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U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- The government estimated Thursday that up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil can be recovered from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana, using current technology. The U.S. Geological Survey called it the largest continuous oil accumulation.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 24, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Heavy snow kept a mountain stretch of Interstate 5 closed Thursday, as several hundred vehicles were stranded south of Bakersfield to north of Santa Clarita, the California Highway Patrol said. "It's going to be awhile," said California Highway Patrol.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 16, 2007 @ 7:12pm neoform

CNN -- A disciplinary committee says North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong will be disbarred for his handling of the Duke University lacrosse rape case. "This matter has been a fiasco. There's no doubt about it," said committee chairman F. Lane Williamson... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 11:30am neoform

CNN -- The North Carolina attorney general's office said it will announce a decision Wednesday afternoon in the sexual assault case against three former Duke lacrosse players. Defense sources have told CNN that they expect charges against the men will be drop.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 10:57am neoform

CNN -- While the northern Plains and Northeast shiver in dangerously cold temperatures, the folks in upstate New York are keeping warm shoveling snow -- lots of snow. Since Sunday, the small towns of Parish and Mexico have recorded more than 6 feet of snow, a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Red colored lights that formed a square and then a triangle were seen floating over north Phoenix late Monday, a sight reminiscent of an unexplained 1997 sighting that has become part of the area's lore. There was no immediate word where they came from.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- U.S. troops are still fighting al-Qaida, of course, especially in the north. Nationwide, however, most of the recent battles have involved Shiite militants. The trouble started last month when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite, launched.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 13, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Police arrested a second suspect early Thursday in connection with the death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson. Heavily armed officers surrounded a house in Durham, North Carolina, shortly after midnight Thur.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 5, 2007 @ 9:44am neoform

SF Gate -- A storm that brought as much as 2 inches of rain to the North Bay is moving out of the region, but a second system is taking aim at the Bay Area and could hit Thursday night, forecasters said today. Rainfall totals in the central Bay Area from the syst.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Minnesota’s Grand Marais, on Lake Superior’s North Shore, got 20 inches of snow, and the port city of Duluth marked a Dec. 1 record of 10.3 inches, the Weather Service said. Roads were already cleared Sunday in Grand Marais, said Jane Shinners, own.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Seven people were shot in North Richmond on Monday evening, according to the Contra Costa County sheriff's office. A sheriff patrolling the unincorporated area heard gunshots at 4:50 p.m. and found one person shot at the intersection of Fifth and Marke.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The owner of a North Carolina beach house where seven college students died in a weekend fire said Monday that his family's "lives were just changed forever" by the tragedy. Chip Auman said his 18-year-old daughter survived the fire but was hospitalized a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Eleven members of a Boy Scout troop did not emerge from a camping area in the mountains of western North Carolina as scheduled Sunday evening, prompting an overnight search effort, local authorities said. The eight scouts and three adult leaders from Troo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 9, 2007 @ 7:57pm neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Gabrielle began breaking up over North Carolina after hitting the Outer Banks with 50 mph winds Sunday afternoon, forecasters reported. At 5 p.m. ET, Gabrielle was centered about 30 miles southwest of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, movin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 3:54pm neoform

USA Today -- Three pygmy killer whales were stranded at North Myrtle Beach on Wednesday and two were so sick they had to be put to death, a biologist said. At midday Wednesday, a female was still stranded, but officials were trying to keep her alive as they searche.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 11:32am neoform

FOX News -- Officials expected the Brazos River in North Texas to rise above flood level on Sunday, a cause of concern for residents who evacuated once already last week. The Brazos was expected to swell to around 26 feet — a foot above flood stage — after off.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 11:10am neoform

BBC News -- A controversial new idea suggests that a large space rock exploded over North America 13,000 years ago. The blast may have wiped out one of America's first Stone Age cultures as well as the continent's big mammals such as the mammoth and the mastodon... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 8:42pm neoform

FOX News -- A small plane crashed Friday in rural western North Carolina, killing three people on board, officials said. The single-engine Cessna 182 was on its way from Dublin, Ga. to Asheville Regional Airport when it disappeared from radar around 11 a.m. Air tr.. Read More

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

Washington Post -- Rather than simply drop the remaining charges against three former Duke University lacrosse players, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper turned the tables on the prosecutor Wednesday and, after castigating him as a "rogue" who acted out of "bravado.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:14pm neoform

CNN -- Rescuers brought in heat-sensing equipment Monday for a nighttime search for a 12-year-old Boy Scout who has been missing for two days in the North Carolina mountains, a National Park Service ranger said. Michael Auberry went missing Saturday afternoon.. Read More