help 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosures and prevent Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from...
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The medical examiner in Missouri’s St. Louis County has identified charred remains found at a burned house where a firefighter was killed as the body of the...
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Consumers helped bring McDonald’s Corp. back to profitability in the second quarter by spending on breakfast biscuits, chicken sandwiches and drinks despite the...
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AP, Brownsville
Hurricane Dolly slammed into the South Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph, blowing down signs, damaging an apartment complex and knocking...
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Police in Taunton, Mass., say a woman has killed herself after faxing a letter telling her mortgage company she would be dead by the time they foreclosed on her house.
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AP, San Francisco
Google Inc. is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off _ and profit from _ their expertise on any topic.
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AP, Akron
A woman who helped her boyfriend steal more than $8 million from an armored car company in Ohio has been sentenced to five years in prison.
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Average domestic airfares rose 4.4 percent in the first quarter of 2008 compared to the same period a year earlier, the government said Wednesday in an analysis that...
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Is it a long, long way to Tipperary? Don’t know if you’re on the path to Bath?
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Camera flashcubes of the 1960s, high-definition TVs and the Nicoderm quit-smoking patch have at least one thing in common: Each found a place over the years on R&D...
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Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group’s spokesman alleged was a...
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A dam project helped raise water levels and increase fish stocks in the northern part of the depleted Aral Sea, offering hope of some revival in areas of one of the...
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AP, Atlanta
It’s going to be a busy Father’s Day for a weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium. For only the third time ever in a U.S. aquarium, one of the endangered...
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Vast stretches of China’s coastal waters are seriously polluted, and the country’s coastal wetlands and mangrove forests are vanishing, Xinhua news agency...
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AP, Los Angeles
A fisherman who admitted stabbing a sea lion that apparently took bait from his fishing line was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation.
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AP, Portland
The deaths of six sea lions found in traps on the Columbia River earlier this month were likely caused by the heat, the National Marine Fisheries Service said.
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AP, Portland
The six sea lions found dead in traps near a Columbia River dam were apparently not shot to death after all, federal officials said Wednesday, leaving unanswered how...
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AP, Portland
Federal fisheries officials now say the six sea lions found dead in traps on the Columbia River apparently were not shot to death.
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AP, Portland
For years, the sea lions lounging at the Bonneville Dam have had easy pickings from salmon waiting to go up fish ladders to upriver spawning grounds.
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AP, Portland
Authorities are investigating the deaths of six sea lions on the Columbia River. At least some of them appear to have been shot.
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AP, North Bonneville
One by one, curious California sea lions checked out the open cage left invitingly on a platform in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam and flopped inside to chill...
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AP, Portland
A federal appeals court handed an animal rights group a partial victory in a dispute over the fate of California sea lions in the Columbia River, allowing some to be...
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AP, Tampa
Florida’s beaches lost a substantial amount of loggerhead sea turtle nests in 2007, giving the state its lowest nest count in 17 years, wildlife officials...
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AP, Portland
An animal rights group isn’t giving up on blocking the government and two states from harming California sea lions that are feasting on the spring chinook salmon...
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AP, Portland
The authorized killing of California sea lions at a dam on the Columbia River would be postponed under a proposal reached Tuesday by the Humane Society of the United...
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Exhausted with bulky oily food? The ripened food menu of any of the Desi Punjabi or Mughlai restaurant doesn’t dampen your mouth at all. There comes an instance when...
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AP, Portland
The Humane Society of the United States wants a federal judge to prevent the capturing or killing of sea lions feasting on salmon a Columbia River dam.
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AP, Wellington
Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand’s Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including...
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AP, Long Beach
A new satellite that will help give DirecTV hundreds of high-definition channels was launched Wednesday from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific, Sea...
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AP, Long Beach
A rocket carrying a new DirecTV satellite has lifted off from a seagoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.
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Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz signs autographs before a baseball game between the Portland Sea Dogs and the Connecticut Defenders, Monday, July 21, 2008, at Hadlock Field in Portland, Maine. Ortiz will play three games with the Sea Dogs as part of a...
