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U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Americans on average eat three pounds of shrimp a year, but can U.S. shoppers be sure the shrimp they love was produced without slave labor? A three-year investigation by the AFL-CIO affiliated Solidarity Center found several leading U.S. retailers receiv.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 9:42am neoform

Herald Tribune -- Youth For Christ officials said Saturday the center for teenagers will be closed until further notice following accusations that the director had a sexual relationship with a girl beginning when she was 13 years old. Martin Moore, 42, handed in his let.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 10:24pm neoform

FOX News -- The husband of a day care operator has been charged with sexually abusing two children who attended the center and may have molested as many as 40 children over the past 30 years, police said Tuesday. William Huck Sr. of rural Ste. Genevieve has been c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 3:12pm neoform

Mercury News -- Repeated vandalism at the Islamic Center of the East Bay over the past two years has some local Muslims concerned... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Award-winning journalist Robert Rosenthal has been named executive director of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. Rosenthal was managing editor of The Chronicle from 2002 until he left the paper earlier this year. He previously worked at.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Matthew Murray was kicked out of a missionary training program five years ago for strange behavior, and talked about hearing voices, according to a man who served at the center with him. Murray was the gunman who killed two people at the Youth With A Miss.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 10, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Wick said the suspect spent several minutes speaking with people inside the dorm. Peter Warren, director of Youth With a Mission Denver, said the man asked whether he could spend the night. Several youths called on Tiffany Johnson, the center's director o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- Medical center representatives said they treated two other victims from the mall shooting:Fred Wilson, 61, who suffered a bullet wound to his chest. He had been in surgery for about six hours and was in critical condition in the intensive care unit Wednes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Authorities today identified the victim of Sunday's fatal shooting at San Francisco's Metreon shopping center and movie theater as Michael Price, Jr., of Oakland. Price, 18, was shot to death after an argument with at least one other young man just ins.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Lorenzo has become a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center reported Thursday evening. The storm, speeding along at 75 mph (125 km) at 8 p.m. ET, was expected to come ashore in Mexico early Friday. Additional strengthening is possible.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 7:13pm neoform

Washington Post -- From the comfort of a control center at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California, pilot Mark Pestana will gun the throttle of his unmanned aircraft, pull back on the stick and gently guide his plane into the sky next month. But he will not be.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:58pm neoform

FOX News -- Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit. The Mississippi Youth Justice Project sued the state Wednesd.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

SF Gate -- The director of the National Hurricane Center went on leave Monday, government officials said, four days after many of the center's employees called for his removal because of his comments about an aging weather satellite. More than 20 of Bill Proenza'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:32pm neoform

FOX News -- Three youth sex offenders considered violent offenders ran out of a Jonesboro treatment center late Thursday night, accompanied by three girls, prompting a police search, a state official said. Marcus Galloway, Shawn Hester and Richard Richards, all 17.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 1:54pm neoform

Washington Post -- A top-level Pentagon review panel has concluded that Walter Reed Army Medical Center should be closed as soon as possible, following revelations of poor care that the panel blamed on a "perfect storm" of failed leadership, flawed policies and overwhelming.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 6:15pm neoform

CNN -- A woman was shot to death at CNN Center in Atlanta Tuesday in what Atlanta police called a "domestic situation." The victim, identified as Clara Riddles, 22, of College Park, was an employee of the Omni Hotel at the CNN Center complex, according to an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 12, 2007 @ 7:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Workers who come to the United States on short term, seasonal contracts are routinely exploited and have few legal safeguards, according to a report issued on Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Under the "guest" worker program, employers recrui.. Read More