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November 17, 2010 - Signal Mountain Police are called to the Palmgren's home in response to a verbal disorder. Police records show Matthew and Gail Palmgren had an argument over their missing dog. Gail went to spend the night with Matthew's mother...
Boom in bedbugs is causing big trouble
WASHINGTON The biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II has sent a collective shudder among apartment dwellers, college students and business travelers across the nation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090515/sc_mcclatchy/3234191_1
Parasitic flies turn fire ants into zombies
It sounds like something out of science fiction: zombie fire ants. But it's all too real. Fire ants wander aimlessly away from the mound. Eventually their heads fall off, and they die.
The strange part is that researchers at the University of...
Backyard refineries blamed for fires, explosions
Out of the frying pan: Motorists who brew fuel from cooking oil are burning down the house
EDMONDS, Wash. (AP) -- Trying to live green and beat high gasoline prices, some enterprising Americans are turning cooking oil into biodiesel in their...
Dear Friend, Please Pass This On
National Crime Victims' Week is upon us. To help us recognize and honor all crime victims, the Orange County District Attorney's Office is hosting a reception, march and rally. Please see the attached memos for information and parking instructions.
We...
Rivers shrinking: Flow of many rivers in decline
WASHINGTON The flow of water in the world's largest rivers has declined over the past half-century, with significant changes found in about a third of the big rivers. An analysis of 925 major rivers from 1948 to 2004 showed an overall decline...
AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water
AP IMPACT: Manufacturers release tons of pharmaceuticals into US water supplies
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-IMPACT-Tons-of-released-apf-14965990.html
Police Chief Allegedly Used Taser on Wife
OAKWOOD, Texas (April 8) - The chief of a small Central Texas town's police department has been fired and jailed for allegedly using a Taser gun on his wife. Former Oakwood police chief Oly Ivy was in the Leon County Jail in Centerville on Wednesday...
World's deadliest spider found in Tulsa store
TULSA, Okla. One of the most deadly spiders in the world has been found in the produce section of a Tulsa grocery store. An employee of Whole Foods Market found the Brazilian Wandering Spider Sunday in bananas from Honduras and managed to catch...
Can Marijuana Help Rescue California's Economy?
Could marijuana be the answer to the economic misery facing California? Democratic State Assembly member Tom Ammiano thinks so. Ammiano introduced legislation last month that would legalize pot and allow the state to regulate and tax its sale -...
Space Collision Called 'Catastrophic Event'
MOSCOW (Feb. 13) - The crash of two satellites has generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years, space experts said Friday. One expert called the...
Bat-killing syndrome spreads in Northeast
ROSENDALE, N.Y. A mysterious and deadly bat disorder discovered just two winters ago in a few New York caves has now spread to at least six northeastern states, and scientists are scrambling to find solutions before it spreads across the country...
Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
DALLAS - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up...
A fourth of Yellowstone's bison shot, sent to slaughter
GARDINER, Mont. - This was not the Yellowstone National Park that tourists see. At first light Tuesday, at the end of a closed road, past a boneyard of junk cars, trailers and old cabins, more than 60 of the park's wild bison were being...
Their Deepest, Darkest Discovery
Scientists Create a Black That Erases Virtually All Light
Black is getting blacker.
Researchers in New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs 99.955 percent of the light that hits it, making it by far the...
California To Post Names Of Tax Cheats Online
SACRAMENTO (AP) ― State tax agents are posting the names of delinquents online as part of a statewide crack down on tax cheats and delinquent taxpayers.
Officials say more than 750,000 Californians owe billions of dollars in unpaid taxes...
Tiger kills man at San Francisco Zoo
SAN FRANCISCO - A tiger that mauled a zookeeper last year escaped from its pen at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two others before police shot it dead, authorities said. The three men were in their 20s; they were together...
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