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People & EntertainmentSimpson cover gets covered up

PHOENIX – A photo of a pregnant Jessica Simpson on the cover of Elle magazine was apparently too much for some customers of a Tucson Safeway store. A store worker wound up covering it with cardboard. The April edition features the photo of the singer/actress/fashion designer with one hand over her breast and another wrapped […]

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World/Nation Dispatches

JUNEAU, Alaska Former Exxon Valdez heads for Indian Gulf scrap heap The ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, appears destined for the scrap heap in a shipyard along the Indian Gulf of Cambay. The tanker ran aground at Alaska’s Bligh Reef on March […]

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Judge rules against EPA in coal-mine pollution case

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority last year in revoking water pollution permits that another agency had issued for one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mines, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday. In siding with St. Louis-based Arch Coal, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson declared […]