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Local Oklahoma tornado relief efforts
If you would like to help the victims of the devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma, here is a list of agencies you may contact and support with a donation (This list is expected to grow over the next few days.): American Red Cross: text 90999 to give $10...Tags: American Red Cross, Human Interest, Religion and Belief
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Money, items to be collected for Oklahoma tornado victims
WSBT-TVST. JOSEPH, BERRIEN COUNTIES--The Red Cross says monetary donations are best but people in and around Moore, Okla. need food and water, and people in our area are eager to help. An employee stays busy using a forklift to stack pallets of packaged...Tags: Career and Workplace, American Red Cross, Employees, Human Interest
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Water taxi opens new North Avenue stop
RedEyeThe Chicago Water Taxi will open a new North Avenue stop on May 28 to take commuters to train stations downtown, the company announced Tuesday. Wendella boats will shuttle riders between the new North Avenue dock, on the south end of the Cherry Street...Tags: Metra, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Transit Authority, Near North Side
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Report: 87 shipwrecks, most from WWII, could leak oil near US, but no 'ticking time bombs'
AP Science WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Shipwrecks lying deep off America's coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal report says. While 87 of the ships — most sunk during World War II by German...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Government, Jupiter, National Government
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Boats linked to 2010 Lake Huron oil spill being removed from Duncan Bay at Cheboygan
CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — Boats that officials have said were believed responsible for a 2010 Lake Huron oil spill are expected to be removed from the affected area this year. The Cheboygan Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/10RDxTF ) work is... -
Boats linked to Cheboygan oil spill being removed
CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — Boats that officials have said were believed responsible for a 2010 Lake Huron oil spill are expected to be removed from the affected area this year. The Cheboygan Daily Tribune reports work is taking place to remove the...
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The tale of 'Elevate Chicago' and foreclosure blight in the neighborhoods
Thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-three. That's the number of properties in Chicago listed last week in some stage of mortgage foreclosure. This is a disaster. This is a crisis. And though you wouldn't know it from the amount of news coverage...
Tags: United Center, McCormick Place, West Loop, Humboldt Park, Navy Pier
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Seaport battle looms as Israel plans new competition
ReutersTEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel is betting its economic future on high-tech exports but faces a low-tech bottleneck in state-owned seaports subject to work stoppages and slowdowns because of the enormous strength of their unions. All that may be about to...Tags: Company Privatization, Strikes, Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, Corporate Crime
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Tavares sells seldom-used water taxis for $75K
TAVARES — The city is selling a pair of water taxis that have been seldom used since 2008 for $75,000. The 42-foot-long, air-conditioned boats, named the Capt. Haynes and the Major St. Clair Abrams, operated briefly in 2008, ferrying up to 40...
Tags: Transportation, Travel, Waterway and Maritime Transportation, Broward County
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Chinatown-area riders to endure more CTA headaches
RedEyeRiders who use the Cermak-Chinatown station just can't catch a break. Five years ago, a semi-trailer truck crashed into the station escalator, killing two people and injuring about two dozen more. Over the next few years, the CTA overhauled the...Tags: Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois), Michigan Avenue, Chicago Transit Authority, Near South Side
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Whelchel's State of the City address talks country club annexation
The city will revive talks about annexing Boca Grove and St. Andrews country clubs in West Boca for the third time and reconsider the Lake Wyman redevelopment project as two possible ways to increase revenue, Mayor Susan Whelchel said in her annual...Tags: Local Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Intracoastal Waterway, Palm Beach County, Clubs and Associations
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A water taxi in Boca? Don't get your hopes up
It didn't come up on the wish list in city talks, but possible water taxi service between Boca Raton and Jupiter made the radar screen in Palm Beach County. Boca Raton has no vendors in mind and there's no request for proposals right now, said...Tags: Transportation, Palm Beach County Commission, Travel, Jupiter, Intracoastal Waterway
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