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In the news 27 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
Fat Joe, 42, the platinum-selling rapper of the hit “What’s Luv?” whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, reported to federal prison in Florida to serve a 4-month sentence for failing to pay taxes on mor...
Go the extra mile, Griffin tells Exxon 27 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
Federal regulations to ensure the integrity of pipelines are not sufficient to detect deficiencies and prevent an oil spill, U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin told Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. officials Monday.
Guilty, got care, arrested sheriff says 27 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
BENTON — Saline County Sheriff Bruce Pennington admitted himself into a treatment facility after his arrest on alcohol-related charges earlier this summer, he told reporters at his plea hearing Monday...
Yosemite-fire ash puts Bay Area water at risk 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. — A raging wildfire in Yosemite National Park rained ash on the reservoir that is the chief source of San Francisco’s famously pure drinking water, and utility officials Monday s...
Names and faces 27 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
A federal judge signed off Monday on a deal to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen. A civil lawsuit accusing the former Food Network star and her brother of race discrim...
Rebels pour fire on Congo troops 27 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
GOMA, Congo — Congolese troops came under fire from rebels in the country’s volatile east Monday as fighting resumed just outside Goma, a city of nearly 1 million people near the Congolese-Rwandan bor...
GI has Medal of Honor plan 27 Aug 2013 | 03:47 pm
Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter, the latest recipient of the nation’s highest military honor, hopes to use the award to help others suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, which has afflicted him sin...
Race called no factor in ballplayer’s killing 27 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Australian baseball player who was purportedly shot and killed at random while he was jogging wasn’t targeted because of his race or nationality, the prosecutor in charge of the cas...
Plum Island sale divides agencies 27 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
MINEOLA, N.Y. — In the Oscar-winning movie The Silence of the Lambs, FBI agent Clarice Starling offers killer Hannibal Lecter a chance to relocate to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. “That’s onl...
Getting it straight 27 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate.
