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Los Angeles Daily News, 31.12.08 23:02 UTC

Crash with truck carrying hazardous materials shuts 5 Freeway

A multi-car collision involving a truck carrying hazardous materials has blocked all traffic on the northbound 5 freeway on the downgrade at the Los Angeles-Kern County line. Traffic from Southern ...

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Telegraph, 30.12.08 19:02 UTC

Skateboarders take advantage of home foreclosure crisis to skate in abandoned pools

American skateboarders are taking advantage of the nation's home foreclosure crisis, using Google Earth and property websites to find abandoned properties with drained swimming pools, which they can use as makeshift skate parks.

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Seattle Times, 29.12.08 23:02 UTC

New books with Seattle-area ties

"Nurse: A World of Care" by Peter Jaret and Karen Kasmauski; senior editor: Marla Salmon (Emory University, $29.95) . A writer-photographer team explores "the vital and often invisible work of nurses ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 29.12.08 02:32 UTC

Greater sandhill cranes a legacy of ages past

(12-28) 17:49 PST -- Elegant, long-legged holdovers from the Jurassic Era have moved into Lodi for the winter, pecking for alfalfa and frogs in flooded farm fields. More than 6,000 greater sandhill ...

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Seattle Times, 24.12.08 10:02 UTC

Tuesday's prep basketball state scores

Boys Franklin 72, Jeffersontown (Louisville) 55 Gonzaga Prep 57, E.Valley (Spokane) 46 Kentwood 51, Los Osos, Calif., 49 Lewis and Clark 51, Mount Spokane 45 Mead 77, North Central 64 Rogers ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 18.12.08 21:33 UTC

Major California highways reopen after snowstorm

(12-18) 12:49 PST Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- Thousands of motorists began moving Thursday after being stranded overnight as snow and ice made highways too dangerous for travel through the mountains of ...

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USA Today, 18.12.08 16:09 UTC

More snow in the West; Las Vegas sets snowfall record

A rare pre-winter storm brought Las Vegas its heaviest snowfall in nearly three decades, closing the airport and freeways as several inches coated marquees on the Las Vegas Strip and weighed down palm trees.

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Times Online World News, 12.12.08 00:41 UTC

California faces financial meltdown as debt grows by $1.7m an hour$

The state of California, one of the top ten largest economies in the world, will run out of money by February, causing “financial Armageddon”, according to dire new budget projections. As ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11.12.08 06:23 UTC

Suggested names for the merged Center-Monaca school district

These are suggested names for the merged Center Area and Monaca school districts. Those receiving multiple nominations are noted: Moncentral (83) Broadhead (82) Center (60) Center-Monaca (59) Moncen ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 10.12.08 22:02 UTC

Feds say consumers were cheated by big tomato-processing firm

(12-10) 13:47 PST SACRAMENTO -- A Central Valley company that is one of the nation's main suppliers of tomatoes for sauces, soups and other products was described today as a "racketeering enterprise" ...