Forest firefighting costs rise as Craggie Fire hits 2.2 million
The Craggie Fire near Grants Pass burned 279 acres but cost the U.S. Forest Service 2.2 million dollars, about seven times the national per acre average. Costs climb due to fuel buildup, policy choices, and expanded firefighting resources after 2000.
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Grants Pass
Ore
Craggie
U.S. Forest Service
Forest Service
Congress
Harry Croft
National Fire Plan
Croft
Robert Nelson
University of Maryland
Randal O'Toole
Association of Forest Service Employees
O'Toole
Andy Stahl
Association of Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethics
Los Alamos
Smugglers Use Baby Formula Cans In Cocaine Ring
Federal investigators busted a Chicago based drug operation that used baby formula cans and rented infants to smuggle cocaine and heroin into the United States. Thirty five people faced charges with four Chicago parents accused of renting their children. Indictments cover cocaine and heroin trafficking from Panama and Jamaica to Chicago New York and England during 1996 to 1999.
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Chicago
U.S
Patrick Fitzgerald
Panama
New York
Englewood
Michael A. DeMarte
Drug Enforcement Administration
New probe sought in lingering Burge era case
A new hearing begins under Illinois Supreme Court orders into alleged police torture at Area 2 in the 1980s. Aaron Patterson seeks a special prosecutor to probe claims of systematic abuse, with broader questions about convictions of up to 10 Illinois death row inmates and calls for outside investigation.
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Chicago
Aaron Patterson
Patterson
Illinois Supreme Court
Illinois
Locke Bowman
University of Chicago Law School
Locke
Area 2
Jon Burge
Burge
Andrew Wilson
Wilson
U.S
Milton Shadur
Florida
William Kunkle
Bowman
Cook County
Dick Devine
Darrell Cannon
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Charles Rangel
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Raymond Downey
Deer Park
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Downey
World Trade Center
Gerald E. Nora
Devine
Nora
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Union Ave
Duvbd's Fruit Market
W. McGaffey
Roswell
Tim Schwartz
David
Savior
Christ the Lord
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