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Posted: May th, 2008, 11:26pm Eastern Daylight Time
The collapse of the rim of an underground salt dome has created a huge and ravenous sinkhole that quickly threatened to swallow an East Texas oil town.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 9:48pm Eastern Daylight Time
DAISETTA, Texas -- The massive sinkhole, with the crumbling dirt around its edges resembling sharp teeth, had managed to swallow up oil tanks and barrels, tires, telephone poles and...
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Posted: May th, 2008, 9:15pm Eastern Daylight Time
DAISETTA, Texas (AP) -- Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but it could take months before it's clear whether surrounding areas are stable.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 8:43pm Eastern Daylight Time
Sinkhole opens up in Texas town Tractors, trucks and trees swallowed by ground Pictures of the sinkhole's damage
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Posted: May th, 2008, 8:43pm Eastern Daylight Time
A TRACTOR, truck and oil field equipment have been swallowed up by a giant sinkhole that has opened up in a Texas town
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Posted: May th, 2008, 8:22pm Eastern Daylight Time
A large sinkhole has swallowed up oil field equipment and some vehicles in southeastern Texas and continued to grow.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 8:02pm Eastern Daylight Time
A large sinkhole swallowed up oil field equipment and some vehicles Wednesday in southeastern Texas and continued to grow. There were no reports of injuries or home damage.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 7:57pm Eastern Daylight Time
The massive sinkhole, with the crumbling dirt around its edges resembling sharp teeth, had managed to swallow up oil tanks and barrels, tires, telephone poles and several vehicles.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time
Regulators continued monitoring a massive sinkhole which has swallowed up oil field equipment, poles and some vehicles since surfacing just outside the southeast Texas community of Daisetta.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 9:46am Eastern Daylight Time
Images of a massive sinkhole which has opened up in south-eastern Texas.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 6:52pm Eastern Daylight Time
A massive sinkhole has closed a highway northeast of Houston.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 6:44pm Eastern Daylight Time
A highway northeast of Houston is closed because of a massive sinkhole.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 6:09pm Eastern Daylight Time
An isolated field in Liberty County sits several feet lower after the ground caves in Wednesday and leaves a sinkhole described as "the size of two football fields. INSIDE: Photos of Sinkhole
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Posted: May th, 2008, 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time
A massive sinkhole has opened in a rural area near the town of Daisetta about 60 miles northeast of Houston.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 4:34pm Eastern Daylight Time
DAISETTA, Texas -- A Liberty County highway was closed Wednesday afternoon because of a massive sinkhole, KPRC Local 2 reported. The sinkhole, which is described as at least 100 yards wide, is located near Highway 770, just north of Daisetta.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 4:15pm Eastern Daylight Time
A massive sinkhole has opened in a rural area near the town of Daisetta. The sinkhole is located near a business and encompasses trees, power lines, and part of a road. It's unclear what caused the sinkhole to occur. No injuries have been reported at this time.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 3:49pm Eastern Daylight Time
5 PM: The sinkhole swallows a truck, saltwater storage tanks, utility poles and pipe racks. VIDEO
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Posted: May th, 2008, 3:48pm Eastern Daylight Time
DAISETTA, Texas (AP) - A massive sinkhole has opened in a rural area near the town of Daisetta (day-ZET'-uh), about 60 miles northeast of Houston. Overhead footage Wednesday afternoon by KHOU television showed a zigzagging hole believed to be as long as two football fields.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 3:38pm Eastern Daylight Time
Associated Press - May 7, 2008 3:35 PM ET DAISETTA, Texas (AP) - A massive sinkhole has opened in a rural area near the town of Daisetta (day-ZET'-uh), about 60 miles northeast of...
