| Baker leads Iditarod at halfway point
(AP) |
AP - Satellite tracking shows three mushers have left Cripple, the halfway point in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:17:32 GMT) |
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| Attorney: Pa. officers with Roethlisberger at club
(AP) |
AP - Two off-duty Pennsylvania law enforcement officers were with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger at the Georgia nightclub where a woman accused him of sexual assault, and the two men didn't see anything inappropriate, an attorney for one of them said Wednesday.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:07:50 GMT) |
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| Polish skier tests positive for EPO at Olympics
(AP) |
| AP - Polish cross-country skier Kornelia Marek tested positive for EPO at the Vancouver Olympics in the first serious doping case of the games. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:37:10 GMT) |
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| IAAF: Negotiations ongoing in Caster case
(AP) |
| AP - The gender case of South African Caster Semenya remains unresolved after seven months, leaving her future in track uncertain. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:35 GMT) |
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| Hoelzl wins giant slalom WCup title; Vonn crashes
(AP) |
AP - Olympic silver medalist Tina Maze of Slovenia won the final giant slalom race of the season Thursday and Kathrin Hoelzl of Germany clinched the World Cup title in the event by finishing second.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:59:56 GMT) |
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| Guay of Canada wins super-G World Cup title
(AP) |
AP - Erik Guay of Canada produced a daring run to win the final race of the season Thursday and claim a World Cup title in the super-G.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:29:22 GMT) |
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| Pro Football Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen dies at 69
(AP) |
| AP - Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor Merlin Olsen has died. He was 69. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:46:10 GMT) |
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| A-Rod: Lawyers are setting up interview with feds
(AP) |
AP - Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:28 GMT) |
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| Mavericks drop Nets to win 13th straight
(Reuters) |
Reuters - The Dallas Mavericks rallied after a stuttering start to extend their league-leading winning streak to 13 games with a 96-87 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Wednesday.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:14:28 GMT) |
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| Montana rallies for 66-65 win over Weber State
(AP) |
AP - Montana coach Wayne Tinkle shook off his assistants' suggestions to get the ball inside as the Grizzlies tried to rally from a 22-point deficit against Weber State.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:02:03 GMT) |
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| Juve, Liverpool seek Europa League salvation
(AFP) |
AFP - European heavyweights Juventus and Liverpool will both seek to rescue disappointing seasons when the first legs of their respective Europa League last-16 ties kick off on Thursday.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:16:46 GMT) |
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| Boonen hits early season form with Tirreno stage win
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - Belgian Tom Boonen burned off his rivals in a sprint finish to claim the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico Thursday ahead of German Paul Martens and Italian Daniele Bennati. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:48:57 GMT) |
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| Aucoin lifts Coyotes past Canucks
(AP) |
AP - Adrian Aucoin beat Andrew Raycroft in a shootout with a little help from Phoenix backup goalie Jason LaBarbera.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:36:05 GMT) |
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| Federer, Nadal return to action in desert
(AFP) |
AFP - World number one Roger Federer faces a potentially difficult path to the final of the Indian Wells hardcourt tournament, the season's first prestigious ATP Masters 1000 event.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:17:23 GMT) |
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| Westwood leading an English charge
(AP) |
AP - Lee Westwood is the leader of an English revolution in the world of golf as the highest-ranked player at No. 4 in the world and a two-time winner of the European Tour money list.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:18:03 GMT) |
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| UFC to show upcoming events in movie theaters
(AP) |
| AP - The UFC is headed to the big screen. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:29:53 GMT) |
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| Grand jury may get Mayweather friend shooting case
(AP) |
AP - A prosecutor served notice Wednesday that a grand jury may hear evidence that an associate of boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. shot at a man who police said argued with the boxer last August at a Las Vegas skating rink.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:10:53 GMT) |
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| Roush satisfied with NASCAR action on Edwards
(AP) |
AP - Team owner Jack Roush said Wednesday he's satisfied with the penalty NASCAR levied against driver Carl Edwards for his intentional accident with Brad Keselowski.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:05:24 GMT) |
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| Crosby's gold-medal Olympic stick, glove found
(AP) |
AP - The stick and glove Sidney Crosby used to give Canada its Olympic gold medal are back where they belong.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:27:52 GMT) |
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| Ex-New Orleans officer pleads in shooting cover-up
(AP) |
| AP - A second former New Orleans officer has pleaded guilty in an alleged conspiracy to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:06:12 GMT) |
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| Hurricane season forecast: seven storms to reach land
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| The Christian Science Monitor - America may have already had a “snowicane” this year, but now some weather forecasters are focusing on the real thing – you know, those monster storms with names like Donna or Andrew that pelt the coast with 100-mile-per-hour winds, massive amounts of rain, and tidal surges. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:50:00 GMT) |
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| Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse gas emitters
