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Seattle police chief to retire from troubled department
SEATTLE — Seattle Police Chief John Diaz said Monday he was retiring, leaving a department rocked by a federal investigation into excessive force and criticized for ill-planned responses to tumultuous May Day protests last year. Diaz, 55, said...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
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Driver dead, nine students injured in New Mexico school bus crash
A school bus driver was found dead and nine students were injured after their vehicle ran off an embankment in rural northern New Mexico on Monday morning, authorities said. The injured Mesa Vista School District students were between 7 and 15 years...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Students, Heart Attack, Accidental Death, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Educator takes teaching Japanese to a new level
julieg@herald-mail.comAyako Shiga knows how difficult it can be to learn a foreign language. When she was growing up in Tokyo, she failed her first semester of English in middle school. During a break that semester, she went to visit her father in Australia and couldn’...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Teachers, Tokyo (Japan), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Culture
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Japanese boat first confirmed tsunami debris in California
A 20-foot boat that washed ashore earlier this month in Northern California has been confirmed as the first debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami to reach the state. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, working with the Japanese...
Tags: Japan, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Pacific Ocean, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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ANALYSIS-Truth and consequences - a dilemma for Twitter and its users
ReutersBy Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Does Twitter have a credibility problem? For many, a single fake tweet from the Associated Press account that briefly roiled financial markets on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down...Tags: Entertainment, NPR, Radio, Sports, White House
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Texting contributed to fatal crash of medical helicopter, NTSB says
The pilot of a medical helicopter that crashed in Missouri in 2011 had been texting, and that was a contributing factor to the disaster that killed four people, federal investigators said. The case is the first fatal commercial aircraft accident...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Medical Procedures and Tests, Transportation Accidents, National Transportation Safety Board, Transportation Industry
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ANALYSIS-Nuclear Saudi Arabia a lifeline for the atomic energy industry
Reuters* Kingdom likely to choose more than one reactor design * Varied designs mean a greater range of reactor vendors involved * High capital costs, environmental resistance not issues * Signed nuclear cooperation deals with France, Korea, China, and...Tags: Energy, Imperial and Royal Matters, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Hitachi Ltd., Russia
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Car sales up in the Ozarks--new jobs at dealerships follow
jscherder@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo -- It's another sign of a strengthening economy--car sales are bouncing back here in the Ozarks. It's to the point for some dealerships that demand has been so high, keeping up with inventory and staff has been a challenge. "We had the...Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping
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Early quake warning system for Southern California gets $5 million
Earthquake scientists have received about $5 million to develop an earthquake early warning system for Southern California -- enough to build the network but not enough to operate it. The money, announced Friday, has enabled scientists to already...
Tags: Japan, Antonio Villaraigosa, China Earthquake (2010), U.S. Geological Survey, Natural Disasters
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Internet connected loved ones after Boston bombings
With cellular service in Boston jammed in the aftermath of the marathon explosions this week, many people were left scrambling for ways to let loved ones know they were safe and to search for information on family and friends. Social networks and...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Sports, Google Inc., American Red Cross
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How does Colorado spell spring? S-N-O-W
The calendar says it's spring, but that doesn’t mean snow season has ended, based on a blizzard warning from the National Weather Service for parts of Colorado. The temperatures in the Denver area was expected to reach the high 60s on Monday but...Tags: Snow Storms, Weather, National Weather Service, Weather Warnings
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At least 11 people stabbed at Houston-area Lone Star College
At least 11 people were stabbed at a Houston-area college Tuesday, which was on lockdown after the attacks, officials said. At least four victims at the Cy-Fair campus of the Lone Star College system in a northwestern Houston suburb were taken by...
Tags: Colleges and Universities
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