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Hurricane Rick downgraded to tropical storm
Mexico City - Rick, once a powerful category-five hurricane, weakened into a tropical storm as it approached the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, where it had already claimed one life. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Rick's ...
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Jury awards 16 million dollars in fatal radio prank
Los Angeles - A California jury has awarded 16 million dollars to the family of a woman who died during a 2007 radio station contest gone awry, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Jennifer Strange died in 2007 at the age of 28 of acute water intox...
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Shocking gang rape took place at California school dance
San Francisco - Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy on charges that he participated in a shocking gang rape outside a school dance in northern California, amid reports that over a dozen students witnessed the brutal assault but did nothing to stop...
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Nine missing after helicopter-plane collision off California
Los Angeles - Nine persons were reported missing and feared dead after a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Navy helicopter off California's coast, the tv news network CNN reported Friday. The late Thursdday (local time) collision took place...
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US man gets jail time for laser blinding pilots
Los Angeles - A California man has been sentenced to two- and-a-half years in jail for aiming a laser beam at two jets as they were coming in to land at the John Wayne Airport in southern California, NBC Los Angeles reported Tuesday. The report said ...
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One death in Mexico due to Hurricane Rick - Summary
Mexico City - Hurricane Rick, once a powerful category-five storm, had weakened Monday en route to Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, where it had already claimed one life. A large wave caused by the storm carried a 38-year-old Mexican man out to se...
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Visa shows strong Q4 turnaround
San Francisco - Credit card giant Visa Inc. reported late Tuesday a strong fourth quarter in fiscal 2008-2009 in figures which beat most analysts' projections and signalled a possible recovery in consumer spending. San Francisco, California-based Vis...
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California bans power guzzling flat screen TVs
Sacramento - California regulators on Wednesday passed new regulations to ban power-hungry flat screen televisions from store shelves. The regulations adopted by the California Energy Commission are the strictest in the US and will require manufactur...
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Bones found in Death Valley may be of four German tourists
Washington - Parched bones found in California's Death Valley may be the remains of a family of four German tourists who vanished without trace 13 years ago in the searingly hot region. Hikers found the remains in a remote part of Death Valley Nation...
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Mexico monitors Tropical Storm Patricia on Pacific
Mexico City - Tropical Storm Patricia was slowly approaching the Baja California Peninsula on the Mexican Pacific Tuesday, and the authorities called for precautions even though it was not supposed to make landfall. The southern tip of the peninsula ...
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Schwarzenegger plunges to new low in polls
San Francisco - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has plunged to a new low in the polls with only 27 per cent of residents in the financially-troubled state approving of his job performance, according to a Field Poll released Tuesday. The tel...
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Long-time US kidnap victim breaks silence
Los Angeles - Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped, held hostage and became a mother to two children during 18 years of captivity in California, released her first photo and comments Wednesday since being released from her ordeal in August. Dugard, 29, a...
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