DOE picks South Carolina site for MOX plant
DOE recommends Savannah River Site as the preferred MOX facility location to produce reactor fuel rods from plutonium oxide powder, with Pantex remaining runner-up for pit disassembly. Final decision due by year end. the move could create up to 400 jobs at SRS and cost about 75 million annually.
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Energy Department
South Carolina
Pantex
Lou Zickar
U.S
Mack Thornberry
Clarendon
Pit
Bly
Savannah River
Zickar
Ernest
Fritz” Hollings
DOE
Hollings
Federico) Pena
Srs
Washington State
Idaho
MOX
Police arrest woman after stabbing death
Amarillo police arrested a woman after she allegedly stabbed a man to death during a domestic dispute at a Beaver Drive residence. Officers found the suspect on the phone with a dispatcher. the victim died later. She was questioned at the Special Crimes Unit and booked into the Potter County Detention Center pending charges.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Police Department
Beaver Drive
Potter-Randall
Potter County
Water pressure woes strain Osage City water system
Amanilioans face low water pressure as heat and lawn irrigation drive demand to 64 to 77 million gallons daily. Larry West, assistant production chief at Osage Water Plant, says reservoirs and tanks cannot keep up as use peaks at 77 million and year high 78 million approached. Utilities will draw more from the Carson County well field, adding about 5 million gallons daily, though sustainability is uncertain.
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Larry West
Osage
West
Utilities Department
Carson County
Dallas in the Movies Faces Repeated Destruction Hit
AP reports four million viewers watched Dallas explode on screen in The X Files while Armageddon is set to demolish the city on July 1. Dallas Fort Worth Regional Film Commission notes producers seek the prairie skyline look and easy permitting, drawing many projects to Texas.
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Dallas
Roger Burke
Dallas- Fort Worth
New York City
Los Angeles
Hollywood Hills
Stephanie Liner
The
Film Commission
Texas
Supreme Court limits school liability for teacher abuse case
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a school district cannot be liable under Title IX for a teacher's sexual abuse unless district officials knew of the misconduct and failed to act. The Lago Vista case involved a 15 year old student and a 52 year old teacher. The decision emphasizes actual notice and deliberate indifference by officials as prerequisites for damages.
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Austin
USS
Supreme Court
Texas
Lago Vista
Rod Schroder
Amarillo Independent School District
Schrader
Curtis Culwell
Lubbock
Sandra Day O'Connor
John Paul Stevens
Court upholds ruling shielding Internet providers from liability
The Supreme Court denied the Seattle man's appeal over a false Internet post about Oklahoma City bombing that led to calls and threats. The court left in place a ruling immunizing providers like AOL from liability for subscriber content. The hoax prompted widespread harassment after a prank advertised tasteless shirts with bombing slogans.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Seattle
Oklahoma City
America Online
Kenneth Zeran
Zeran
Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Oklahoma
City
Ken
AOL
Virginia
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