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Employers must be held accountable for deaths
The company was fined $297000, a small amount to a multinational the size of Weyerhaeuser, and the cost of doing business. When the Crown refused to lay criminal charges against Weyerhaeuser, Hewer's union, the United Steelworkers, launched a private
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:57A
Drilling Down
The same processes and causal factors are at work in all areas of society from technology to business operations to government oversight, and even drive many of the everyday challenges of modern life. Tad Patzek, a world expert on oil technology,
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:57A
Immigration Directive Raises Concerns
ICE representatives say high priority cases include repeat violators of immigration law and those who recently entered the US illegally. According to Homeland Security, the Obama administration has deported more than a million people in the past two
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:56A
Central Falls struggles through bankruptcy
Flanders recently obtained an extension to continue negotiations through the end of October before a judge hears the unions' case that bankruptcy law does not give the district the right to renege on its employees' contracts. "The next month-and-a-half
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:56A
Central Falls struggles through bankruptcy
Flanders recently obtained an extension to continue negotiations through the end of October before a judge hears the unions' case that bankruptcy law does not give the district the right to renege on its employees' contracts. "The next month-and-a-half
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:56A
Supreme Court doesn't explain Troy Davis execution delay
About 10:20 pm, the court released a one-line order saying that the “application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied.” Justice Clarence Thomas is the justice for the 11th
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:53A
Editor murder trial: torture claims checked
Their claim of torture led the South Gauteng High Court to put the trial on hold, and enter into a trial-within-a-trial to verify the accuseds' claim. Three police officers who were on duty at the Orlando East police station on the day of the alleged
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:53A
finance ministry blames chidambaram for 2g scam
War within the UPA now appears in the open with the surfacing of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's letter written on March 25, 2011 to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 2G spectrum allocation scam on Wednesday in which finance ministry blamed
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:52A
Woman taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after car rolls on US
The accident happened about 12:30 pm, and firefighters had to extricate the woman from her car, Portland Fire & Rescue said. She was then taken via ambulance to OHSU Hospital. The single-vehicle accident shut down the eastbound lanes of the highway for
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:52A
A 29-year-old man from Forsyth County died after his car hit a tree in north ...
Jones says the accident happened at the intersection of Rivoli Drive and Northside Drive. He says the man was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Impala when he ran stop sign and hit a tree. Deputies are on the scene of the accident, that's according to the Bibb
Updated: 09/22/2011 01:51A
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