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Posted: May th, 2008, 3:33pm Eastern Daylight Time
A massive sinkhole has opened in a rural area near the town of Daisetta
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Posted: May th, 2008, 12:42pm Eastern Daylight Time
With road construction season officially underway, Burton residents are happy to learn that work has begun in a sinkhole that has vexed them since the new year.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 11:18am Eastern Daylight Time
The kayak’s nose shot up into the air and, for a moment, paused, giving time to realize how sincere the peril of the moment was. Then the roiling water beneath fell, much like a path plummets into a ravine.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 6:12am Eastern Daylight Time
Sewer line repairs are taking longer than expected, official says. Larry Holmes Drive is expected to remain closed for at least two more weeks as construction crews repair a broken sewer pipe, Easton Public Works Director Dave Hopkins said Monday.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 3:22am Eastern Daylight Time
Anyone wanting to intervene in the Tennessee Valley Authority's efforts to license a nuclear plant about 20 miles south of the Tennessee border in Scottsboro, Ala., has a little extra time.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 2:54am Eastern Daylight Time
It's been a month since a section of Five Point Road in Perrysburg has been closed off to traffic due to a sinkhole. As well, it's the second sinkhole to plague a Wood County community in the past five months. A first sinkhole has rerouted traffic on State Rt. 64 in Haskins until July.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 1:44am Eastern Daylight Time
Authorities are still trying to determine the cause of a sinkhole that closed part of Franklin Road over the weekend, but on Monday they were busy checking for other damage that might have occurred.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 3:05pm Eastern Daylight Time
In the unlikely event that Hillary secures the nomination, I'll blog from the mountaintops to get her elected. I won't feel good about it, but I won't cut off my nose to spite my country.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 12:45pm Eastern Daylight Time
NEW YORK -- As reported by the New York Times: "For New Yorkers, a casino will soon be a mere subway ride away. "Or a racino, to use the gambling industry's term: a gambling emporium built into the Aqueduct thoroughbred track in Queens that will include 4,500 video slot machines, but no table games.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 5:17am Eastern Daylight Time
Robert Manderson's quiet country home in Jemseg has become his own private island.
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Posted: May th, 2008, 10:54am Eastern Daylight Time
The Penguins have lost just one game in these playoffs. Can it really be time for Pittsburgh to panic? Scott Burnside finds more perspective than adversity in the Steel City heading into Sunday's Game 5.
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Posted: May rd, 2008, 10:52pm Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole opens up on a local road closing two lanes of traffic. It happened late Friday night on Franklin Road in front of the Ramada Inn. Caution tape and traffic barrels are blocking the dangerous area.
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Posted: May rd, 2008, 12:51am Eastern Daylight Time
A large sinkhole has shut down part of Franklin Road in Roanoke. It happened in the 1900 block. A police spokeswoman says both lanes are closed, and will likely stay closed throughout the day on Saturday.
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Posted: May rd, 2008, 12:29am Eastern Daylight Time
Pasco County's state lawmakers did their best to bring home the bacon this year, but they were unable to push through legislation aimed at reducing sinkhole damage claims in the county.
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Posted: May nd, 2008, 5:02pm Eastern Daylight Time
It was no optical illusion. It was a sinkhole. Town Manager John Anderson received the call from Selectman Steve Ham on Tuesday, April 22 alerting him to a sinkhole that had opened up on Pension Ridge Road about three feet out.
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Posted: May nd, 2008, 12:31pm Eastern Daylight Time
EAST ROCHESTER — An expensive sinkhole problem in East Rochester that continues to worsen has county and local officials scrambling to find funding to help pay for repairs.
