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U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Two days before she disappeared, Nina Reiser accepted a $50,000-a-year job with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to help Russian immigrants, the woman who hired her testified Wednesday. Prosecutors hope Patricia Erwin's testimony will help.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 9:30am neoform

www.ala.org -- It all began March 26, when a woman came to the reference desk and asked Martha Lee of the Bluffton (Ohio) Public Library for the Allen County Hazardous Materials Emergency Plan. Lee told American Libraries that after receiving the appropriate binder, the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 9:12am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man was acquitted Tuesday after being arrested for refusing to heed a police officer's command he stop singing in a public park. A judge found Anthony Riley not guilty of disorderly conduct, saying "This is America, not Afghanistan." Riley, 20, had f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 1:29pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Army has asked Loudoun County public schools to distribute a survey to help identify students interested in the military, a proposal some parents contend would give the armed service an unfair recruiting edge over colleges and other career paths. T.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 12:51pm neoform

Slate -- The U.S. attorneys purge scandal is heating up. The House and Senate have convened hearings for Tuesday, promising an orgy of named names and pointed fingers. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., now admits what he once denied: that he may have had a hand in the r.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 2:16am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- In an experiment that's opening a new front in the culture wars, a growing number of states are paying antiabortion activists to counsel women with unplanned pregnancies. At least eight states — including Florida, Missouri and Pennsylvania — use pu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 10:14pm neoform

Yahoo News -- ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Watanabe, a lower house lawmaker who also oversees economic and administrative reforms, appeared convinced the U.S. government would use public money. He said that decision may not come during the presidential election because of the inevitable question a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- At 8:25 every weekday morning, Jim and Judy Little stand on their front porch to make sure their granddaughter, Shelby, gets safely on the school bus that takes her to her elementary school. Then they watch as the bus drives across a bridge that, at the b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 27, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The white sand radiated in the brilliant August sunshine at Stinson Beach, where Douglas Rigg had just laid down a towel and pulled his wetsuit out of a backpack. The 43-year-old Mill Valley architect was looking forward to a day of reading, relaxing a.. Read More

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

SF Gate -- While the public clamors for safer streets and a crackdown on quality-of-life crimes, San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey is quietly allowing scores of drug users and petty thieves to walk out of jail early so they don't have to sleep on the floor... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Sep 12, 2007 @ 11:45pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history. What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- When Deris Thompson moved into his Noe Street apartment more than a decade ago, the steep incline next door was a weedy, overgrown eyesore that repulsed neighbors and attracted unwelcome loiterers. Without the slope, the site might have been a continua.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

USA Today -- An exploding steam pipe under a busy street in Midtown Manhattan this week dramatizes potentially dangerous decay in aging public works systems across the nation that will require tens of billions of dollars to fix. From New York to Atlanta, cities off.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 12:23pm neoform

New York Times -- Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks... Read More

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

Washington Post -- The Maryland Board of Public Works yesterday rejected a wetlands permit for a development of 1,350 homes on an island just east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a project Gov. Martin O'Malley said would be so damaging to the bay it would not be in the state'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 1:13am neoform

FOX News -- Fats Domino took the stage before a sold-out crowd of hundreds in a New Orleans nightclub Saturday, marking the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's first public performance since Hurricane Katrina. Dressed in a snappy white jacket, the 79-year-old New Orlean.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Spring has arrived in this southeastern Vermont shire town. The trees are less bare, and some local residents are more so. Brattleboro has no ordinance, and Vermont no law, against public nudity. Some of the people who caused a stir last year when they be.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 1, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform

SF Gate -- Regional transit officials hope the temporary problems at the MacArthur Maze cause long-term shifts in the number of drivers who give up their cars and commute on public buses, trains and ferries. That happened after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, wh.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 5:37pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Why investors are clamoring to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports—and why the public should be nervous Steve Hogan was in a bind. The executive director of Colorado's Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority had run up $416 millio.. Read More