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School official on tornado safety at destroyed Oklahoma school
In an exclusive interview with Rock Center's Kate Snow, the superintendent of Moore Public Schools in Oklahoma, Susie Pierce, answers questions about tornado safety at the schools. At one school, Plaza Towers Elementary, seven children died. Snow's full report with Pierce and members of the faculty at Plaza Towers Elementary Friday, May 24 at 10 pm/9CDT on NBC's Rock Center with ...
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Oklahoma school principal on the ‘fury of the tornado’
In an exclusive interview with Rock Center's Kate Snow, Plaza Towers Elementary School Principal Amy Simpson breaks her silence on the Oklahoma tornado that destroyed her school and left seven children dead. Snow's full report with Simpson, three of her fellow teachers and the school's superintendent airs Friday, May 24 at 10 pm/9CDT on NBC's Rock Center with Brian ...
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Holder Should Demand Feds Get a Warrant to Read Our E-mail
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Exclusive New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing ...
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A-Rods $30M mansion sale sets record in Miami Beach
Slugger Alex Rodriguez's $30 million mansion sale sets record on Miami Beach. Two local residential brokerages are now confirming the $30 million sale of Alex Rodriguezs mansion in Miami Beach. Mayi de la Vega, CEO, founder and estate agent at ONE Sothebys International Realty, and Arlene Susy Dunand represented A-Rod in the sale to a Palm Beach buyer. "The demand for trophy homes ...
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Unions target board members after they close nearly 11 of Chicagos elementary schools
Barbara Byrd-Bennett Forty-eight of the 50 elementary schools the Chicago Public Schools board of education voted to close Wednesday will be shuttered in June. The other two will get short reprieves. For all but one of the schools the vote was unanimous. Most of the 27,000 students affected are black and Latino and all live in poor neighborhoods. As they have for months, protesters objected to ...
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Best U.S. beaches 2013
Main Beach took first place on this year's list of top-10 beaches produced annually by coastal expert Stephen P. Leatherman, also known as "Dr. Beach," director of Florida International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research. Read ...
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Watch WWII Vet Reunited With Dog Tags 69 Years Later
A jeweler -- tree branches is famous. Rolex watch. Irving and -- means Jewelers half that piece of jewelry he never thought he'd -- and I had no idea it was even lost exists. Because wasn't too long afterwards which I was wounded. And it's got to be -- hectic. -- with a corporal in the united states army he served from 1943 to 1946. During that time -- the station and free it. ...
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City Council Holds First Hearing On Proposed Changes To Parking Meter Deal
CHICAGO (CBS) – The Emanuel administration began making its case to aldermen for a package of changes to the hated parking meter lease deal on Friday. WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser reports the mayor's office has negotiated several changes to the 75-year deal with Chicago Parking Meters LLC. The deal would provide free Sunday parking in the neighborhoods, while extending ...
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House Passes Concealed Carry Plan Opposed By Senate Leader
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Gun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local gun ordinances — including Chicago’s ban on assault weapons. The proposal was brokered by House Speaker Michael Madigan, a ...
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Poll Hillary Clinton runs better in Iowa than Vice President Biden
A. Brown , assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Conn., said the major difference between Clinton and Biden "is that she runs much better among independent voters, although Sen. Rand Paul runs better among that key group than either Democrat" in polling on the 2016 presidential race. Matched against Rubio, Clinton would get 48 percent of the vote ...
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Crystal Co. Exec Moves to Hub International in New York
Chicago-based broker Hub International's Northeast division hired Scott Konrad as senior vice president and not-for-profit business practice leader. Based in Hub's New York City office, Konrad will be responsible to build, brand, grow and lead a specialty practice serving the insurance, risk management, and employee benefit needs of nonprofit organizations throughout Connecticut, New ...
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A-Rod Sells Miami Beach Home for $30M
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U.S. State Department posts feedback on Keystone pipeline
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON | Fri May 24, 2013 2:27pm EDT WASHINGTON May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department says it is taking the unusual step of releasing publicly the feedback it has received about a controversial pipeline project after an "unprecedented" response to its draft environmental report. The department said it had received more than 1.2 million comments ...
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Planemaker Embraer Sees American Closing Out US Regional Jet Cycle
SAO PAULO -- Embraer SA, the world's third-largest commercial jet maker, expects just one more big regional jet order as a result of its current U.S. sales campaign, Chief Executive Officer Frederico Curado said in an interview, after the Brazilian planemaker clinched three of four major deals since December. "After the American Airlines competition, the game is over for a ...
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Dem Gerry Connolly defends White House They’re ‘issues’ not ‘scandals’
Rep. Gerry Connolly said the media has no business using the word ';scandal'; to describe the ongoing challenges to truth that are beating down ...
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Ill. House approves guns plan opposed by governor
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -; Gun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local gun ordinances - including Chicago's ban on assault ...
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Illinois judge charged with heroin gun possession
ST. LOUIS -; A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together has been charged with possession of heroin and ...
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Widower pleads for wife’s ashes after car is stolen
A South Carolina widower, visiting Detroit for a family memorial service, pleads for the return of his wife's ashes that were in the trunk of his car which was stolen. WDIV's Mara MacDonald ...
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Residents of Moore sift through ocean of debris
Residents Moore, Oklahoma residents continue to sift through rubble in the aftermath of the deadly EF5 tornado that ripped apart their community. NBC's Sarah Dallof ...
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Wash. bridge collapses 2 vehicles plunge into river
A large portion of the 57-year-old Skagit River Bridge north of Seattle fell into the rushing river below Thursday evening, sending two vehicles into the frigid waters. KING TV's Chris Daniels ...
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Like a Hollywood movie Driver escapes I-5 bridge collapse into Wash. river
By Alastair Jamieson and Bill Dedman, NBC News A driver said he thought he was about to die when an Interstate 5 bridge span collapsed in Washington state, plunging his pickup and another car into the Skagit River below.Dan Sligh, his wife and another motorist found themselves waist-deep in water when the freeway crumbled moments after the bridge was clipped by an oversized truck, he ...
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Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers
A Republican member of the Arizona House who supports GOP Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office, a sign that the rancorous debate over embracing a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in the state is far from ...
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Suspect in killing of officer found dead in cell
A year and a half before the Boston Marathon bombing, the man Tamerlan Tsarnaev called his best friend died in a grisly crime: He was one of three men found nearly decapitated in an apartment, their throats slashed ear to ear, marijuana sprinkled over their ...
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Unusual condition seen before Conn. train wreck
Train service from New York to Boston was back on schedule Wednesday on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways, five days after a derailment in Connecticut injured scores of commuters and damaged ...
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Memorial Bridge is falling down, falling down
The Memorial Bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine is a historical landmark, its been there for over 80 years, but the bridge is old and in this age of recession, expensive repair work versus more valuable replacement may soon see the structure razed and replaced.
The Memorial Bridge that links Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Kittery in Maine is ageing. The through truss lift bridge is over 80 years old and has begun to feel its age in recent years, on the 16th of October, 2009 state authorities issued an emergency closure of the bridge due to essential repairs that were needed and its weight limit has steadily been reduced over the last year or so. Read more
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