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New Laws Request Fire-Safe Cigarettes
On New Year’s Day, laws requesting that the cigarettes sold in stores be all slow-burning...
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Toxic Chemicals Found In Children At High Levels
The chemical polybrominated diphenyl ethers, usually known as PBDE, has been found in children’...
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E. Coli Bacteria Sickens Scouts And Staff At A Boy Scout Camp
At least 19 people who attended a Boy Scout
Camp in Goshen, Va., known for hosting Washington area...
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OC’s First Two West Nile Human Cases
The thing everyone was afraid of, eventually happened: the
blood two men in Orange County donated...
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California Heat Wave May Cause New West Nile Virus Outbreak
The heat wave that brought California
down this summer was accompanied, besides the hundreds of...
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Bay Area’s Air Is Getting Better
On Friday, a health advisory was issued with regard to Santa Clara Valley’s air quality. The public...
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Air Pollution Alert in Effect until Friday for Minnesota
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air
pollution alert for most of...
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A New Study Says Tasers Are Safe
William Bozeman, the lead investigator and an emergency
medicine specialist at Wake Forest...
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Clearer Air In Bay Area
After turning into ashes thousands of
acres of forest, Lick fire of Henry W. Coe State Park and...
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U.S.
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Tornados, wildfires leave eight dead in US
Washington - A wave of violent spring weather across the United States left at least eight people...
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Tornado rips through US town killing 3; fires cause havoc in Texas
New York - A deadly tornado ripped through the quiet Arkansas town of Mena killing three...
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Western Forests Are Dying At An Increasing Rate, Study Says
A recent study shows that trees on old growth forests across the West are dying at a small, but...
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Power Still Out in Northeast
New England was struck Thursday by a massive ice storm, leaving more than 300,000 homes and...
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Hurricane Season Over On Sunday
On Sunday, it’s time to call it a day on the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. This season was a...
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Verizon Fires Employees Nosing Through Obama’s Phone Records
Verizon wireless has fired employees who looked through
President-elect Barack Obama’s old cell...
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Firefighters get California blazes under control
Los Angeles - After four days of widespread devastation firefighters on Tuesday had three large...
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Wildfires turn California from heaven to hell
Los Angeles - California always evoked bikini-clad beach beauties, high-tech hothouses and carefree...
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Thousands of Californians Wait to Return Home after the Devastative Fire
Thousands of residents returned home in Southern California to see their houses devastated by...
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Calif. Firefighters Make Little Progress in Battle against Wildfires
Fire crews are struggling to contain the wildfires burning across Southern California, but despite...
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California Wildfires Could Have Been Worse
Just as there’s a hurricane season or a rainy season, it’s only natural that there also is a fire...
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Wildfires Run Wild In California
Los Angeles knows nothing of winter, but Californians are facing their own troubles. Wildfires are...
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Light winds aid battle against wildfires
Los Angeles - Fierce Santa Ana winds subsided Wednesday, helping thousands of firefighters reign in...
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Schwarzenegger Declares State of Emergency Amidst Wildfires
Los Angeles - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Tuesday as...
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Schwarzenegger declares emergency as wildfires torch California
Los Angeles - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Tuesday as...
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Technology
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Steve Jobs Giving Up On Macworld Fires Up Rumors About His Health
More than two decades have passed since the first Macworld Expo, and the future doesn’t seem...
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Total Recall 5: Sony Hit Again By A Battery Recall
Sony announced a new recall of notebook batteries. According
to the Japanese company, the PC...
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Hospital Fires Two Employees Guilty Of Posting Patient Pictures On MySpace
Two University of New Mexico Hospital workers have been
fired, after being found guilty of taking...
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White Spaces Debate Fires Up With Google's “Free The Airwaves”
As the Federal Communications Commission is still debating
over the approval of free, unlicensed...
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California Has A Brand New Reliable Firefighter
The newest add-on to California’s Fire Department is a drone
called Ikhana, developed by NASA,...
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Nintendo Launches Six Titles With WiiWare
Starting today, Wii owners with an Internet connection
can download new, creative games from a...
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AT&T Will Replace 17,000 Batteries in Outdoor Cabinets
AT&T Inc is replacing 17,000 backup batteries used as backup power sources in its outdoor...
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Business
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Sony Faces Battery Issues Again
During recent years, it was easy to notice a pattern in Sony’s product recall activities. Mainly,...
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Sony Is Still Not Done With Its Battery Recalls
Sony Corp. announced that several PC makers, including Toshiba and HP, will soon commence a...
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Comcast's Move Fires Up Controversies
Comcast’s decision to set limits on its customers’ broadband usage caused quite a hype in these...
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Yahoo Fires Up Its Eagle Platform
Yahoo announced the official release of its geolocation
platform, Fire Eagle, which up until now...
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LA Times Fires Editor, Several Changes Will Follow
James O’Shea, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, was fired after about 14 months since he took...
