CARLSBAD, N.M. – A project out of a New York college is set to offer free medical-screening programs for former workers at the federal government’s nuclear waste repository. The Worker Health Protection Program run by Queens College of the City University of New York will announce later this month details …
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PHOENIX – Convicted murderer Jodi Arias has declined to address a jury considering whether to sentence her to life in prison or death in the killing of her former boyfriend. Arias said Monday that she wanted to make comments to jurors but insisted the courtroom be cleared. She said she …
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SEATTLE – The Coast Guard says protesters opposed to offshore drilling in the Arctic will have to stay in safety zones when a drill rig arrives in Seattle. Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers says a Seattle-bound drill rig and a heavy-lift vessel are expected to arrive in Port Angeles later …
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A train in North Texas derailed Sunday morning after plowing through an 18-wheeler that had become stuck on the tracks, authorities said. The derailment happened just before 10 a.m. near Aledo, about 20 miles west of Fort Worth, when a Union Pacific train traveling to Fort Worth struck a semitruck …
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Police are investigating a string of home robberies in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle last week, including one in which the homeowner exchanged gunfire with the would-be home invaders. The first incident took place on Dec. 18 near the intersection of Beacon Avenue and South Graham Street. A man …
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FRANKFORT, Mich. – Michigan state archaeologists say a shipwreck found in Lake Michigan isn’t the Griffin, the earliest known wreck in the Great Lakes. The Muskegon Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1QQIVju ) reports two men came forward late last year with photos of the shipwreck found off of Frankfort, which is about 40 …
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SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – A hand grenade a woman found in her grandfather’s belongings prompted police in Vermont to evacuate their department and surrounding homes after she brought it into the station. South Burlington police say the cleared the department and nearby buildings on Saturday as a precautionary measure because …
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A former FBI special agent says the fatal stabbing and home invasion of a country singer’s mother may not have been “random.” Virginia authorities said a man killed 62-year-old Holly Hatcher, a former teacher, around midnight on Aug. 3 at her home in Rockingham County during a home invasion. Michael …
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The death of a man found in a “pool of blood” as a giant human-shaped effigy began to burn on Saturday at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the northwestern Nevada desert is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said. The body was discovered just before 9:15 …
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U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., will not seek re-election next year, according to media reports. The move will mark the end of Nadler’s 34 years in Congress where he has been a leading liberal voice on a range of issues. “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity …
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