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U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 3:00pm mrmdc

SF Gate -- State Farm Insurance Cos. is suspending sales of any new commercial or homeowner policies in Mississippi starting Friday, citing in part a wave of litigation it has faced since Hurricane Katrina, a company official said Wednesday. Mike Fernandez, vice.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 11:27am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- One hundred twenty-two levees from Maryland to California are at risk of failing, according to a list released Thursday by the Army Corps of Engineers... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 1, 2006 @ 10:41am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Without their knowledge, millions of Americans and foreigners crossing U.S. borders in the past four years have been assigned scores generated by U.S. government computers rating the risk that the travelers are terrorists or criminals... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 6, 2006 @ 11:05am mrmdc

Ars Technica -- US Customs and Border Protection issued a notice in the Federal Register yesterday which detailed the agency's massive database that keeps risk assessments on every traveler entering or leaving the country. Citizens who are concerned that their informati.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 5, 2006 @ 8:59pm neoform

Washington Post -- The federal government disclosed details yesterday of a border-security program to screen all people who enter and leave the United States, create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that information for up to 40 years... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 1:59pm mrmdc

Boston Globe -- A high school student found a needle and syringe in a bottle by the side of a road and jabbed eight fellow students over the course of two days, raising serious health concerns, police and school officials said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 28, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Several major roadways across the state were closed early Monday after the latest in a week's worth of storms, and experts warned that the risk of mudslides has not eased even as wet weather begins moving out of the region. Snow forced the closure of t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 28, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Several major roadways across the state were closed early Monday after the latest in a week's worth of storms, and experts warned that the risk of mudslides has not eased even as wet weather begins moving out of the region. Snow forced the closure of the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 12:19am neoform

USA Today -- The busy shipping lanes in and out of Boston Harbor will be narrowed and shifted northward Sunday in a bid to lower the risk of rare right whales being killed by ships. It's the first time in U.S. history shipping lanes have been changed to protect wil.. Read More