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Posted: May nd, 2008, 2:22am Eastern Daylight Time
A series of sinkholes around the new Lowe’s in Shippensburg Township did not delay the opening of the huge home improvement center this week.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 3:32pm Eastern Daylight Time
(Posted 4/30 at 3:23 p.m.) A large sinkhole has developed on Belvedere Rd. near Shag Ln. in Damariscotta. A temporary barricade has been left to mark the hole, which is approximately 8 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 to 3 feet deep.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 12:06pm Eastern Daylight Time
EAST ROCHESTER — An expensive sinkhole problem in East Rochester that continues to worsen has county and local officials scrambling to find funding to help pay for repairs.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 8:52am Eastern Daylight Time
A gushing water main break creates a sinkhole on a busy road and leaves a mess for workers and residents.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 11:37pm Eastern Daylight Time
HUNTINGTON -- A sewer main at Harris Riverfront Park collapsed, creating a sinkhole "wide enough to drive two pick-up trucks through," a Huntington Sanitary Board member said Tuesday.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 8:50pm Eastern Daylight Time
Officials say a deep sinkhole that opened along a Prescott street on Monday was apparently caused by an old mine shaft.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 8:50pm Eastern Daylight Time
Officials say a deep sinkhole that opened along a Prescott street on Monday was apparently caused by an old mine shaft.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 7:12pm Eastern Daylight Time
PRESCOTT, Ariz. - Officials say a deep sinkhole that opened along a Prescott street was apparently caused by an old mine shaft.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 6:45pm Eastern Daylight Time
A deep sinkhole that opened along a Prescott street was apparently caused by an old mine shaft, the city says.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 4:29pm Eastern Daylight Time
The City of Prescott is dealing with a sinkhole in the downtown area about 28 feet deep. Because of safety concerns, a camera is being used to produce a detailed view of the hole on Aubrey Street.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 7:55am Eastern Daylight Time
EAST ROCHESTER — An expensive sinkhole problem in East Rochester that continues to worsen has county and local officials scrambling to find funding to help pay for repairs.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 5:03am Eastern Daylight Time
Andrew Cochrac paid his deposits to move into a rental home in Port Richey. A month later, his landlord told him the house sits atop a sinkhole.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 10:02am Eastern Daylight Time
FAST FACTS: Sinkhole developed when culvert collapsed Sinkhole within a foot of Amtrak tracks Area will have to be dug out and repaired george.brown@wreg.com (Memphis 4/26/2008) A sinkhole that was
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Posted: April th, 2008, 3:26am Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole that was only the size of a basketball a week ago is now threatening the Memphis Amtrak station.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 1:17am Eastern Daylight Time
An 8-foot-wide sinkhole that started out the size of a basketball spread to within a foot of the train track at Central Station by Friday and is forcing Amtrak to use buses to get its passengers on and off the City of New Orleans line.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 9:23pm Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole big enough to fit a car formed on the street earlier this afternoon. Engineering Department Director Donna Newman says the cave in began when a dump truck rolled over a combined sewer line and caused the weakened structure to buckle.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 7:43pm Eastern Daylight Time
FREDERICK - Crews have finished emergency repairs and have reopened Interstate 70 in Frederick, where a sinkhole shut down the westbound lanes.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 6:25pm Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole that was only the size of a basketball on Sunday is now threatening the Memphis Amtrak station.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 3:43pm Eastern Daylight Time
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A sinkhole 14 feet wide and 20 feet deep collapsed one lane of Interstate 70 yesterday.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 1:30pm Eastern Daylight Time
Maryland state highway officials this morning finished patching Interstate 70 and reopened all lanes to traffic after discovering a large sinkhole beneath the road yesterday.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 10:15am Eastern Daylight Time
Crews finish emergency repairs and reopen Interstate 70 in Frederick, where a sinkhole shut down the westbound lanes.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 9:02am Eastern Daylight Time
Crews have finished emergency repairs and have reopened Interstate 70 in Frederick, where a sinkhole shut down the westbound lanes.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 8:00am Eastern Daylight Time
EAST ROCHESTER — An expensive sinkhole problem in East Rochester that continues to worsen has county and local officials scrambling to find funding to help pay for repairs.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 7:24am Eastern Daylight Time
A patch of Swiss cheese-like earth in Frederick collapsed in on itself along Interstate 70 yesterday, creating a large sinkhole that closed the two main westbound travel lanes and caused major delays for travelers.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 7:13am Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole 14 feet wide and 20 feet deep collapsed one lane of Interstate 70 Thursday, backing up westbound traffic for up to 1 1/2 miles during the morning and evening commutes, the State Highway Administration said.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 2:11am Eastern Daylight Time
A 14- by 20-foot sinkhole on I-70 West that snarled traffic in and around Frederick throughout the day Thursday has been filled with concrete. About 4 p.m. Thursday, the State Highway Administration reported that the concrete in the 25-foot-deep hole would take about 12 hours to set.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 12:43am Eastern Daylight Time
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A sinkhole 14 feet wide and 20 feet deep collapsed one lane of Interstate 70 yesterday.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 3:06pm Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole 14 feet wide and 20 feet deep collapsed one lane of Interstate 70 Thursday, backing up westbound traffic for at least a mile during the morning commute, the State Highway Administration said. The agency closed both westbound lanes and directed drivers to use the left-hand shoulder or detour through Frederick, a city of 59,000 about 45 miles west of Baltimore. SHA spokesman David Buck ...
