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City won't spend money to demolish building
The city of Anderson doesn't want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to demolish a building that has no apparent owner. Part of the building collapsed earlier this month, and more than 12,000 tires apparently were left on the property by a former...Tags: Government, Indiana, Explosions, Safety of Citizens, Environmental Cleanup
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Tugboat Carried No One With Proper Liscense
The Coast Guard says no one was properly licensed aboard a tugboat that hit a tanker early Wednesday, resulting in a major oil spill on the Mississippi River. Lieutenant Commander Cheri Ben-Iesau of the Coast Guard in New Orleans says the tugboat...Tags: Disasters, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution
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Weak economy, mild weather sap commodities boom
AP Business WriterOnly a month ago, sizzling commodities prices seemed destined to soar higher with record-breaking rallies in crude oil and corn. But now the boom appears to be taking a breather, cooled by a weakening economy and a milder Mother Nature. In just seven...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Prices, Metal and Mineral, Gold and Precious Material, Energy KD
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Ship-barge crash closes Mississippi at New Orleans
Associated Press WriterA stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a tanker and barge collided, officials said. Heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the barge, forming the slick...Tags: National Government, Michael Wilson, Government, Indiana, Disasters
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Chinese Company Charged in S.F.Bay Oil Spill
Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO -- A Hong Kong-based shipping company has been charged with obstructing justice in last year's ship accident and spill that dumped 53,000 gallons of toxic fuel into San Francisco Bay. A federal grand jury indicted Fleet Management on...Tags: Trials, Disasters, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution
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In Iraq, a Marine unit deals with the dead
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOf all the duties a Marine can have in Iraq, the one undoubtedly least sought after is becoming one of the least needed. Personnel Retrieval and Processing, a unit that makes its home in a large earth-sheathed hangar on this air base in the desert of...Tags: Fires, Explosions, Georgia, Saddam Hussein
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History captured in glory, shame
The nickname for athletic teams at Iowa State University is "the Cyclones." The nickname for athletic teams at the University of Iowa is "the Hawkeyes." So I made a mistake in a recent column about former U.S. Naval Academy wrestlers Lloyd Keaser and...Tags: Demonstration, Justice and Rights, Movies, University of Iowa, Society
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Salvage Rights Sought For Wreck In Long Island Sound
A tugboat hauling tons of steel sank so rapidly in 1984 that its crew members had no time to escape. Their bodies were recovered, but the scrap metal they were towing was left at the bottom of Long Island Sound. Now, a New Jersey company wants to go after...Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Metal and Mineral, Transportation Industry, Disasters, Long Island Sound
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Man found with explosive near UMB charged
By a Sun reporterThe man who was arrested near the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus yesterday after a scuffle with a police officer who found a makeshift explosive device was charged today with assault, reckless endangerment and concealing a deadly weapon....Tags: Police, Explosions, University of Maryland, Colleges and Universities, Police Arrests
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The Morning Call Sports Calendar
COMING EVENTS
A.D.A.U. SINGLE LIFT WEIGHTLIFTING NATIONALS, JULY 26 -- Anti-Drug Athletes United … sponsored by Twin City Powerlifting Club, Easton … meet 9 a.m., Lehighton Recreation Center, 243 E. 8th St., Lehighton … sperate squat, bench press,...Tags: CVS Corporation, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Health Treatments, Soccer, Demographics
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