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Board Recommends Pittsburgh Firefighter Lose Job
He also faces DUI charges in Bellevue. The recommendation for termination now goes to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl. At a preliminary hearing on Tuesday regarding Jasper's DUI arrest in Bellevue, attorney Blaine Jones said the judge agreed to drop three of the
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:41P
Victim's family back jetski pair
The charge relates to an incident at Lake Okareka on January 8 in which their friend Bishop Thompson was killed in a jetski accident. Bishop, who was not wearing a lifejacket, disappeared after he fell from a jetski. Police said he was hit by a jetski
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Nat Hentoff: King Obama's Gitmo-style prisons here at home
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Attorney General Eric Holder and Federal Bureau of Prisons officials by the Center for Constitutional Rights. (There's a parallel suit by the ACLU.) According to the FBP, the CMUs are designed to hold terrorists
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Analyzing Japan's Nuclear Threat
The French safety agency is saying that this is a Level 6 accident, the US government that it's probably worse than Three Mile Island, while the International Atomic Energy Agency hasn't updated their original rating that it's a Level 4 accident on the
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Criminal career turns full circle
Photo / Supplied When serious crash investigator Warren Bunn was called out to a horror smash a year ago this week, he felt his career had gone full circle. He found the serial drink-driver who had taken the life of Kerikeri mother Katherine Kennedy
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Senate limits lawsuits against automakers
The bill would undo a 2001 Florida Supreme Court decision that came in a suit against Ford Motor Co. that says evidence of the primary cause of a crash, such as driver error, cannot be introduced in lawsuits alleging defective products caused
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Chernobyl's ticking time bomb
The accident sent radioactive clouds into Europe and across the world, polluting areas in Ukraine and Belarus particularly badly. Ukrainian authorities say the tragedy caused up to a million deaths. Victims included Soviet workers who heroically took
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Recall Central: 2011 Honda Civic, 2010 Jaguar XF and XK
Honda will voluntarily recall 18056 2011 Civic models due to the possibility that they may leak fuel in a roll-over crash, while certain 2010 Jaguar XF and XK models are being recalled for faulty steering pipes that may lead to unassisted steering.
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Ore. man charged with manslaughter in fatal crash
Troopers said the highway was covered with snow and the crash occurred on a sweeping curve. A passenger in the van, 34-year-old Leah Kentta of Klamath Falls, was killed. Another passenger was taken to a Springfield hospital with nonlife-threatening
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
Some ethanol leaking after Nebraska derailment
Three or four cars left the tracks early Thursday morning. At least one tanker car that had toppled onto its side was slowly leaking. Television station KTIV says no injuries were reported from the accident, which occurred at or near the Siouxland
Updated: 03/17/2011 12:40P
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