Russia expands Georgia blitz on land and sea actions
Russia pressed Georgia on land and sea despite a cease-fire offer, claiming to sink a Georgian vessel while tanks from South Ossetia moved toward the city of Gori but were repelled. Russian air strikes hit near Tbilisi airport as international mediators sought to halt the fighting in the South Ossetia crisis.
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Gori
Lishing
Star-Tass
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Grigory Karasin
Ekho Moskvy
Newsweek Magazine
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Bush Administration
Jim Jeffrey
Iraq
Russian Federation
Alexander Darchiev
Washington
CNN
U.N. Security Council
Zalmay
Khalilzad
Moscow
Vitaly Churkin
Turkey
Soviet Union
Abkhazia
NATO
Security Council
Alexander Lomaia
Lomaia
Cease-work orders for bus crash linked firms
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Angel Tours Inc Iguala Busmex Inc and their officers to stop all commercial operations. A second order targets Angel De La Torre president of both companies for creating an imminent hazard. Iguala BusMex owns the bus in a crash that killed 17 and left many injured.
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Sherman
Texas
Federal Motor Safety Administration
Angel Tours Inc
Iguala Busmex Inc
Angel de la Torre
Officials search for ID of remains from Northern California helicopter crash
In Redding California authorities work to identify badly burned remains from a helicopter crash that killed nine. DNA analysis and dental records are expected to be used. Two of four survivors from Medford Oregon were treated and discharged. The crash involved a Sikorsky S 61N ferrying firefighters and a U S Forest Service employee back to base camp after a fire.
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Redding
Calif
California
Shasta County
U.S. Forest Service
Tom Kroll
Forest Service
Sacramento
National Transportation Safety Board
Michael Brown
Jonathan Frohreich
Medford
Ore
University of California Davis
Virginia DEQ: More streams fail to meet clean water standards
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality reports over 10 600 miles of rivers and streams failed to meet clean water standards from 2001 to 2006, an 18 percent rise since the last report in 2006. Water quality data liaison James E Beckley notes elevated E coli levels in many waterways. Agricultural practices are blamed, with urban runoff leaking sewers and failing septic tanks also cited.
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Richmond
Department of Environmental Quality
Virginia
James E. Beckley
DEQ
Wall Arch collapses at Arches National Park in Utah
The Wall Arch, one of Arches National Park’s most photographed formations, collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. Park officials note gravity and erosion as the forces behind its fall, with the 33 foot tall, 71 foot wide arch ranking 12th of about 2,000 arches in the area. No witnesses reported seeing the collapse.
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Arches National Park
Utah
Paul Henderson
Park
Devils Garden Trail
Henderson
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