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    May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  1. Pocono Township residents have plan to end feuding

    Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, Pa.
    A small group of Pocono Township residents believes it has found a way to stop township elected officials from feuding about self-appointed township jobs. They want to replace Pocono Township's three-person supervisors' board with a five-person board of...

    Tags: Voting, Politics, Lehigh County, Accounting and Auditing, Monroe County (Pennsylvania)

  2. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  3. Sale of liquor stores could realize $1B, says state secretary of revenue

    Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, Pa.
    Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to sell the state liquor monopoly to private enterprise is likely to win final Senate passage, state Senate Majority Whip Patrick Browne said Friday morning. Browne, R-16, who attended a Corbett Administration budget presentation...

    Tags: Politics, Personal Income, Tom Corbett, Career and Workplace, Pension and Welfare

  4. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  5. Press Talk: Little support for the M&M boys?

    The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.
    Nada. OK, that's the answer, but I should let you know the question for those not following the magical mayhem tour the M&M boys are on over at the county building. County Commissioners David Madore and Tom Mielke have been playing naughty for some...

    Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Public Officials, Dwayne Johnson, Jaime Herrera

  6. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  7. Bonding bill in question

    Duluth News Tribune
    The future of a public works borrowing bill to fund state Capitol work, roads and bridges and other projects is in question after it failed in the Minnesota House. Representatives voted 76-56 Friday on a bill to sell bonds to fund public works projects,...

    Tags: Travel, Alice Hausman, Mary Murphy, Politics, Mark Dayton

  8. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  9. BRIEF: Bullock's health adviser quits after 4 months

    The Montana Standard, Butte
    Gov. Steve Bullock's health policy adviser has left to take a new job, after just four months in the governor's office. Cindy Stergar, of Butte, left the position in the governor's office earlier this month, to take a job with a medical-consulting...

    Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Health Insurance, Medicaid

  10. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  11. City officials, DEP to meet Monday on Crow Lane landfill

    The Daily News of Newburyport, Mass.
    City officials are scheduled to meet with members of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Monday to discuss ongoing concerns about odors emanating from the private landfill at Crow Lane. The meeting, which will be held at the offices of DEP,...

    Tags: Politics, Public Officials, Headaches

  12. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  13. Jim Parsons should learn fate of parole request within a week

    Norwalk Reflector, Ohio
    A Norwalk man who has served nearly 20 years in prison for the murder of his wife could be released soon. James "Jim" O. Parsons, 75, had an institutional hearing Friday in which a parole board member and hearing officer visited him at the prison in...

    Tags: Punishment, Politics, Prisons, Regional Authority

  14. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  15. Man who robbed Foothills bank sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison

    The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.
    The man who jumped over the counter of the Wells Fargo Bank in the Foothills last September while brandishing a weapon as he stole money from the teller's cash drawer has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison. According to the United...

    Tags: Bank Robbery, Punishment, Prosecution, Politics, Prisons

  16. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  17. Race rolls on despite case

    The Times Leader
    Karen Ceppa-Hirko expects to gain some votes Tuesday in the race for the Luzerne County controller Republican nomination due to the wiretap charges filed against opponent Walter Griffith, but she's not presuming a victory. "I don't think the issue of...

    Tags: Phyllis Mundy, Voting, Trials, Politics, Public Officials

  18. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  19. Inland Empire's unemployment rate falls to 9.6 percent, 900 jobs added

    San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.
    Related story: L.A. County's jobless rate under 10% for first time in 4 yearsThe Inland Empire's unemployment rate fell to a 4 1/2-year low of 9.6 percent in April and the region added 900 jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday....

    Tags: Economic Indicator, Adecco SA, Labor Markets, Politics, Employment Opportunities

  20. May 18, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  21. West Chester seeking tax on alcohol

    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    In West Chester and college towns across the state, there's never a short supply of alcohol -- or patrons bellying up to the bar. But that's not the case when it comes to funds for local law enforcement and public works -- and West Chester's borough...

    Tags: Local Government, Company Privatization, Privatization, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice

  22. May 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. Anti-Taliban Afghan police chief gunned down in motorcycle attack

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    KABUL, Afghanistan -- A police chief who had stood up repeatedly to the Taliban was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by four insurgents on motorcycles, officials said Saturday. The police chief, Abdul Ghani, was leaving his driveway in his car...

