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U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 8, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

MSNBC -- A man known for confrontations with city officials killed five people at a city council meeting in suburban St. Louis Thursday night before he was shot to death by police. Two Kirkwood police officers and three people attending the meeting were killed.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The attorney for the two brothers who survived the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has accused officials there of knowingly maintaining a tiger grotto that "couldn't hold a house cat" and demands that city officials apologize for waging a "cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics. The st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- In the past month, city workers have cleared out 167 camps in Golden Gate Park and have provided services as small as hot showers and as big as housing to 164 homeless people, Newsom administration officials say. And it's not just homeless people recei.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 4:35pm neoform

CNN -- The air was declared clean, but the carcinogen asbestos was found in dust and debris hurled into midtown Manhattan by a steam pipe explosion the day before, New York City announced Thursday. The city's Department of Emergency Management will continue to t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

www.komotv.com -- The City of Keizer is taking heat for installing a group of cement posts designed to protect pedestrians from cars, but which some say is a phallic symbol. A total of 52 of the posts were installed at a busy intersection in Keizer and they are getting.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- City officials have sided with Ernest Hemingway's former home and its celebrated six-toed felines in its catfight with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Key West City Commission exempted the home from a city law prohibiting more than four domesti.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 1:20pm neoform

CNN -- Tom Wayne amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books. His collection ranges from best sellers like Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" and Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 11:10pm neoform

CNN -- More than a year after an elderly hospital patient was found wandering a crime-ridden area in a hospital gown and slippers, the nation's largest HMO agreed in a settlement with the city to changes aimed at ending the dumping of homeless patients on street.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 12:50pm neoform

www.wsbtv.com -- A Roswell man is battling city hall over the number of cars he has at his home. A Roswell ordinance limits the number of vehicles that can be seen from the street to four, but Ahzar Zaidi often has more when his children visit from college. Zaidi is a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:57pm neoform

CNN -- The city's planning board has endorsed a proposal for a twisting lakefront tower that would become the nation's tallest building. With Thursday's approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, the design and site plan for the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire goes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 10:01pm neoform

Yahoo News -- An activist's Nazi salute during a City Council meeting caused too much disruption, a judge ruled, saying free speech only goes so far in City Hall. Homeless rights activist Robert Norse filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming the city violated h.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 11:26pm neoform

SF Gate -- The city's insurance company has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims from about 175 people who were wrongly arrested during a peaceful World Trade Organization protest in 1999. The case went to trial in January, and a federal jury found Seattle l.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 2:20am neoform

CBS News -- Residents of 200 homes were ordered to evacuate Saturday as a wildfire burned out of control in hills and canyons in this city east of Los Angeles, authorities said. The fire burned about 1,400 acres, or 2.1 square miles, and had burned a shed and the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 12:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- A firefighter clicked on a link on the city's Web site and got a recording of a bogus dispatcher saying 911 was closed. "Our offices are closed because everyone is at the doughnut shop," said the audio file. Stu Gallaher, city business administrator, s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 4:09pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- This environmentally friendly city put a green spin Tuesday on the checkout question "Paper or plastic?," becoming the first in the nation to outlaw non-recyclable plastic bags from use in supermarkets, drugstores and other large retailers. By a 10-1 v.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 1:39pm neoform

USA Today -- Anhydrous ammonia leaked from a railroad tank car Saturday and the fumes led authorities to evacuate several homes in southern Lake City. There were no immediate reports of injuries, the Wabasha County sheriff's office said. The leaking car was part.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 3, 2007 @ 12:29am neoform

CNN -- The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Under the Federal Tort Act, Thursday was the last day.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 7:38pm neoform

Reuters -- New York City symbolically banned use of the word nigger on Wednesday, the latest step in a campaign that hopes to expunge the most vile of racial slurs from hip hop music and television. The City Council unanimously declared a moratorium that carries.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:35am mrmdc

FOX News -- Exterminators began sweeping a Kansas City neighborhood infested with rats after one of the rodents crawled into a baby's crib and severely disfigured the girl's face. Authorities said the girl's parents put her in a crib next to their bed early Sunday.. Read More