Published: May 18, 2010
Spill reinforces oil bad will for American Indians
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POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. – Like many American Indians on the bayou, Emary Billiot blames oil companies for ruining his ancestral marsh over the decades. Still, he’s always been able to fish — but now even that is not a certainty.
An oil spill — 5 million gallons and counting — spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has [...]
Published: April 28, 2010
Nearly 2 feet of snow falls in NY, New England
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MONTPELIER, Vt. – A late-season snowstorm dumped up to 2 feet of heavy, wet snow on northern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire by Wednesday morning, cutting off power to thousands, closing some schools and leaving roads slippery.
“It definitely caught people off guard, considering we had 80 degrees back in March. It’s a problem because [...]
Published: April 28, 2010
Coast Guard to set fire to oil leaking in the Gulf
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NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard planned to set fire to oil leaking from the site of an exploded drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, a last-ditch effort to get rid of it before it reaches environmentally sensitive marshlands on the Lousiana coast.
Fire-resistant containment booms will be used to corral some of [...]
Published: April 28, 2010
Official: Interior secretary OKs Mass. wind farm
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BOSTON – U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has approved what would be the nation’s first offshore wind farm, off Cape Cod, a government official briefed on the decision confirmed Wednesday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because the person was not authorized to speak publicly ahead of Salazar’s announcement scheduled for [...]
Published: April 26, 2010
Quick end to gulf oil leak depends on robot subs
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NEW ORLEANS – It could take hours or it could take months to stop a 42,000-gallon-a-day oil leak polluting the Gulf of Mexico at the site of a wrecked drilling platform. Whether the environmental threat grows many times bigger depends on whether the oil company can turn the well completely off.
Crews are using robot submarines [...]
Published: April 26, 2010
Armed man arrested at NC airport as Obama departs
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. – An armed man spotted at a North Carolina airport parking lot just after Air Force One departed Sunday told an officer he wanted to see the president and had a car equipped with police gear, including a siren and flashing lights, authorities said.
Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Coshocton, Ohio, is charged with [...]
Published: April 26, 2010
Saviors as tornado hit: A table, a wall, a freezer
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YAZOO CITY, Miss. – One prayed to God under a communion table as his church was blown to pieces around him.
Another was on the phone with a meteorologist when the tornado threw him against a cinderblock wall that held just long enough to save his life. A coroner nearly became a victim himself when the [...]
Published: April 21, 2010
Blagojevich calls feds 'cowards and liars'
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CHICAGO – Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich described the federal prosecutors who have brought racketeering and fraud charges against him as “cowards and liars” Tuesday and challenged Chicago’s U.S. attorney to meet him face to face in court if he is “man enough.”
In an extraordinary outburst timed to go live on evening news shows, Blagojevich said [...]
Published: April 21, 2010
Palin set to take stand in Tenn. hacking trial
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Jurors in the trial of a former college student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s e-mail account in 2008 heard testimony Tuesday that the accused man didn’t believe in what Palin wanted to do when she was the Republican vice presidential candidate.
Palin has been subpoenaed to testify at the trial of 22-year-old David [...]
Published: April 21, 2010
Group wants evangelist's Pentagon event canceled
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DENVER – A watchdog group objected Tuesday to an evangelist’s invitation to speak at the Pentagon next month, saying his past description of Islam as “evil” offended Muslims who work for the Department of Defense and the appearance should be canceled.
Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said inviting evangelist Franklin Graham to [...]
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