La. lawmakers weigh Jindal's budget balancing plan - CNBC
BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana lawmakers weighed Friday whether to approve Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposal to shrink state spending this year by $341 million, to wipe out a midyear budget deficit caused by the plunge in oil and gas prices. The gap in the ...
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NY county fined $12,000 after closet falls on nun - Columbia Missourian
RAMAPO, N.Y. A county just north of New York City has been fined $12,000 for unsafe conditions at one of its nursing homes after a closet fell on a nun and killed her. The Department of Health says Rockland County must pay the state $10,000 for ...
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3rd state to require fast-food chains to post calorie counts - ABC 15 News
Massachusetts health officials plan to follow the lead of New York City and California in requiring fast-food chains to post calorie counts for their products on boards behind the order counter. That is one of several proposals in a healthy-eating ...
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Toxic coal ash piling up in ponds in 32 states incl. Indiana - WTHR
WASHINGTON - Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a practice the federal government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has left unregulated. An Associated Press analysis ...
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Obama, Democrats look to revamp financial bailout - Yahoo News
WASHINGTON ? Barack Obama's economic team is talking with the Bush administration about having Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ask Congress within the next week for access to the $350 billion remaining in the financial bailout fund, officials on ...
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3rd state to require fast-food chains to post calorie counts - ABC 15 News
Massachusetts health officials plan to follow the lead of New York City and California in requiring fast-food chains to post calorie counts for their products on boards behind the order counter. That is one of several proposals in a healthy-eating ...
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Swimmers makes waves after pool access halted - Herald-Mail
WASHINGTON COUNTY ? A group of area residents doesn?t like the Plaza Hotel?s new pool policy: For guests only. Dozens of people from the community, many of them senior citizens, have used the pool in recent years as paying members of an ...
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Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter - Reuters UK
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning that has sickened at least 399 people and put 70 or more into the hospital has been linked to peanut butter, officials in Minnesota said on Friday. Officials from the Minnesota ...
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The Job Hunt: No, you're not imagining it - unemployment gets worse - Walletpop.com
The news that the unemployment rate hit a 16-year high , to 7.2% in December, and that 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008 -- the most since 1945, is bad news that is only going to get worse as 2009 continues. Economists think the unemployment rate ...
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Salmonella Outbreak: Peanut Butter To Blame? - WXYZ
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal officials have not yet identified the cause of a salmonella outbreak striking almost 400 people in 42 states, including 20 cases in Michigan, but state officials in Minnesota say peanut butter may be involved. The Minnesota ...
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