Clinics Brace for H1N1
Danville, VA - Free and discount health clinics are bracing for the impact on them from Swine flu. They've already seen a huge rise in patients, because of the economy. If Swine flu is as bad as it could be, they'll be swamped with even more patients.
Michelle Robinson, Uses PATHS -"The waiting room is packed; you have to get there early. They go by the way you sign in."
But without insurance, Michelle Robinson, like so many, is willing to wait, gratefu…
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Posted on September 24, 2009 at 3:42am — 1 Comment
Neo-Nazi is returned to jail amid bond appeal
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will weigh in on whether White is a threat to the community
By Laurence Hammack
981-3239 Prosecutors have cited White''s own words during a series of bond hearings and appeals that have involved four judges.
Neo-Nazi leader William A. White was sent back to jail Wednesday by a federal appeals court.
White, who is charged with threatening people by e-mail and online, was released on a $25,000 b…
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Posted on September 24, 2009 at 3:37am —
Seismic surveys disturb blue whales: biologists
PARIS (AFP) – Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday.
Lucia Di Iorio of Zurich University, Switzerland, and Christopher Clark, an acoustics specialist at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in New York, recorded the calls of blue whales at a feeding ground in Canada's St. Lawr…
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Posted on September 24, 2009 at 3:32am —
IRS, ACORN sever ties over scandal
WASHINGTON – The IRS announced Wednesday it was severing ties with ACORN, joining a growing list of government agencies to end relationships with the community activist group.
The Internal Revenue Service said it would no longer include ACORN in its volunteer tax assistance program. The program offered free tax advice to about 3 million low- and moderate-income tax filers this spring. ACORN provided help on about 25,000 returns, the IRS said.…
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Posted on September 24, 2009 at 3:29am —
Feds probe US Census worker hanging in Kentucky
MANCHESTER, Ky. – When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drawing on years of experience warned: "Be careful."
The 51-year-old Sparkman was found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery and had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a vi…
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Posted on September 24, 2009 at 3:27am — 1 Comment