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- First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82
- All nine bystanders wounded in Empire State shooting hit by police
- A year on, Northeast towns struggle after Hurricane Irene
- Bear kills Denali backpacker in park's first fatal mauling
- Alaska, concerned about gold miners' health, to test them for mercury
- Legal marijuana backers raise $3 million in two states
- BP shuts output at three more Gulf platforms due to Isaac
- Sandusky Victim 1 sues Penn State over abuse
- Judge approves Seattle police reform agreement with U.S.
- Gynecologists alarmed by plastic surgery trend
- U.S. air guitarist crowned world champion in Finland
- All nine bystanders wounded in Empire State shooting hit by police
- Gulf of Mexico oil, gas operations affected by storm
- Bear kills Denali backpacker in park's first fatal mauling
- Factbox: Reaction to death of U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong
- Armstrong's life and accomplishments
- A year on, Northeast towns struggle after Hurricane Irene
- First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82
- U.S. Gulf oil producers shut output ahead of Storm Isaac
- Sandusky Victim 1 sues Penn State over abuse
| First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82 Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:36 PM PDT
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| All nine bystanders wounded in Empire State shooting hit by police Posted: 25 Aug 2012 06:11 PM PDT
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| A year on, Northeast towns struggle after Hurricane Irene Posted: 25 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT
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| Bear kills Denali backpacker in park's first fatal mauling Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:36 PM PDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A grizzly bear killed a backpacker in Denali National Park in the first fatal mauling at the Alaska nature site since it was created in 1917, the National Park Service said on Saturday. The solo backpacker died on Friday afternoon in the encounter with the bear, the Park Service said in a statement. Rangers found the body that night after being summoned by hikers who had come upon the attack site. Efforts to recover the body were postponed due to bad light and risks from bears feared to be nearby, the Park Service said. ... |
| Alaska, concerned about gold miners' health, to test them for mercury Posted: 25 Aug 2012 10:26 AM PDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska health officials, concerned about amateur miners seeking riches in a modern-day mini gold rush, plan to test prospectors in the town of Nome for mercury exposure for fear that archaic mining techniques may be inadvertently harming their bodies. The Bering Sea port town of Nome has been a magnet this summer for gold prospectors, some of them with little experience, in a boom that state officials attribute in part to publicity from Discovery Channel's reality TV show "Bering Sea Gold" and other mining shows set in Alaska. ... |
| Legal marijuana backers raise $3 million in two states Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:12 AM PDT (Reuters) - Campaigns to become the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Washington and Colorado have raised $3 million ahead of a November vote, far outpacing the opposition. Proponents of pot legalization in Washington state have raised nearly $2 million since the initiative qualified for the ballot in January, and about $1 million in Colorado since its measure earned a place on the ballot the following month, according to the most recent state campaign figures. ... |
| BP shuts output at three more Gulf platforms due to Isaac Posted: 25 Aug 2012 10:39 AM PDT HOUSTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil producer BP Plc shut production at three more platforms on Saturday as it evacuates workers ahead of Tropical Storm Isaac, the company said in a statement. "We are evacuating all crewmembers from our Thunder Horse platform, and other offshore facilities in the Mississippi Canyon, including Na Kika, Horn Mountain and Marlin, and have temporarily suspended oil and natural gas production there," BP said in statement. BP announced it was shutting production on Thunder Horse, the world's largest oil platform, on Friday. (Reporting by Erwin Seba) |
| Sandusky Victim 1 sues Penn State over abuse Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:19 AM PDT
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| Judge approves Seattle police reform agreement with U.S. Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:05 PM PDT OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday tentatively approved a sweeping agreement between the city of Seattle and the U.S. Department of Justice that will overhaul police rules on the use of force and install an independent monitor to oversee the department. U.S. District Judge James Robart's ruling was provisional. He wants the agreement amended to give him a greater role in picking the monitor and more information on how the department is implementing the reforms. ... |
