Linda Hattaway, health department administrative director, said fall is the normal time for the first reported infection.
"Last year was our worst year for West Nile Virus; we had 107 cases (statewide)," she said. "We can't predict how bad it will be this year, but the fact that we've already had a reported case instead of in August indicates that people need to start taking precautions...
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Americans, notorious for their love of the open road, are cutting...
About driving Copyright & Permission Rules This site is a part of the canada.com Network. Questions? Please read our FAQs . Newspapers: National Post United States, The New ...GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the reputed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, told a military judge at his arraignment Thursday that he welcomes the death penalty as a way to martyrdom and ridiculed the proceedings as an "inquisition."
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Ozzy Osbourne has accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages and an apology over a newspaper claim that he threw the Brit Awards into chaos after he suffered a health scare.
The 59-year-old Black Sabbath frontman was not at London's High Court for the settlement of his action against Express Newspapers over a story in the Daily Star this February.
The damages will be donated to...
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OTTAWA — The Canadian economy's job-creation machine stalled in May as only 8,400 new jobs were added and full-time employment actually fell.
The loss of 32,200 full-time jobs was the largest decline in the category since June 2006.
Statistics Canada said the changes in employment in May were not enough to budge the country's official jobless rate from 6.1 per cent, where i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 5.5 percent in May — the biggest monthly rise since 1986 — as nervous employers cut 49,000 jobs.
The latest snapshot of business conditions showed a deeply troubled economy, with dwindling job opportunities in a time of continuing hardship in the housing, credit and financial sectors.
"It was ugly," sai...
TOKYO (AFP) — A group of Japanese lawmakers on Friday called for a tripling of cigarette prices to nearly 10 dollars a pack in a bid to cover swelling social security costs.
The proposal would put heavy-smoking Japan in line with other developed countries, which nearly all impose heftier taxes on cigarettes and more tightly restrict public smoking.
The non-partisan parliament...
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart executives said Friday that a reinvigorated focus on price has allowed the world's largest retailer to beat out competitors in a challenging economic environment.
"We're winning in the marketplace. You should feel very proud," Eduardo-Castro Wright, president and chief execu...
Comments from around the country about coping with a difficult jobs market and searching for work:
Carla Schneer, 32, says she moved to Allentown, Pa., to start a new life for herself and her four children after the kids' father was sent to prison.
But Schneer, a licensed cosmetologist, has had little success.
Salons won't hire her because she doesn't come with an existing ...
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Update: 11.32am The Ministry of Primary Industries urges farmers to be extra cautious while using chemicals in their farms.
Registrar of Chemicals Moti Lal Autar says farmers need to be aware of the impact of chemical not only on their health but also to the environment.
"Farmers need to read the labels of all chemicals they buy to understand how to use them effectively and safely,"...
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that in 2006, an estimated 19.6 million workers in the United States were Hispanic and 56 percent of them were foreign born, mostly Mexican-born. The CDC, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and certain state agencies analyzed worker death data from 1992 to 2006 and found during that period a total of 11,303 Hispanic workers died from ...
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