The withdrawal means a worker fired for having 800 illegal song downloads can keep getting jobless aid.
2011
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Debt reduction talks in limbo as parties entrench
Negotiations will continue today, but entitlement programs and the Bush tax cuts are sticking points.
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Brewers ruin return of Willis
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Brewers pounced on Cincinnati Reds closer Francisco Cordero, rallying from a run down in the ninth for a 4-3 victory Sunday. Pinch hitter Mark Kotsay tied the game with an RBI single, scoring Nyjer Morgan. With the bases loaded and one out, pinch hitter Craig Counsell delivered a sacrifice fly to […]
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Old sardine cannery showing signs of life
Local officials hope that a new lobster processing plant brings jobs back to the town of Gouldsboro.
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Local Baseball: Newport rallies to top off the Tide
OLD ORCHARD BEACH – Conrad Gregor tied the game with an RBI double and scored on a Tim Kiene sacrifice fly as Newport used a three-run sixth to take a 7-5 win over Old Orchard Beach in a New England Collegiate Baseball League game Sunday. Milan Adams homered for the Gulls as Newport improved to […]
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Veteran joblessness to worsen
LOS ANGELES – Unemployment among recently returned veterans, already in double digits, is poised to get worse as more soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan. The jobless rate for veterans who served at any time since September 2001 — called “Gulf War-era II veterans” — was 13.3 percent in June, up from 12.1 percent in […]
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Distracted driving effort yields results
A crackdown led to some 19,000 tickets in Syracuse and Hartford, and sharp declines in cellphone use.
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Dispatches
LAMOINE N.H. kayaker dies after capsizing in Eastern Bay For the second time in three weeks, a kayaker has died on a sunny Sunday in the waters of Mount Desert Island. The man was 43 years old and from New Hampshire, according to the Maine Marine Patrol. Police declined to release further details until they […]
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Up to 35 passengers killed when train derails in India
NEW DELHI – As many as 35 passengers were killed and 150 were injured when an express train derailed in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials and news reports said. Thirteen coaches of the Delhi-bound Howrah-Kalka train, which was travelling at a speed of 67 mph, ran off the rails in southern […]
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Murdoch takes charge of media crisis
The News Corp. CEO arrives in London as the News of the World publishes its final issue.