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About half of the white sand beaches along Australia’s northeast coast that were blackened by an oil spill have been cleared, an official said Sunday.
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The Los Angeles police chief has raised the prospect of a homicide charge over the death of Michael Jackson.
Homicide does not necessarily mean murder — it could...
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Recently, an Army National Guardsman and Arabic translator who openly challenged the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, was...
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The aunt of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has joined Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly in decrying the media coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Her...
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Bill O’Reilly needs a hug. But who will oblige him?
The Fox News point man needs a hug so desperately that he runs the risk of losing his sanity.
All those in show...
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I really regret for not covering this one in atypical housing. The portable at the Lakeshore Catholic High School definitely deserved to be there for a reason or two....
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Police have charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme to dig up graves at a Chicago cemetery in order to resell the plots.
Bones from more than 100...
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It has been touted as a successful treatment for everything from insomnia and depression to Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Now supporters of...
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Two gay men kissed at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster.
Civil-rights lawyers say the...
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U.S. and South Korean computer networks were besieged for days by a series of relatively unsophisticated attacks, possibly from North Korea, that were among the...
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“We got 30 minutes!” It was 1:30 P.M., half an hour before the start of the commercial salmon-fishing season in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and I was sitting on...
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Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.
Google Chrome OS will be a development of its Chrome web...
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“I just wanted to say, Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine, And I just wanted to say I love him so much”.
A...
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During the First World War, his father, Ezeobidi, was drafted to fight for the British crown as a militia in the Cameron. Ezeobidi was conscripted because he had nobody...
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A study conducted by the New Economics Foundation using the Happy Planet Index determined that Costa Rica is the greenest and the happiest place in the world. The HPI...
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President Obama today offered to scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe if Russia helped to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
He appealed in...
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We’re just minutes away from the Michael Jackson Memorial of the Century, which we understand will cost Angelenos their public swimming pools and the 710 bus line,...
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Many were stunned by the abrupt resignation of Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin over the weekend. While she says legal troubles are not the primary reason for her...
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Michael Jackson ‘happened’ to me twice—in life, and near death!
By: Rajbir Deswal
I am more amazed at my association (?) with Michael Jackson who I didn’t...
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As Russian-American summit is going ahead fruitfully these days in Moscow where participants, according to President B. Obama ,are “committed to leaving behind the...
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Their bags were packed. Their farewells had been said.
Like the rest of the British 38th Regiment Royal Engineers, Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar had shed their...
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The nation’s largest public utility now says cleaning up a massive coal ash spill will cost as much as $975 million and could take several years.
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AP, Winona
Police are investigating after a couple of city streets were covered with inedible “chicken skimmings,” including heads and feathers. Police said a...
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AP, Knoxville
The Tennessee Valley Authority has asked a federal court to dismiss all lawsuits filed against the utility in the aftermath of a major coal ash spill.
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AP, Brisbane
Workers rescued turtle eggs Thursday and started to clean up oil that washed up on Australian beaches from a cargo ship that leaked fuel when it was damaged by falling...
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AP, Brisbane
More than 30 shipping containers of ammonium nitrate fell off a ship in stormy seas off Australia early Wednesday, damaging the ship’s hull and leaking up to 30...
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AP, Kennesaw
Some students at a suburban Atlanta high school had to evacuate after a science teacher dropped a quart of sulfuric acid in a lab.
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AP, San Francisco
The pilot at the helm of the cargo ship that caused a massive oil spill in the San Francisco Bay has pleaded guilty to two environmental crimes.
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AP, Knoxville
The utility responsible for a massive coal ash spill that destroyed and damaged homes pledged Tuesday to make the affected community “as good, if not better than...
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AP, Nashville
A survey finds Tennessee residents are experiencing breathing problems, stress and anxiety near where more than 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled from a...
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AP, Dublin
The Russian navy finally admitted Friday it caused an oil slick off Ireland’s southwest coast _ 12 days after European and Irish marine authorities first spotted...
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AP, Las Vegas
Authorities have cordoned off a business district and closed a busy freeway interchange after a crash caused the spill of a hazardous fertilizer east of downtown Las...
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AP, Santa Barbara
A mixture of oil and water leaking Wednesday from an Exxon Mobil platform spread across a mile of ocean off the Southern California coast, federal and state officials...
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AP, Santa Barbara
Federal and state officials say they are investigating an oil spill at an Exxon Mobil platform in California’s Santa Barbara Channel.
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AP, London
Irish authorities say they are monitoring a major oil spill that is heading toward the Irish coast.
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AP, Knoxville
Trying to rebuild credibility as well as the site of a huge coal ash spill, the president of the Tennessee Valley Authority acknowledged the massive sludge flood was...
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AP, Knoxville
It could cost as much as $825 million to clean up a river and a rural neighborhood after a massive spill of coal ash sludge from a Tennessee Valley Authority power...
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AP, Rockdale
The Environmental Protection Agency says cleaning up an oil spill along the Des Plaines river in suburban Chicago will take two or three more days.
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AP, Rockdale
The Environmental Protection Agency says a spill of 65,000 gallons of waste oil outside Chicago does not appear to have caused major environmental damage.
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AP, Rockdale
The Environmental Protection Agency says a spill of 65,000 gallons of waste oil outside Chicago has had little effect on the environment.
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Vicki Ayliffe looks down at the oil stained sand at Buddina Beach on Australia’s Sunshine Coast Thursday, March 12, 2009. The spill of up to 34 U.S. tons (30 metric tons) of fuel oil leaked into the ocean when a cargo ship was holed as it lost part of...