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Posted: April th, 2008, 2:49pm Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole 14 feet wide and 20 feet deep collapsed one lane of Interstate 70 Thursday, backing up westbound traffic for at least a mile during the morning commute, the State Highway Administration said.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 2:49pm Eastern Daylight Time
A sinkhole 14 feet wide and 20 feet deep collapsed one lane of Interstate 70 Thursday, backing up westbound traffic for at least a mile during the morning commute, the State Highway Administration said. The agency closed both westbound lanes and directed drivers to use the left-hand shoulder or detour through Frederick, a city of 59,000 about 45 miles west of Baltimore. SHA ...
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Posted: April rd, 2008, 6:27pm Eastern Daylight Time
EAST ROCHESTER — An expensive sinkhole problem in East Rochester that continues to worsen has county and local officials scrambling to find funding to help pay for repairs.
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Posted: April rd, 2008, 2:34pm Eastern Daylight Time
Atlanta's rock identity set in stone by We Fun filmmakers... [image-1]Jessica "Juggz" Reed perched at the front of the stage at the Earl on Saturday, April 5, to give one "final" performance of the infamous trick she likes to call "Pussy Flambé." Juggz is the vocalist for Atlanta's punk-metal trio Mourdella. But she's better-known for the exotic stunt in which she inserts a container of ...
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Posted: April rd, 2008, 12:48pm Eastern Daylight Time
of the Daily Ledger Canton City Council at a special meeting Tuesday approved a three-year contract with Public Works union workers of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1372. Also, council voted in support of seeking a grant to improve downtown streetscapes.
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Posted: April rd, 2008, 11:57am Eastern Daylight Time
----California Society of CPAs: WHY: With an economy souring and numerous homeowners having to foreclose, the second California Summit on Financial Literacy will hold a free Web cast to help Californians improve their financial skills and reduce the effects of an economic downturn.
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Posted: April rd, 2008, 12:25am Eastern Daylight Time
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - Winds are blowing hard and dark clouds are gathering, but it's not a hurricane approaching. A storm of debate is circulating around homeowner's insurance reform. Florida Senate Bill 2860 suggests several standards for writing policies, paying claims and raising fines on insurers.
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Posted: April nd, 2008, 6:59pm Eastern Daylight Time
Brooklyn Park - A county police officer was placed on administrative leave after he shot and wounded a Baltimore man during a traffic stop last night in Brooklyn Park.
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Posted: April nd, 2008, 4:32pm Eastern Daylight Time
Georgia Department of Transportation crews have closed one lane in each direction on 14th Street between Spring and William streets for emergency construction, officials said. A "void" was discovered underneath the pavement, so to prevent a sinkhole from forming road crews are trying to fill in the space. The work started midafternoon Tuesday, so rush-hour drivers should look for an alternative ...
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Posted: April nd, 2008, 8:13am Eastern Daylight Time
The horror of the genocide in Canada's Indian Residential Schools became public, as the locations of 28 mass graves of Indian children were revealed. An unknown number of Indian children died in captivity at Indian Residential Schools in Canada.
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Posted: April nd, 2008, 6:04am Eastern Daylight Time
Some wonder what the environmental impact from the project will be.
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Posted: April nd, 2008, 1:12am Eastern Daylight Time
FAYETTEVILLE - The father of one of three young men killed together testified Monday in Fayette Circuit Court that he found evidence in the shootings a day after they happened, after police had searched the scene.
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Posted: April st, 2008, 4:09pm Eastern Daylight Time
EAST ROCHESTER — An expensive sinkhole problem in East Rochester that continues to worsen has county and local officials scrambling to find funding to help pay for repairs.
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Posted: April st, 2008, 11:35am Eastern Daylight Time
Let us now consider a famous business convulsion. A year ago the largest banking company in the world, Citigroup, was weeks into one of its best quarters in history. It was invincibly marching toward $6.2 billion in profits for the period, a matter so heartening for Citi's oft-maligned CEO, Charles O. Prince III, that as early as May he was astonishingly inviting reporters (like this writer) to ...
