- Earthquake rattles northern Illinois
- An earthquake rattled northern Illinois early Wednesday, shaking an area about 50 miles west-northwest of Chicago, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The 4.3 magnitude quake hit just before 4 a.m. CT (5 a.m. ET), with an epicenter about 3…
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- Feinstein, Boxer call for delay on plans to expand Central…
- Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif. - California's two U.S. senators on Tuesday called for a moratorium on plans to expand the state's largest toxic waste landfill pending the completion of investigations into birth defects in the nearby…
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Los Angeles Times- Happy hour
- ... evident when Martin became the oldest driver to win the pole position for the Daytona 500, doing so with a fast lap of 47.074 seconds (191.188 miles per hour) around Daytona’s high-banked, 2 1/2-mile tri-oval. Martin knocked teammate…
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- Afghan avalanches kill more than 150
- KABUL - Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said Wednesday that 157 people have been killed in avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul. Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said rescuers have recovered that number of bodies from the…
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MSNBC- Officials: Afghan Avalanches Kill 157 People
- The death toll from massive avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul soared to 157, as hundreds more remained trapped in their snowbound vehicles, Afghan officials said Wednesday. Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary…
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- Trial begins in Taser case
- Two young men who beat up a total stranger in downtown San Jose with a baseball bat are guilty of murder, a prosecutor alleged Tuesday, even though the disoriented victim didn't die until after police subdued him during a violent run-in…
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- Foreign Relations: Summit in Smalltown
- the little (pop. 11,689) college community of Glassboro, 135 miles from Washington, near the Colonial farming settlement and crossroads once known as Long A-Comin'. The meeting between President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Premier Aleksei…
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- Blizzard Will Bust Some Budgets, While Boosting Other Bottom…
- Mother Nature's fury this winter has left a path of fiscal destruction that will linger far after the record-breaking snowfall starts to melt -- and she's not done yet. Another foot of snow is expected to fall over the next day or two,…
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- Devils size up Heels
- For the first time in years, it might not be so easy for North Carolina to push Duke around tonight. After years of getting manhandled by bigger, stronger North Carolina teams, the eighth-ranked Blue Devils finally bring some height and…
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- Tritium in aquifer alarms activists
- The closest private wells to the reactor are about a quarter mile away. Groveman said the Natural Resources Council has been waiting for the Agency of Natural Resources and the Department of Health to formulate a plan for how the tritium…
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