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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 Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- It could be a month or two before work begins to ease the threat of a catastrophic flood in a historic mining town, officials say. More than a billion gallons of water contaminated with heavy metals is trapped in a tunnel in the mountains above the town o.. Read More

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 Dec 17, 2007 @ 3:00pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- Israeli intelligence officials are in the U.S. trying to convince the Bush administration that Iran is still trying to develop nuclear weapons — contrary to the findings of a recent U.S. intelligence report, security officials said. Prime Minister Eh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 15, 2007 @ 4:58pm neoform

Local 6 -- An elementary student in Marion County was arrested Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said. The 10-year-old girl, a student at Sunrise Elementary School in Ocala, was cha.. 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 Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 2:35pm neoform

www.freedomsphoenix.com -- Safford Middle School officials did not violate the civil rights of a 13-year-old Safford girl when they forced her to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area four years ago while looking for a drug, according to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appe.. Read More

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

SF Gate -- A 31-year-old man was arrested Tuesday by federal agents and sheriff's officials acting on a tip that the convicted burglar had a rocket launcher. Paul Henry Ledwik was arrested without incident on a felon in possession of firearms warrant issued by a.. 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 Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Families of the trapped six miners accused those in charge of rescue effort of having "given up" on the missing men. In a statement read by a spokesman, the families urged the Utah mine's owner and federal officials to drill a hole into the mine large eno.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

Washington Post -- Divers pressed their search Thursday for victims of a catastrophic bridge collapse as dozens of distraught families awaited word on missing relatives and government officials began trying to determine what caused the 40-year-old span to plummet into the M.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:31am neoform

FOX News -- New Yorkers are still questioning their air's safety after a steam pipe eruption spewed dirt and debris into the sky over midtown. Many remember the cover-up after the last major pipe rupture and the illnesses ground zero workers faced years after officia.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 10:10pm neoform

CNN -- The Transportation Security Administration will deploy special teams to help enhance transit system security in eight cities over the July Fourth holiday, officials said Tuesday. The teams -- consisting of K-9 explosive detection units, air marshals, tran.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

FOX News -- A man was being detained in New York for the death of a woman who was dragged for several miles under a minivan after trying to stop the driver from fleeing a collision, officials said Monday. Abdelaziz Bilal Hamze, 24, was detained on Delta flight 132.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:51pm neoform

BBC News -- Four people have been charged in the US over a plot to bomb John F Kennedy airport in New York, US officials said. They include a former cargo worker and a former MP for the Caribbean nation of Guyana. One of the suspects is a fugitive, believed to be.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 4:37pm neoform

Washington Post -- An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been eaten by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, officials with the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday. The c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

Yahoo News -- Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals. U.S. federal and state officials are beginning the final phase.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform

USA Today -- A capuchin monkey at the Denver Zoo has died of plague and officials are trying to prevent an epidemic by isolating the primates and treating them with antibiotics. Zoo officials learned late Friday that the 8-year-old animal that died Wednesday tested.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- State lottery players got a second chance to win after officials discovered a ball used in the MATCH 6 lotto drawing had broken into pieces. A second off-air drawing was held Tuesday night and the state said it would pay off winning tickets for both se.. Read More