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Oklahoma schools hit by tornado had no safe rooms
MOORE, Okla. -; An emergency official says Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in hundreds of schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have ...
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Miles and minutes Okla. tornado by the numbers
A tornado moves past homes in Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/Alonzo ...
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Photos of Tucson shooting scene show gun knife
In this image released by the Pima County Sheriff's department, a Glock 9 mm pistol is seen in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others in January 2011. Authorities released more than 300 photos on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, made by investigators during their investigation in the parking lot of the shopping ...
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Arias tells jury she wants to live
Jodi Arias looks at her family on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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Which Is More Corrupt Afghanistan or America
KABUL, Afghanistan -- None of President Hamid Karzai's top advisers knew that he had been receiving tens of millions of dollars in secret cash from the CIA, Afghanistan's senior anticorruption official said, and he added that he did not believe the Afghan leader's claim that he had been giving the agency regular receipts for the money. Mohammad Yasin Osmani, the head of the ...
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San Francisco and Houston awarded 2016 and 2017 Super Bowls
CSN: The Super Bowl's golden anniversary will be held in the Golden State. The new stadium, which opens in 2014, in Santa Clara will host Super Bowl L two years later, the NFL announced ...
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Lawyer Feds investigate missing mom Susan Powell case
SEATTLE (AP) - The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance.Anne Bremner made the announcement at a Seattle news conference a day after local officials in Utah said they had closed their investigation into the Susan Powell case.Newly released police records show that Utah officials believe Josh ...
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United States - Outrage over U.S. investigation of journalists private communications
The International Press Institute (IPI) expresses outrage that the U.S. government searched a reporter's private communications on the ground that his use of flattery to obtain information from a State Department source made him a co-conspirator to espionage.In a court affidavit first obtained ...
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Former High-Ranking Official and New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
Earlier today, Michael Provenzano, formerly director of Construction Services for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 18 months followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $30,000 restitution to the city of New York and a $5,000 fine following his corruption conviction for taking bribes. As ...
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United Airlines restarts Dreamliner flights after grounding
United Airlines put its 787 Dreamliner back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind ...
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Four tornadoes have struck Moore Oklahoma since 1998
Dr. Harold Brooks of the NOAA Severe Storms Lab shares comparisons of the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma to the one which hit in 1999. Brooks also talks about the remainder of tornado ...
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Mutual aid efforts offer support in Oklahoma
State Rep. Emily Virgin talks about recovery efforts and explains how neighboring areas took the injured into their hospitals and offered first responders to ...
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Silver lining Family digs dogs out of rubble
Leslie Hendricks, 27, and her father, Levi Hendricks Sr., 53, hold their dogs they rescued from the rubble of their house in Moore, Okla., on ...
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The 50th Super Bowl Goes to San Francisco Bay Area
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Group wants atheist books placed with Bibles in Georgia state parks
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A national atheist group said it plans to donate enough books on its views to be placed in all Georgia state park cabins after the state's governor said Bibles should remain at the vacation properties despite an atheist's recent ...
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Family of man shot 16 times by police in Miami files lawsuit
MIAMI (Reuters) - The family of a 22-year-old man who was shot 16 times by police two years ago during a hip-hop festival in Miami Beach filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against two Miami area police ...
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Carol Burnett to receive top honor for American comedians
Actress Carol Burnett arrives for the taping of ''Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl'' in Los Angeles January 8, ...
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Bike Share in New York Built From Ideas Around World
Clockwise from top left: Ed Alcock for The New York Times; Alex Wong/Getty Images; Facundo Arrizabalaga/European Pressphoto Agency;and Lourdes Segade for The New York ...
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Miami face-eater victim recovering well from wounds
A homeless man whose face was chewed off in a cannibal-style attack on a causeway a year ago is recovering well from his life-changing wounds, but will never regain his eyesight, doctors said on Tuesday.Ronald Poppo, 66, "is very content with where he is right now," playing the guitar in his hospital room every day and enjoying following the Miami Heat's challenge for ...
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Miami Cannibal victim copes with life nearly year later
MIAMI— Nearly one year after he was attacked by a crazed man who chewed off his face, Ronald Poppo is blind, has no nose and is struggling to cope with his new life. But Poppo, known around the world as the victim of the so-called Causeway Cannibal, was described Tuesday by doctors and therapists as a happy man. "He is more than content with how he is," said plastic surgeon ...
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Jodi Arias tells Arizona jury she can be productive in prison if spared death
Jodi Arias looks at her family during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, ...
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Fitch Latin American National Oil Companies Constrained by Government Involvement
Accounting Rules May Encourage Short-Term Leases The latest lease-accounting proposals from international and U.S. standard-setters, designed to aid transparency and consistency, may encourage companies to shift to short-term leases or structure agreements as service contracts, Fitch Ratings says. This could mean that fewer leases than originally anticipated will be brought onto the balance ...
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How Americas National Security Apparatus -- in Partnership With Big Corporations -- Cracked Down on Dissent
Dissent or Terror: How the Nation's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street ," is an eye-opening look into how the U.S. counter-terror apparatus was used to track the Occupy movement in 2011 and 2012 and also help protect the business entities targeted by the movement. The report specifically looks at the activities of ...
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New York Accounting Foundation Awards $183750 in Scholarships
New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants' (NYSSCPA) Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) has announced the sixty-seven New York State students who will receive Excellence in Accounting Scholarships for the 2013-2014 school year. scholarships are awarded in order to provide financial assistance and encouragement to accounting majors. Sixty college students received a ...
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Video Jodi Arias makes her opening statements to the jury
In this recently released video Jodi Arias, the Phoenix woman on trial for her boyfriend's 2008 stabbing and shooting death, sings and laughs to herself during a break from ...
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