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December 8, 2011
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National

Research: Bed Bugs Can Thrive Despite Inbreeding

Bed bugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. Researchers now say that the creepy bugs have a special genetic ...

NHL Discusses Player Safety at Board Meeting

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says there is not enough data yet to draw conclusions about the link between concussions and a degenerative ...

Many Words, Little Action in U.S. Consumer Agency Debate

The answer to the Final Jeopardy! question of who will be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will not become ...

BP Faces More Citations, Halliburton Responds

BP was hit with five more safety citations from the U.S. government on Wednesday, while it also received the latest legal salvo from a ...
East

Inmate Floods Pennsylvania Juvenile Center with Sprinkler

An inmate flooded part of a western Pennsylvania juvenile detention center and some nearby offices by activating a fire sprinkler in his ...

Deadline Nears for Fed Aid for New York Flood Victims

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says there are only eight days left for New Yorkers affected by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm ...

New York City School Bus Drivers Won’t Strike During Holiday Season

New York City school bus drivers say that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's warning that they might strike any day was a false alarm. The drivers' ...

$5M in Aid Approved for Quake Victims in Virginia County

Federal disaster aid approved for earthquake-related damage in Louisa County, Va., has topped $5 million. Federal and state emergency ...
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Midwest

$150,000 Settlement in Indiana School Bullying Lawsuit

A former student at a central Indiana high school has agreed to a $150,000 settlement of her lawsuit claiming school officials failed to ...

Michigan Fire Destroys 6 City Buses Costing $2M

Officials say an early-morning fire at a Detroit Department of Transportation bus yard destroyed six buses costing a total of more than $2 ...

Illinois Grain Bin Operator Fined for Deaths Closes

A northwestern Illinois company has gone out of business and paid nearly $270,000 in federal fines after two teenage workers suffocated in ...

Michigan Woman’s Lawsuit Says SUV Smells Like Corpse

A Detroit-area woman is suing an auto dealership, claiming her new SUV smells bad because it once contained a corpse. The Detroit News and ...
Southeast

Florida A&M Student’s Family Plans Lawsuit Over Death

The family of a Florida A&M University band member who died following a football game plans to file a lawsuit. Attorney Rick Mitchell ...

Alabama Condemns More Storm-Damaged Buildings

Tuscaloosa officials have added seven storm-damaged properties to its list of buildings to be condemned, but not all have been approved for ...

Workplace Safety a Concern for Some in Alabama

It's not uncommon for Troy Collett to feel like he's playing a game of dodge cars when he's making a delivery in downtown Florence, ...

North Carolina County Questions Sheriff Behavior

Henderson County commissioners are asking the sheriff now on leave because of mental illness to respond to rumors he has moved to settle ...
South Central

Louisiana Regulators Warn of Dangers if Neti Pots Used Improperly

State health regulators warned residents Tuesday about the dangers of using neti pots improperly. A neti pot, which looks like a genie's ...

Texas Gun Shop Bullet Goes Through Wall, 1 Hurt

Authorities say a man at a business next to a South Texas gun shop has suffered a facial wound after a bullet was accidentally fired ...
West

Oregon Police Don’t Plan to Review NFL Player’s Crash

Portland, Ore., police have no plans to further investigate a car accident involving Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh after two ...

Holiday Candle Sparks Small Fire at Nevada School

Fire officials say about 500 students evacuated safely after a holiday decoration on a teacher's desk ignited at a private school in Las ...

Washington Neighborhood Power Surge Sparks Appliance Fires

Some residents of a Covington, Wash., neighborhood were awakened early Tuesday by what sounded like fireworks, and when they looked around, ...

Alaska Governor Declares State Disaster After Storm

Gov. Sean Parnell has declared a state disaster for the Bering Sea storm that battered the western Alaska coast last month. The declaration ...
International

Chinese Court Rejects Apple Lawsuit Over iPad Name

A court in southern China has rejected a lawsuit by Apple Inc, accusing a Chinese technology company of infringing its iPad trademark, a ...

Pedestrian Hit by Noiseless Electric Car in France

A noiseless electric car, lorded for its role in a brand new car-sharing program in the French capital, has knocked over a pedestrian - who ...

UK Robbers Make Off with Rare Champagne Worth $31K

It's time to pop open a bottle of bubbly for the holiday season - and it seems some people are willing to risk going to jail to get their ...

Italy Cops Seize 2,500 Tons of False Organic Food

Italian police have seized 2,500 tons of grains, fruits and soy products that were falsely labled as organic in a food fraud ring that ...

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