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Microsoft Fires its CIO
Microsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday that it had fired its
chief information officer Stuart L....
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Snocap, Fanning’s Music Store, Fires 60 Percent Of Its Staff
The music company, Snocap, founded in 2002 by the former
Napster founder Shawn Fanning has...
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SAS Cancels Flights After Landing Gear Problems
Bombardier Canada sent a notification to all airlines, urging them to ground all Q400 turboprop...
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Ford Recalls 3.6 Million Vehicles with Faulty Switch
Ford Motor Co announced it will recall about 3.6 million vehicles because of an alleged faulty...
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World
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Australian arsonist jailed for 13 years
Sydney - An Australian woman who set at least 21 forest fires on Adelaide's...
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Australian forest fire death toll falls to 173
Sydney - Police on Monday lowered the death toll from last month's forest...
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Policeman shot on La Reunion as economic protests turn violent
Paris - Bands of roving youths set fires to cars and trash bins, looted stores and battled police...
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Israeli tanks, troops continue push into Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv/Gaza - Israeli troops pushed further into the Gaza Strip Sunday morning, battling...
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Elite commandos end siege in Mumbai, security chief says
New Delhi - Elite commandos ended a 59-hour siege of Mumbai Saturday by killing three terrorists...
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Indian Commandoes Free More Foreigners from Mumbai Hotels
The Indian military commandoes are continuing operations to capture or kill the remaining...
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Battle with terrorists continues in Mumbai, toll 119
New Delhi - Indian forces continued their battle with terrorists in luxury hotels in the financial...
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As Store Shelves Go Bare, Kremlin Whitewashes Credit Crisis
Moscow - Nothing could be a more visual throwback to the scarcity of Soviet days then the yawning...
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2,500 Evacuated Following Chemical Leak at Pennsylvania Plant
About 2,500 residents of four Butler County communities in western Pennsylvania were evacuated from...
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Finnish School Shooting Victims Now Identified
All the victims of the school shooting occurred this week in
Finland
have now been identified,...
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Police: Finnish School Shooter Planned the Massacre for Years
The 22-year-old man who killed 10 people at a trade school in western Finland on Tuesday had...
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US newspaper paints unflattering picture of Palin
Washington - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is a tyrannical woman who pursues...
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Pier in British Seaside Town Destroyed by Fire
A fire “completely gutted” a century-old pier in the seaside
town of Fleetwood, north-west...
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Japan prepares for the worst with nationwide earthquake drills
Tokyo - More than 590,000 people Monday participated in earthquake drills across Japan on a...
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Russian Troops Seen in Georgian Town Gori
Russian motor riffle infantry backed with armored vehicles
were seen on Wednesday moving into the...
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Nine Firefighters Missing After Helicopter Crashed in Northern California
Nine firefighters were presumed dead and four were seriously injured when
their helicopter...
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Authorities Investigate the Latest Attacks on California Researchers
The police and federal authorities are investigating two
bombings that targeted two scientists at...
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The Wildfire near Yosemite Is Giving Firefighters a Hard Time
A wildfire has already burned 32,000 acres and more than 20
residences 10 miles away from Yosemite...
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Wildfires Endanger Homes Near Yosemite
Two thousand homes are threatened by a wildfire that erupted near the western border of Yosemite...
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Jefferson County Sheriff Searching for Man Who Opened Fire Inside Bank
Police are searching for a man who opened fire inside a credit union and then fled the scene in a...
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California: Thunderstorms Cause Mudslides and Floods
While firefighters are still battling with big and small
fires in California,
the state is also...
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Firefighters “Turn the Corner” in Battle with California Wildfires
The thousands of firefighters and homeowners struggling to battle the numerous wildfires burning...
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Dead Body Found In Fire-Knocked California Town
Local authorities have announced that one person was found
dead inside a burned-out house in...
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Firefighters Slowly Contain Wildfires in N. California
The state of the wildfires burning throughout Northern California is improving as firefighters are...
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Wildfires Near Sacramento, Big Sur Residents Return Home
Wind gusts changed the direction of wildfires towards the northern parts of Sacramento. The blazes...
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Two Blazes Force Californians Out of Their Homes
Wildfires across California have scourged 521,000 acres
(208,400 hectares) as cooler, coastal air...
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Massive Wildfires in Santa Barbara County Cause Evacuations
Authorities were forces to evacuate residents dwelling in areas north of Goleta in Santa Barbara...
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Missing Mount Shasta Hikers Made Their Way Back
Two hikers got lost over the weekend but, in the end, they
managed to find their way back and...
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Firefighters Struggle to Contain Wildfires in California
Firefighters battling the wildfires which already charred terrain across the heart of wine country...
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Three Teens Caught after Florida Grocery Store Arson
Three teenagers who tried to set on fire the Sedano's Supermarket, at 7200 Southgate Blvd., in...
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