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Iowa unaware of company's fraud suit
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - State and local officials promised an Egyptian company $200 million in tax breaks to build a fertilizer plant in southeast Iowa without knowledge of a pending lawsuit alleging one of the company's subsidiaries defrauded U.S....Tags: Fertilizer, Trials, The Associated Press, Chemical Industry, Laws
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Clear Spring native named Wildlife Conservationist of the Year by Florida federation
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comGrowing up in Clear Spring, biologist Kim Dryden's childhood seems almost like a Disney nature movie. Her father and grandfather both worked for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, which gave her an unusual exposure to wildlife. "I remember...Tags: Marine Science, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Florida Water Management District, Science, Wildlife
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Do you recognize these faces?
Anchor/ReporterBones found by farmers and fishermen in our area are not resting in peace, but in limbo. Could computer scans, clay models and DNA help give them an identity? The state hopes you can help give an answer. The state medical examiner's office worked with...Tags: Alleghany County (Virginia), Carroll County (Virginia), FBI, Chemical Industry, Pittsylvania County
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Pilot spotted thief stealing his property from the air, deputies say
FloriDUHDavid Zehntner, a pilot, had been returning home from North Carolina in his personal airplane when he decided to fly over his Labelle home. From his eye in the sky Zehntner saw something strange -- a silver truck with a white camper in his driveway. So...Tags: Theft, Charlotte County
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One dead in Lee County train derailment
Virginia State Police are investigating a death that resulted from a train derailment. It happened at 11:45 p.m. Sunday night in Lee County, which is in far southwest Virginia. Troopers say a train derailed and overturned on a minivan parked next to...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Railway Accidents
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Snakes confiscated from pastor of Tennessee snake handling church
An eastern Kentucky pastor wants Tennessee wildlife officials to return five venomous snakes confiscated in Knoxville. Gregory Coots, who's known as Jamie Coots, is pastor of at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro. Coots...
Tags: Buchanan County, Belief and Faith, Judges, Religion and Belief, Justice System
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UPDATED: State trooper who was hit by car in Amherst County released from hospital
A Virginia State trooper who was hit by a car last week on Route 29 in Amherst County has been released from the hospital. Trooper D.T. Wilson is now recovering at his Campbell County home. Wilson was hit by a car while helpling another man pick up...
Tags: Amherst County, Virginia Department of Transportation, U.S. Army, Campbell County, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Report: Charges against FSU recruit Mario Pender dropped
Chopping Block - Seminoles Blog - Orlando SentinelFlorida State recruit Mario Pender on Thursday received just the news he had been waiting to hear. According to this report on the website of southwest Florida's NBC affiliate, Channel 2 WBBH, Pender appeared before a judge at the Lee County Justice... -
Stella E. Moore, 92
Stella Estelle Moore, 92, of Uvalde, Texas, and formerly of Smithsburg, Md., went home to be with the Lord on Sept. 12, 2011.
Born Oct. 9, 1918, in Lee County, Va., she was the daughter of the late Charley and Cora Jane (Meredith) Russell.
She was...Tags: Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Wampler won't seek 7th term in Virginia Senate
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Sen. William Wampler, a senior budget writer who ensured that his native southwestern Virginia was not forgotten in Richmond, will not seek a seventh term this year.
Wampler told The Associated Press that 24 years in the General...Tags: Elections, Human Interest, Government, Bob McDonnell, Politics
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Virginia's new Chief Justice is sworn in
ReporterCynthia Kinser was formally sworn in Wednesday as Virginia's Chief Justice, the first woman to lead the state's highest court. Family, friends and a who's who of state government and the Virginia judicial system attended the investiture ceremony in...Tags: Elections, Human Interest, Virginia, George Allen, Judges
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Ex-spy brings CIA past to 9/11 hearings
Tribune staff reporterWhen closed-door hearings begin Tuesday on U.S. intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, a former Central Intelligence Agency spymaster will help direct the proceedings. Rep. Porter Goss' role in the joint investigation by the House and...Tags: Elections, National Security, Central Intelligence Agency, Espionage and Intelligence, Defense
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