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Oil spill on Montana’s Yellowstone River forces evacuation

By doris | Published: July 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – An undetermined amount of crude oil spilled from an ExxonMobil pipeline into the Yellowstone River in Montana, prompting evacuations of nearby residents on Saturday, authorities said. The spill that was detected early Saturday came from a crude oil pipeline that runs from Silver Tip to Billings, Montana, [...]

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8 secrets about Disneyland

By doris | Published: July 2, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma’s ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom. 1. There are dead bodies in the Haunted Mansion The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is one of the scariest places in the park, but not for the reasons you’d [...]

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Airbus soars over Boeing, saleswise, at air show

By doris | Published: June 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LE BOURGET, France — Airbus is trouncing Boeing in the race to be the world’s biggest plane maker, claiming over $72 billion dollars worth of orders and commitments at the Paris Air Show, where the popularity of its new fuel-efficient jets twice broke records for the largest order ever. Airbus’ success [...]

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Man robs bank to get medical care in jail

By doris | Published: June 21, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Some people who need medical care but can’t afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they’ll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank. Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 [...]

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Woman, 100, has bank account dating to 1913

By doris | Published: June 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — An Ohio woman who just turned 100 years old has taken customer loyalty to the extreme: She’s still using a bank savings account that’s been around almost as long as she has, since the year before World War I. June Gregg recently mentioned to a friend that her [...]

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‘Walmart of Weed’ to open in Arizona, promote growing your own

By doris | Published: June 1, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — It’s called the “Walmart of Weed.” This newest big-box store is devoted to selling marijuana-growing equipment. Its biggest outlet yet is to open Wednesday in Phoenix, where Arizona voters approved medical cannabis last fall. The weGrow Store will be the first outside California, where medical weed has long been legalized. [...]

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Out of this galaxy ‘Star Wars’ ride reopens

By doris | Published: May 21, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com ORLANDO, Fla. — George Lucas figures he’s working on his third generation of “Star Wars” fans, and plenty of them were standing in line with their parents Friday to get first crack at Walt Disney World’s overhauled ride based on the iconic movie franchise. The 67-year-old “Star Wars” creator came to [...]

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BP gets $1 bln settlement from Gulf well partner

By doris | Published: May 20, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LONDON — BP has struck a deal to receive around $1 billion from one of its minority partners in the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it will successfully pursue other companies involved and reduce its bill for the disaster. BP PLC said Thursday that MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, which [...]

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Gas prices, rising airfares be damned

By doris | Published: May 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Most Americans believe taking a trip this summer is valuable, and many plan to do so despite rising airfares and sky-high prices at the pump, according to data from a spate of recent polls, surveys and predictions. Six in 10 Americans say that going somewhere on vacation this year is important, [...]

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La. spillway to be opened; 25,000 people could be in harm’s way of floods

By doris | Published: May 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s populated Cajun country. About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in [...]

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Memphis eyes crest; New Orleans gets some flood help

By doris | Published: May 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com The Army Corps of Engineers began opening the Bonnet Carre spillway 28 miles north of New Orleans Monday morning to divert part of the river flow to Lake Pontchartrain. Opening the spillway has no impact on homes or businesses.

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Big Oil’s $4 billion tax break in doubt

By doris | Published: April 26, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — President Obama repeated his call Tuesday for an end to $4 billion in oil industry tax breaks as gas prices approach $4 a gallon and after a top lawmaker indicated a possible shift in Republican policy. In a letter to congressional leaders, the president said the oil [...]

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Shutdown would take away $32 million a day from national parks

By doris | Published: April 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — An average of $32 million a day in national parks revenue could be shut off if the Beltway showdown results in a government shutdown, officials say. The measure would be the first shutdown in more than 15 years, shuttering national parks, seashores and historic sites, and barring [...]

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From inside Japan’s evacuation zone: ‘It’s eerie here’

By doris | Published: April 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MINAMI SOMA, Japan — The Odaka neighborhood seems frozen in time since it was abandoned after the tsunami nearly a month ago: Doors were left hanging open and bicycles were abandoned. A lone taxi sits in front of the train station. Mud-caked dogs roam empty streets, their barking and the cawing [...]

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Boeing didn’t expect 737 cracks so soon

By doris | Published: April 5, 2011

! NewsFull Story at news.hoo PHOENIX – Boeing was surprised when a section of a Southwest jetliner’s fuselage ripped open in flight because the plane wasn’t old enough to be worrisome, a company official said Tuesday, as the airline cleared most of its older 737 planes to return to the skies. Southwest said it had [...]

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Controller, airline crew suspended over incident in Florida skies

By doris | Published: March 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — An air traffic control supervisor and the crew of a Southwest Airlines jet have been suspended after the controller asked the Southwest Boeing 737 to fly in the vicinity of a small Cirrus aircraft in an effort to check on the welfare of the pilot, authorities said. The [...]

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GOP appears poised to take on entitlements

By doris | Published: March 27, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.comLEAVE SOCIAL SECURITY ALONE. THEY HAVE BORROWED ENOUGH AND NEVER PAID IT BACK. SOME PEOPLE CAN HARDLY LIVE NOW. THEY PLANNED ON THIS FOR RETIREMENT. CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — If there’s any place where tea partiers in Congress might hesitate to call for cuts in Social Security and Medicare to shrink the [...]

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States push harder for online sales tax collection

By doris | Published: March 20, 2011

Full Story at CBSNews.com AP) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tax-free shopping is under threat for many online shoppers as states facing widening budget gaps increasingly pressure Amazon.com Inc. and other Internet retailers to start collecting sales taxes from their residents. Billions of dollars are at stake as a growing number of states look for ways [...]

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FDA to supervise three Tylenol plants

By doris | Published: March 11, 2011

Full Story at UPI.com WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) — The U.S. government announced it is taking over three Tylenol plants following recalls and a criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories. The Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department took action against Tylenol maker McNeil PPC and two of its executives — its [...]

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Why do America’s police need an armored tank?

By doris | Published: March 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com America’s most in-demand police vehicle is a 10-officer 16,000-pound armored tank that takes bullets like Superman and drives 80 mph. The federal government buys dozens each year for local police departments. Do America’s local police need tanks? Every day, America produces a fresh batch of barricaded gunmen, some of whom want [...]

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