IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A week's work of frantic
sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't
spare this bucolic college town from the surging Iowa River, which has
swamped more than a dozen campus ... [more]
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Continental Airlines, hammered by surging fuel costs, will pull all flights from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in September.The cuts, which represent about 10 percent of the local airport's
annual passenger c... [more]
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Foreclosure filings spiked 12 percent in Manatee, Sarasota and
Charlotte counties during May as neighboring Fort Myers-Cape Coral
posted the second highest per-capita rate in the nation.One out of every 79 homes in For... [more]
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Anyone with an Internet connection can now take a virtual tour of
almost every road in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties as part
of a mapping feature from Google.And these are not just photos on the Web. They ar... [more]
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WASHINGTON -- Parts of Florida and Mexico were supplying "the vast
majority" of tomatoes sold when the salmonella outbreak began in April
and thus remain leading suspects, the Food and Drug Administration said
Friday.But t... [more]
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Vinyl shower curtains sold at major retailers across the country emit
toxic chemicals that have been linked to serious health problems,
according to a report released Thursday by a national environmental
organization.The
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BEIJING --
A landslide in northern China buried a brick factory, killing 19 workers, local officials said Saturday.Rescuers
found the workers' bodies at the site of a landslide that hit Friday
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DUBLIN, IRELAND -- European leaders were scrambling Friday to find a
new path to a more powerful and manageable European Union after Irish
voters rejected a treaty meant to bolster the alliance's government.The
rejection t... [more]
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Firefighters in Northern California struggled to gain control over four
major blazes burning from Monterey County north to Tehama County, aided
today by dying winds and beefed up crews.
A blaze known as the Humboldt Fire... [more]
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A team of underwater explorers has found the remains of the HMS
Ontario, a 22-gun British warship that sank in a storm on the southern
shore of Lake Ontario during the last years of the American Revolution.
The 80-foot-l... [more]
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Oscar-winning writer and director Paul Haggis owns four Toyota Priuses
and is high on the wait list to buy a $100,000 Tesla electric roadster.
But when he heard about the new Honda FCX Clarity, a hydrogen-powered
car that ... [more]
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WASHINGTON — Tim Russert, a political
lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning
of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack today in the
midst of a presidential campaign he'd covere... [more]
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — They sandbagged
the entrance to Mercy Medical Center and started bailing when the water
started creeping in, but it was no use. The water was 2 inches deep on
the emergency room floor by Thursday night... [more]
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BEIJING - Negotiators from Taiwan and China
opened their first formal talks in almost a decade on Thursday, aiming
to forge an agreement on expanded charter flights between the sides
that have had n... [more]
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LAKE DELTON, Wis. — Engineers and National Guard teams examined dams
across this storm-deluged state Tuesday looking for signs of damage
from the high water that led to the major collapse Monday that nearly
emptied Lake&nb... [more]
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