    Tags: Politics, Motorvehicle Accidents, NATO, Kabul (Afghanistan), Shootings

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    May 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Fossil finds hint at when apes and monkeys went separate ways

    Scientists have added two species of ape and monkey to the evolutionary tree, filling in a 10-million-year gap in the fossil record from a period when apes and Old World monkeys diverged.
    Scientists have added two species of ape and monkey to the evolutionary tree, filling in a 10-million-year gap in the fossil record from a period when apes and Old World monkeys diverged. Fossil specimens of jaws and teeth, collected by Ohio...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Research, Ohio University

  2. May 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Dinosaur heads home to Mongolia after odyssey ends in Queens

      NEW YORK -- It's bad enough to go from roaming the earth as a fearsome predator to being uprooted and dragged across three continents, but to end up in a basement in Queens? No wonder the Tyrannosaurus bataar was broken up. Literally. But not for...

    Tags: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Queens (New York City), Mongolia, Auction Service

  4. Apr 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. Did dinosaur ancestors benefit from worst extinction on Earth?

    Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a mass extinction about&nbsp; 65 million years ago, but an earlier extinction event may have given their predecessors a leg up on the competition, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a mass extinction about  65 million years ago, but an earlier extinction event may have given their predecessors a leg up on the competition, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

    Tags: South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Paleontology

  6. Apr 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Four-winged dinosaur raptor feasted on fish

    Microraptor probably was as big as a hawk, had teeth like a crocodile and could spear fish like a kingfisher -- when the diminutive, four-winged dinosaur wasn&rsquo;t busy plucking squirrel-like animals and other birds from trees.
    Microraptor probably was as big as a hawk, had teeth like a crocodile and could spear fish like a kingfisher -- when the diminutive, four-winged dinosaur wasn’t busy plucking squirrel-like animals and other birds from trees. That’s the...

    Tags: China, Paleontology

  8. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. Evidence points toward solving evolutionary 'missing link'

    With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long distances by walking upright on two legs.
    With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long...

    Tags: Africa, Arizona State University, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Science

  10. Apr 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. Scientists sequence DNA of a 'living fossil': the coelacanth

    They're big, they're furtive, they're weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn't want to dine on one, since they're endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them.
    They're big, they're furtive, they're weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn't want to dine on one, since they're endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But the African coelacanth is extremely useful in at...

    Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Africa, Science and Technology, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Chemical Industry

  12. Mar 14, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. Ancient feathered birds may have sported four wings, study says

    Some of the earliest birds hailing from the age of the dinosaurs may have sported four flying limbs, a team of Chinese researchers says.
    Some of the earliest birds hailing from the age of the dinosaurs may have sported four flying limbs, a team of Chinese researchers says. If so, 11 fossils from the lower Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago, could represent a missing link in...

    Tags: China, Science and Technology, Paleontology

  14. Mar 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Skulls of alligator kin shed new light on reptiles' murky history

    Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator &ndash; and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought.
    Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator – and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought. The new study...

    Tags: Central America, Science and Technology, South America, University of Florida, Panama

  16. Feb 28, 2013 | Los Angeles Times
  17. Creature feature: Who’s scarier — shark with buzz-saw bite or lamprey?

    Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times
    If you thought the Creature from the Black Lagoon was terrifying, check out the new artist renderings of the Helicoprion–a ......
  18. Dec 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  19. San Bernardino County experts find saber-tooth fossils near Vegas

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    Paleontologists from the San Bernardino County Museum found fossils of the elusive sabre-toothed cat in the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas....
  20. Dec 11, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Letters: Teach science, not creationism

    Re "Does creationism have a place at a public school?," Column, Dec. 9 Creationism in public schools should be given the same consideration as the concept of a flat Earth. Unfortunately, those who argue in favor of science generally do not present the...

    Tags: University of California, Irvine, Environmental Issues, Science, Conservation, Education

  22. Aug 3, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. A Chemical Imbalance

    As she stared down into a wide-mouthed plastic jar aboard the R/V Discoverer, Victoria Fabry peered into the future.
    Times Staff Writer
    As she stared down into a wide-mouthed plastic jar aboard the R/V Discoverer, Victoria Fabry peered into the future. The marine snails she was studying — graceful creatures with wing-like feet that help them glide through the water — had...

    Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Calcium, Dietary Supplements, Environmental Issues, U.S. Department of Energy

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