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U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Same-sex weddings are being held around the state starting this evening. Here are officials' plans: Alameda County: The county clerk's office will stay open late tonight - until 8 p.m. - and is one of a handful of offices statewide to wed couples today.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 3, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The family of R&B singer Sean Levert wants the FBI to look into his death after a jail medical emergency. His cousin, Michael Gibson, said Levert never had any outburst such as the type described by Kevin McDonough, warden at the Cuyahoga County jail... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 17, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- A motorcyclist was killed in Solano County today when he attempted to pass motorists at high speed and slid on the dirt center divider, which catapulted him off his bike, according to the California Highway Patrol. The accident occurred at 2:55 p.m. wh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Severe weather raked southwestern Missouri on Monday night, killing at least two people and leaving a path of destruction across two counties, authorities said. A line of tornadoes shadowed Interstate 44, running from the southwest to the northeast. The s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 3:05pm neoform

www.kxii.com -- One man is in prison after allegedly stabbing the driver he hitched a ride with over the weekend. The victim is recovering, but it's the details of the case that officials say make it unlike any they've ever seen. Fannin County Sheriff’s Deputies rec.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- More San Diego County residents faced orders to leave their homes early Wednesday as wildfires threatened new areas of charred, smoke-choked Southern California. The newest evacuees from De Luz, a community near the Camp Pendleton Marine base, and from th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 23, 2007 @ 8:06am neoform

MSNBC -- Around 300,000 told to flee Firefighters — who lost valuable time trying to persuade stubborn homeowners to leave — had their work cut out for them as winds gusting to 70 mph scattered embers onto dry brush, spawning spot fires. California official.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 10:56am neoform

www.kptv.com -- The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office has launched an investigation into allegations that a local corrections deputy bragged about using a Taser gun on people in an Internet chat room. FOX 12’s news partner, the Portland Tribune, was the first to b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- Divers on Sunday found another body at the site of the Mississippi River bridge collapse, raising the official death toll to nine. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office identified the body as 20-year-old Richard Chit of St. Anthony. His mother, 50.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Washington Post -- Fairfax County supervisors want to close a loophole that has enabled builders to erect hundreds of houses in recent years without meeting modern-day health and safety requirements for water, sewer and electrical systems. Building on existing foundation.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 2:41pm mrmdc

CNN -- Cobb County police tell CNN that the two women they picked up and questioned earlier Thursday in connection with a bank robbery have been arrested. Dubbed the Barbie Bandits, the two young women are believed to have robbed a supermarket bank branch and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 21, 2007 @ 10:26am mrmdc

Washington Post -- A senior Prince George's County homeland security official who last month shot two unarmed furniture deliverymen opened fire without provocation after angrily ordering the men to leave his home, the surviving mover said in a statement provided last night.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 9:55am neoform

Houston Chronicle -- Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio's most populous county... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 10:11am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta's predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from some of the metropolitan area's poorest, black nei.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 2:36pm neoform

MSNBC -- In a case that has renewed questions about the quality of Texas justice, a man who spent 10 years behind bars for the rape of a boy has become the 12th person in Dallas County to be cleared by DNA evidence... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 11:57pm neoform

www.thestate.com -- A company that knowingly hires illegal immigrants could lose its business license under a county law given final approval Wednesday evening... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 22, 2006 @ 9:47am mrmdc

Chronicle Observer -- A tractor-trailer hauling about 6,000 pounds of low-grade uranium overturned Thursday as it exited Interstate 95 in Johnston County, authorities said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 27, 2006 @ 9:30am mrmdc

CBS News -- An East Tennessee county that has beamed live 24-hour video from its jail on the Internet for nearly six years may nix the practice following complaints of harassment and security concerns... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 4:36pm mrmdc

www.local6.com -- Investigators in Flagler County, Fla., are looking into accusations that a boy under the age of 7 sexually abused a classmate with a stick at an elementary school... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 2:15pm mrmdc

CNN -- Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead... Read More