Minnesota budgets brink as shutdown looms this weekend
Minnesota lawmakers race to finish a two year 27.3 billion budget by Saturday midnight. If unresolved, essential services continue but many state operations stop including licensing, inspections, and prisoner access. services for the elderly and disabled would be cut and a 3 billion cash surplus has shrunk amid gridlock. The three party balance in state government compounds the crisis.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Lisa Mikhail
Mikhail
Jesse Ventura
Deaths by carbon monoxide in Jacksonville home
A woman Robin Parker 33 and her three young children were found dead in a garage in Jacksonville North Carolina from carbon monoxide poisoning after a car was left running. Medical examiner Charles Garrett reported no other injuries and the deaths may be accidental or suicide. Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown noted a possible link to a Houston case.
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Jacksonville
N.C
Charles Garrett
North Carolina
Garrett
Robin Parker
Onslow
Ed Brown
Houston
Bridgestone/Firestone Decatur Plant to Close by Year End
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. will shut its Decatur Illinois plant after nearly four decades, a move officials say will save about 100 million annually and affect about 1,500 workers. The plant produced most of the 6.5 million Firestone tires recalled last summer, amid Decatur’s long history of labor strife in a city once dubbed Strike town U.S.A. by the mid 1990s.
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Decatur
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc
Firestone
Ilinois
Jeff Senger
Caterpillar
A.E. Staley Manufacturing
ADM
Poundstone Charged With Lewd Acts In Los Angeles
Comedian Paula Poundstone faces three counts of lewd acts on a minor and charges of endangering two other girls and two boys. D A Gina Atrian says arraignment could occur Thursday. Poundstone posted bond after a Wednesday arrest at 3 10 p m and release a few hours later.
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Los Angeles
Paula Poundstone
Gina Atriand
Poundstone
Asian tiger mosquito found in Southern California
A disease-carrying mosquito from Asia has arrived in Southern California via shipments of lucky bamboo. No cases in the United States exist, but experts warn the insect can transmit serious illnesses in Asia, with officials calling it a major disease transmitter.
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Los Angeles
Asia
California
United States
Mike Shaw
Greater
Los Angeles County
Brothers charged in $800,000 coupon scheme
In Bethlehem Pennsylvania two brothers ran supermarkets and allegedly obtained 1.3 million coupons from an illicit broker to redeem as customer coupons. Barry Palank aged 51 and Lee Palank 49 face mail fraud and tax evasion charges for using the mail to further the scheme and failing to pay taxes on the revenues.
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Bethlehem
Barry Palank
Lee Palank
Palanks
Dole in good condition after aneurysm procedure
Former Sen. Bob Dole remained in good condition after an experimental procedure to treat an aortic aneurysm at the Cleveland Clinic. Surgeons led by Dr. Kenneth Ouriel inserted a stent graft in his aorta while Dole kept his humor through treatment.
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Cleveland
Bob Dole
Dole
Cleveland Clinic
Kenneth Ouriel
Syracuse hot dog makers rank among nation’s best
Liehs and Steigerwald and Hofmann Sausage Co. earned spots in Diversion magazine’s top five. Liehs and Steigerwald placed No 2 and Hofmann No 4 among 12 sampled. orders surged nationwide after the June issue.
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Syracuse
United States
Liebs and Steigerwald
Hofmann Sausage Co
Diversion Magazine
Liehs
Steigerwald
Hofmann
Bob Steigerwald
Grant Boulevard
Diversion
Physicians
Kathy Gunst
Shaui Hartford
Iowa
Tennessee
Florida
Steigerwal
Flook
Liecis
Hofmann’s
DeWitt
Camillus
Rusty
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