Tuesday 27 September 2011

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September 27, 2011
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National

Facebook Policies Tricky for Employers, Workers

In the age of instant tweets and impulsive Facebook posts, some companies are still trying to figure out how they can limit what their ...

Senate Aide: FEMA Money to Last Two Days Longer

A Senate aide says the government's disaster aid fund has enough money to last until Thursday, two days longer than earlier predicted. The ...

Jewelry Industry to Self-Regulate on Toxic Cadmium

Efforts by the jewelry industry to voluntarily limit the toxic metal cadmium in children's trinkets are finally coming together. Because ...
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East

Letterman to Make TV Pitch for New York Flood Victims

Late night TV host David Letterman will make a national plea to help flood victims in Schoharie. The CBS star once bused nearly half the ...

Maine Texting While Driving Ban to Start This Week

A ban on sending text messages while driving is among the new laws taking effect in Maine this week. The texting ban is prominent among the ...

Police: Driver in Deadly Conn. Crash on Cellphone

Bridgeport police say a driver charged with fatally injuring a woman as she stepped off a city bus was talking on his cellphone at the ...

New Hampshire Fire Displaces 28 Manchester Residents

Twenty-eight people are homeless as a result of a fire in a Manchester, N.H., apartment building. WMUR-TV says emergency crews found a fire ...
Midwest

Fire Destroys Small Minnesota Town’s Only Grocer

The small northern Minnesotan town of Babbitt has lost its only grocery story in a huge fire that caused an estimated $1 million in damage. ...

Ohio BWC Probes Result in 8 Workers' Comp Fraud Convictions

Eight individuals were convicted of or pleaded guilty to charges related to defrauding Ohio's workers' compensation system during the ...

Ohio Man Arrested for Fire Station Attacks

The son of a former Toledo fire chief has been arrested in connection with a string of attacks at city fire stations. The Blade newspaper ...
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Southeast

Miss. Company Agrees to Civil Penalty for Motor Defects

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says a Natchez, Miss.-based company that makes off-road buggies has agreed to pay a civil ...

CSB Releases Video of Deadly West Virginia Chemical Leak

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released a video depicting a deadly chemical leak at a DuPont plant in Belle last year and said Thursday the ...
South Central

Fire Destroys Oldest Church in Central Texas Town

A fire has destroyed the oldest standing church in the Central Texas town of Gatesville. City Fire Chief Billy Vaden told the Killeen Daily ...

OSHA Cites ExxonMobil Refinery in Louisiana

ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Co. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health ...

Arkansas Teacher: ‘Race Card’ Led to Dismissal

A fired high school teacher in Texarkana, Arkansas says she sued her former school district due in part to comments made by a school board ...
West

Patient Death During California Nurse Labor Dispute Probed

Authorities are investigating a patient's death at an Oakland hospital after what's being described as a "medical error" by a replacement ...

Chunk of Colorado Theater Ceiling Falls, No One Hurt

The 84-year-old Oriental Theater in Denver is closed indefinitely after a chunk of the ceiling fell onto the stage, just after a band had ...

New Mexico Researcher to Study Monsoon Affects on Wildfires

A researcher working at the Jornada Experimental Range in southern New Mexico has been awarded $400,000 for her part in a large study on ...
International

Samsung Seeks iPhone, iPad Sale Ban in Dutch Court

Samsung asked a Dutch court Monday to slap an injunction on Apple Inc. to prevent it from selling iPhones and iPad tablets in the ...

Tourist Flight Crashes in Nepal, Killing 19 Aboard

A plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, ...

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