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U.S. / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A bicycle messenger who had recently started his own delivery business was killed Wednesday when he was hit by a pickup next to Alamo Square, San Francisco police said. Kirk Janes, 35, was killed at 10:55 a.m. at Fulton and Steiner streets at the north.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 6, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- An explosive device has caused minor damage to a military recruitment centre on New York City's Times Square. The blast occurred before daybreak, when the centre was empty. No-one was hurt. A glass window was smashed. Police blocked off the area. Th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 18, 2007 @ 12:56pm neoform

New York Times -- Millions of people have paused to stand amid the hustle, bustle and neon of Times Square. And sure, those who pause — to gawk, talk or eat a gyro — can slow the progress of pedestrians around them. But when Matthew Jones of Brooklyn lingered on.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 6, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- An explosive device caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above. Police blocked off the area to investigate the explosion, which occurred at about 3:45 a.m., shatt.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 6, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- New York police said a small explosion outside a military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday caused minor damage. The explosion occurred around at 3:45 a.m. There were no reported injuries. Two witnesses, a man and a woman, told a local.. Read More

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

SF Gate -- San Francisco's Department of the Environment will test children's toys for lead, cadmium and other unhealthy compounds starting at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Union Square. Officials will use an instant-read testing device that will be able to determine whet.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 1:34pm neoform

FOX News -- A wildfire that has scorched about 46 square miles (119 square kilometers) in northeastern Utah and killed three people has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people from nearby towns and forced authorities to close a national forest to the public... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 12, 2007 @ 11:15am neoform

FOX News -- Firefighters said today that a wildfire that has raced through the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia and into northern Florida has charred at least 179-thousand-940 acres — or 281 square miles — since a lightning strike ignited it a week ago. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 12:19pm neoform

FOX News -- Thousands of square miles covering a three-state area have been searched in the more than two weeks since two women left their retirement community for a day of outlet-store shopping and never came back, disappearing with scarcely a trace. Authorities,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 4:00pm neoform

USA Today -- Firefighters were making slow progress Thursday against two wildfires that have forced more than 1,000 people from their homes and destroyed 14 houses as they spread over more than 45 square miles of tinder-dry forest in southeast Georgia. The fires th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Dec 31, 2006 @ 7:02pm neoform

USA Today -- Thousands of revelers flooded Times Square on Sunday hours before the clock struck 12 to snag prime viewing spots for the city's New Year's Eve spectacle... Read More