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House passes pipeline safety measure
Pennsylvania Ave.A natural gas pipeline explosion in Allentown last February that killed five people, and a series of other pipeline-related accidents throughout the country, spurred Congress to work on improving federal safety rules. Last week congressional leaders... -
Is your dryer a fire hazard?
Consumer File - Orlando SentinelI have no earthly. But Rick Raines does. Read on: My name is Rick Raines. I am owner/operator of a small business called “The Dryer Vent Sweeper” located in Saint Cloud. The person stated the clothes were hot even when the dryer was working... -
Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Local Government, Alphonso Jackson, Science and Technology, Interior Policy, Science
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For the record
Hotel workers: An article in the May 12 California section about a proposal to increase wages for hotel workers said that it would apply to unionized workers. Proponents want the higher $15-an-hour wage to go to both union and nonunion workers at larger...Tags: Career and Workplace, Explosions, Employees
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Las Vegas' Atomic Liquors, where nuclear bombs lit the sky, reopens
On a nearly deserted downtown block, a small brick building fronted by a curvy neon sign heralds a bygone era here: That's when the big bombs went boom and awe-struck Las Vegas residents watched the mushroom clouds billow into the bright desert sky....
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Japan, The Smothers Brothers, The Hangover (movie), Clint Eastwood
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Attacks kill 16 people in Iraq, 8 policemen kidnapped on road to Syrian, Jordanian border
Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. The...Tags: Shootings, Murder, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baghdad (Iraq), Kidnapping
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Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi
ReutersBENGHAZI, May 18 (Reuters) - Armed groups attacked military posts in Libya's second city Benghazi with bombs and a rocket-propelled grenade, an army commander said on Saturday. Nearly two years after the uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year...Tags: Military Equipment, Libya, Benghazi, Explosions
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Feds: Drive-through Sanford bank robbers said 'All will die' in note
Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini had money problems. So, according to Shaw, the two devised a plan to rob a Regions bank in Sanford. They made a fake bomb , stole a pickup truck at Seminole Towne Center, and wrote a demand note. Those...
Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Theft, Sanford, Explosions
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Space Programs, NASA, Weaponry, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Police chief who launched anti-Taliban crackdown shot dead in western Afghanistan
Associated PressKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday. Police Chief Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his...Tags: Taliban, Islam, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, Explosions
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Dollar soars, stocks set new highs on Fed stimulus exit talk
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar soared against major currencies on Friday on growing speculation that the Federal Reserve could soon begin to rein in its bond-buying program and after data showed U.S. consumer sentiment hit an almost six-year high in...Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Interior Policy, Insurance, Metal, Moscow (Russia)
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Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43
ReutersBAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence. Several...Tags: Nouri Maliki, Islam, Government, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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