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AFP - Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:05 GMT) |
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| Alternative Spring Breaks Combine Service, Learning
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| U.S. News & World Report - Instead of relaxing on white, sandy beaches this spring break, thousands of college students will travel around the globe to volunteer for a variety of social justice causes. Known as "alternative spring breaks," these are public-service-oriented trips, planned and led by students, that focus on volunteerism and education about social justice issues in the United States or overseas. From rebuilding homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina to tutoring students in a remote village in Ecuador, these trips can open students' eyes to issues both close to home and far away. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:50:43 GMT) |
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| Power restored in much of storm-battered Northeast
(AP) |
AP - Many of the more than 1 million Northeastern homes and businesses plunged into the dark by a storm were running on electricity Monday, three days after the hard-hitting combination of snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:28:55 GMT) |
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| Europe storm death toll at 62; France hardest hit
(AP) |
AP - Rescue workers in dinghies cruised flooded streets on France's Atlantic coast Monday, searching for people still trapped in their homes by storms that smashed through concrete sea walls and killed at least 62 people across Western Europe.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:08:45 GMT) |
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| Death toll hits 53 as storms lash Europe
(AFP) |
AFP - Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:19:06 GMT) |
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| Storm moves into France leaving three dead
(AFP) |
AFP - A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds moved north to the west coast of France on Sunday after lashing Spain and Portugal, killing at least three people and causing transport chaos.
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| Three killed as storm lashes Spain, Portugal and France
(AFP) |
AFP - A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds lashed Spain, Portugal and France on Saturday, killing at least three people, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power and causing transport chaos.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:41:37 GMT) |
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| NH hotel fire fanned by strong wind destroys block
(AP) |
AP - A fire that started in an unoccupied oceanfront hotel was fanned by hurricane-force winds and spread to several nearby buildings, engulfing and destroying an entire block of businesses on a stretch of Hampton Beach popular with summer tourists. No injuries were reported.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:44:42 GMT) |
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| Only plastic between Haiti homeless and storms
(Reuters) |
Reuters - Seasonal rains and hurricanes spell trouble for Haiti in the best of times, but with hundreds of thousands of people living in flimsy makeshift shelters after last month's earthquake, this year the dangers are much greater.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:17:01 GMT) |
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| Ex-New Orleans policeman pleads guilty in shooting
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - A retired New Orleans policeman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to covering up a shooting by fellow officers that killed two people, days after Hurricane Katrina swamped the city in 2005, the U.S. government said. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:41:06 GMT) |
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| Number of storms may drop, but more could be intense, study says
(The Christian Science Monitor) |
| The Christian Science Monitor - The number of hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms globally is likely to either fall or remain flat over the course of the 21st century. But an increasing proportion of the storms are likely to hit the highest levels of intensity because of the projected effects of global warming, an international team of scientists concludes. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:32:00 GMT) |
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| Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes
(AP) |
AP - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:38:59 GMT) |
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| HUD: Redevelopment of razed public housing at risk
(AP) |
| AP - Nearly two years after the contentious bulldozing of large tracts of public housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a federal report now says that the planned redevelopment of a large portion of that land is in jeopardy. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:31:47 GMT) |
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| Galveston fears post-Ike Census means lost funds
(AP) |
AP - Nearly 1 1/2 years after Hurricane Ike battered Galveston, this southeast Texas island community fears the natural disaster could land another harsh blow.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:26:10 GMT) |
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| Cyclone misses American Samoa, turns toward Tonga
(AP) |
AP - A powerful tropical storm missed American Samoa early Saturday morning, causing heavy rains and high winds but sparing more devastation to the U.S. territory battered by a deadly autumn tsunami.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:35:10 GMT) |
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| Ex-employees sue Blackwater, allege overbilling
(AP) |
AP - Two former Blackwater Worldwide employees say the security company repeatedly billed the U.S. government for excessive or inappropriate expenses, including a prostitute for workers in Afghanistan and strippers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:57:45 GMT) |
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| Army Corps critic sues La. university over firing
(AP) |
| AP - Ivor van Heerden, a Louisiana State University scientist and a widely cited expert on levee failures after Hurricane Katrina, sued his college on Wednesday, alleging he was fired for his criticism of the Army Corps of Engineers. |
| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:21:04 GMT) |
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| Rains add new misery to quake-hit Haiti
(AFP) |
AFP - The first heavy rains since a devastating earthquake four weeks ago brought new misery to Haitians Thursday with hundreds of thousands of people still living in flimsy homemade shelters.
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| Read More...(Source: Yahoo! News: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:24:12 GMT) |
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