| Gynecologists alarmed by plastic surgery trend Posted: 25 Aug 2012 06:04 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Trained as a gynecologist and reconstructive surgeon, Dr. John Miklos calls himself a "medical tailor," specializing in surgery to reshape a woman's private parts. The Atlanta surgeon, who has performed gynecological surgery for nearly 20 years, cites cases of patients who say their sexual response improved after vaginoplasty, a procedure to surgically tighten a vagina stretched by childbirth or aging. "Women come to me and say they don't have the urge to have sex anymore because they don't feel anything," Miklos said. ... |
| U.S. air guitarist crowned world champion in Finland Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:53 PM PDT OULU, Finland (Reuters) - American Justin Howard, alias Nordic Thunder, was crowned world champion air guitar player late on Friday in the northern Finnish city of Oulu, narrowly ahead of his compatriot Matt Burns, or Airistotle. Howard, looking like a Viking warrior in his leather tunic, gave an energetic performance that including sliding across the stage bare legged, and won the title with a score of 34.6 points, just ahead of Burns who got 34.4 points. ... |
| All nine bystanders wounded in Empire State shooting hit by police Posted: 25 Aug 2012 06:11 PM PDT
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| Gulf of Mexico oil, gas operations affected by storm Posted: 25 Aug 2012 05:35 PM PDT (Reuters) - Some U.S. oil and gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico shut in production and were evacuating energy infrastructure on Saturday as Tropical Storm Isaac headed for Cuba on a path toward the eastern part of the Gulf. The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said on Saturday that 8.63 percent of the Gulf's oil output and 1.62 percent of natural gas production per day was shut down. The Gulf of Mexico accounts for about 23 percent of U.S. oil production and 7 percent of natural gas output, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. About 30 percent of U.S. ... |
| Bear kills Denali backpacker in park's first fatal mauling Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:36 PM PDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A grizzly bear killed a backpacker in Denali National Park in the first fatal mauling at the Alaska nature site since it was created in 1917, the National Park Service said on Saturday. The solo backpacker died on Friday afternoon in the encounter with the bear, the Park Service said in a statement. Rangers found the body that night after being summoned by hikers who had come upon the attack site. Efforts to recover the body were postponed due to bad light and risks from bears feared to be nearby, the Park Service said. ... |
| Factbox: Reaction to death of U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:43 PM PDT (Reuters) - U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at age 82, his family said Saturday. Following are reactions to the death of the Ohio native, who had undergone heart bypass surgery in early August. * U.S. President Barack Obama: "Neil was among the greatest of American heroes - not just of his time, but of all time. ... "Today, Neil's spirit of discovery lives on in all the men and women who have devoted their lives to exploring the unknown - including those who are ensuring that we reach higher and go further in space. ... |
| Armstrong's life and accomplishments Posted: 25 Aug 2012 12:33 PM PDT (Reuters) - Facts about former U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who has died at the age of 82, according to U.S. media: * Armstrong grew up in Ohio with a strong interest in flight and earned his pilot's license while still a boy. * After flying combat missions during the Korean War, he became a test pilot and joined NASA's astronaut program in 1962. * As he stepped on the moon's dusty surface, Armstrong said: ""That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ... |
| A year on, Northeast towns struggle after Hurricane Irene Posted: 25 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT
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| First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82 Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:36 PM PDT
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| U.S. Gulf oil producers shut output ahead of Storm Isaac Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil and natural gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday braced for the first hurricane to affect the U.S. oilpatch in 2012, which could spur shut-downs of nearly half of U.S. offshore oil output. Tropical Storm Isaac's current track takes it to the east of U.S. offshore production facilities, with the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecasting it will reach hurricane strength on Sunday before making landfall on the Florida Panhandle late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday. Offshore operators still skittish from catastrophic storms in 2005 are taking no chances. ... |
| Sandusky Victim 1 sues Penn State over abuse Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:19 AM PDT
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