PASCAGOULA, Miss – Jackson County Supervisors declared a state of emergency because of the lurking oil spill in the gulf during their regular board meeting Monday morning. The board will review the need to extend the declaration in seven days. Emergency Operations Manager Donald Langham requested the precautionary declaration and said it opens the way...
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Archive for May 4th, 2010
Jackson County declares state of emergency
Nashville submerged after deadly storms
Parts of Nashville, Tennessee, have been evacuated after a levee protecting the southern city sprang a leak. Nashville landmarks like the Country Music Hall of Fame and the symphony centre are surrounded by water. Officials say at least 23 people were killed in three southern states over the weekend. Fourteen people died in Tennessee,...
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Spain takes in another ex-prisoner from Guantanamo
The Interior Ministry says Spain has taken in a second former inmate from the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorism suspects. The ministry says the man is from Yemen and arrived in Spain on Tuesday. A ministry statement gave no other details on the man. Spain has said it is prepared to take in up...
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Oil may reach Loop Current within 24 hours
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Scientists say the Gulf oil spill could get into the what’s called the Loop Current within a day, eventually carrying oil south along the Florida coast and into the Florida Keys. Nick Shay, a physical oceanographer at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, said Monday...
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65,000 feet of boom placed today in hopes of containing oil spill
About 65,000 feet of boom were deployed along Alabama’s coastline today, said the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s Phil Woods, who is overseeing placement of the floating barriers in hopes of containing oil that may come to shore here later this week.
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Man Arrested in Times Square Bomb Plot
Federal agents and police detectives arrested a Connecticut man, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan, early Tuesday in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing, according to people briefed on the investigation. The man, Faisal Shahzad, was believed to have recently bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that was found loaded with gasoline,...
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Usama Bin Laden Is Living Comfortably in Iran, Documentary Asserts
Usama bin Laden gets up each morning in his dark, damp cave in northern Pakistan, gripped by fear, listening carefully for the telltale sound of a drone that is searching for him. His isolation is almost complete. Only a few trusted associates know where he is, and they visit rarely — bringing food and...
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US and Iran clash at nuclear talks
Iran’s nuclear ambitions are putting the world at risk, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned. She told delegates at a nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference that Iran had violated its obligations and should be held to account. Earlier, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran accused states with nuclear weapons of threatening those who...
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Man ‘arrested’ over attempt to bomb NY’s Times Square
US investigators have arrested a suspect in an attempted car bomb attack in New York City, police sources say. The sources told media outlets that a US citizen of Pakistani origin who recently bought the car used in the failed bombing had been arrested. The vehicle was left in New York’s Times Square on...
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