Wednesday 21 September 2011

Daily Headlines: Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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September 21, 2011
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National

Last Wrongful Death Lawsuit from 9/11 Settled

The last wrongful death lawsuit remaining from the 9/11 terrorist attacks was settled Monday when a family that sought to expose weaknesses ...

Tyson Pays $32 Million to Settle Wage Lawsuit

Tyson Foods Inc. is paying $32 million to settle a long-running dispute over whether it should compensate poultry plant workers for time ...
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East

Man Upset Over ‘Lemon’ Crashes into NH Dealer Cars

A Massachusetts man who crashed his newly-purchased minivan into six cars at the Portsmouth, N.H., car dealership lot because he couldn't ...

Mass. Court Reinstates $675,000 Damages for Downloading

An appeals court reinstated a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on the ...
Midwest

Insurer Asks Nebraska Court to Review Carbon Monoxide Case

An insurance company is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska church pastor who died ...

Electrical Transformers Pulled from River in Iowa

Authorities say a hazardous materials crews pulled five discarded electrical transformers out of the Boone River near Webster City over the ...

Sound Walls Age Early Along Northeast Ohio Interstates

Interstate highway sound walls are aging more quickly than expected in northeast Ohio, costing the state millions. Regional Ohio Department ...
Southeast

Two Mississippi Lawsuits Filed Over Parasite-Tainted Organs

The families of two transplant patients who received organs from an unidentified donor with a rare, undetected parasite have filed lawsuits ...

Kentucky Burn Victim Leads Sensitivity Training for Others

In a meeting space at the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati, nearly three dozen hotel housekeepers are focused on the 62-year-old Cold Spring woman, ...

Police Say Man Used Stolen Taxi for Wendy’s Ride

Police say a Macon man accused of stealing a taxicab told officers he drove it to Wendy's because he didn't want to walk to the fast-food ...

Video Surveillance Center Set to Open in Atlanta, Georgia

A state-of-the-art video monitoring center is scheduled to open this week in Atlanta, police said. The downtown video integration center is ...
South Central

Defendant in Massive ID Theft Case Sentenced in Texas

A man who stole approximately 16,000 identities, including those belonging to active duty and reserve U.S. service members, and used them ...

Crane Topples Onto Louisiana Retirement Home

A construction crane toppled into the lobby of a Louisiana retirement home on Monday, but missed patients' rooms and no residents were ...
West

Nevada Air Race Has Raised Alarm in Past Over Danger

It's like an Indianapolis 500 in the sky. Thrill-seeking pilots zoom by at speeds up to 500 mph (800 kph) as spectators "ooh'' and "aah'' ...

Montana Man Shaped Wildfire Behavior Research

After the 1910 wildfires charred 3 million acres across Idaho, eastern Washington and Montana, the U.S. Forest Service hired its first ...

Settlement Reached in ’07 San Francisco Bay Spill

Federal and state officials say they've reached a settlement for the cleanup costs in the 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill. U.S. Interior ...
International

Cross-Border Claims Frustrate Auto Carriers

Staged automobile accidents in Canada's most populated province of Ontario pose a unique problem for American auto insurers that must ...

Driverless Car Navigates the Streets of Germany’s Capital

It can talk, see, drive and no longer needs a human being to control it by remote. The car of the future - completely computer-controlled - ...

1 Million Urged to Evacuate as Typhoon Nears Japan

More than a million people in central Japan were urged to evacuate Tuesday as a powerful typhoon approached, triggering floods that left ...

Marine Insurers Backing Armed Guards as Piracy Threat Grows

More ship insurers are backing the use of private armed guards on merchant vessels at sea to combat Somali piracy as attacks and the ...

Indonesian Farmers Flee as World’s Deadliest Volcano Rumbles

Bold farmers in Indonesia routinely ignore orders to evacuate the slopes of live volcanoes, but those living on Tambora took no chances ...

Nearly 50 Injured in German Train Crash

Police say nearly 50 people were injured when a regional train hit a car in eastern Germany. Federal police spokesman Torsten Henkel said ...

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