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Posted: April st, 2008, 12:22am Eastern Daylight Time
EASTON | The city's annual shad tournament will return for its 26th year, but construction on Larry Holmes Drive has left the arrangements in limbo. The road is closed between Third and Northampton streets because of repairs from a sinkhole and a roughly 80-year-old sewer main.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 11:19pm Eastern Daylight Time
CENTRALIA — In many ways, John Lokitis is the unofficial caretaker of the Borough of Centralia. He paints, cuts grass and weeds, opens the local cemetery for visitors. He, along with the other 10 residents, hang on as long as they can to not see Centralia disappear into history.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 11:06pm Eastern Daylight Time
Back in the days of dial-up, Internet users were content to watch text download onto screens, one excruciating line at a time.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 10:19pm Eastern Daylight Time
A funnel cloud was reportedly spotted in Spring Grove about 7 p.m. Sunday as a fast moving storm swept through western York County Sunday night.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 9:51am Eastern Daylight Time
When we decided to launch the "Indiana Environment Revisited" (IER) project, I knew it would be an emotional journey.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 8:10am Eastern Daylight Time
Bags in gloved hands, about 200 Penn State students and residents talked trash yesterday, getting their hands dirty for Centre County’s 12th annual Watershed Cleanup Day.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 5:38am Eastern Daylight Time
Candidate for governor Dino Rossi's road-building vision is, for the most part, Gov. Christine Gregoire's road-building vision. The superiority of Rossi's plan is it has more money to build roads faster.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 11:11am Eastern Daylight Time
Broker Jim Konopik is showing more houses than he’s selling these days as the Whidbey Island market slows down, but it’s not as bad as it is elsewhere in the country.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 12:26am Eastern Daylight Time
ORLANDO, Fla. -- This is Part 3 (and Part Last) of a series on Fun for Grown-Ups in Selected Parts of Central Florida. ...
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Posted: April th, 2008, 12:10am Eastern Daylight Time
By KENT JACKSON Staff Writer Emergency work to fill a mine subsidence made Joseph O’Day’s backyard look like a patio under construction, but he said he didn’t want to return to his house in Drifton after more of his foundation fell apart on Friday.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 10:09pm Eastern Daylight Time
The horror of the genocide in Canada's Indian Residential Schools became public, as the locations of 28 mass graves of Indian children were revealed. An unknown number of Indian children died in captivity at Indian Residential Schools in Canada.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 10:08pm Eastern Daylight Time
PINOL, Maitum, Sarangani (MindaNews/18 April) -- The local legislature here has passed a resolution declaring the newly-discovered Sagel Cave in Barangay Pinol as an “archaeological site,” to take into custody the artifacts found there which are similar to those of Metal Age anthropomorphic secondary burial jars recovered in 1991 from another cave a few hundred meters away, and to ensure their ...
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Posted: April th, 2008, 9:06am Eastern Daylight Time
"Is this your rubble?" Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo asks the shopkeeper next to a mound of litter on a Wanderers Street pavement. "I'm coming back at 4.30 and I want it gone."
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Posted: April th, 2008, 4:17pm Eastern Daylight Time
There was unanimous opposition during a Wednesday public hearing before the town of Porter Plan Commission over a primary plat for eight lots on 4.4 acres to be built on the west side of Hunter’s Glen subdivision at Oak Hill Road and Quail Ridge Drive.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 9:51am Eastern Daylight Time
Waitsfield has hired an engineering firm to assess the safety of the dam at the north end of the town pond after a sinkhole developed and a culvert collapsed last week.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 6:16am Eastern Daylight Time
Incidents r Police responded to Addison Gilbert Hospital and mdash; twice and mdash; on complaints that a patient in the emergency room was causing a disturbance on Tuesday. Officers first went to the hospital at 4:49 p.m., but were called back at 5:09 p.m.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 4:41am Eastern Daylight Time
People who want to get more physically active this spring and summer need look no further than the earth under their feet. Yes, we're talking gardening, which is not just a way to beautify your yard or to grow nutritious food, but to get moving and keep moving as well.
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Posted: April th, 2008, 3:16am Eastern Daylight Time
Not long ago, a fellow colleague and critic here at the FSView & Florida Flambeau had the misfortune of witnessing Judd Apatow's recent production, Drillbit Taylor, but was nonetheless lucky enough to live to warn about it.
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