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B-29 gets spotlight at aviation history tour at Martin airport
Fifi is no shrinking violet. The 68-year-old warplane can't sky like it used to, and getting all the parts going in the morning takes a little more thought and planning. But Fifi — the last B-29 Superfortress still in the air — commands...
Tags: Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Emergency Incidents
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Afghanistan bombings kill 19, including 11 children
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, including 11 children and two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition, as Taliban militants continued a wave of violence as part of their spring offensive....
Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Pakistan, Bombings, Transportation Accidents, NATO
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Prosecutors look to closely link Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
FT. MEADE, Md. — Government prosecutors seeking life in prison for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning opened his court-martial Monday closely linking the young, nondescript enlistee from Oklahoma with the outsized Julian Assange, head of the anti-secrecy...Tags: Justice System, Bombings, Lawyers, Bradley Manning, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chinese poultry workers tell of stampede during fire
BEIJING — There was a loud bang, survivors said. Then the lights went out, and fire quickly engulfed a poultry plant in northeastern China, killing at least 119 workers who were trapped inside behind locked doors. The fire on Monday, perhaps the...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Livestock Farming, Mining, Bird Flu, Disasters and Accidents
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Robbery puts school in lockdown; hoax bomb threat adds confusion
A Lauderhill teen who had already been suspended from Millennium Middle School in Tamarac told classmates that he put bombs around the school campus, investigators say. But it was a nearby strong-arm robbery, not a bomb threat, that caused the school to...Tags: Bombings, Challenger Elementary School, Theft, Lauderhill, Emergency Incidents
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China poultry plant fire kills 119
BEIJING -- A fire ignited by an explosion quickly engulfed a poultry plant in northeastern China on Monday, killing at least 119 workers who were trapped inside behind locked doors. The fire, perhaps the deadliest ever in China’s poultry industry,...Tags: Livestock Farming, Bird Flu, China, Emergency Incidents, Beijing (China)
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Afghan bombings kill nine children, 10 others
KABUL, Afghanistan—Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people, including nine schoolchildren, in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, as Afghan Taliban militants continued a wave of violence as part of their spring offensive. In one attack, a suicide...
Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Pakistan, Bombings, Transportation Accidents, NATO
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Wrongful death lawsuit filed in KC explosion
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The parents of a woman killed in a Kansas City restaurant explosion are suing several companies. Megan Cramer died Feb. 19 in a gas explosion that destroyed JJ's restaurant and injured several other people. A drilling...
Tags: Justice System, Trials, Time Warner Cable Inc., Litigation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Police: Man made fake bomb threats outside Walmart
Trevor Cordell Harris' "stupid" bomb-threat prank at the Palm Springs Walmart store backfired, police said. Harris, 23, of Boynton Beach, warned several customers Thursday night at about 10 p.m. about a bomb inside the store, according to a Palm...
Tags: Crimes, Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice
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One man's defiance inspires a region to stand up to the Taliban
ZANGABAD, Afghanistan — The uprising began in early February with a Taliban commander's knock on the door of Hajji Abdul Wudood. The militant leader demanded that Wudood, a stout, weathered man of 60, surrender one of his eight sons, who was...
Tags: Government, Kabul (Afghanistan), Firearms, Corruption, Wars and Interventions
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Chemical explosion injures two at fragrance plant in Lehigh Valley industrial park
A chemical explosion Friday morning at a Bethlehem-area fragrance manufacturing plant in Lehigh Valley Industrial Park IV injured two employees. Emergency personnel were dispatched about 10 a.m. to a report of an explosion and fire in a commercial...
Tags: Biofuels, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Radio, Environmental Issues, Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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How to survive a zombie apocalypse
chrisc@herald-mail.comZombies. Giant super-storms. Runaway climate change. Alien invasions. Sneak attacks by invading enemy nations. Thrilling stuff of end-of-life-as-we-know-it science fiction books and movies. But as recent news coverage reminds us — Superstorm...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, NASA, Smallpox , Disasters and Accidents, Snow Storms
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