Unitarian church shooting and EPA memo cases reported
In Knoxville a former truck driver killed two at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church citing liberalism and gay acceptance. In Washington the EPA instructed staff to avoid inquiries from investigators amid an IG and GAO probe. In Chicago a study links home medication mistakes to rising deaths, noting 224000 fatal cases from 1980s to 2000s.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jim D. Adkisson
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Adkisson
Ted Jones
Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Associated Press
EPA
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
GAO
Chicago
Heath Ledger
U.S
David P. Phillips
University of California
Internal Medicine
DOJ aides broke law over politicized hiring at Justice
A Justice Department inquiry found officials violated civil service rules by favoring Bush loyalists in career job selections. It cites questions about politics to applicants and asks what about George W. Bush motivates service, with Gonza les resignation and Gonzales' unawareness noted.
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Washington
Justice Department
Bush Administration
The
Justice Report
Civil Service Laws and Justice
George W. Bush
Goodling
Justice Myement
Cven
U.S
Gonzales
Roca
Good
Jo Sampson
Beer sales fall 10 percent in Britain in past year
British pubs report a 10 percent drop in pints sold in the last year as a smoking ban and higher costs curb patronage. Pub managers tally fourteen million pints daily, 1.6 million below last year, with 1,400 pubs closing last year and many villages going dry.
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London
Chris Hanson
Camden
Beer and Pub Association
Britain
Campaign For
Real Ale
Anthony Buck
Lock 17
United States
Eric Shepherd
Beer Marketer's Insights
High pressure tech eyes safer produce
Food safety researchers explore high pressure processing to kill germs in produce. Tests at Virginia Tech show grape tomatoes withstand HPP while beefsteak varieties may crack. industry already uses HPP for oysters and deli meats to curb Vibrio and Listeria.
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Virginia Tech
Tech
Robert Williams
George Flick
HPP
Errol Raghubeer
Avure Technologies
Federal deficit rises to 482 billion for 2009 budget year
Washington officials project a 482 billion budget deficit for 2009, inherited by either Barack Obama or John McCain. The figure excludes tens of billions for Iraq war funding and could grow if the economy falters, signaling a record dollar shortfall ahead of the presidential transition.
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Washington
Barack Obama
John McCain
White House
McCain
Obama
Jason Furman
GPS monitoring expands for domestic abusers in Michigan
In Lansing Michigan Mary Babb was killed when estranged husband Thomas Babb struck her with a pickup and fired a shotgun. Her family helped Michigan pass a law allowing judges to order GPS devices for domestic violence suspects before trial to alert victims of nearby abusers.
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Lansing
Mich
Mary Babb
Babb
Thomas Babb
Michigan
Michael Anderson
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