Posted on May 7th, 2008 by blogger
Higher U.S. gasoline prices and a slowing economy will cut into U.S. oil demand through the summer driving season much more than previously thought, the government’s top energy forecasting agency said on Tuesday.
“Based on projections of weak economic growth and record high crude oil and product prices, (petroleum) consumption is projected to [...]
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Seventy-five students at San Diego State University have been arrested on drug and weapons charges in an undercover operation that grew out of a student’s death from a cocaine overdose last year, law enforcement authorities said on Tuesday.
The operation netted more than $100,000 worth of cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy and several [...]
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A pilot showing off to a young boy in his cockpit ended up almost crashing the airliner, it was claimed yesterday
Passengers said the pilot deliberately rocked the jet from side to side as he showed the child how the controls worked.
Moments later, however, he was forced to throw the Air France plane into [...]
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With an out-of-control car bearing down, Joseph Richardson grabbed his 4-year-old daughter and held her up out of harm’s way.
It was his last act — and one that apparently saved his daughter’s life.
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Joseph Richardson, 39, was walking with his daughter Kaniyah (right) when a car jumped the curb at 95th Street [...]
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The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) supports the New York Civil Liberties Union’s decision to join in the fight to end racial profiling and illegal stop-and-frisk practices by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) with the filing of their new federal stop and frisk lawsuit, Blair v. City of New [...]
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) along with other government institutions are currently conducting an 8-day anti-terror and disaster exercise from May 1st through May 8th called National Level Exercise 2-08 in the United States. We recently covered this exercise in great detail using press releases from FEMA and U.S. Northern [...]
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Further evidence that times are tough: It now costs more than a penny to make a penny. And the cost of a nickel is more than 7½ cents.
Prices for copper, zinc and nickel have some in Congress proposing steel-made pennies and nickels.
Surging prices for copper, zinc and nickel have some in Congress [...]
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