LOS ANGELES – This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world. Wells dot the city landscape, some hidden behind hollow building facades much like a Hollywood movie set, or, in the case of Beverly Hills High School, encased in a tower painted with flowers
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Regulators accused of lax oversight at LA oilfield – WJLA
WASHINGTON — House Republican leader John Boehner says his party has a shot at recapturing the House majority it lost to Democrats in 2006. The Ohio lawmaker says winning back the House this November will be a steep climb, but its doable. Democrats hold a 253-178 advantage in the House, with …
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Boehner says GOP has chance of recapturing House – WRAL
Hundreds of admirers of a New Hampshire activist who was known as Granny D and walked across the country to publicize the need for campaign finance reform have attended her memorial service.
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NH remembers Granny D, who walked across US at 89 – Tuscaloosa News
SAN DIEGO – Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his cars accelerator stuck as he drove on a California freeway, according to a memo for a congressional panel
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Congressional memo: Govt, Toyota tests on runaway Prius fail to replicate San Diego incident – Minneapolis Star Tribune
PITTSBURG, N.H. – Up here, folks have another word for roadkill.
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In rural NH, deer-car crashes bring free dinner – YAHOO!
BOISE, Idaho – A U.S. missionary released from a Haiti jail last week has returned to her home in Idaho. Twenty-four-year-old Charisa Coulter arrived at the Boise Airport Saturday night where her father, several other Idaho missionaries who had been detained, and dozens of others welcomed her by …
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US missionary detained in Haiti returns to Idaho – Santa Rosa Press Democrat
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utahs House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager. Republican Rep
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Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tubconfession – WTVF
Some of those most affected by the decision to fire all the teachers at a long-troubled Rhode Island high school say they want more say in what comes next. The decision last month to fire 93 teachers and other staff from Central Falls High School has ignited a national debate over school reform …
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Firing of all teachers at RI school roils students – Longview Daily News
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for House votes as early as this coming week. Democrats are awaiting cost assessments from the Congressional Budget Office that will allow them to finish details
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A look at Democrats health care overhaul – RealClearPolitics
(AP) HELENA, Mont. – Inmate Michael Murphy sought out female guards and prison workers that he knew would be easy to charm
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Female prison guards often behind sex misconduct – WHEC TV-10