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Fire official: 18 injured in crash between shuttle bus, tractor-trailer near Atlanta airport
ATLANTA - Authorities say 18 people have been taken to the hospital following a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport.
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18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say 18 people have been taken to the hospital following a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport.
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Jersey shore reopens for 1st post-Sandy summer
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.
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Wash. I-5 bridge collapse caused by oversize load
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A truck hauling an oversized load struck an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries.
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Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout
NEW YORK (AP) — The forecast for summer travel, 2013: Partly sunny.
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Some damage reported from 5.7 quake in N. Calif.
GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — An earthquake in far northeastern California did not injure anyone but did cause moderate damage, including to a water tank that supplies hundreds of homes with drinking water, local authorities said Friday.
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No bail for Pa. parents in faith-healing death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge has ordered that a couple who believe in faith healing over medicine be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son.
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Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge
MIAMI (AP) — During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer easy-to-understand, color-coded maps and change the way they talk to the public.
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Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours
NEW YORK (AP) — Kid Rock is a scalper.
Obama to outline new airline safety measures
Given the Christmas day terrorist attempt to bring down the incoming flight to Detroit, the president will discuss new safety measures that will be implemented.
According to Darlene Superville of the Associated Press, Obama scheduled a meeting Tuesday afternoon with high ranking officials. In her article Superville states:
"The government also has added dozens of names to its lists of suspected terrorists and those barred from U.S.-bound flights. The addition of names to the government's terrorist watch list and the no-fly list came after U.S. officials scrutinized a larger database of suspected terrorists, an intelligence official said Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak publicly.
People on the watch list are subject to additional scrutiny before they are allowed to enter this country, while anyone on the no-fly list is barred from boarding aircraft in or headed for the United States.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian who claims ties to al-Qaida, remained in federal custody, charged with trying to destroy the Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit. He is alleged to have smuggled an explosive device on board the aircraft and set if off, but the device sparked only a fire and not the intended explosion.
Abdulmutallab's name was in the U.S. database of about 550,000 suspected terrorists, but was not on a list that would have subjected him to additional security screening or kept him from boarding the flight altogether. That omission prompted a review of the National Counterterrorism Center's massive Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database."
The forthcoming adjustments to the already tedious airline travel regime will hopefully reflect real security measures and not be a reflection of the 'alergic reaction' that we have experienced heretofore regarding matters of security since the tragedy of 9/11.
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