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U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned. Sources familiar with.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 9:25am neoform

Salon -- A federal jury in Miami today unanimously found U.S. citizen Jose Padilla guilty of "conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism overseas." In so doing, the jury dealt an enormous blow not only to Padilla himself, but also to the theory which the Bush adminis.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 1:09am neoform

FOX News -- A power outage darkened a large swath of Manhattan and the Bronx on Wednesday, knocking out traffic lights, cutting subway service and forcing the evacuation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on one of the hottest days of the year. "The entire neighbor.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

FOX News -- Days of deadly storms flooded roads, damaged homes and knocked down trees in Texas, and about 200,000 homes and businesses remained in the dark Thursday. At least three people have been killed — two hit by lightning and a third stuck in a submerged c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 12, 2007 @ 7:54pm neoform

FOX News -- Officials reported all workers were accounted for and safe after a gas pipeline ruptured and exploded, touching off a spectacular super-heated inferno that ignited several small brush fires and cut power to about 30,000 people in the surrounding area... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 9:35am mrmdc

Canada.com -- In 1787, shortly after the Constitutional Convention that gave final form to the government of the rebellious American colonies, a woman approached 81-year-old Ben Franklin and asked what sort of arrangement the delegates had come up with. "A republic --.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 3:39pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- Kevin Watt crouched down to search the rusted Cadillac he had stopped for cruising the parking lot of a Raleigh apartment complex with a broken light. He pulled out two open Bud Light cans, an empty Corona bottle, rolling papers, a knife, a hammer, a ster.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 22, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

MSNBC -- The Imperial Valley of California is ideal country for solar and wind power. It rains less than three inches a year. Temperatures hit 110 degrees in the summer. The wind blows pretty steadily, too. And it's just east of San Diego. Now, because of a Cal.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 27, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Power executives were still in the dark Wednesday about how a glitch at a substation triggered a blackout that cut power to millions across south Florida. The outage snarled traffic when traffic signals went dead, forced hospitals to scramble for generato.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 9, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The big storm Friday knocked out power to Cole Hardware, but a battery backup kept the cash registers online long enough for the generator to take over, allowing the store to stay open, despite an eight-hour blackout, and sell flashlights, empty sandbags.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

SF Gate -- Thousands of Southern California residents were without power Thursday as strong winds knocked down power lines and blew blinding dust across desert roadways. More than 19,000 customers from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power were without el.. Read More

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

CNN -- Utility crews have nearly completed restoring power to homes and businesses in Oklahoma, where as many as 600,000 customers were blacked out by last week's storm. The number of customers in the cold and dark fell to fewer than 14,000 late Wednesday, with.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- An official with an electric cooperative in Kansas says the utility hopes everyone who lost power in the ice storm more than a week ago will have electricity back by Christmas. But he said that may not be a realistic goal. About 24,000 rural customers in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Oklahoma utility officials said it could be a week or more before power was fully restored. "This is a big one. We've got a massive situation here and it's probably going to be a week to 10 days before we get power on to everybody," said Ed Bettinger,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- The trash sent to Barnwell includes protective clothing and gloves, tools, cleaning rags, lab equipment, industrial measuring devices and equipment used to treat cancer patients. It does not include spent fuel from nuclear power plants. The waste is store.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- An electric transformer failed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this morning, causing a six-hour power outage that affected 107 of the lab's 700 laboratories. The outage began at 7:30 a.m. and an "operational emergency" was declared at 10:.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Two men were arrested early this morning for allegedly stealing about $20,000 worth of power tools from a Santa Rosa business. Carlos Aleman, 22, of Los Angeles, and Ruben Hernandez, 29, of Glendale, were arrested on suspicion of burglary, conspiracy t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 12:31pm neoform

USA Today -- Severe thunderstorms swept through central and southeastern Minnesota throughout Saturday, knocking out power to about 103,000 homes and businesses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, uprooting trees and causing some street flooding, officials said. Xcel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- A storm system spawned tornados as it swept across the upper Midwest and into Pennsylvania, killing at least one person, flooding basements and leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power early Friday. In western Pennsylvania, Alleg.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

Washington Post -- The first application to build a new U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades has been filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, bumping a proposed third unit at a Calvert County site to the front of a list of reactors being considered by the nuclear.. Read More