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New York Times: Japan's multiple calamities
The worst-case accident would be enormous releases of radioactivity. The unfolding Japanese tragedy also should prompt Americans to closely study our own plans for coping with natural disasters and with potential nuclear plant accidents to make sure
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:54P
Corinna Man Pleads Not Guilty in Hit & Run Case
38-year old Christopher Doherty is accused of reckless conduct, driving to endanger, leaving the scene of an accident, and failure to report an accident. Around midnight Christmas Eve, a white pick-up truck reportedly hit another vehicle at a high rate
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:54P
Anchorage doctor badly hurt in Alyeska skiing accident
An Anchorage doctor is on life support after a ski accident Friday afternoon on Alyeska Resort's expert-only north face, according to a resort spokesperson and the man's mother. Ski patrol found William Mills, 53, an Anchorage orthopedic
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:53P
US judge: Ex-nurse guilty of aiding suicides online
Melchert-Dinkel declined a jury trial and left his fate to a judge in Minnesota, who issued his verdict Tuesday. Prosecutors said Melchert-Dinkel, of Faribault, Minnesota, was obsessed with suicide and hanging and sought out potential victims on the
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:53P
Search continues for SUV that went off Bay bridge
Searchers spent about an hour looking for survivors after the crash but did not find any, said Division Chief Bruce Nedelka, a Virginia Beach EMS spokesman. They then transitioned to a recovery effort, he said. The depth of the water in that area is 40
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:52P
Alabama House to consider tough immigration bill
AP Rosa Toussaint Ortiz, bottom left, rally at the Alabama State House in Montgomery on Thursday to oppose anti-immigration House Bill 56. The Associated Press MONTGOMERY (AP) — A sweeping Arizona-style immigration law that would make it harder for
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:52P
SCE&G: Nuclear problems like Japan's unlikely here; SC plant has different
"The underlying philosophy of the nuclear industry is — after an accident — to pause and review the impacts of the accident and take appropriate measures on plans and programs in the United States," said Tom Clements, Southeastern nuclear campaign
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:52P
Judge finds ex-nurse guilty of online aiding suicides of English man, Canadian
Melchert-Dinkel declined a jury trial and left his fate to a judge in Minnesota, who issued his verdict Tuesday. Prosecutors said Melchert-Dinkel, of Faribault, Minnesota, was obsessed with suicide and hanging and sought out potential victims on the
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:52P
Defending free speech
Our libel laws work against the interests of justice and a free press, a trend compounded by the alarming expansion of judge-made privacy law through the imposition of blanket reporting bans known as super-injunctions. The publication yesterday of a
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:51P
I-75 South closed until 8pm from accident
MIDDLETOWN — It could be as late as 8 o'clock tonight before southbound I-75 is fully reopened following an accident this morning involving a tractor-trailer rig and a small car. The accident happened just south of State Route 122 in
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:51P
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