Pennsylvania police unions are pushing lawmakers in Harrisburg to approve a bill that would increase payments to the families of officers in large city departments -- including Pittsburgh's police bureau -- who are killed on the job.
Union officials feel a sense of urgency because the 2007-08 legislative session is scheduled to come to a close this week, meaning the bill would die in com...
Taiwan's central government has logged fiscal deficits for years and the closest it ever came to balancing its combined general and special budgets in recent years was in 2007, when the shortfall was just 0.1 percent of GDP.
The general budget includes items such as tax collection and regular administrative costs, while the special budget takes into account expenditure in additional inf...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska At Anchorage's downtown market on a gray afternoon, Sandy Kleven takes the stage in spangles and scarves. She belly dances like a free-spirited Gypsy.
Maybe a couple dozen people are standing or sitting around picnic tables, watching as they eat stuffed potatoes and sip lattes. It's Kleven's show. She sewed the costumes, recruited her young granddaughter and other da...
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A brief session may be enough Apply sunscreen liberally, doctors advise Natural hormone can boost travelers’ energy Pediatricians caution parents on materialistic message Excess tension can damage heart and fetus Healthier babies produced from frozen...Comments Hostage standoff at Mo. clinic ends with 2 dead November 14th, 2008 @ 9:49pm
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) - A gunman took his ex-girlfriend hostage Friday at a health clinic where she worked, allowed her to make a goodbye call to her family and killed her before police gunned him down, authorities said.
The shootings took place at St. John's Mercy Urgent Care Center in O'Fallon, a...
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News National News National General Bush travel grounded as airlines take flight DENIS GREGORY AND JONATHAN DART 16/11/2008 1:12:48 AMIT'S just over 100 years since the first black opal was found at Lightning Ridge, prompting a mad rush to open up the frontier in northern NSW.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. - New Hampshire health officials are providing free screening to residents at risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
The screening will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Puritan Conference Center in Manchester.
Health officials say the disease is the fourth leading cause of death in New Hampshire and the United States. The lung condition develops in people ov...
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Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.
Her grandmother wrapped the 9-month-old in a wool blanket. Her father handed the body to village men for burial by a muddy creek. The doctors and family never knew why she got sick. A day later, state media reported that the type of infant formula she drank had been adu...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday the House would provideaid to the ailing U.S. auto industry, requiring that the industrymeet new fuel-efficiency standards, produce advanced vehicles andrestructure "to ensure their long-term economicviability."
Pelosi, D-Calif., did not disclose the amount of funding Houseleaders intend to seek for the industry _ automakers have beenseeking $25 bi...
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CINCINNATI -- Two Ohio health organizations are teaming up to help people fight obesity by changing their lives for the better and the healthier.Christ Hospital in Cincinnati is partnering with the Center for Closing the Health Gap.The hospital pledged $1 million to the center to support initiatives and research.The World Health Organisation has stated that about 12,400 suspected cases of measles have been reported in 25 states in Nigeria.
Hon. Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Hassan Lawal
It said this as the country battles to curb the upsurge of cases of wild polio virus, which has paralysed hundreds of young Nigerian children, this year alone.
However, the Federal Governmen...
CORVALLIS - My Las Vegas Bowl prediction and dreams partying on the strip went up in smoke after the No. 23-ranked Oregon State football team defeated California 34-21 on Saturday.
There's no way the Beavers will go to a lesser bowl game than the Sun Bowl. Two more wins and it's the Rose Bowl.
Read one of my Saturday stories on bowl scenarios from the view of the Holiday Bowl and ...
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